In this thread we talk about rhythm gaming histories

[Izzy]

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Izzy: Were you ever involved in the communities otherwise?

In what ways do you mean? I used to post on bemanistyle.com and some dwi website and was always a part of smo.

[tastelikepeaches]

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shut up already

oh sorry......you red..... furred... b4stard

you nut eating fur loving f4ggot

[MrRubix]

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In what ways do you mean? I used to post on bemanistyle.com and some dwi website and was always a part of smo.

Ahhhh I see -- I used to get files there, but never posted

[StepmaniaGod6969]

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Anyone remember Delight Delight Reduplication?? It was like stepmania but with DDR 1-5 mixes only songs. It was before stepmania.

[OneHandNow]

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1999? DDR at the local arcades, I'm pretty sure.
Then.. 2004 = DJ Max Online
End of 2005 = found FFR, never joined.
Mid 2006 = joined FFR but played Stepmania instead.
2006-2008 = SM only.
2008-2009 = intense SM/FFR.
2010 = grace period, no FFR/SM.
now = now.




Edit: I found my previous account's post in Rubix's Lawn Wake IV AAA thread. 8-( Nostalgia.

[Gundam-Dude]

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My timeline/history is here at Staiain's SM wiki.

Pretty much from 2005-2008 were my introduction, experimental, and playing stages.
From 2009 onward are improving in terms of skill and simfile making (2010 is a huge year for me in terms of simfile making, rofl).

[jimerax]

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DDR simulator history

1997 started Beatmania
1998 started BM98/DDR
1999 started Diet Diet Revolution '99
2000-2001 started Dazzle Dazzle Realization/Delight Delight Reduplication
2003 started FFR/Stepmania
2006 started SM 4.0
2010 started SM-SSC
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now

[rushyrulz]

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For me, it all started back in ..oh.. I wanna say 2003 when I was watching Good Morning America (or some morning talk show) and they were advertising DDR as a great way to lose weight and they had some people there to play the game for the show. Right then and there I was hooked.

Sometime later that week I asked my parents if I could get DDR Extreme for PS2 for christmas, and they agreed. The months in between my initial encounter and christmas seemed neverending, but time rolled around and I finally got the game.

Initially I sucked at the game (but who didn't when they first started?), after only a few days of practice I was up to standard, and it wasn't very long before I was on Heavy. I couldn't pass the hard songs like Legend of Max or some of the other oni songs, but I was fairly good at it.

I never really had any intensive arcade practice other than just going a few times and playing with my friend (who was remarkably bad). I remember drawing crowds because back in 2004, playing DDR on heavy was pretty good I guess. I eventually grew bored of the game because the songs were kind of stupid and I had beaten most of them anyway, but I brought it along for thanksgiving one year at my uncle's house and I started playing it again.

Apparently, my cousin had a friend who also played DDR. She called him on the phone and we had a little competition. After failing Drop Out [heavy] I realized I had finally met my match. He then mentioned this strange new website that I had never heard of before called..hmm..what was it?? Oh! I think I remember, something like flashflashrevolution.com or something like that. I think I made an account quickly on my cousin's computer and played him in MP. I got my ass freaking destroyed, but did that get me down? Definitely not.

I started playing DDR again more regularly and I eventually hit my limit around 2005/6 (I'm kinda chubby, so my legs aren't very fast). So I was compelled to find that site again. My amazing memory served me once again as I typed in "flashflashrevolution.com" into the address bar. I signed up with a new account, because the account I made at my cousin's house before was just a quick who cares type deal. My new account name was rushyrulz.

-sorry this story is like super long-

After several hours/days/weeks of playing I knew I had a new passion. With an enormous song selection that I would never get bored of and a competitive community to play along with, I thought I would never leave the site. I was quite skeptical of some of the more elite players who were FCing CIA Rave and NeoMAX, and I sluffed them off as hackers and their scores were impossible. I was even drawn to the point of leaving a rather nasty comment on Shashakiro's wall saying something along the lines of "Quit making such hard files that only you can do, nobody can play them but you, you have no respect for us new players." (but I think I was a biiiittt more vulgar >.>) If I recall correctly, the song in question was Maple Leaf Rag which I just found utterly impossible.

I was introduced to spread in MP one day and I decided to start playing spread a couple weeks after. I felt like I had reached my limit with one hand, and I knew there was only 1 way to get better. Later on, I reached my accomplishments of 1000 combo, FCing (and ultimately AAAing) CIA Rave and NeoMAX, and now here I am today writing this extremely long post.

The end.

EDIT: I guess I'm pretty good at guitar hero too... I pretty much had immediate skill with that already being good at FFR.

[T-Force]

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I have a short story, really. Not to mention an extremely long hiatus between games.
In 2003, my cousins and I discovered DDR in an arcade in an area called the Shuswap and we tried it out. It was whatever one had stuff like "Butterfly", "Boom Boom Dollar", etc. Anyways, I sucked and never really tried it again after that.
Come early 2007, I was sitting in my computer class and my friend was sitting next to me playing... frick, I don't even remember. Some BNS stuff. So I asked what the site was called and tried it out. I played for a couple days with no account and one handed.
Made an account on January 21, 2007 (This date is forever immortalized in my brain. Also, account was StormKlowd61) and picked up 2-handedness the next day after trying Legend of Zelda Remix and horribly failing. My biggest accomplishment in that first week was getting a 100+ combo on Bubbleman Remix and beating my buddy to the pass on Alpha Helix (we hit those trills as jumps as we couldn't figure it out).
He eventually quit a couple months later, but I stuck around.
And because of that, I saw FFR go from a place with maybe 20 color files, 1x speeds and meh songs, to tokens, skill tokens, profiles, 700+ public songs, speed mods, a style change, all that stuff. I got my first AAA almost a year after I made my account (Dance 2 This) and picked up spread a few months later. Back when it was all <v 86.
I switched spread styles a lot once key mapping was public and eventually got to the point where I could luckily scrape FMO FC's and even a Challenging AAA or three.
However, my parents decided to change keyboards on me and I got stuck with a wireless from February to September of 2009. I would play StepMania on Judge 1 just so my scores would look like ones I'd normally get (I could still get better scores before). I got my laptop when school started, and made this account soon after (September 21, 2009). I did lose a lot of skill after those 7 months though. I could still FC FMO's, but my PA went straight to Hell. Soon after I got some skill back, FFR died.

I also picked up StepMania around 2008 after seeing the one FFR player I've met continually play that at school (DjRiDDeR), but never learned about packs till around mid-2009. I've never really been into SM. I could care less about MA, and I'm still obsessed with combo'ing rather than MA/PA'ing. I've tried my hand at stepping and after about a year and a bit of no stepping, I picked it up again when a couple friends and I decided to basically make a "pack" for ourselves. I've tried my hand at a couple other files just for the heck of it, but nothing really serious.

Then came the death of FFR, and the rise of Dragons Fury. I joined the site around 5 days after it came up and have been lurking there every day since. I stepped a couple files for their custom and played the occasional round of SM and then a few weeks of whoring on LD's site. Picked up decent scores there, but I really didn't get too much into the arrow smashing.
RiotFinger came and went all because of this site coming back.

Now: Just a tad bit better than I was before... okay, maybe a few more tads, but that's beside the point. There's my history.


EDIT: Okay, not so short.

[MrRubix]

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Anyone remember Delight Delight Reduplication?? It was like stepmania but with DDR 1-5 mixes only songs. It was before stepmania.

Haha, yes, and Diet Diet Revolution

[3rmacs]

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omg omg omg its mr.rubix. give me your skill!!!!!!!

[KotHN]

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Anyone ever play VOS? Played that crazy game for a while back in like ... 2005. Introduced to Guiter Hero around 2006, started playing on Hard after a half hour. Only played once until I bought Guitar Hero 3 about 3 years later XD
Joined FFR sometime in 2007 when recommended by a friend. Quickly blew past him and steadily got better at the game. Pretty much at the extent of my ability though. Downloaded stepmania in 2008 and was all-right-ish at that too.
Rocking out 100%'s in Guitar Hero WT and Rock Band to this day. The End!

tldr; seriously though, anyone ever play VOS? that game was awful! I remember laughing so hard the first time I played that I cried

[leonid]

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wtf I liked VOS so much

[KotHN]

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lol, it was a great concept, but the files were awful! they were like synthlight files with 7 keys. Buuuuuut it might have something to do with me not being able to find well-made ones, seeing as i couldn't speak korean and was a scrub at finding things on the internet. I never had more than 40 or 50 files.

[Sweet Serenity]

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Unfortunately FFR was the first rhythm game I came across. Ever. Well, technically stepmania, but I was terrible and didn't play seriously when I first found out about it.

Unless you consider guitar hero, or even Parappa the Rappa a rhythm game. Hahaha.