The next screen cut? =D An FFR Mirror Mode (Caprice & LW4 AAA's)

Soooo, I found out a nifty little trick that makes me rape every song I have mental blocks on. Reminds me of screen cutting back in the day. Generally, I couldn't play certain songs like Rottel and Balloon Fever anymore because I've been playing the same steps for at least two years now. And even though I'm loads better now, as I was playing the songs, my brain already knows the notes that are coming, so it's thinking ahead of my hands, making me slip up and just **** up in general. But with this trick, it's virtually the same as using the MIRROR Mod in Stepmania, so it's like I'm getting a brand new stepfile to play, like the joy of playing sightread, or when you forget how a stepfile goes and come back to the song and dominate your old score. But before I tell everyone the trick, lemme show off what I've done with it =D










(First try on this, could definately improve)



To add to those, I also got these scores without SS'ing:
Rottel: 5 goods, 2 boos
Molto: Full combo
Runny Morning: 12 goods, 1 boo
EHHS: 6 goods, 2(?) boos
Epidermis: 4 goods
FotBB: 18-3-0-4 FC
Balloon Fever: 4 goods (I've sucked at this file since the dawn of time)
Frictional Nevada: 28-10-0-10 FC
BB Revenge: 30 goods, some ave's and boos FC

Alright, so enough with the bragging. Here's what I did:

All you do, is switch to the opposite "scroll" (If you play upscroll, switch to down; vice versa), then change your hotkeys to the opposite of what they are. I play ASKL so when I rotate I switch them to LKSA.

Now find the "Display" options from Control Panel, then click the tab all the way to the right labelled "Settings". Once there, click "Advanced" to bring up more Tabs. For me one of the tabs says "Rotation", and within that, I can rotate my screen on my monitor 90, 180, or 270 degrees. For now just try 180. But keep in mind, after you rotate, navigating your mouse and whatnot will be tricky since everything is up-side down.

So basically, once in this mode, you're playing downscroll, yet the game is upside down, so to you it looks like upscroll. And since you flopped your hotkeys, now when you see a 'right' arrow, in the game it's actually a 'left', since you're upside down now. It's EXACTLY the same as playing Mirror on Stepmania.

So, for me, it helped GREATLY because I had so many mental blocks to stepfiles it's ridiculous, so having pseudo-"brand new" stepfiles to play now that I'm better, allows me to do amazingly. I'm sure other top players have this issue as well. Plus, I'm a lefty, and most of FFR's jacks are right handed (Molto, Runny, Revo, etc), and I literally can't jack with my right hand. But playing my FFR Mirror mode, I'm jacking with my left hand now and I dominate lefty jacks.

But yeah, to do this, I now have my F9 key hotkey'ed to rotate my screen 180 degrees, and my F5 key set up to rotate back to normal mode. So in normal mode, I'll select downscroll, flop my hotkeys and everything, find the song I wanna play, highlight it, then hit F9, click the song again for it to start, do my bidding, then when I'm done, hit F5 and have a heart attack looking at the score I just got. =D

Also, I understand that many people will be unhappy about this and some people may not be able to rotate or whatever, but.. I wouldnt really say that's a reason to declare it "cheating". Considering not everyone has sweet FFR-capable keyboards, I'd say that's just the same as not everyone having the cabability to rotate their screen. It's all about what ya got.

Anyways, yeah I'm done typing my novel. Have at it, FFR.