Dance Dance Revolution

[LostintheCycle]

Am I seriously the only active Dance Dance Revolution player in this whole forum?
I've been doing very well recently, been holding off on posting here again but now I've got some achievements which are really worth bragging about.
I almost hardly play singles now. I play doubles 80% of the time, still without the bar. It's got a way higher difficulty ramp but I actually like that. I am not much into super-accuracy because I feel like that's a tedious way to play when you should be pushing yourself and having fun. I'm all about seeing how high I can pass, and the most I push for in accuracy is seeing if I can get a solid AA.
I still play some singles though, mostly been working on this one map that was an 18. It took at least 30 fuarrrrking tries, but I got there in the end with an absolutely trash score. Honestly I consider it a win that I managed to do it without collapsing. Now that I've got an 18 under my belt I feel like I've won DDR now.
The part where it's all on the bottom panel is very deceptive. You'd feel like since it's a constant rhythm it could be trivial to do, but that's actually the only part that stops me from consistently clearing this chart, because it's very easy to slip out of time and get slammed with a ton of misses.

And today I cleared my first 15 doubles. I was absolutely flying across the machine to do this one, and most crazy thing was that it was mostly a sightread; I played once by accident, I selected it thinking it was the singles map. It had LIFE4 on so I failed pretty quickly.
I honestly didn't think I'd get as high as a B+ because I was really struggling to keep up. But hell, maybe next time I do it I'll be in the running for an A- or an A.

 

[LostintheCycle]

I feel like I should start taking videos and stick the good ones onto YouTube, though I dunno where and how I could set something up to record since the arcade is way too compact, machines are really squeezed together there.

 

[bnuungus]

I feel like I should start taking videos and stick the good ones onto YouTube, though I dunno where and how I could set something up to record since the arcade is way too compact, machines are really squeezed together there.

i would watch

 

[jaedaen]

Fuckin record that shit then lost in the cycle. I will watch it. I play it, but at a lower level just to work out for like 30 minutes a day. Getting old is a bitch. I know yall youngins don't get it, but listen to grandpa simpson at a time in the 90s when I laughed at his ridiculous shit but now see the wisdom in those words:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY

 

[LostintheCycle]

 

[LostintheCycle]

Fittingly, it's been exactly a month since I first passed Bi 18. Since then, I've given it maybe 5 or 6 tries, and finally managed to clear it for the second time.
I have improved some technique in this. For instance I'm learning what parts to do bar/nobar for, because in some cases I think nobar can be more comfortable and energy efficient. For the infamous jack stream I found that if I hold the bar and pull myself towards it very intentionally, it helps keep my jack in line with the rhythm (too often I would get slightly out of sync and quickly fail because of the barrage of misses). I dunno exactly why it works, but it works
End result is I got an upscore of 73k

Then I got cocky, played some 19s and failed them all within seconds lol

 

[LostintheCycle]

Welcome back to my DDR blog. Today I am posting because I have an achievement that I truly want to celebrate, which I've been working on for the past week and a half. My first machine score on an 18 single.

Was not easy. Took me a bit of studying the chart to make a strategy, and about a dozen attempts.
The prior score was ~796k which is kinda low but that's probably because it's nuts. The last half is all eighth note streams at 360bpm, with one section where you have to twist around 3 times a second to maintain the combo. I cheesed that section by only aiming for five out of eight of the notes and not twisting, because I just don't yet have the flexibility to twist that fast and maintain my timing.
On a related note, I had my fourth dream the other night that I was playing Pump It Up so I decided I just have to do it. I trekked for an hour forty to the nearest PIU machine, half on foot. I ended up having a lot of fun, and really wish it were closer so I could go more often. The max level I managed to clear was a 15 single, I squeaked out a 9/10 double as well, which I am pretty happy with.

 

[brentw]

Never got super into it, but I've always thought DDR was pretty neat, and fun to play every once and a while.
I actually own DDR Mario Mix for the Game Cube.

 

[SpeedSleek]

My Dave and Busters has DDR 4. Maybe I'll go there one day and give it a whirl if there aren't a bunch of hobbyists grinding on it.
Stopped going there altogether after they started replacing the actual arcades games with giant phone app bullshit.