In fairness I think the old games are fairly cheap, but they lack features and are hard to play. The most recent few are the ones that are expensive, and only the last one is hundreds as it was a double disc with disc 2 a best of from the series, as a farewell.

Now I can't find my PS2, which has the disc in

Hope it's at work.

Inspired by Davy's cam job in the shmup thread, I thought I'd take a few vids of my progress on bms/iidx/7key today, so here you go.

I think these are all insane level 0, so roughly hard-10/level 11/easy-12 on the iidx scale (difficulty rating on bms is muddy, because the charters rate it themselves, then the community rate it again, but most of these are from the satellite 0 pack, which is insane level 0).

I didn't play much last week at all except some at work on laptop keyboard, so was a bit rusty, these aren't my best or anything.

Also, I didn't realise I do that thing with my right hand where it flicks out far at times... odd.

Also also, my scratching sucks atm, and long notes (where you have to hold them, as seen in 'Sunny') I've never been great at because they were added to the game after I stopped playing for a while, so they're still pretty new to me, and it's more of a head-fuck than you'd think, to keep hold of a key whilst you're pressing others.

These are all on Lunatic Rave 2 client using a Konami J-Koc controller with cardboard-mod (love my Jkoc).

If anyone's interested, everything you see in these vids is free to download, aside from the controller, and even then some of the best in the world play on keyboard; happy to link people up if they like.

https://youtu.be/AJ13wJP2fGM

https://youtu.be/JlooHpBcbks

https://youtu.be/B01OzlG_qKM

https://youtu.be/T_c8TB9ad8w

https://youtu.be/6FD6E2Pc784

Heh, Konami official controller is the acronym but Asian cocko works for me.

Fuck him he's fat and arrogant

I'm playing normal gauge there so you can't bomb out, you just need to finish with your gauge 80% or higher (the meter at the bottom, the red portion at the right end of the meter is 80%+). That does mean ofc that you can not miss a single note, then fuck the end and drop below 80% and fail, or fuck up on the whole song but nail the end to bring your meter to 80% and pass (e.g. on The Lost Dedicated vid above I just scrape back into 80% at the end).

There are other gauges, hard gauge means you bomb out the song if it hits 0% and also you lose more gauge for misses and gain gauge slower, then EX-hard, which is the same but moreso (I think you lose 20% gauge for a miss), plus there's no miss gauge (bomb out if you miss a note) and perfect attack (bomb out if you don't hit every note with a flashing great timing). Btw there are 4 timing windows I think, bad(miss), poor(hit but shite), good, normal great, flashing great(perfect).

I think I stare around at the top o the flashing great text/number. Peripheral vision and muscle memory takes over. All of those vids are random mode btw so sight reading the pattern pretty much.

May well check it out.

Cheers - I found the links for the software - the song packs are probably harder to find.

I'll PM you when I get the time.

Yeah it's defo on my radar. Harmonix got dat sweet secret sauce. Even loved that iPod classic game they did.

I'm a twat, I know.

Why I love the arcade.....and miss it so much.

I want it where is Dartford

Yes I cannot make it there my pary.

I'm after guitar hero world tour for the Xbox 360. I don't suppose anybody's got any plastic tat lying around they want to get rid of? My son wants it for his birthday.