beatmania IIDX INFINITAS (PC)

Such a grind. This unlock system had better last a bunch of months, then.

inb4 the rest of the update songs after this need to be unlocked through akashic explore

I would actually start contributing but I haven't reupped my subscription yet for this month mainly because I'm kinda broke at the moment.

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Two events are coming up:

1. New player event (5/1/2016 ~ 5/16/2016)
http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160426_iidx_ev1605n

If your first play falls in the event period, you will get 2 INFINITAS tickets.


2. Golden week event (4/28/2016 ~ 5/16/2016)
http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160426_iidx_ev1605g

You will get lots of bits after the event, the number of bits is based on the number of clears of ALL players during the event period.

Did anyone download the update before it was revoked? (Apparently the update broke the game.) If anyone has or had it, I'd like to see the data.

The Let Get Bit event finished. The event counted how many total songs were cleared by all players combined during the last 18 days. IIRC the reward tiers were:
10000 clears: 500 bits
25000 clears: 1000 bits
40000 clears: 2500 bits
55000 clears: 5000 bits
70000 clears: 10000 bits
85000 clears: 20000 bits

And thanks to a last minute push we ended at 70630 clears. So everyone will get 10,000 bits. (I haven't got mine yet.)

A new layer, "Archive Layer #1" was added with all the January songs. I guess that's how they're going to redistribute those. There's something about an "Archive Layer #1 extra" for those of us who don't need it.

Yet another new layer was added: the Cyber layer. This layer appears during the Nature Layer (which appears during the Space layer). Without the patch I can't see which songs are in it, but the website spoils Gradiusic Cyber, Ultimate, and Zenius-I-Vanisher.

Finally, a Terra song! I know Naoki is banned now, but they were so popular during the era of IIDX that Infinitas is pulling from that they should've been represented earlier.

I managed to get the update before emergency shutdown, how can I view the song list from the game files?

Do you know what a hex editor is? I want you to post some screenshots.

1) Navigate to "C:\Program Files (x86)\KONAMI\eacloud\beatmania IIDX INFINITAS\game\image\p4000"

Inside this folder are the keysounds and charts for every song. Songs are packaged together in archive files corresponding to when they were distributed. The data inside is encrypted (to make cheating harder*) but the filenames are plainly visible. And the filenames are the songids. I can recognize the songids.

Open d4004 and take a screenshot. This is what I'm looking for. If the patch added a new file named d4005 (likely) then post the top bit of that file too.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfejur1k5vdlvj4/Screenshot%202016-05-17%2001.30.22.png?dl=0

EDIT: or actually, if you can upload:
image/p4000/d4004 (if it is not 159,547 kb)
image/p4000/d4005 (if it exists)
image/p1000/d1003 (if it is not 92,824 kb)
image/p1000/d1004 (if it exists)
C:\Program Files (x86)\KONAMI\eacloud\beatmania IIDX INFINITAS\game\app\bm2dx.exe

EDIT2: for fun, these are my guesses
- Gradiusic Cyber (confirmed)
- Ultimate (confirmed)
- Zenius-I-Vanisher (confirmed)
- Leading Cyber
- Cyber Force
- T.A.I.Y.O.
- Holic
- Fascination Maxx (because apparently layers must end with an OMES)

Got it, but my computer is not with me right now, I can access it 2 hours later.
BTW, there is a bug in the achievement system after patching this update, and that is probably why KONAMI stopped pushing the update. There is a new category of achievement "Number of songs cleared", and I have got all these achievements up to 10000 clears without actually clearing so many songs.

Thank you. And that's a pretty serious bug because it would cause players to quickly earn a lot of bits! And if those bits were spent on unlocking songs then Konami would be unable to take them back without doing a detailed rollback. (Or giving the exploiters a negative bit total.) So actually since you're one of the lucky players who saw the bug then I recommend spending all your bits right away! I bet your bit total will be reset and you'll get to keep your layer progress.

OK d1004 and d4005 are there, so I opened both of them.

8 numbers appeared in d4005, where 2 of them also appeared in d1004:
13048 (also in d1004, ZiV?)
17060
03006 (LEADING CYBER?)
11011 (also in d1004)
11028
14019
15059
16052

Zenius -I- vanisher
SOLID STATE SQUAD
LEADING CYBER
ULTiMΛTE
The Hope of Tomorrow
Cyber Force
satellite020712 from "CODED ARMS"
SOLITON BEAM

I guessed 1/5 songs. There's only one 11* and one 12*? Neither of them are hard either. I assume SSS is at the end of the layer and that the grind for SSS is shorter than the grind for Almagest or Sakura. Because that's an underwhelming 7A to spend 1,100 sectors on! (1,100 sectors is about 44,000 bits assuming you have the other 7 songs in the layer already!!!) The grind for Sakura 7A is way too long too, but that least that song is classic and also an OMES even if it's easy.

d1004 contains texture data, and the two noted songs have custom title fonts and cards.

FWIW any files with 3000 in the name are movies. The movies are about 40-55 MB each and each 300-500 MB file is actually just several wmvs concatenated. You can extract them by copy/pasting ranges of bytes into a new file.

Thanks for posting those. So we have:

Tatsh
kors k vs LED
Taka
Terra
Sota
Sota
Nekomata
LED

I think we should replace the Infinitas sound director with the random number generator that picks the daily songs in copula. Agree or disagree? I love all these people but omg bias. I'm surprised there's not another Ryu* song.

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160516_iidx_ud2

The announcement is updated. The bug has been fixed and the update is planned to resume from tomorrow.

For the record, it was 30000 bits for 85000 clears and 50000 bits for 100000 clears, but I guess that doesn't matter now that the event is almost over (I say almost because I haven't received my 10000 bits yet).

Also, the update is finally here, and here's some of the additions and changes I found so far:
-Catastrophe's list for the Cyber Layer songs looks pretty accurate so far from how much I was able to unlock.
-The Cyber Layer itself is unlockable between AVE DE RAPINA and 華蝶風雪.
-Archive Layer #1 Extra just consists of 13 spaces that all give you 2^n bits on the (n-1)th space (1 bit, 2 bits, 4 bits, etc.), for a total of 8191 bits (plus another 5000 bits for completing the layer).
-The number of bits earned for most of the repeat missions have increased.
-The timer between repeat missions has decreased from 24 to 22 hours.
-The achievement missions are shown in the mission list now; although you can't select them, at least it's nice to know how much progress you've made on them (and how many bits you earn on each one).

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Downtime! Time to talk about the game instead of play it.

The "daily" (repeatable) missions basically pay double now, which is very nice. Also they decreased the cooldown from 24h to 21h. Mobile games never make their cooldowns literally 24h because then someone who plays at the same time every day will slowly 'drift' and end up in some awkward situation where they need to wait 30 minutes or something dumb. (Been there with this game.) Most games do 23h, but I like 21h because I have to dodge the downtime in the middle of my evening. Some days, like today actually, I need to play a little earlier.

I didn't see either of the new January layers. Since I was subbed for January I think I should've been entitled to Archive Layer #1 Extra and the free 13191 bits. I looked again after unlocking the Cyber layer, but still nothing.

I like the new mission select interface. Thank you whoever did that.

Did anyone else see a popup saying that the Let Get Bit event ended and that you were given 10,000 bits? I saw that, but then I didn't get the bits.

So when are we getting rivals, UI options, R-Ran, and score combo?

Oh right, I do remember seeing a popup at the mode select screen, but it was mostly blank and only showed me my current bit total. I would take a screenshot, but my recording got messed up. Well, I'm not too worried about it since I can earn that back in a single day now, but some extra bits would still be nice to have.

BUMP: And I finally got my 10,000 bits, and so should everyone else, by the looks of it.
http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160520_iidx_ud5

And apparently, Archive Layer #1 doesn't appear until you make some progress into the "Space Layer Normal" layer, but I don't know how much.

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What about Archive Layer #1 Extra? Because I'm halfway through every layer on Another and i haven't made any progress on Normal yet. It would suck to have to start over on Normal just to claim my free bits.

This layer is only available for players who unlocked all January songs (played in Stanard Mode before Feburary).

I did. And I definitely have all the January songs. I didn't forget to play The Safari or any other song.

http://p.eagate.573.jp/game/eacloud/p/common/info/news.html?news_id=20160530_iidx_ud
Another update is coming in the beginning of June, including a new AE layer (or layers?) and mission adjustment.

The update is available now. A new layer "Sky Layer" is added, and every layer is available to be selected from the beginning.
You don't need to set the REWARD MISSIONS manually, they will automatically be clearly when the condition is fulfilled.
When you are using H-RANDOM or BATTLE options, the number of music played will be cumulated from now.

A new folder p4001 with file d4006 appears, the song IDs are:
10020
12014
06003
06010
12023
14024 (HALF MOON, another song deleted in copula)
15057
17044

Yay patch day! Right away I was given access to Archive Layer #1 Extra which I completed. Then I used the bits from that to complete Cyber Layer ANOTHER! (The first two layers I've ever completed.)

Two bugs:
- The game crashed every other attempt to spend bits in Archive Layer #1. So crash, reload, move 3 spaces, crash, reload, move 4 spaces. Good thing this layer was only 13 spaces long.

- After completing Archive Layer #1 and Cyber Layer ANOTHER I was given 5,000 and 8,000 bonus bits. I had to leave and re-renter Akashic Explore mode before my total updated to show these bonus bits. No big deal.

I then dumped my 13,000 bonus bits into the new Sky Layer and got the first 4 new songs on another!

And then I was screwed. Now the game crashes every time I clear a song. I think it's related to the new feature where you don't have to explicitly choose the reward missions anymore. If the game is trying to retroactively mark my reward missions as cleared then I'm owed a truckload of bits. I've cleared every non-12 in the game and full comboed most of the normals and hypers. But I did so last winter before the missions to do so ever existed, and I haven't gone back to redo many of them. So I'm probably getting a hundred achievements at once and crashing the game? (Man I would love to see this if they fix the crash.)

Also Sky Layer spoilers, in order:
1. EMPTY OF THE SKY
2. fly through the night
3. HALF MOON
4. Blueberry Stream
5. Under the Sky
6. Rise'n Beauty
7. in the Sky
8. mosaic

Akira Yamaoka, Mr T, Mutsuhiko Izumi, DJ Taka, Tatsh, Sota, Ryu*, Ryu*. I see they corrected the 'mistake' of having no Ryu* in the last patch by giving us two songs this time. Good songs though. The chart for Blueberry Stream is crappy, old, and hard to AAA for an 8, but oh well. The other 7 songs are great. And thanks for the easiest 12 in all of IIDX to AA and AAA. That's a lot more bits I'll be earning every day thanks to one song.