Rhythm Game Megathread v1 - Don't stop moving to the funky funky beat

[Bites]

the problem is that you're playing the same song over and over again. do not DO THATT!!!!!!

that sort of behaviour is what stunted me in skill progression during my earliest months of play. vary the songs you play widely

[ScottyWired]

If you restart or fail twice, new song. Gotta learn how to read the beats rather than memorize each song.

[jesse1412]

[QUOTE=NotMeh;45331724]stars rankings in osu don't mean shit, do they?

I've come across 2 stars that are much, much harder than 3+ stars
fuck whoever thinks 'fast normals' are a good idea[/QUOTE]

They work pretty well after like 4 stars from what I've seen, not sure about lower though.

[EcksDee]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/IIQvYrX.jpg[/t]

Welp, that happened. Sliderbroke.

[Techbot]

DT? I can barely do an A without mods v:v:v

[editline]11th July 2014[/editline]

discard that I die after the first quarter

[Videvik]

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;45357060]If you restart or fail twice, new song. Gotta learn how to read the beats rather than memorize each song.[/QUOTE]

followed this advice

ended up burning through my entire library with not a single score and lots of frustration

[ThreeFour]

I just decided to take a break from osu until summer stops being such a bitch.

Speaking of which, any other (preferably free) rhythm games that don't require a mouse to play?

[CHRY3D]

fingers getting faster but acc is dropping blarb
[video=youtube;9twJQZXLv90]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9twJQZXLv90&feature=youtu.be[/video]

[Videvik]

probably late but damn this is awesome
someone turned osu into a visualizer

[video=youtube;zq_cOicLCZ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq_cOicLCZ0[/video]

45 star difficulty map :v:

[marvinelo]

I have begun playing Lunatic Rave 2 recently and I am a total beginner at it. What is a good keyconfig for somebody who doesn't have one of those fancy beatmania controller things?

[EcksDee]

[QUOTE=NotMeh;45422690]probably late but damn this is awesome
someone turned osu into a visualizer

[video=youtube;zq_cOicLCZ0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq_cOicLCZ0[/video]

45 star difficulty map :v:[/QUOTE]

Ye i still prefer my CS:GO version tho

[xelivous]

[QUOTE=marvinelo;45445534]I have begun playing Lunatic Rave 2 recently and I am a total beginner at it. What is a good keyconfig for somebody who doesn't have one of those fancy beatmania controller things?[/QUOTE]

[U]depending on which pinky you want to work out more:[/U]
sdf[space]jkl;
or
asdf[space]jkl
or the following to work around 6kro
[l-ctrl]asdkl;[r-shift]

[U]alternatives for thumbs instead of pinky:[/U]
qwecmiop
asd[l-alt][r-alt]kl;
asd[space][num0][num4][num5][num6]

i also suggest [url=http://nvyu.net/rdm/]ruv-it[/url] instead of LR2, as the latest versions of LR2 has a fatal memory leak causing it to crash after ~5-8 plays, and they both use the same song files. the GUI of ruv-it it also in full english, but the skinning support isn't as crazily detailed as LR2. i know ruv-it works with a japanese locale but i haven't bothered testing it with english yet; i know LR2 [i]requires[/i] japanese in order to work though.

[Techbot]

just got rekt by the creator of osu :suicide:

[t]http://3kelv.in/~techbot/ShareX/2014/07-25/18-15-52_241.png[/t]

[xelivous]

so a while ago i grabbed a bunch of bms songs for LR2, but never sat through and played them all. Then when i switched over to ruv-it, it required a slightly different folder system so i just merged them all from subfolders because i was lazy. But in the process i managed to slightly corrupt various folders, causing some weird artifacts to happen in various songs. It wasn't my best moment tbh.

Because of this, i'm currently using a temporary "test" folder where i put a song in, play it to see if i like it or if it's even any good, and then move it to a different subfolder depending on what my opinion of it is. Yesterday i went through all of the folders that started with: symbols, numbers, and the letter A!

Out of those maps i've tested so far, this one was probably my favorite:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhLpYI84Gs[/media]
i still have some problems sight-reading the yellow/smaller notes so i'm not quite up to where i was when i was using the fixed-width single color osu!mania skin, but i'm getting there.
my fav feature of ruv-it is setting it so i only have a combo if i get a perfect/max (a 300 or rainbow300 in osu!mania), which i call "good"/"great" in my skin. it helped me a lot with my accuracy so far because i can tell whenever i get a 200("okay") or below!

Today i'm planning on doing all of the folders that start with B/C/D~

[ThreeFour]

Just a question, where do you get the songs for ruv-it?

[xelivous]

basically charts can be found here: [url]http://manbow.nothing.sh/event/event.cgi[/url]
and most entries on lr2ir have links to a download so you can just browse the most popular to find some: [url]http://www.dream-pro.info/~lavalse/LR2IR/search.cgi[/url]

[editline]25th July 2014[/editline]

because it's not explained very well on the website, it'll look into subfolders next to ruvit.exe by default with any name (rubyBOX is data/skins related to ruv-it):
[t]http://i.imgur.com/2pB8oyk.png[/t] the folder on the right is "maps_new", where you see me slowly getting rid of the "C" entries

if you want, you can choose an alternate location for songs. Like "G:/GAMESHIT/BMS", and it'll look for subfolders inside of there with names.

So basically this is where it'll look:

./{bms_container_folders_that_aren't_named_rubyBOX}/{actual_bms_folders}
G:/GAMESHIT/BMS/{bms_container_folder}/{actual_bms_folders}

you can add more paths by adding the following line to the end of ruby.ini, replacing it with your actual path. more lines can be added by changing "1" to "2", etc

[PATH]
1=G:\GAMESHIT\BMS

after that you can just click on this bar at the top of your play window to choose the folder you want (or even all of the folders at once!!)
[t]http://i.imgur.com/C6F15my.png[/t]

[editline]25th July 2014[/editline]

one other thing. ruv-it has it's own InternetRanking as well
you can sign up from here: [url]http://bms.nvyu.net/regist/index.php[/url]

fill it out like so:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Ac38xdT.png[/t]

you'll be greeted by something like this when you log in:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/zuv3UC8.png[/t]

then when you click on a song, it'll bring you to this page, which often has a download link as well:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/lpIir6q.png[/t]

[editline]25th July 2014[/editline]

and then you can input your login credentials into the client to auto-submit your stuff:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/MzXkVgk.png[/t]

[jesse1412]

Got my highest rated pp score today 1st try randomly. 329 pp

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqgyaJWC_Y[/media]

[xelivous]

okey finished going through B/C/D

best one:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF22l50HVzs[/media]

could almost do the [10] difficulty but i still have trouble reading a few specific bursts! oh well~

[editline]25th July 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=jesse1412;45501852]Got my highest rated pp score today 1st try randomly. 329 pp

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfqgyaJWC_Y[/url][/QUOTE]

put a shirt on ya dang hippie

[EcksDee]

[vid]http://a.pomf.se/bjdzeq.webm[/vid]

This song is a literal workout for me right now. Sweating all over.

Still a bit rough around the edges accuracy wise but this shit gave me 60 pp.

[ThreeFour]

[QUOTE=HeroicPillow;45500669]-informative things-[/QUOTE]

Uh.. any explanation of how to download things from there? I have no understanding what I am even clicking on :v:

[editline]Yes[/editline]

Okay I found a way to download a single song from the first link you gave..Any way to download them in packs instead of one by one?

[editline]Yes[/editline]

oh god how do i play this

[EcksDee]

[QUOTE=WaRRioRTF;45504826]Uh.. any explanation of how to download things from there? I have no understanding what I am even clicking on :v:

[editline]Yes[/editline]

Okay I found a way to download a single song from the first link you gave..Any way to download them in packs instead of one by one?

[editline]Yes[/editline]

oh god how do i play this[/QUOTE]

It's really weird and I aint figured it out yet but step 1 for me was change the keybinds lol

Pillow make that darn guide already pls ty.

Also I downloaded a song with 7k in its name, but it wasn't 7k, got like 8k in it
also wasn't 7k+1

[xelivous]

yea i'm writing the guide now
i was at work and just got off~

responded to your PM about how to change keybinds

[QUOTE=EcksDee;45505417]
Also I downloaded a song with 7k in its name, but it wasn't 7k, got like 8k in it
also wasn't 7k+1[/QUOTE]

all songs that are 7K are 7K+1
all songs that are 5k are 5K+1

there is no "not +1"

some maps are 14K+2 (7DP)
some maps are 10K+2 (5DP)

[editline]26th July 2014[/editline]

if you want to play 7K (not +1) songs i'm pretty sure stepmania has a 7K mode
but i'm pretty sure it can't handle true BMS files (7K + turntable) so you'll have to find proper files somewhere else

[EcksDee]

oh
oh theres no 7k
ok well that blows bad.
Eh, I'm back to o2mania and stepmania and osu!mania then lol

[xelivous]

wow pleb can't even use your pinky
get wrekct son

[editline]26th July 2014[/editline]

took a break from writing for a sec to play this song
it's incredibly rad
probably my favorite map all years

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpYZZ6gYI3k[/media]

it even has a [12] diff that i don't even want to look at right now

[.Lain]

[img]http://imgkk.com/i/o7sf.png[/img]
so close yet so far google

[xelivous]

okay i have a basic portion of the ruv-it guide finished; at least up to the point where the game can run. Nothing at all about the interface, how to configure it, skins, etc.
here's a link to it: [url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CjrORQ9GbcmGVj_dTQ5rLTn0AeSOCtJoCB9qcIRlj9Y?usp=sharing]Google Doc[/url]

i'm taking a dinner break for a little bit and i'll update the rest later in parts

[xelivous]

okay i got most of the default keybinds (and what they do) and a few of the screens annotated added to the guide

but i never realized how much shit was actually in this client
so many annotations and this is only one screen!!

[img]http://i.imgur.com/gv9v252.png[/img] (at least there's only like 9 screens)

although i did lean a few more features about the client that i've never needed to touch before while i've been going through this, so at least it's been worthwhile.

[ScottyWired]

[QUOTE=.Lain;45509179][img]http://imgkk.com/i/o7sf.png[/img]
so close yet so far google[/QUOTE]

I had to block any search results containing Oregan University because it was impossible to find some things

[turke]

uk's first IIDX machine is 100% up and running, full networking and also pop'n music 14 is up at Astrocity, southend on sea

they will be holding a freeplay weekend for those two cabs this weekend (beginning 2nd) so come down if you want to try them! eamuse cards are available to purchase

[img]http://astrocityonline.co.uk/img/machines/1_thumb.jpg[/img]

[Bumrang]

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;45525101]uk's first IIDX machine is 100% up and running, full networking and also pop'n music 14 is up at Astrocity, southend on sea

they will be holding a freeplay weekend for those two cabs this weekend (beginning 2nd) so come down if you want to try them! eamuse cards are available to purchase

[img]http://astrocityonline.co.uk/img/machines/1_thumb.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

man im jealous