Beatmania The Sound Of Tokyo Isotonic

I'll be honest, jumping straight into Beatmania will result in an insane difficulty curve. Besides understanding the basic mechanics, you have to develop your muscle memory and reaction times, and develop a very good sense of timing.

Coming into the series with a proficiency in other, easier rhythm games (DDR, Rock Band, or even Osu, really) will do wonders for softening the curve. But if you want to jump straight in, you'll probably need a controller, and you'll definitely need a game. For cheap controllers you'll just have to check eBay. Sometimes a PS2 controller pops up for $50 or so, and that's about as cheap as they come. At a beginner level, there is no difference between the Japanese and U.S.

On a Japanese/modded PS2 this works just fine, but through your average USB adapter (good luck finding a good one nowadays) the timing and input lag goes to shit, which makes emulation non ideal. Once you're hooked and you want a GOOD controller, start looking at the. They're expensive, and shipping easily adds another 20-50% to their cost, but all of the models do extremely well in replicating the way the arcade machines play.

If you're using an emulator anyways, or LR2, you can get away with (and play level 12 songs using) keyboard controls while you learn the basics, but you'll have some relearning to do if and when you buy a controller. For the games, you once again have two options. You can find the PS2 games online if you look around. Each edition has a separate song list, so the only advice I can give you here is to look the songs up on YouTube and see which ones you like. Keep in mind that there hasn't been a PS2 release in over five years, during which time many new editions (and hundreds of songs) have been released in Japanese arcades. Yes, you can emulate them just fine if you don't want to spend money yet. The other option is to play a clone, which nowadays means.

It will require some computer wizardry to get running properly (you don't have to follow ALL the instructions here, but they're recommended), but provides a greater variety of music than the main series. If you really want to, you can even dig around for converted versions of beatmania songs to play in it - for various reasons, I can't link them here. As I've said, diving into the game with no idea what you're doing isn't a very good idea. The good news is that has made several tutorials to help newcomers learn what the hell they're doing, though it's mostly oriented towards controller players. If you're willing to stick with the game long enough, you'll hopefully find that it has a layer of complexity most other rhythm games simply don't reach, which is why a lot of us have stuck with it even though Konami pretty much ignores anyone playing these games outside of Asia. Best of luck, and I hope you'll find this wall of text helpful.

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I am top 1000 in Canada in OSU (regular not mania) and i'm decent at Guitar Hero/Rockband so i'm not a total rhythm game noob. LR2 looks like the way to go to start off playing these games. I've found a couple of the US PS2 Beatmania controllers online for decently cheep but I don't know if its worth getting that and an adapter if it will lag a lot. I will probably just start off using my keyboard (mechanical not rubber dome thank god) and hopefully I can upgrade to a decent controller one day.

Thanks for the advice and links! I got into them around 1998-2000, so it's a bit different now, with way more options. I started on the old beatmania series with 5 buttons. That's not quite accurate though because until I found 'beatmania: Best Hits' I found the crude music pretty hard to tolerate. I actually got together with a friend and played the home version of some Pop'n Music games - you could set it to 5-key mode and both play as player 1 at once, so we split the lanes up between us - and even then it was tricky to get. The learning curve seems to be shaped like stairs in these games, where you'll seem stuck, and seem unable to advance, then sort of level up and consistently do much better.

After a bit of training on that, I moved to Best Hits. If you can choose from the whole series, the special edition games are truly the easiest by far: Stuff like Pop'n Music: Animelo, beatmania: Featuring Dreams Come True or beatmania: The Sound of Tokyo. Now, there are more games to choose from - the DJ Max Portable games on PSP even have a 4-button, no scratching mode, and the games themselves are very much like beatmania. There is a touch version on iOS, DJ Max Ray which might get you used to it, though it removes the challenge of learning to map buttons to lanes.