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Everyone waits for the new IIDX15 game to be released soon. KONAMI announced that this game would be released someday in December 2007 and you know what? The game was ACTUALLY RELEASED. Today KONAMI opened the official Beatmania IIDX 15: DJ Troopers site too. There’s not much on the site yet - How To Play, some words from the staff and secret codes (Judge, window hold, expert view and demo skip). The Extra stage is Time to Air - 青龍 and OMES is PARANOiA ~HADES~ - αTYPE-300! The chart actually really looks scary…

New songs are:

[TECH-TRONICA] beatonic nation - Sota Fujimori 5/8/? 5/7/?
[TRANCE] Blue Rain - dj TAKA Vs. Ryu☆ 6/8/? 6/8/?
[HANDZ UP] Dazzlin’ Darlin - HHH 4/7/10 4/7/11
[TECH-BREAKBEATS] Digitank System - DJ Mass MAD* Izm 6/9/? 5/10/?
[FRENZY HOUSE] end of world - 猫又Master+ 6/9/? 5/10/?
[PROG] evergreen - kors k 5/7/? 5/8/11
[TRANCE] I’m In Love Again -DJ YOSHITAKA REMIX- - Remixed by DJ YOSHITAKA 6/8/? 6/9/?
[WORLDGROOVE] JOURNEY TO “FANTASICA” (IIDX LIMITED) - S.S.D.FANTASICA feat.EMI with ARATA 4/8/? 5/9/?
[PROGRESSIVE HOUSE] madrugada - PINK PONG 4/7/9 5/9/10
[UK HARDCORE] Rising in the Sun -original mix- - kors k feat. Rie 5/9/? 4/8/?
[OVERTÜRE] Ristaccia - Zektbach 6/10/? 5/11/?
[RAGGA ROCK] ROCK ME NOW - GUHROOVY fw. NO+CHIN 6/9/? 5/9/?
[TECHNO] SHIFT - AKIRA YAMAOKA 5/8/? 5/9/?
[WALTZ BEAT] soldier’s waltz - DAJI 5/9/? 4/9/?
[NU STYLE GABBA] THE DEEP STRIKER - L.E.D.-G 6/11/? 8/12/?
[ETHNOTRONICA] the trigger of innocence - Seiya Murai 5/7/? 4/5/7
[POST RENAISSANCE] 少年A - 少年A 6/12/? 7/12/?

Well, it’s nothing awesome nor brilliant but my boyfriend showed me the maybe most powerful tool to work with videos. It’s AVI synth. Enables you to write scripts which can do almost anything you’d like.

So we tried our best with it but the source files were already badly taken so well the result is somewhere between not bad and good.

Here’s the video of me (my hands) playing Aurora a 7 level song.

Aurora [n]

Yeah, you heard it right, DistorteD is out and I guess many people got their copy. Mostly those who got the Limited Edition have to be happy^_^.

But I was slightly disappointed with the game (just my opinion at that time, I think it will change). The menu is not the same as the Arcade version and I missed the “shibaraku omachikudasai” (not that I would like to wait for the PS2 to load the songs). Also having the DistorteD theme on Happy sky I saw the differences between DistorteD’s and Happy Sky’s theme which made me look at the differences rather than paying attention to the notes.

Anyway I went through the songlist and was delighted to see there Bloody Tears, Zenius-I-Vanisher, iFuturelist and other songs I like from the arcade version. Also some good songs came back (Quasar also, yep!) so I think I will like the game the next time I play it.

Last Wednesday the location test of BeatMania IIDX 15 Operation DJ Troopers has started. It will end next week and I wonder what all the Japanese players will be saying about this game.
After releasing Happy Sky CS we had Test Location of Gold in America. Everyone wondered what IIDX number 15 would look like or what the name would be.

I have to say that for me the name of the game made me say “This ain’t IIDX”. But after some time I had to admit that this will be the official name of the game. It really sounds like a name for a war game (or FPS game). I know the two letters D and J still stand in the name…but look at the poster. All the previous games had nice/cute people there. If I ever get a double A I will get a picture of an armed person in camouflage uniform? Or just a cute little girl with big guns?

The theme is dark and greenish. It is true that it is more “alive”. It has special effects added to the theme. The color of the effects is mostly light green and it flashes on the screen pretty brightly. Oh you know that the sudden “wall” is now camouflaged? Still it seem not to fit the game. I have to say it is original…but it brings on more questions. What the songlist will look like?

Today I read on someone’s blog that he/she can’t play DistorteD because his/her TV broke down so I wondered if I can manage to run DistorteD on my own TV.

After several problems with mapping my controller we ran DistorteD but unfortunately it was off.

We tried several times with adjusting the resolution but it was always off. So I tried to play and synchronize with the game and I managed it. You have to confirm the notes like 1,5 cm above the target line.

I managed to clear Absolute on hyper and you know why? Because DistorteD was kinda slow…

I played IIDX today again. Not double this time.

I played some songs on Hyper and after a while I AAed North [h]. So I decided to try my luck on the light7 version.

I know that this is far from being a triple A but you know what I almost managed to do? I almost got all just greats and greats. One good found it’s way there somewhere. I tried it again and well…I got the same good there again (but a better score 208/95/1/0/0).

After this song I tried to play on another and I managed to clear some six LVL songs and I Aed Love Again on my first try.

Love Again

Today I finished clearing all 3 level songs on double and I managed to clear 5 four level songs.
After failing some other fours I switched back to single and I played some songs I haven’t cleared yet.
I managed to clear FINALLY 5.1.1 on hyper. I just couldn’t believe my eyes. The end where you have to press the last two keys at the same rhythm was always my end - I never managed to pass this part without failing it. But this time, I got it.
After this I tried Electro Tuned on another and I cleared it too^_^. But it’s true that there is the pretty chaotic accord part where I have like 0% of life all the time. But the rest of the song is quite fine.

I just played for fun after a long time of not playing and I surprised myself because I got several AAs on 3-5LVL songs on normal. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I thought that this would be impossible for me to achieve. But there it is. So maybe I will get eventually better at BeatMania IIDX.

I also cleared several 7LVL songs (most of them) on normal and I managed to clear Airflow [a].

Finally I had the chance to try to play BM IIDX Double. I have to say that it’s not that simple^_~. I managed somehow the first two easy songs. I found out that my hands really had to work separately. Later on I tried 3LVL songs and I managed some of them^_^ (with grade D but anyway a clear). I even tried 4th level songs. But I encountered accords there and the “voltage (more notes)” was higher. Anyway I was glad I could try it and I was quite surprised that I can actually read that^_^.

Today my boyfriend took a video of me playing BeatMania IIDX. I played Injection of Love on hyper.
The video is meant for people who actually doesn’t know the game and would like to know how it works (at least how it looks like). You can see both the screen and me playing on my boyfriends KOC.

Injection of Love [h] played by S’Tsung