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Arcade Releases - 5th Mix is my favorite. Had a wonderful mix of songs from the previous versions and a couple that would never appear again. Plus it had the most awesome mode select music.

Japanese Releases - Extra Mix. All the songs from Solo 2000 and Solo Bass mix and a couple of extra songs in between. Most of the music was pretty good.

US Releases - EXTREME 2. Hands down, best home version available. You can't beat a mix that has butterfly (upswing mix), Boom Boom Dollar (K.O.G. G3 Mix), Injection of Love, and un deux trois in it.

I have been playing a lot of In The Groove 2 though since it's one of the machines available at the arcade near me. We got it hacked so we've uploaded a good amount of original files along with DDR files. What's weirder is that we have this machine with all this DDR music and we actually have two DDR machine in the arcade as well (EXTREME and SuperNOVA).

As far as the home versions go, none of the SuperNOVA boss songs have any redeeming qualities about them. They're all hard as hell and make no sense to begin with. I'd recommend sticking to MAX, MAX2, or go and pick up EXTREME2. I wasn't all that impressed with EXTREME.

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The only thing that really bothered me about the US EXTREME is the fact you couldn't disable button commands on the dance pad. So each time you hit X or O, they would register to an arrow.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Just keep playing the song and practicing.

Overtime, with ITG2, I thought I would never get past doing 10s and 11s, at this point in time, I can consistently pass a good majority of 11s and a couple of 12s. 13+ songs are out of the question at the moment.

And speed mods are usually good for passing songs. At 1x, some songs are just unreadable. Take bag for example. 1x = 65 BPM. Unless you have amazing eyesight and good sight reading skills, then you could pass it. To make it anywhere near reasonable you'd probably have to play it at 3x. I have no problems playing it at 8x thanks to ITG and the forced speed reading just to pass stuff... Now I can't play on 1.5x unless it's a MAX song or something really fast.

Normal for me is 2x and 3x.

As far as reading 1x, it just helps your sight reading because you see everything on screen. You could still progress fairly well if you read all songs on 1.5x, there's nothing wrong with that. Regards to your 1/4 arrow question, each arrow usually lands on the beat since all DDR songs are done in 4/4 time.

Just keep playing the song over and over again. Since you have a home version, you're really not losing any money playing the song over and over again.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'm so over bag. >.<

Since we slapped it on our hacked ITG2 machine, I hold the record at 94%. No one has really bothered to overtake it because of the weird rhythms. Honestly, I hate the damn song.

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Hell, I wish I had a IIDX machine near me. beatmania is probably the only music game that I've played that I'm really bad in. There is one that's about a half hour away, but I don't really like taking the effort to go down there.

I have the US home version and downloaded a couple of beatmania games for the PSX, but I still suck horribly at it.

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Originally Posted by ^-^

Quit using speed mods. You're only making it easier on yourself to pass those songs.

Or you're just putting yourself through hell not using them at all. ESPECIALLY if you play ITG, speed mods are a must.

There's no way in hell you're passing Determinator on Expert on 1x.

Here's what mods I use to read songs... DDR on the left, ITG on the right.

In terms of getting better playing songs Tsunade and using different speed mods. I would recommend playing the songs from the older mixes first. Really concentrate on finishing a lot of the songs on DDR Max. I have a rule when it comes to using speed mods all depending on the BPM of the song.

If the song is below 70 BPM - 8x | 6x (since that's the highest available option)
If the song is below 100 BPM - 5x | 5x
If the song is between 100 BPM and 155 BPM - 3x-5x | 4.5x-5x
If the song is between 160 BPM and 195 BPM - 2x-3x | 2.5x-3x
If the song is between 200 BPM and 300 BPM - 1.5x-2x | 2x-2.5x
If the song is above 300 BPM - 1.5x | 1.5x-2x

I don't really have too many problems reading 1x, but it's easier on DDR than it is on ITG.

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Originally Posted by Angel Of Light

The only machine we have at the arcade in Newfoundland is ITG 2. I think ITG definetely has a lot of fun songs, but I'll always prefer bemani music more. I'm only a level 9 player, the only ten's I have ever passed is bag on 3x speed and sakura on 1x. dj Taka is the artist that got me into trance in the first place. He does such a good job with that genre of music and how he mixes piano with his trance music is almost heavenly. I'm hoping a licensed ddr step chart of pandora will soon come into existence. We might be getting a supernova 2 machine in June, but even if we don't I'll be happy with a supernova machine.

So... does this machine have r21 installed?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Now that you mention it, I don't ever recall Dam Dariram hitting any US release. o_o

As popular as the song is, it was never featured outside of any Japanese release.

As far as Edit Data goes, I actually make my own songs since the machine I play on is hacked. I've only stepped two songs so far:

Your Song (Transensual Mix) - Expert/Oni - 11
Anisakis -somatic mutation type Forza- - Hard/Heavy - 9

(No one really cares too much about full charts in our arcade... All the elitists play on the ITG2 machine, everyone else plays on the two DDR machines. <_<)

If anyone wants to try them, I could upload them and stuff, but you could only play these in Stepmania.

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When I discovered that everyone and their mother would play Dam Dariram everytime I would play, I stopped playing that song. Usually a three song set for me would be Twilight Zone, Tsugaru, and Max 300.

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Dear God I hope that DDR X is better than SuperNOVA2. And hopefully they add speed mods in Hottest Party 2. The lack of them absolutely kills you in the first game. >_<

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