The Official Pump It Up Thread

CStarFlare · Maniac Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

So the Exceed website is up now.

http://www.piu4home.com/

I don't know how much of what's on the site is news; I havn't really been keeping up on the game since I've pretty much given up on dance games at home. Still, it confirms a release date (August 31, I didn't even know that much XD) and looks like it's got some other neat stuff. I'll look around it later.

EDIT: Elvis on PIU? O_o

.hack//*cough* · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:33 am Post subject:

CStarFlare · Maniac Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

He was? Man, I didn't know I was THAT out of it. XD

Razma · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:48 am Post subject:

Yeah, that Elvis remix is a pretty famous one. That remix was also on a Euromix before it was on UM2.

I can pass most 14s, but Blazing is kicking my buttocks. Any suggestions?
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Pimp$outh · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject:

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Pimp$outh · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject:

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If I can pressure Miklotov into getting me a listing of the AUDIO directory (if exists on the PS2 version), I'll tell you if it's on both versions.

cj iwakura · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

Pimp$outh · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:31 am Post subject:

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:34 pm Post subject:

I'd like to go on record as saying that Doubles on Pump It Up (in the form of the weirdly-named Freestyle mode) is really hard for those who don't have much Pump experience. Having a bit of DDR/ITG experience under my belt, I was able to easily handle everything on Normal mode on Pump It Up (after taking a few songs to learn the foot positioning) and some songs on Hard... but Freestyle mode, yikes, forget about it. I appreciate the songlist someone posted that helped me to pick out the easiest Freestyle mode songs to try, but even doing the 3- and 4-rated ones, I could barely pull C's on a few of them. I get really messed up by all the steps being the same color regardless of timing, and by the lack of an x1.5 speed mod. Even the easiest Freestyle stepcharts are much harder than Light Double on DDR, featuring a ton more both-pad jumps, eigth note runs involving both pads, and rapid back-and-forth movement. I guess I need to work on getting comfortable with Hard mode before tackling Freestyle mode, because PIU has no doubles equivalent to Normal/Light to let you break in gently like DDR/ITG does, which is a shame because Doubles on Pump It Up has so many more combinations of foot positions to learn than DDR/ITG does.
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It just takes practice with Pump with doubles. It took me a month before I started passing doubles. The first one I passed was Rolling Xmas, but some other easy ones are XiBomBomBom, Greenhorn, Go, Final Audition (the very first one), and Valenti. All of them are low bpm, and should be easy to pass. Try 3x for your first time through, and just get used to hitting the arrows. Then you can use slower speed mods (or none), and start doing some freestyling once you get used to everything.

melkor765 · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:

yesterday, i played PIU at the arcade and managed to get on the highscores 4 times(places 4-7), and First Love is a pretty easy freestyle song, as well as Go
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PIU hit stores yesterday and I thought that I'd go ahead and be the first to post impressions/review of it. Let it be known that this is the PS2 version I'm talking about. Though my only recent experience with the series was last week with Exceed 2 (my first time playing that version), I must say that the home version (or CS, whatever you prefer) is excellent! Let's start with the interface. The whole theme of it just screams of awesomess from the main menus to the music select screen, but this is expected for the PIU series. The heavy bass drum beats that play along in the menus really gets you, for the lack of a better word, pumped! This, as far as the interface is concerned, just seals the deal when compared to ITG's generic interface and can be placed next to DDR's (5th Mix to MAXes and not counting EX US!). As for the pad, IMO it has to be the best pack-in pad that I've ever played on! It's not a Red Octane or Cobalt Flux but it get's the job done. The pad hardly slips when playing some hard level songs (though this may change when I decide to play crazy level songs), and very responsive. I must say that that surprised me! It's not all perfect, though.

There are flaws when it comes to navigating the menus with the pad. Can't really blame it considering the source but as veteran PIU players may know, the arcade version doesn't have buttons on the machine a la DDR for menu navigation and song selection alone so the pad must be used. It's not consistant; between the arrows are seperate directions (up, down, left, and right) for ONLY the menu navigation. This boggled me since down-left and down-right were the navigation buttons for everything in the arcade. Those same buttons work for ONLY the music selection in the CS release. Speaking of that, it may be only me but selecting your songs is a chore. The center button makes confirmations, the upper buttons changes the list of music, and a cobination of them all are used for modifications. The reason for it being cumbersome is because 80% of the time you're standing on the center button while doing it all. I tried placing my feet horizontally between the arrows so I wouldn't have to "hop" to make confirmations but the gap, depending on foot size and I have big feet mind you, is too small so you may still hit either button by mistake. Also, why oh why hasn't Andamiro gone the DDR route and show difficuty levels BEFORE you make the first selected song confirmation and have mod options instead of relying on button codes? But all of this (except the small gap thing) was originally in the arcade so if you can deal with it there, you're right at home here.

The music? There's a craplaod!! The back of the box claims to have 101 songs in all, way more than individual US DDR releases and ITGs (no beating around the bush with "Over 65 songs and over 100 minutes of music," DDR!), but you have to unlock a majority of them of course. Some are right there for you to see on the song wheel but darkened along with the unlock method scroolling on the bottom of the screen. The list of music ranges from Banya songs, K-Pop songs, and Pop songs. As I said earlier, I experienced Exceed 2 recently and I think all of the songs from that version made it on this release (but feel free to correct me on this one). There's even a few old "new" songs not in the arcade such as "Rappers Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang, "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind, and Fire, and "Name of the Game" by The Crystal Method. The songs are of varying quality and some are an aquired taste *cough* "Deux" *cough*. In short, a song you may consider a "dud" may be another person's favorite. You may even find some songs that DDR used in a way (can you spot the song where "V" originated from?). All the songs in PIU fashion have their own videos varying from 2D animations and FMV and in execellent quality, especially the "Name of the Game" video (the one with the nose for a head). It's like you're watching actual high resolution, DVD quality footage unlike with DDR's music videos witch can be low-res and somewhat grainy. Sound quality is great since now I can easily hear song lyrics coming from my own room and not background noise along with it from other arcade games.

Overall, if you're a fan of dancing games (and if you're reading this, you are!) and K-Pop, I reccommend this game a worthy buy. If you're not a fan because you're a J-Pop fanatic (IMO they both have their good and bad points), four diagonal arrows with a center button, and no mods for vivids scare you, well, it'll definately tide you over for the 27 days until the release of DDR EX2.

I rate it an 8.9 out of 10.
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josh924 · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject:

Are there any Canadian players in here that bought their copy at a local EB Games or Best Buy? I've heard it was delayed till the 17th of this month.

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DDR_KiD_1 · Trick Member Joined: 30 Jul 2005

Hmmm, I just bought PIU for PS2, and I actually am not to happy with the pad. But I guess that's becuase i'm not used to playing on the soft pads, I have TX-6000's for DDR. But, oh well, PIU is by far my favorite dancing game. Is dignity on the home version??

~Thnx

PS: Does anyone have info on metal pads for PIU coming out?
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