Saturday, February 11, 2017

Sound Voltex IV Gameplay Report - February 5

To a surprise, the Skill Analyzer Mode is integrated into the Music Select screen in which you have to select Skill Analyzer folder and then the specific Skill Level. This is different than in SDVX II and III where you can select Skill Analyzer from the Game Mode Select screen. Like the previous Sound Voltex games, once you select a course from Skill Analyzer, that's it, you're already in Skill Analyzer Mode for sure. Unfortunately, while I was playing the game, the other machine on the right received an error before going into reboot mode. And by the way, I had already seen the bootup process of those machines running the Bemani arcade games and they're still using Windows XP Embedded to this day despite the loss of support. It might leave many of arcade machines running that OS vulnerable but then, Taito already had a solution all along like announcing Nesica X Live 2 service for instance. New Bemani games on the other hand like Nostalgia, Museca, Beatstream, Future Tom Tom, Dance Evolution Arcade, etc. for instance, are already using Windows Embedded Standard 7 although the shameful thing is that Dance Evolution Arcade already ended the E-Amusement support last year that it could be played offline.
Eventually, the player who encountered the problem told the staff but damn, the whole thing was spoken in Chinese like I couldn't even translate certain English words into that and it was embarrassing. Perhaps, I use English way too much or something. Or maybe, this year's Lunar New Year was a bad start for me and things were like getting worse probably due to those imbeciles at home who were obviously my former family being stupider than before in making false rumors about my actions. I was so pissed off during the celebration time that I unexpectedly got the edge of the bottom shelf smashed. Their chain of offenses is starting to get worse from what I fear with no signs of admittance and realization as if they can think that I have a problem. Not to mention that their presence already made things uncomfortable for me ever since.