Progress Reports and Accomplishments

'A' on Legend on Legend of MAX Heavy?! O__o Nice!

I've decided that my SDG's and near-AAA's are all flukes. When I play at the arcade, my great count goes up 50-70 greats a song! The timing window is just that much smaller. I have eight arcade AA's, but they don't happen very often. I guess I will have to be content to try for home-pad AAA's. :(

Anyway, I played by myself at the arcade for three hours yesterday, and nothing major to report. I did pass two new 9-footers, Fantasy (MAX) and Destiny Lovers. Tried LoM heavy for the first time and it crushed me (so nice work, Devin!). Also was one miss from full-comboing Saint Goes Marching, and made it to the crossovers three times on Paranoia Survivor. I know, boring...

Yeah, I was a miracle that I even got that close ^-^. But I played 3 5-song games with the same song until I got it, and plus I was playing with the best player in my city so she gave me a few pointers. Oh yeah, I tried Paranioa Eternal on heavy, but I failed in 10 seconds, lol. Stupid offbeats!

WOW! Legend of Max with an A. That's insane! Good job. I feel bad to put my new songs down...

I finally passed Cartoon Heroes, with a C. I love the song and for a while I couldn't get the beat down. Now I can pass it. :)

I tried bag, but failed halfway through. Its not that hard really, but it was a first time for me.

Halfway through Bag is more than I could go.....I just hate that song....it's the devil's work...

Well, I got two A's on 9-footers yesterday and today,(Tsugaru and Rhythm and Police) so I'm moving on up.

And I can officialy make it 23 seconds into Max 300 heavy.

Congrats Devin!

hey Den, i think you should get comfortable at the arcades and play there more. Because, your timing will improve, and you learn how to hit the arrows at that exact moment. Of course it's not gonna come overnight, but overtime you'll get more perfects on the machines. And if you can, set your home version's difficulty to 4. That's the arcade's default difficulty. If it's on 1, then the 'Perfect' window is longer.

There are a few 9ers i'm working on. One is Tears and the first time i AAed it, i really fought for it and got away with about 40 something greats. BUt i tried it again, and AAed with 27 or something. So that's a 9er I would like to SDG someday. I was think i could probably pull off So Deep too, but nope...not with 30 something greats.

Cartoon Heroes is just a demon of a song, so is Para Eternal. It's so hard to double step and hit perfects, especially at 200 bpm.

I've gotten somewhat used to Cartoon Heroes now, at least to the point where I don't feel like dying after I play it. I think it's the last 9-footer I still have a B on, can't for the life of me get it up to an A.

AA'ed Break Down though! Also got SO close to FC'ing Healing Vision Angelic Mix, I got a good on the step right after the jump at the beginning, but I comboed the rest. I had like 80 greats so it probably wouldn't have been an AA but still..

Nice job on Breakdown! I still haven't AA'd that one as yet. Double-steps murder me ^^; and i haven't gotten the circles down as yet. Great job on HV:AM as well! you'll have that AA'd in no time.

I just finished playing, but i didn't do much. I did better on Cartoon Heroes though..if i would've gotten less misses, i might have AA'd it...but oh well. =)

Breakdown is tough... one of the few 9-footers that really stymied me for some time. The freeze arrow section is really difficult for me, especially the last part where you have to go LLLL,R,L,RR very quickly while holding down with your other foot.

I got my first (home) black flag last night: 1 great on (the home version of) Cutie Chaser Morning Mix. And I passed Max 300 again, upping my perfects by 20.

I only do the "required" (even though they really aren't) spins on Break Down. The one right before the vocals start, the easy one at the end and (my favorite) the four right after the freeze arrow part. Sometimes I spin on the LDR LDR parts, but I tend to get really disoriented if I do.

I also REALLY want to learn how to spin Saints Go Marching because they look like so much fun, but I'd need to get it on a home version first, though. They look pretty complicated. Stomp to my Beat's spins are my favorites, nice and slow.

Right now I'm trying to AA all the songs on my home versions, excluding the 10's, of course. I only have a few 9's left on MAX and I'm just starting MAX2 and Conga Feeling and Long Train Runnin' need to go away forever. I can't AA those for the life of me!

AB, those same two songs haunt me! I'm pretty sure those are the only two non-catas on MAX2 that I haven't AA'ed. Heck, I'm lucky if I get an A on Conga Feeling! Those ULDLULD parts are faster than Max 300's runs!

There's a DDR competition that's about 20 minutes away from me that i'm gonna enter in. Hopefully i'll do ok. In the meantime i'll be working on some more 9ft SDG's. So far i only have 2 that i can remember: Irresistiblement and My Summer Love ^^;

Good luck Kel! There are no tourneys around here, but I doubt I'd have a chance.

As for me, nothing new. I just wanted to post so you don't think I've disappeared. :)

Oh, I put the difficulty up on the songs, so I can improve on my number of perfects. That's something I really struggle on.

Got a B on 'V for Extreme' on heavy:

http://community.webshots.com/photo/146951032/146951371GPcUsP

(Anyone know how to turn the links into shorter words?)

Nice job on V! Definitely one of the harder 8-footers, in my opinion.

And for your question, highlight the word you'd like to link and then click on the icon that looks like a globe with a chain-link (it's the second from the right) then type in the address.

So it should look like this when you're done.

Nice work! You should try the Oni steps for V - much more challenging. It's constantly alternating machine-gun 16th-note runs with crossovers.

Nice work indeed! *points out the triple 2's* =D Congrats!

Yanno, i think i'd like to put pics of my accomplishments up. As soon as i get a camera, i'll do that. ^^

Got a couple more accomplishments today. Mainly FC Drop the Bomb (the remix one :)) and A.

Click here (Pics 2-12)

*** Edited 5/28/2004 11:50:30 PM UTC by RCT_MASTER***

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Hello again.

Accomplishments? Some. Concerning Extreme - 1) I passed Tsugaru on heavy doubles with a C. Almost did a number on my ankles, but it was okay. 2) I managed a top score on Oni Doubles Dancemania at Disneyland with a 2 minute stream.

I've failed at most everything now. Sadly to say, I've gone to hell concerning DDR. Lost my touch, etc. if you will. I'm trying out freestyle now, but that's only because I've been playing Para Para Paradise and Pump It Up a lot more. Hopefully I will be able to do a few things on that before I completely give up.

I managed one thing concerning Disneyland that day. 1- A large crowd, and 2- a VERY angry singles player that wanted to hurt me. It's fun to show up other people who think they are better than you are. XD