The Newb Terminology/Abbreviation Thread

Tobias Preener

Ok, to prevent newbs and other DDR players from making one whole thread just to ask what one word or abbreviation means, I am just going to make a thread where they can go. if i have missed some, feel free to post them. and make sure they are used a lot, dont just take a song and abbreviate it. ex: end of the century= EOTC. dont do that.

HV:AM Healing vision: angelic mix
CSFIL:SM cant stop falling in love (speed mix)
SDG: single digit great- getting all perfects and a single digit amount of greats.
Black flag - Getting all Perfects and one Great on a song
Blue flag - Getting all Perfects and one Good on a song
Pink (purple) flag - Getting all Perfects and one Boo on a song
Red flag - Getting all Perfects and one Miss on a song
Green flag - Getting all Perfects on a song, but breaking one freeze
arrow, therefore (On Extreme) not allowing you to AAA it.
True Black flag - Getting all Perfects until you get one Great on the
last step of the song
White flag - Getting a Great on the first step of a song, then getting
all the rest of the steps Perfect.
Noncombo steps - Goods, Boos, and Misses are all considered noncombo
steps, because they will stop your Combo from growing (duh).
Oni-pass - Getting less than 4 noncombo steps on a song, allowing you
to pass that song in Oni.
Bar Hugger - One who refuses to let go of the bar and puts all their
weight on the bar behind them throughout the whole song. Also known as
'bar whore' and 'bar raper'.
Catastrophic ('Cata' for short) - You'll occasionally hear players
talking about they passed, FCed, or AAed a cata. In older mixes of DDR,
there were names for all the difficulty ratings. 9 footers (the hardest
in the game until DDRMAX brought MAX300, the first 10 footer) were
called Catastrophic. Some others were Exorbitant (8 feet) and Paramount
(7 feet).
LFO - Left Foot Only. Playing a song with only your left foot.
RFO - Right Foot Only. Playing a song with only your right foot.
Basic, Trick, Maniac - In older mixes of DDR (notably 3rd, 4th, and
5th) the difficulties were Basic (Light), Trick (Standard), and Maniac
(Heavy). On USA mix, there were different difficulties altogether:
Standard (Light), Difficult (Standard), and Expert (Heavy). On some
machines, Trick is also known as Another. On 3rd mix, to play Maniac,
you had to unlock SSR mode, which would allow play on Maniac only.
S4R - A common set of modifiers that people use, uses Sudden, Shuffle,
and Flat together.
S6R - Using Shuffle, Sudden, Solo, and a speed modifier together when
playing a song.
6 option - Also known as 6-mod, this is the practice of combining 6
different modifiers together on one song. Devil0n's personal favorite,
and a good example: 1.5 Boost Hidden Shuffle Flat Reverse.
FC- full combo-means u combo the whole song.
PSMO- paranoia survivor max oni
PSM- paranoia survivor max (any other difficulty)
NG: no good- u break a freeze
O.K.!- u hold the freeze down for the duration of the freeze.
footer- the term used to rate songs for difficulty
mods- short for modifiers-modifications used to modify songs. most common ones used are speed mods, speeds up the song, spreading the arrows apart, therefore making the song easier to read.
EOTC-end of the century
EE-exotic ethnic
R&P- rhythm and police

put some more on if i missed any!
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'Ivan · Trick Member Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Location: Thailand

Tiny mistake there, not too bad.

Tobias Preener · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject:

ok done. sorry about that.
also feel free to point out errors i made. (grammatical, not saying it was a mistake to make this.)
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Footstep · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:18 pm Post subject:

Nice!The newbs need this,even me
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IcyStaticBlast · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jul 2003

You know, we have a dictionary for this sort of thing.

Tobias Preener · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject:

not for song abbreviations, and for some flags, like true black. plus they explain it better.
plus, most newbs, dont go to the dictionary, they make a thread. with this theyll see it at the top and will hopefully stop making those threads
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Julie QQQ...? · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2002 Location: Boston, MA

Trick used to also be called Another, way back in the day.

Thomas Hobbes · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:21 am Post subject:

A lot of these definitions are from the DDRFreak Dictionary though, or exactly/quite similar.
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I had no idea what the flags meant, so thanks!
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Septagon · Trick Member Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Location: Kingwood, TX

I never knew what some of the flags were, or what FC was. Thanks!

But, you could add LoM (legend of max) to the list. And abbreviations for other Bemani games, like BM, GF, DM, etc.

eryk · Trick Member Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Location: Toronto

Well, song abberviations are just common sense. "LOM = Legend of Max, who knew?"

zero_delocke · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject:

EE = Exotic Ethnic
R&P = Rythym and Police

Footstep · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 2:21 pm Post subject:

BR-Bar raper;a person who refuses to let go of the bar;also called bar hugger and bar whore
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graveyardrave · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject:

If this isn't strictly DDR terminology, I have a question. What the hell is 1337?
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Zukin-Man · Trick Member Joined: 25 Nov 2002 Location: War Agony

Leet-speek, also known as hacker-talk.

I think it started when people were talking about hacking in chat rooms, but they used normal typing techniques. This made it easy for chats to censor certain words, so hackers started using different methods of typing, like using numbers in place of certain letters (3's for e's, 7's for t's). Eventually, it became a fad to type like that. Now it's actually become a fad to mock it.
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eyebrowsoffire · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:16 am Post subject:

This thread is great. IMO, it should be moved to site feedback and be changed to "Making the DDRFreak Dictionary better" and then maybe have more things pointing to the dictionary.
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graveyardrave · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:36 am Post subject: