beatmania US version

Feel free to avoid this game as much as possible. It has the worst tracklist in the world in comparison to other beatmania titles, and the only thing worth buying would be the slightly better controller.

And there's absolutely no reason to have a decent controller if all you're going to be playing is a garbage game.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

More like Toxic Garbage Mix.

Seriously, you haven't played 10th Style if you think the USA beatmania has a good tracklist. 10th Style has possibly the best, if not close to best, range of songs available from 3-10.

I haven't played all beatmania's however, and a friend from another forum is going to send me burned copies of the beatmania's which I'm missing, along with the Pop'n Music's that I'm missing. I cannot say for sure that 10th Style is the outright dominant beatmania title, but the american version is nothing in comparison.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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However, if you dropped 10th style in front of a newer player they'd be overwhelmed. There's such a difficulty gap between songs that it'd scare off the newer players.

Even more reason for newer players to pick up 10th Style first.

This reminds me of going from 5 button to 9 button in Pop'n. You might as well skip to the good stuff and get to work. Not all 10th Style songs are hard, either. I've only played a few, though.

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Hahaha bemani elitists? I'm sorry but my name isn't Arch0wl.

Most people I've seen tend to play beatmania with their left and right index and middle fingers, and their pinky/ring finger to scratch. I don't know if the american iidx controller is fit for modding, but if it's anything close to the japanese version, check out google for some controller mods. I've seen quite a few.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

If that's the way to go about it, they made the gap from the keys to the scratch way too wide on the American controller.

The controller's are almost the same, however they have be made slightly different. Usually I have my index fingers over the bottom left and bottom right keys, hands respectively. It seems to work fine, apart from the fact that scratching is a gimmick.

Actually, researching a bit, the spacing and button placement is exactly the same as the japanese version.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Dojomaster

Beatmania US is a great deal for those of us who don't have 100s of dollars to spend on importing the Jap versions. I'd love to get my hands on the Jap IIDX mixes, but that's way out of my budget...

You could always download them if you're that desperate.

Actually, $70 US is quite alot for 10th Style, or any beatmania title for that matter. There's bound to be torrent sites that have them.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Zuare

I've got a question. I was watching the videos on IGN for the US version of Beatmania, and the songs seem kind of screwed up. The volume seems to randomly change from being quiet, to loud. Does this kind of thing happen in the Japanese IIDX games too, or is it just the US version?

That's definitely not normal, nor do any beatmania titles do that.

It's probably IGN's professional video viewing.

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