beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL (AC) (Japan)

Look at those new lane lights. Holy shit

EDIT: never mind they're not new

Those get really distracting when you read, especially the white one, from when I tried it a while back, but the most helpful one is the 6th one where it's shorter.

Out of the two new ones though, not a fan of the lightning one. Reminds me of the cheap effect on SN2 where it says "1st stage" "Final stage", etc before playing a song. The sparkle one seems alright though.

The sparkle one is ONLY ONE BEAM lol
i guess that means only one judgment font and only one full combo splash should be available for purchase.

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Was the Only One Beam/Judgement font available in Tricoro?

Nope, it was in SPADA, unlockable during that SUPER STAR MITSURU event.

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I personally play with the white/gray one, I find it to be the less agressive (the short beams are nice too, I was using them in Tricoro)
Also, if you are wondering the Only One set is horrible for visibility
Here is a video of the full set during Spada
http://nicoviewer.net/sm23197341

It is reported by a lot of players that the judgement of PENDUAL is in fact more lenient than SPADA
Sign of connecting IIDX with BMS?
(FYI, BMS has a very lenient judgement.)

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And I thought Tricoro was lenient...

In the Fantastic Three video. The third brother I think is Wac, because they're using a cat head to censor his shirt, and Wac wears a cat head :3

This third brother actually appeared in Ryu☆'s live event for its cd release (not the one in Saitama, the one before that), and at that time it was speculated to be Tag, but well, who knows

Some news on Pendual.
When it's in Future phase (like now), all the Dan are mirrored (and you receive another tranmedal for it as well). It can be useful for some (like 6th dan for 2p with Bloomin' Feeling being quite hard apparently)

Come on, why would they censor his shirt with Wac's cat face? They could have just used a black bar. All signs point to Wac as the 3rd brother.

"All signs"

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*shrugs* whatever. Just my theory on it. The only sign is the cat censor on his shirt.

There was an update today.
Remaining Leggendaria chart appeared! My home sadly didn't update yet so I couldn't do it, but Feel the Beat has more than 1200 notes (and is apparently hard) and Verlfucht has now more than 2400 notes!!! What the!

Also, an actual event started.
If you Full Combo Chrono Diver Another, a door will emerge from the ground on the result screen.
There is then 3 requirements to do apparently, but it's yet unknown what to do (by playing one Legendarria song, one requirement disappeared for me, but the door then turned purple, saying something about the "future" version, so I guess we'll have to wait friday)

BMS does not have very lenient judgement. It has adjustable judgement. Each file has a RANK. 0 is impossible, 1 is hard but not as hard as GAMBOL, 2 is somewhat close to IIDX, 3 (most common by far) easier than IIDX. You can use a program called Multiple Find and Replace, search a directory for .bm (bms/bme/bml) files, then replace #RANK 0 with #RANK 2 and so on. That's what I did with my IIDX BMS at least.

But you shouldn't change the rank of non-IIDX BMS however, because LR2 internet ranking is done by a checksum of the chart file.

And in fact, the reason LR2 is easier to time, is because if you overclock your USB port and put your ASIO buffer to 32, especially if you have a PCIe or Firewire card meant for sound production, then you will likely have LESS audio latency than actual arcade IIDX and Pop'n machines. You can see how long this latency is at each buffer size with several different pieces of music production software if you want to see for yourself.

Videos from nicovideo:

疾風迅雷 -LEGGENDARIA- [SPA]
Feel the Beat -LEGGENDARIA- [SPA]
Verflucht -LEGGENDARIA- [SPA] (my god)

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Wonder why they chose to postpone those three until the release of Pendual.

Okay... this is talking about the present phase again, I guess we'll have to wait until Monday now.

It's just a never ending cycle.

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Well this popped up today. Apparently Pluto Relinquish by 2MB from DDR SuperNOVA2 will be an unlock. Whether or not this is legit is still unknown, but one can hope it's real:

https://twitter.com/Mix_stN/status/515507839495069697