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The arcade precursor to Guitar Hero and Rock Band’s plastic instruments craze of the early 2000s is Beatmania, a rhythm game that lets players unleash their inner DJ. The unique mix of skill and rhythm needed to play Beatmania make it one of the most demanding music games of its time, but is the game’s DJ gameplay fun enough for most players?
Money makes the world go round
Beatmania’s odd-shaped controller resembles a DJ console, complete with five buttons and a turntable. These buttons, arranged like an “M,” resemble the keys of a piano, and are the main controls of the game, as the players have to hit these buttons as they show up on the screen.
As with many other rhythm games, the notes on the screen fall in a cascade-like fashion, and players will have to press the corresponding buttons once they hit the bottom. Additionally, a prompt to scratch the turntable might also appear to spice things up a little.
The points in the game are represented as “Money” and players are graded on a scale. That scale isn’t affected by the player’s total Money, but by their overall accuracy during the song. It’s better to take your time and be as precise as possible rather than simply racking up points in Beatmania.
Learning the ropes
Due to the game’s unique nature, it’s a blessing that Konami decided to include a Practice mode. In Practice, players can learn the basics of the game from DJ Konami, as he tells players how to correctly play Beatmania via a voice-over.
Once you’re familiar enough with the basics, it’s time to take on Normal Mode. This mode, as its name might suggest, is Beatmania’s main event: players choose a song from a pool and play it for points. As the player beats songs, new and more difficult tracks get added to the song pool.
Expert Mode will give even the more skilled Beatmania players a run for their money. In this mode, players play through all the songs in a set in order, losing energy (represented by the “Audience” bar) faster than usual. Thankfully, continues are allowed, but that doesn’t make Expert Mode any easier.
Familiar beats
As a Japanese developer, Konami made sure to include the talents of many local artists. That said, these DJs might be a bit obscure for American audiences, even for the most avid electronic music enthusiasts.
There’s one negative aspect about the song selection that’s worth mentioning: most of the songs are too long. This baffling decision is weird considering that Beatmania started as an arcade game, where shorter songs would mean more quarters being spent.
Luckily for non-electronic music fans, the guys at Konami also made sure to include some great nods to their other game series. Remixes of music from Castlevania or Metal Gear Solid can be found in the setlist, meaning that fans of other series can try playing a song they’ve already listened to many times before.
Beatmania is a great start for a franchise, but by itself, it’s a simple game that lacks any meaningful depth. The arcade nature of the gameplay means that play sessions of Beatmania are kept sweet and short, with little reason to spend time with the game other than to master the small selection of songs it has to offer.
The controls work great, and if you’re a fan of Japanese electronic music you’ll find some great tracks here. This is a game for a very niche audience, and for those in that audience, Beatmania is a game that won’t disappoint.
Pros:
- Solid controls
- Clear interface
- Some remixes of other Konami classics
Cons:
- Lack of gameplay modes
- Obscure tracklist
- Earlier songs are of questionable quality
Let's discussion about to capture and broadcast the Beatmania IIDX 20 Tricoro. Currently, most of IIDX monitor has been fixed as 1280x720 HD resolution mode, so I will focused on HD mode.
1. Specification of new IIDX 20 Tricoro machine PCB
- Resolution : 1280x720 60Hz
- DVI-I output 1 : This is for main monitor.
- DVI-I output 2 : It must be connected from PCB to capture card during before power on the IIDX
- DVI-D output : Not confirmed for use (No ouput signal has been through by DVI-D))
- 3.5 stereo output : It has connected to machine's amplifier. To use this, it should be needed the Y jack.
2. Devices for capture.
- Capture device : 'Full HD resolution' capable any kinds of device include DVI or HDMI input
- DVI/HDMI cable or HDMI cable with DVI-to-HDMI adapter
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- 3.5 stereo audio cable or 3.5-RCA stereo cable
- 3.5 Y jack for split the audio signal
In this work, there is no used display splitter to prevent for EDID/DDC problem, instead of that used by IIDX PC DVI-I output 2. Sometimes, the game occur the lag during its powered on continuously by this method, at own risk if you do.
3. The devices those are for this article
- Avermedia Live Gamer Portable C875
- HDMI―DVI cable
- RCA 3.5 stereo audio split jack
- 3.5-RCA stereo cable
4. Connecting the cable
- Connect the DVI-HDMI cable from IIDX to C875 as corresponding to below picture.
- Split the audio signal by Y jack, then connect to C875 audio input
- Power on the C875, then power on the IIDX machine
- Capture it
5. Result and problem
- The screen has been captured very clearly however, in some cases you can see 'force scaled' screen as below screenshot.
(Also this problem has been confirmed by other cards.)
Micomsoft SC-500N1/DVI (Startech PEXHDCAP), DVI ouput to HDMI input case.
Avermedia AVT-C127, DVI ouput to HDMI input case.
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- in the case of C875, the color range of capture has fixed YUV422 8bit
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0-255、so that the screen would be occured cut the range of black and white color that would be quiet different than orignal. Change the color range from 0-255 to 16-235 using AviUtl filter could be fixed this problem (actually NOT permanently restore).i.e.) This problem is confirmed that occured by capture source's spec. We can evade this by change the setting by NVIDIA control panel or AMD/ATI catalyst property that set to 'No scaling'. However the arcade machine's OS are typically 'Windows Embedded'. In addition, to change the setting even if we connect keyboard/mouse, there are no response, instead of that we had changed the setting it restored back the setting over next power on :D. To evade the force scaled, use the EDID emulator and connect it between IIDX and capture card then it can be permanently capture the screen.
I've found pther case that has no logner to see the 'force-scaled' used by different monitor and HDMI splitter in one of game center in South Korea. I'm not sure whether both monitor and splitter has been change since where the game center had used other ones. I guess the successed result of 'no-force-scaled' is by monitor. In fact, the splitter has split function, just copy digital signal 'as is', that would not be affect the scale effect.
Updated 2015.10.20
New display mode 'HD*' has released without notice. It would be captured as perfect pixel matched, no more need to EDID/DDC emulator. Just change HD to HD* in dip switch setting(tell to machine operator/owner).
(SC-500N1/DVI, IIDX DVI-I 2 to capture DVI or HDMI)
6. Summary
- Connect the cable from IIDX DVI2 output to C875 HDMI input - Split the audio signal from IIDX 3.5 stereo output and connect to C875 audio input
- Power on the C875 -