I never said it wasn't exercise, I just said if you're playing nothing but easy shit you're probably not going to see any significant improvement, or at least less than you would by doing more strenuous cardio.

And if 30 minutes of walking a day is supposed to be healthy aerobic exercise then I'm Mr. Universe. I don't know who "they" are, but considering half of this fat country probably walks that much a day "they" sound like they're full of shit.

Gerrak: keyword there is no bar, so, gg. I hate playing no bar haha.

Yeah Ethan you're totally fucked up on the "DDR isn't exercise unless you play nothing but 10s" thing.  It might not be like, a fucking grueling training regimen, but pretty much anything on DDR becomes healthy aerobic exercise.  You know, kind of like how they advocate walking half an hour a day for fitness.

Anyway I played on the SN2 today, I'll upload pics later, but some of the stuff I did:
FPC Why Me as my warmup song
24p (...and two misses as I stopped to kick a stray air hockey puck out from under me...) flowers
3g Unreal over and over and over again, including in the first 4 steps only once.
12g FC NGO expert first try, eventually got 9
Yeah still don't know TMP (best of two tries was 188combo)
22g FC Unreal Double
866xxx NGO double expert, this is way harder than on single, probably on par with LoM.  I failed in the last run when it did some stretch crossovers in the middle
A clear FELM expert double, 22 combo breaks?  91gr?  Kobayan is just beast.
FC FELM expert single.  I don't think I've ever done that before haha.  24gr though =\ (best is 6)

Yeah.  Such awesome pads.

Kev: if you consider easier charts like 8s and 9s crap, I can't help you, but there are some fun fuckin charts on SN and up.  Just as many as ITG.  That basically means there's a couple on each game

I totally agree with you on ITG3 having some bitchin charts. I love that pack much more than ITG Rebirth, but don't compare it with Supernova.

DDR and ITG have two different styles in terms of stepcharts. Besides.......most of every chart supernova and up is crap. So......yeah


Also......Checked out acme for the first time in ever today. I've got some work to do on ITG haha, perhaps I took too long of a break. Just give me two weeks and I'll break my ReaF score. That song is not that hard once you can move your feet that fast.

I lost 65 pounds playing DDR Extreme on mostly 8s and 9s (no bar mind you) and then ITG 10s and 11s (195-130 over 2 years). I only recently moved to consistently doing 12s and over after having gotten in shape so I beg to differ. I run now as well to maintain my girlish figure since doing this much DDR is pretty costly.


God yes. Tell it brother! Local friendly competition is how to keep people motivated, or at least much of my motivation. And frankly ITG doesn't have that many songs that are just smashing 16th note runs. In fact ITG3 and Rebirth has some REALLY fucking good charts. Way better than Supernova and on. See my Acme SN2 post for more commentary on that issue...

I'm gonna be frank, if you're just playing DDR and not playing mostly hard 10's constantly, with few breaks, it's nothing special for exercise. If you play long songs/hard songs on ITG and nothing but, or do HIIT on ITG, that can be good. I guess the other option would be to stomp really hard, but still it's not as good as running other cardio.

IN TOKYO, been hanging out mostly with Kaze/Hudson, Aaron (in Japan) and Akudaikan, all of whom are bros.

#237- Surrender Your Love (22p, team AAA'd with Kaze)
#238- rainbow flyer (28p)

AM-3P groove radar- 6g FC, the e-amuse record is like 1g and bad MA so I'm going to try and take it (as is Kaze)
Brilliant2U groove radar- 2g on a random with a slow speed mod, must get
Centaur- 44p 1g, in an 8th note, all the players present were just pissed that this even happened, least of all me.
Feelings Won't Fade- 25p 1g, also in a random 8th note

Kaze is ridiculous and has FC'd the Maxx x-special twice, FC'd HDVO, gotten 3g and a miss PLUS 2g and a miss on LOM x-special, fc'd these dumb BROSONI edits, got a bunch of FPC's on stuff like Angelus and Venus and 6p on 1998... just crazy. This has all been while I've been here btw.

Wait is the SN2 there already?  Regardless I'm probably going tonight.

Yeah SN2 is basically the best. I got 5 greats on Volcano.

Lol, I've taken a huge break from ITG. November was the last time I was going to acme consistently. I needed a break though, because it was becoming a chore and no fun, but I'm going to start coming back in the coming weeks to smash some 16th note runs.

Depending on how good bills SN2 machine is, I'll be at acme more often then ever.

You guys should check out the SN2 at Pink Gorilla though. it's beast. Beast enough for me to almost full combo Fascination MAXX.

I play for exercise too, but it kinda gets boring for me if I don't make the game fun somehow other than just exercise. That's why I like competition because It gives you more motivation like it gives Gerrak and me to keep playing.

Anyways its not always about competition, but playing itg/ddr alone is boring for me. So that's why you guys gotta get out there more!

Hopefully sn2 will make you guys come down and play more until it gets boring again.

That would be me.

Oh, plenty of people play for exercise.

    I'm not fast enough to do Determinator...    I fuck up the run every time, often even fail it it's stupid. That score is damn impressive I must say. More power to you if you can beat more of my Acme scores, I need more motivation to go and try to win them back... Down to 2 days a week in favor of running. But who plays DDR/ITG for exercise anymore anyway?

I got this today on the old Illusionz itg2 machine today near my local area. This is how awesome the pads are:


94.44% on Determinator Expert. I managed to full combo the crazy run in the middle somehow... I guess Mini really helps   

I'll be back at Acme soon to take more of your scores... slowy mwahaha

http://www.pnwbemani.net/western-wa/new-pink-gorilla-(aka-pink-godzilla)-store-university-district-seattle/

Yeah, they're good... you should totally check it out, since I'm going to be running a tournament there in a couple of weeks.

Awesome speed/stamina day today. I blame my recent running and actually playing hard songs again...


Could have probably avoided those greats but what can I say, still a good score

And

It's no 87 NSXX but still my first pass on it in 4 months and I'm on my way to giving that score a run for its money. Wasn't too worn out by the end.  Just thought I'd share

That SN2 machine in U-district have good pads? I kinda want to check it out if so

After more than a month off the pad because of back problems, it's good to see that on my first day back I've still got some semblance of accuracy.

I haven't had the chance to play anything above SN1. Well, I did play DDR X on an upgraded cabinet at the Metro Mall in Vancouver, BC. It played well, but I didn't really like the theme. I've heard good things about SN2, and the theme on that looks a lot more attractive to me. But, the theme is only visuals, I'm sure gameplay is what I would care about more.

Hahaha, I know what you guys mean, and though this might sound weird, I'll always find it easier to MA most songs on a cabinet just because the general quality of the pad is going to be better. But I really wish I could take this perfect build of X, give it some perfect pads and bring it back to everyone on this board. In all confidence I can say that the correct build of DDRX is the best iteration of DDR yet, and I only hope that X2 will be better (and intact in the States).

It's actually quite amazing just how different the timing windows are on the home version compared to the arcade. If we had a tourny on a home version. . . . .it'd get nowhere because we'd all be getting SDP all the time xD

Yeah, I can definitely 99 that. It was my 3rd time playing that song and since it was on x3, it felt like I sight read it; that's where those greats came in If it weren't for those greats, then it probably would have been a 99.

Your marvelous is crazy, I can barely get that low at home.. normally I get 30-50 marv. on most songs. And if I use the controller there's just a tiny bit difference lol.

I wanna try marvelous attack on a decent ddr x or supernova 2 machine atleast someday and see how much harder it is than a home version.

That's a nice AZNHXC. You could 99 it probably.

Today was gay.

#235- Raspberry Heart Heavy (14p) pad miss, the pads are getting so shitty here now
#236- Let the Beat Hit 'Em (19p) yay

Trip Machine Climax X-Special- 34p and 1 great, right in the first 4 steps. HATE.
and I ranked 2nd in Hokkaido on some ranking course with a TERRA theme.

Alright I got some new scores:

All of the In The Groove 2 Theme are on a non-dedicab.




Gerrak you may have taken back Be My Friend, but I took something better away from you

This was my last song and set before Acme closed.

damn nice sakura james.

this thread makes me feel like playing ddr.

Nothing too notable today, mostly just messing around on SN double

93.1% supernova oni (single)
40FC xepher oni (sightread/warmup)
18FC xepher heavy no bar
4 on seduction without slowdown
15 on paranoia respect (ps this song is so easy, I'm going to AAA it soon haha)
59xxxx on eternal love mix extra, haven't played it in over a year

ethan: is HVAM 196?  no wonder it's so fucking hard on 3x, i always thought it was 190, hahaha.  also, my speed mods actually aren't dependent on bpm only, it's song dependent too.  For example: although I play paranoia eternal on SN on 3x, I would never, ever put max300 on 2x.

Oh yeah, i was going to play ITG single today but I got to acme and saw this dude playing some no bar double.  He's not anything special but way better than almost any other double player here; he's terrible at score but was passing 9s.  ...and me being the jackass that i am took a few of his machine records by a lot (like seduction vocal 85xxxxx -> 994xxxx)