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Daunte Vicknabb posted:You've never checked Pump Haven to see if there are any reasonably local machines? Also, this LP is pretty neat. I'm not great at dancing games myself, but I've been getting back into rhythm games over the past two years or so, from the Bemani side of things this time. There's still a bit of an ITG/DDR community here in Kansas, with people still making simfiles for the cabs nearby.
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They reproduced their album for some other languages, and the Japanese version even had a pair of otherwide unreleased songs called Bad Girls and Happy King. They had plans to release a second album, and in fact they had half of the thing finished and ready to go, but Mette's loss against cancer caused them to scrap the whole thing. Demos of songs for their unreleased second album were recorded, but to this day remain unreleased and likely never will be. Sources/Links: http://www.bubblegumdancer.com/project.php?id=1 - I'm not certain if this is their actual homepage, or a detailed fanpage, but most of their biography can be found here, including the names of the demos for their rumoured second album. http://www.discogs.com/artist/36425-Crispy - Their discography. Note that this includes songs by XPY. http://grooveshark.com/#!/search/song?q=xpy - You can listen to a handle of XPY's songs on this website.  This was the other artist, besides Inurvise, that gave me so much trouble last time I searched for her. But apparently I just wasn't trying hard enough. Full name Annette Ducharme. Born in Windsor, Ontario, one of thirteen(!!) children, and left home at an early age towards the Canadian west coast, attracted to the seas and mountains. She saw some success as a performer, but is best known as a songwriter for other performers, including acts like Tom Cochrane. Her song Nicotine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFOk19BLRH8), written in her first album Talented Girl, was used in a handful of television shows and movies, including the Oscar-nominateed film "Thirteen" at the Sundance Film Festival. She's even done some live shows in Africa. Anet has two songs in In The Groove, and interestingly enough, No 1 Nation doesn't pop up in any discography, but Normal shows up in her album Tortured. 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They're professional actresses, reality television show personalities, writers, and composers. Mihaela is older than Gabriela by five minutes. As a duo, they've been active since 2000, and are in fact still in the game: they (including their mother and father) became American citizens in October 2013, and they performed The Star-Spangled Banner at their own ceremony. They released a single called La La La (http://youtu.be/a7Wb43kjAZ8) in December 2011, which is notable because it was sampled in Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 album Watch The Throne. In 2008, they qualified for the top 40 semifinals on season 3 of America's Got Talent. They got booed on the stage, and judge Piers Morgan called them "the worst dancers and worst singers in the entire competition," and the New York Times called them "[the competition's] punching bag." Tough crowd! 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Fun nerd fact: whenever I do planks at the gym, I use The Game to keep track of time, as it's exactly 2 minutes long, and I always aim to hit 120 seconds. ROM-eo and Juli-8 was also one of my first "hard" songs mastered, barless. EDIT: Did no one really think to link this yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQs83V-uAsE Olive Branch fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Do people ever play doubles as actual doubles, or is it just extra challenge for a single player?
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Doubles is for single player, but there is a mode for two players sharing the two pads, meant to be a co-op type of chart. The mode is called Couples. I found that kind of cute, in a "oh Japan" kind of way.
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http://youtu.be/E9R_phSy26o Couples charts are neat, but as far as I know, there are no official ones.
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Couples charts are pretty fun if you can get a decent partner to play with. Otherwise a lack of spacial awareness will cause many feet stepped on and hilarious body collisions. shameless plug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2PnvQ3xFQ
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Those couples are, of course, preplanned! Most charts keep you to your side, don't they?
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With some clever scripting and a custom arrow skin some doubles charts are set up to have each arrow as a specific color. In couple charts red arrows are meant for player one and blue arrows are meant for player 2.
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Building on the above post, Pump it Up has couples charts called "Double Performance", with red arrows for P1 and blue for P2. I've seen a few of the local players playing them, and it's ridiculous how many times they cross over each other. Here's one for one of the songs in ITG1, Xuxa.
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Singles: While Tha Rekkid Spinz, Kiss Me Red, Driving Force Classical, Charlene    Artist Spotlight:  See: Kid Whatever  Missing Heart is a much older group than I could have realized: it began with a vocalist named Lyane Leigh all the way back in 1994. Missing Heart would be 20 years old this year, except they disbanded in 2002. They sound American or maybe British, but they're actually German. They debuted with the single Wild Angels but they only started getting attention with their 1996 single Charlene. Their face of the group (and I think she's the same woman in the background image for Charlene) is Miss Manu - on top of the group being German, she was actually born in Hong Kong. Despite being part of Missing Heart's image, she was never actually a singer. The project name "Missing Heart" was inspired by the movie Missing, starring Jack Reynolds, followed with some gobbledygook about how the word "missing" goes hand-in-hand with their album Mystery, and how the word "miss" can also mean "I miss you" in a romantic sense. Their only album released was Mystery back in 2000, and it was only released in Japan. In 2001, they released a single called Tears In May, then they did nothing until 2002 when they disbanded. You can still find Mystery on eBay if you're lucky, but it costs hundreds of dollars today. Sources/Links: http://www.eurodancehits.com/missingheart/index.html - Their official homepage, made in 2000 and last updated in 2007. It certainly looks its age. Contains their biography, discography, and some descriptions on their songs and why they're named what they're named, etc. It has a page full of samples but it requires a "realPlayer" browser player and offers .ram files instead of .mp3s or whatever. http://www.technodisco.net/missing-heart/ - This page looks kind of fishy, but their links lead to Youtube videos of Missing Heart songs, including some remixes. It's a pretty decent resource of Missing Heart stuff. Maple Leaf fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jul 18, 2014 |
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Yeah, holy poo poo, Charlene had like 200 more arrows than most of the other songs you did. I can see how a crap-ton of arrows competes for difficulty with some of the other tricks you have to pull off.
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Charlene was the first 11 I ever passed, and went on to be the only 11 I have ever passed or will ever, since I kinda fell out of the DDR life shortly thereafter. I came across an X2 yesterday and decided to see if I could still pass MAX300. I could not.
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I have to agree with the opinion on Digital Explosion (at least for Driving Force Classical), the first half of the song is filler to me, both with the actual steps and the song itself. Something worth noting about Missing Heart is they had a brief appearance in the DDR series with their song Moonlight Shadow (unless that's a separate eurodance Missing Heart?  )
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Fedule posted:Charlene was the first 11 I ever passed, and went on to be the only 11 I have ever passed or will ever, since I kinda fell out of the DDR life shortly thereafter. Was it the original Max 300 chart, or was it the X-Special? Because Max 300's X-Special is loving garbage. Nothing makes sense; it's like they wrote it by slapping at the keyboard with a pair of wet socks. Doubles: Tough Enough, On a Day Like Today, Mouth, Hand of Time    Artist Spotlight:  Vanilla Ninja originally started as a four-piece Estonian girl band that originally formed in 2002. In 2004, Maarja Kivi, their singer/songwriter, left and was replaced by Triinu Kivilaan, who in turn left the band in 2005. Vanilla Ninja continued as a three-piece band until disbanding in 2008. Their first album, self-titled Vanilla Ninja, was released in both English and Estonian. They were popular all throughout Europe, but they had considerable noteriety in their homeland Estonia. They have a brand of ice cream and "kohuke" (a type of bite-sized candy made of curd cheese) named after them specifically because of their celebrity status. They were so popular that a German video channel named VIVA, notorious for their bias for artists signed under Universal Records, played their music often despite being signed under rival distributor Sony BMG Music. The band once caught some flak for their music video for Cool Vibes because it supposedly plagiarised material from Deine Lakaien's video for their single Mindmachine. The band, however, had no say or input on the music video's production. Links/Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20120624000641/http://vanillaninja.ee/ - Their official website is down, probably forever, but the Wayback Machine is always there to lend a hand. Everything is in Estonian, though. http://www.discogs.com/artist/564272-Vanilla-Ninja - Discography. http://www.reverbnation.com/vanillaninja - Some free music (not for download) and a bit of a biography.   Obsession and Rochelle are both associated acts of Natalie Browne and are signed under the same record label.  Reflection Theory consistes of members Chris Brickler (founder, singer, synths, and more), Jay Miller (guitars) and "Persida" (female singer). The group was founded while Brickler was moving between London and Dallas. There is very little information on Reflection Theory - I only managed to find that last paragraph by Googling Brickler's name. They came out with one album, titled Reflection Theory back in 2003 under the label Maximedia. You can still find it on iTunes if you're down for that. Sources/Links: http://www.broadjam.com/artists/bio.php?artistID=9808 - This is the only thing approaching a biography I could find. Somebody described them as being "[the] best bar in Dallas." http://www.allmusic.com/artist/reflection-theory-mn0000467765/discography - Their discography. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/reflection-theory/id49605982 - Their stuff on iTunes. I wonder if the sales still go to Brickler.
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Maple Leaf posted:Was it the original Max 300 chart, or was it the X-Special? Because Max 300's X-Special is loving garbage. Nothing makes sense; it's like they wrote it by slapping at the keyboard with a pair of wet socks. The original. I never had the pleasure of playing the X-Special. It was also the first time I got a really good look at a DDRX cab. I don't know what they did to the ratings but it sure didn't make any sense.
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Fedule posted:It was also the first time I got a really good look at a DDRX cab. I don't know what they did to the ratings but it sure didn't make any sense. It's not entirely clear-cut, but general agreement is that MAX300 [heavy]'s rating of 15 is pretty accurate, so for the most part, 15s are seen as equivalent to old-scale 10s. it gets muddier as you go down, but the upper level stuff is quite a bit more clear than lumping everything into the lv10 folder. (Beatmania IIDX has a similar problem with the lv12 folder but that's something else completely.) So far, it only goes as high as 19, with two songs (Valkyrie dimension, PARANOiA Revolution) on Single and three songs (same as single, plus Possession) on Double having a 19 rating.
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Maple Leaf posted:Was it the original Max 300 chart, or was it the X-Special? Because Max 300's X-Special is loving garbage. Nothing makes sense; it's like they wrote it by slapping at the keyboard with a pair of wet socks. You say this like all of the X-Specials aren't utter trash. Dead End says hi.edit: Honestly don't remember if DEGRS is counted as an X-Special. Either way my point stands, screw anything that has Special at the end of the name aside from Midnight Special. edit 2: Huh, DEGRS was Supernova 2. Knew there was a reason why I never wanted to play it. TKImpulse fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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TKImpulse posted:You say this like all of the X-Specials aren't utter trash.
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Professional Razer posted:I laughed really hard when Dead End Groove Radar Special got picked during the Konami Arcade Championship 2013 finals. (The other picks were Healing-D-Vision, 888, and Maxx Unlimited X-Special.) Yeah, KAC 2013 for DDR players was a massive middle finger. I was honestly surprised by no Valkyrie Dimension, but I guess they felt they were trolling enough with the selected songs. Gotta save something for this year's event.
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Lets Pickle posted:These videos are pretty entertaining, especially since I've never seen most of the doubles arrows for anything, but the sound in the videos doesn't match up with the arrows hitting the top of the screen and it makes it very difficult to watch. Could you elaborate? I'm not doing anything to change the timing of the video other than converting the raws from 60 FPS to 30. Are they too late or too early? Not to pass the blame or anything, but ITG's sync in their own game isn't exactly stellar throughout the board - some of the songs in the game are just a little late or a little early themselves. The community's gone and fixed them sync themselves, but I'm using the untouched versions for my videos.
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TKImpulse posted:Yeah, KAC 2013 for DDR players was a massive middle finger. I was honestly surprised by no Valkyrie Dimension, but I guess they felt they were trolling enough with the selected songs. Gotta save something for this year's event. As for this year's event... If (more like when) FEFEMZ qualifies, it's going to be awesome. He might end up in multiple games- he destroyed the competition in Jubeat saucer in 2013, even perfect full comboing True Blue in the actual tournament.
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Professional Razer posted:I think the best part was that three of four players picked a song that has a speedup at the ending- save for Maxx Unlimited X-Special, the ending speeds up significantly faster than the rest of the song. There's two ways to approach this: either memorize the ending and play at a higher speed mod for most of the song, or play on a lower speed mod and read better at slow speeds. 888, DEGRS, and Healing-D-Vision are all known for this kind of nonsense. 888's ending isn't awful to remember, HDV's ending is bullshit no matter what speed it's at, and lol DEGRS. I didn't know FEFEMZ was the one who EXC'd True Blue, I had heard about it and pretty much went "gently caress that noise". I can't even EXC an 8 on the comparatively easier iPad port of the game
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Maple Leaf posted:Could you elaborate? I'm not doing anything to change the timing of the video other than converting the raws from 60 FPS to 30. Are they too late or too early? It feels like the arrows are slightly late compared to the music. It might be something you get used to, but I used to play a lot of ITG and I don't remember it ever feeling that desynced.
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I blame the StepMania crowd (who are the only ones who still play and buy DDR games I guess) for the rise in poor official charts, given that most custom charts are hard for the sake of being hard. I guess ITG's success with 10-13 difficulty songs started a sort of arms race where the most convoluted, difficult, and bullshit charts are the "boss songs" to beat even though a solid chart with proper artistry would be memorable. But memorable in a "ah, a good song" way, not a "this chart is utter trash and brings down the game" way.
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Olive Branch posted:I blame the StepMania crowd (who are the only ones who still play and buy DDR games I guess) for the rise in poor official charts, given that most custom charts are hard for the sake of being hard. I guess ITG's success with 10-13 difficulty songs started a sort of arms race where the most convoluted, difficult, and bullshit charts are the "boss songs" to beat even though a solid chart with proper artistry would be memorable. But memorable in a "ah, a good song" way, not a "this chart is utter trash and brings down the game" way. There's no home versions to buy anymore though, and the game's officially unsupported anywhere not Japan. It's less the Stepmania/ITG crowd and more that there's not a whole lot more they can do in terms of difficulty aside from overcharted arrow vomit.
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TKImpulse posted:888's ending isn't awful to remember, HDV's ending is bullshit no matter what speed it's at, and lol DEGRS. I didn't know FEFEMZ was the one who EXC'd True Blue, I had heard about it and pretty much went "gently caress that noise". I can't even EXC an 8 on the comparatively easier iPad port of the game And yeah, EXCing stuff is nonsense. Lets Pickle posted:I just watched a video of these two songs and both are completely ridiculous. Paranoia Revolution in particular seems like a bunch of bullshit. The Autoplay was unable to keep up. The heavy chart seems like it was designed as "hey guys let's make a good boss chart- difficult for sure, but not obscene". Especially true for Paranoia Revolution, as it takes a page from Extreme's OMES (Dance Dance Revolution [challenge]) and uses parts from previous "boss" songs, both for the Single and Double heavy charts. The challenge chart
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They force the BPM to be whatever the number is, regardless of actual changes or stops. For instance, in Euphoria, the arrows wouldn't slow down halfway through, and would continue at their 300/450 speed. Using these mods on any song that has BPM changes or stops invalidates your score, though, so they're not the most useful or popular.
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Maple Leaf posted:I'm not certain what you mean? The BPM in Tough Enough and Hand of Time were doubled/halved, rather than some other integer. Technically they were unnecessary but they go with the song. Yeah, that's what I mean. It does go with the song pretty well. It is interesting to hear some more pure instrumental works along with dance mixes of heavily vocal songs.
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To make up for the lack of updates last week, here are two of them at once:Doubles: Let My Love Go Blind, Hybrid, Lemmings on the Run, Bend Your Mind    Singles: Fly Away, Solina, Turn It On, The Beginning     Artist spotlight:  Try imagining a band that uses heavy metal, alternative rock, and chiptunes. Does that sound like a winning combination to you? It did to Swedish musicians Robert Stjärnström, Jonas Rörling, and Kahl Hellmer. Machinae Supremacy (pronounced "machine") was formed in 2000. They've labelled their unique sound as "SID metal", because it uses the SID chip of the Commodore 64 for their chiptunes. Their first commercial album was called Dues Ex Machinae, released in 2004. The band is currently signed to Spinefarm Records. Their other albums include Redeemer in 2006; Overworld in 2008; A View from the End of the World in 2010; and Rise of a Digital Nation in 2012. They released their latest album (digitally), Phantom Shadow, just four days from this writing, on August 22nd, 2014. On top of their own albums, they also did the official soundtrack for at least two games: a 2D shoot-em-up for the PC called Jets'n'Guns, and a platformer for all modern platforms called Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. They wanted to do the OST for a Kickstarter game called For My Brother, but it unfortunately did not make its minimum goal. They've done a number of promotional singles, including a SID metal version of Melanie C's I Turn To You and Britney Spears' Gimme More. Stjärnström has a very... liberal stance when it comes to piracy and distribution of his own work. In an interview with The Gaming Vault, it was noted that Machinae Supremacy sided with world-renowned torrent site The Pirate Bay when they started to have legal troubles, and that it was odd that a musician would choose to stand by the very people that, according to some, are robbing them:
This stance got them into some trouble with their own publisher when they themselves uploaded a torrent of a 720p recording of their live performance at Assembly 2011. You can watch the video here. There's also a video of Stjärnström explaining his stance elsewhere on Youtube, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Links/Sources: http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/ - Their official site. Includes a biography and free downloads for most of their webography and the entirety of their first album, Dues Ex Machinae. It also includes playlists of every other album, available if you have Spotify. http://forum.machinaesupremacy.com/ - Their forums, if you're down for that. https://www.facebook.com/machinaesupremacy - They have a Facebook page that they update pretty frequently.  E-Rotic is an associated act of Missing Heart. They were a German Eurodance project that went from the forgotten sepia-toned times of 1994 until 2003. Their music was largely considered a drop in the bucket at the time, except, as their name implies, E-Rotic used a ton of sexual topics and innuendo in their songs. For crying out loud, one of their songs was called Max Don't Have Sex with Your Ex. Sound advice, though. The group went through female singers and male rappers like they were money, including four singers and four rappers. The only one to survive all nine years was David Brandes, the group's producer. E-Rotic was his brainchild, and he was actually the group's original studio rapper, though he never performed on stage. E-Rotic was featured several times in Dance Dance Revolution. Links/Sources: http://www.sexualmadness.de/ - Their official website, miraculously still alive and online. Includes a biography and a discography, but everything is in German. It's NSFW and their opening page actually includes a cartoon picture of eight women having a fun time with an octopus. (Click bait if you've ever seen it, eh?) http://forum.sexualmadness.de/ - Their official forum. It requires an account to view anything, but assuming that it's not overrun with bots by now, the last man-made post there was made June 13th, 2014. Their newest member registered in 2011. http://www.eurokdj.com/search/eurodb.php?name=E-Rotic - A Eurodance Wiki entry on E-Rotic, including an English biography and discography.  Barry Jamieson worked for two decades in the UK as a sound engineer and music producer, racking up several Top 40s hits and at least one Grammy nomination. He and his buddy Jon Sutton formed Evolution and they tried to be one of the forerunners to the dance sensations that were, at the time, sweeping the nations with their own brand of digital sounds. More recently, he's done work cowriting music for the CSI television series, and Evolution even did the score for an entire episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation called "4 x 4". If I understand his biography correctly, he also did the trailer music for the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He's been a part of maybe a dozen other groups, including Apparition, Coma Pirates, Rapscallions, and more. There is no information that I can find on Jon Sutton. In fact, most searches for Evolution came up blank; only one website got back to me on Jamieson. It seems they've been out of the limelight for some time now. Sources/Links: http://www.discogs.com/artist/5402-Evolution - Their discography, and... http://www.discogs.com/artist/200324-Barry-Jamieson - Jamieson's biography. There was very little else I could find about Evolution; not so much as a Wikipedia article.  Like Evolution, and some other underground artists so far, there is very little about GeorgetowN on the internet. It's frustrating to even search for this guy at all: Google keeps thinking I mean Georgetown University, and which past American presidents attended it. The only match I found for GeorgetowN is this discography. I'm tempted to believe that it's really the same artist featured in ITG because all references to this page refer to GeorgetowN with the capitalized N. ITG graphic artists tend to use official logos if they're available, and GeorgetowN uses the capitalized N logo on their second album, Echo Park. None of their three albums (their latest one released in 2011) include the song Turn It On.  Like GeorgetowN, and some other underground artists so far, there is very little about DJ Doo on the internet. It's frustrating to even search for this guy at all: Google keeps thinking I mean someone else. Apparently "DJ Scooby Doo" is a thing and he's released two whole albums. The only match I found for a "DJ Doo" was this guy: some sort of French rapper suffering from rampant narcisism. This "website" doesn't have anything of a discography, and everything is in French. I sort of doubt this is the same DJ Doo, though, because DJ Doo has another song in ITG called Do U Love Me, which is all in English and uses a female vocalist.
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Hahahahaha, Bend Your Mind doubles. The worst chart to try to play on a cabinet that was missing like, half its sensors.
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