beatmaniaIIDX 12 HAPPY SKY CS
 

It's now been announced that beatmaniaIIDX 12 HAPPY SKY CS is on its way, according to the IIDX RED CS website!:

http://www.konami.jp/gs/game/bm2dx/11red/#HS

I am FAR more excited for this than I was for RED. Happy Sky is my favorite IIDX style to date, I like it far more than DistorteD or RED or any other modern one (So much that I have the hard drive for HS on my computer :B). There's no release date yet, but people are speculating sometime in november. Any revival-guesses here?

November would be a good guess for a release date. It seems like every year, Konami's been trying to come out with it as close to 19/20, November as they can get.

I hope a lot more slow/tempo changing songs are revived, to take advantage of HS5/Sudden+.

The revival songlist has been announced!:

It's too early in the morning to format, I'll do it later D:

V is back (Noooo!), but other than that the revivals look pretty nice.

Dang, I was beaten to it.

I've been saying Electro Tuned is due for revival the last two games, but then I figured it'd get passed up this game. So, it goes and gets revived.

Please Don't Go, Kotti Wo Muiteyo, VJArmy, and Luv to Me Ucchies Edition will all be great to play again. Maybe I can pass PDG with the updated interface/better high speeds, and VJArmy will be better with sudden+ too.

i have it its quite fun. though this isnt the CS version. >.>

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Ah, did you download the full 13GB arcade version, or however big it was?

10.8 gig

yes yes i did ^^

This may be a little off-topic. But there will be a location test for IIDX 14 Gold in Japan starting today. I wonder what the music will be like in this one..

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Yeah. I'll make a separate topic for IIDX Gold.

December 14th seems to be the release date for Happy Sky. A little later than expected, but then I remember December isn't all that far off from now.

Yeah, Play-Asia opened their pre orders a few days ago and I've already put mine in with the fastest shipping option. I can't wait XD

It's another Beatmania CS release~ He we go again ^___^

I've never played 12th style before, but from what i hear around
here and bemanistyle, this one seems to be the best!

Time to polish my skills (or lack of) once again ^_^

CS 12th songs as follows:

Bossa Electronica / Reflection into the EDEN / Nekomata Master / 4-7-x, 110bpm
Japanese Reggae / Endless Summer Story / Yoshitaka feat. Kanako Hoshino / 4-6-7, 95bpm
Trance / 風の谷のDREAM / PINK PONG / 4-7-9, 146bpm
Pops / Recollection / Noria / 4-7-9, 182bpm
Drum & Bass / DAWN -THE NEXT ENDEAVOUR- / LED feat. Kanako Hoshino / 6-9-x, 183bpm

I'm sure there'll be more, but for now, this is what we have to look forward to.

YES! Another Nekomata track ^_^

4-7-X? Does this mean that there's no another?

Aww! Beyond the Earth was such a great [A] chart!
Hope it still has an Another.

P.S. Gdog, welcome back to GFF~ I've only seen you on Bemanistyle ^__^

Yeah, it'll likely have an another version, don't worry.

This is only the list from TGS 2006, and there are almost never [A] versions available at the show.

Definitely psyched to get me some hot Happy Sky action, but I honestly don't know what I'll play first. Possibly a set of Inazuma/Xapher/something I can AA the [A] of, to get ES, then Scream Squad and FAIL HORRIBLY, at least for the first time or two.

I told myself I was never going to order another LE after being so disappointed by 8th style's.

Then one of the bonuses was announced for HS's. A Xia figurine.

My resolve, it breaks D:

Since i haven't been playing for a while~ i'm playing RED now
and trying to improve my EXs plus Full Combo everything in order.
So far 1-6s are FCed and a handful of 7s.

Stupid Ageha, i keep messing up my combo on the same dumb part *_*~~~

Let's hope PlayAsia ships early like last time with RED!!

Man, i'm getting impatient ^_^''

Hmm, it's getting close. I should probably order this soon.

Also, apparently Scripted Connection, which actually sounded different for each chart, will now be three whole songs, N-mix, H-mix, and A-mix, each version three charts of its own.

Also, there is apparently a Love is Dreaminess another or remix or something, looks to be along the lines of Erasermotor Phantom.

Not precisely.

There's a song on IIDX 12th CS called "Lovely Storm - Love is Dreaminess Reinterpretation." So, to give another example, the songs are sort of like the difference between "Infinite Prayer" and "The Big Voyager - Infinite Prayer Reinterpretation"

To get a bit of a preview for it, There's a link here.
If you want to see the new CS songs in action, including the two that have been revealed since my last post, namely:

NU STYLE GABBA/Blue Mirage/DJ CHUCKY
CLUB JAZZ/Ice Cube Pf (RX-Ver. S.P.L.)/高田雅史

Check out the Official Site, which was opened a couple weeks ago here.

And yeah, the game officially releases in 6 days, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some more info, on courses, difficulties and unlocks withing about 4. Usually the ISOs are leaked a day or two early.

Edit: Looks like there are three more, secret CS songs: Sayonara Heaven = Contemporary nation 2, essentially a sequel to Beyond The Earth, In the Sky, and Just a Little Smile. These are rumors, but ones that are likely true.

Sayonara Heaven is SWEEEEEEEEEET~ If this is true, i'd kiss Mr. Konami on the lips!

Hell, if it isn't, i'd still kiss 'em ^_^

--update--

As usual! Playasia has ALREADY SHIPPED IIDX 12 out (at least my order has been).
It'll probably get to my hands on Wednesday! Can't WAIT!

Sayonara Heaven/WORLD/ELECTRONICA/Nekomata Master
Just a Little Smile/NU SKOOL BREAKS/Sota Fujimori
in the Sky/HAPPY HARDCORE/Ryu☆

All confirmed.

Good to hear Sayonara Heaven got confirmed, as listings as "Contemporary Nation 2" for a genre were pretty suspicious. Do you know if the supposed difficulties have been confirmed also? (I was hearing 7/11/12 on it)

EDIT - just saw a screen shot that showed 5/6/8 for that, but for doubles. Hmm.

EDIT 2 - Possibly the craziest thing yet. The game has an option to move the timing earlier or later, allowing people with things like lagging HDTVs to still have the game play perfectly on time.

Sayonara Heaven Singles is 5/6/8 as well. I know, we're all hoping
we'd have another hard song like the first Contemporary Nation on IIDX.
This one's a bit easier ^_^''

Playing through the game now~ Customize is back and there's a lot of skins!
There's even unlockable BGM for the song select screen ^_* b

I'm going over a friends later today, and we're gonna quickly try the game, even though neither of us actually have it yet. >_>

Man, I wasn't that excited for Happy Sky CS until I started hearing all the crazy things this one has. I also popped in RED yesterday for the first time in a couple months and remembered why that was such an improvement over the previous styles, and that got me even more excited for HS.

I'm also working through the game, I actually managed to clear 7th Dan on this style (RED's The Safari owned me ;_;), and I'm really digging the built-in rival data.

The extra skins are okay, but what I'm REALLY liking is the custom music select BGM. The Taka one is freakin' amazing.

I'm an 8-dan player, but stupid 8-dan on HS is KILLING me.

I HATE Rakuen (A). SO, SO much.

Otherwise, 8 dan would be the best of its' kind in a while.

CS songs are pretty good this time around as well, and most are different enough from their artists' usual fare that they interest even the most jaded IIDX players. SOTA's is a VERY different song...

I am currently watching my friend play Happy Sky.

Crazy new feature: When holding start/select to quit a song, also hold the 1 and 2 keys, and the song starts over without taking you to the fail screen.

WHAT!? Did i die and go to HEAVEN!? :lemming:

Thanks for the heads up lol!

Oh wow, that's really neat.

Other stuff I'm liking:

Like any customize option, if you unlock every BGM and press Start when highlighting it in the Customize screen, it'll play a random one every time you go to the song select screen. I'm also digging the stats screen, which tells you a ton of things like a pie chart of key ratings (I'm 60% Just Greats! :O) and even which key you miss the most notes on (Mine's key 2).

Anyone know what song you need to use to unlock the backside courses? It's not in motion, but maybe 5.1.1.?

I havent had that much time to play it, when it was available to me but I am much liking the backlog of older stuff (played first, for nostalga reasons).

R&D at its fineist, Ill take that into when I get stuck at one part which throws my gauage down.

*Phew!*

Just played a run through all the Dan courses. Super. Tired.

I'm stuck on 10th Dan. I can't work my way around it ^_^''
Just like on RED... 10th Dan once again is just toooo much.

Plus~

Little Little Princess [A] - I haven't played a song this frantic
and fun since Murmur Twins [A]. What a groovin' song!

10dan is indeed crazy. I made it through 9dan with little trouble, and now on 10dan... I've yet to get through two songs. And I fear something like Rage Against Usual or Mei or One More Lovely will pop up as the third or fourth song.

Speaking of Mei, I played it on another and got my D on it. Took two tries to actually get the D, but I got it...

Speaking of dan mode, I found something today.

Scroll up to the highest dan you have, then in one constant turntable motion scroll all the way down to the bottom. Don't stop spinning the turntable, keep going for maybe 3 or 5 seconds. You'll know you did it right when you hear "CONNECTION". Select that lowest kyu.

Scripted Connection=> Long Mix. You play through the ENTIRE almost-7-minute song as if it were the track on the OST, each part's chart is on another. If you clear through that monster, you have to play Mei[a]. Insane? Yes. Cool? HELL yes.

My current best is about the 3 minute mark, then my arms just died.

Later edit: Endless Summer Story is (IMO) the best CS song on the style.

Cool Taco, Scripted Connection=> Long Mix is a little (a lot) too hard for me though, even though I managed to scrape through 9th dan on my first attempt.
*Hmph* it doesn't seem to work for Double mode though... though I wouldn't stand a hope in hell on that if it did exist, since I can't even do 8th dan yet and 7th dan not very well.

Beat the damn 8th and 9th dans.

9th, IMO is actually far easier than 8th, but that's probably because I'm so damn weak on Rakuen (A).

10th, though... Not gonna even try.

I *thought* 9th was easier on this version, it's the first 9th I've ever done... and it'll probably be a long time before I do another one:)
Rakuen is a bugger though, I lose more than half the gauge on it, but luckily the other 8dan songs aren't *too* bad!

Does anyone else here 14keys? I love it. I don't know why but I find it a lot more fun than 7keys, even though it's bloody hard especially at levels 7 and above. Also I can't reach from the left-most key to the turn-table on my right hand to play them at the same time without causing myself pain :D My left hand has a slightly bigger span, but even that side's painful at full stretch.

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hey, what does CS stand for? also, i just picked up this game and it's proper fun but hard to play. beginner setting is fine and seems to be the only thing i can do which makes me wonder if the problem lies with how i use the controller. i use one hand, is that the problem? in some of the harder songs for me things move way too fast.

CS stands for "Consumer Software", which basically means home version. AC is used as an abbreviation for Arcade.

The hardest part at first is definitely getting used to the controller. While one hand usually makes it easier to hit the keys early on, most people find playing one handed to be near impossible. A select few get the hang of it, but most people prefer two handed play. It's probably better to try and get used to two hands earlier on. And only being able to do beginner mode songs right off the bat is pretty standard.

2007: The year Taco passes 12s.

I decided to play the 12s on Happy Sky out of boredom, and I almost cleared three: Please Don't Go [a], in The Sky [a], and Scream Squad [a]. I ended with about 60% on each of them, sightreading. I think with some practice on them I'll be passing my first 12s within a couple of weeks. :D

thanks for the tip. happy new years to you all, too

12s are ridiculus for me, I haven't even attempted some of them all the way through. 11s are ridiculus too, although I have done 2 of them, but they probably should have been given 10s because all the others are way harder imo.
Maybe another year and I'll stand a chance.... maybe.

top_cat, my advice is just to practice for an hour or so every day, and within a few weeks you'll be tackling Hypers, and in a few months Anothers! :D

It seems I'm finally getting over my IIDX plateau. Today I played 8dan and 9dan, and cleared them both. Once I got through Rauken [a] it was smooth sailing.

10dan is lol though, so I won't be clearing that any time soon.

Well, another first for me today - getting AAA for an expert course - Refined (normal) ! And if that wasn't cool enough for me I went and did it again straight afterwards on Nostalgic Sky (normal) !:D

This is why I love these games so much - there's always something new to achieve no matter how good you get. Well just about anyway, certainly for us 99.999% of humans.