Reflec Beat Groovin' Upper!

The next version is said to be coming in November 20 which is the same day Sound Voltex III will be launched but so far, there's no details about this upcoming revision.
And what am I working on besides having posted various gameplay videos to my YouTube account recently like there's no signs of additional music arrangements of Jubeat Saucer Fulfill and Reflec Beat Groovin' songs if available? The honest thing is that I've been working on some MMD animation ever since last month and I'm already at the facial manipulation phase which is kind of difficult to make things right and my first animation is already that ridiculous like a buggy one that nobody's going to fix it. Since this is my first attempt, I may expect some experienced user to come up with the same goddamn animation because it is much better than mine. It is taking me a long time as a beginner of that tool but the animation will be up in Miscellaneous tab once finished.
So this may prove that I'm not messing around with my studies or personal work but more information will be revealed after this version of Reflec Beat Groovin' is out.

Windows 8.1 Update for Enterprise Jump Start Day 1 missed

Yikes, it was a shame for missing the Day 1 of the event I attended like I shouldn't have fucked around or something. I should have known my interests all along like what is already specified in my bio as written in my About.me page.
What I did on the day however prior to attending this was that I made additional arrangements to the songs from Reflec Beat Groovin as well as to improve the previous arrangements I already did 1-2 years ago. Of course, my busy-ness doesn't end here. There are additional songs coming in from Jubeat Saucer Fulfill and Reflec Beat Groovin.
Well, that surely explained on what was going on that caused the delay in the educational progress.

Reflec Beat Groovin

This one's recently released in the arcades! Check out the modes that are equivalent to the ones from IIDX and DDR such as the equivalent to Step Up Mode and the Expert Mode as well as the one that is equivalent to Infinite from SDVX or Challenge from DDR. Other additions include the Pastel Wonder Quest which is an event where you explore various places like it's a freaking board game or something. There are boss stages where the additional songs can be unlocked from. Not to mention, the improved player customization.

Reflec Beat Limelight and Beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle OST

Just like the sequels, Reflec Beat Colette and Beatmania IIDX 20 Tricoro, these two OSTs were released last year simultaneously. Previously, I had already finished the remixes of certain Lincle songs including the recently finished, Wonder Walker which was available for both Jubeat Copious and Beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle as part of the Lincle Link event. Between, those two games, you can try Jubeat Copious instead in case you find Beatmania IIDX series really hard to begin with. However, the main fault from me regards the song level in all the rhythm games. If the song level is 8 or above, that will be seriously hard for me so it doesn't matter which rhythm game I play as I may end up failing the songs like that in a miserable way.
The OSTs of those two games as stated in the title of the blog post have the extended versions of the songs, if not, different versions and to view those exclusive tracks, you have to buy those OST CDs. Surprisingly enough, Beatmania IIDX 20 Tricoro OST has the international release although the dis-guarantee is that there are apparently some Japanese songs in that version despite the credit changes for the US/EU version. So, if you're not the fan of the genre or perhaps the Bemani games, then what's the point of buying that soundtrack as a westerner. But if you are, then that will be the one for you as the series is as popular as ever in the arcades in the east.
Now, about the Lincle arrangements I made, all of those except Wonder Walker are surprisingly using the 16-Bit soundfont. You can check those out in my YouTube account. However, to be frank, not all 16-Bit arrangements I made are credited to TheEightBit as I don't want him to think that I've gone too far like using that soundfont for something else. Apparently, I also used the soundfont for arranging certain Vocaloid songs that are in today's Sega rhythm games. But if the song names I arranged in 16-Bit form are in English, perhaps I can guarantee a smooth crediting to TheEightBit.

Beatmania IIDX 20 Tricoro and Reflec Beat Colette OSTs

I guess that when these two soundtrack CDs were out, I still hadn't finished my works of last year before moving on to the works of two years ago which I recently started. For Beatmania IIDX 20 Tricoro OST, it contained the normal songs from the game as well as the songs from the events such as Legend Cross and Omega Attack. Speaking of Omega Attack, it is still on-going and having to go through it completely is a son of a butt because you're supposed to eliminate the viruses off the map including the songs that are parts of the sectors that are affected as well. There are also boss songs which can be really hard as well but it can't be a problem tackling them in Normal difficulty. However, by playing in Normal, I guess that you may get lesser bonuses like that. Also, you're gonna need lots of Dellars or whatever to buy those weapons needed to wipe out more viruses off the map in Omega Attack. It's seriously money and credit consuming but at least it may be how you may enjoy Beatmania IIDX 20 Tricoro.
For Reflec Beat Colette OST, it may be the same sort of thing, containing songs that are in Standard Mode as well as the songs from the events such as the Adventure Mode or whatever it is where you need to guide Pastel through various places. I guess that navigation through this mode is somewhat easier through the touch screen feature.
Anyway, these two soundtrack CDs were recently out last month or something so that you can enjoy the songs from the game without having to view the freaking online videos of the respective songs you want that have the gameplay on them but take note, some of the songs may be different on the CDs and the bonus tracks may be either remixes or perhaps the full versions of the songs.

LNY Day 3

Again, this one involves the external visit unlike the second day in which the whole celebration took place inside my home for LNY. I recently finished the remix of December Breeze from Reflec Beat Colette today after starting the work on it yesterday. However, right after finishing the remix of December Breeze, I started on London Evolved which everyone knows it as a DDR song. After the visit to my fourth aunt’s home, I returned back home with the old laptop computer that belonged to my fourth uncle. From what I saw from the system specifications, it seemed that the RAM is only 1GB and the computer’s running Windows Vista Home Premium. This combination made it really unstable but of course, I know the freaking 360 products which are in Chinese entirely. They range from computer maintenance tools, anti-virus to web browsing and so on.

Speaking of London Evolved, it recently made the appearance on Reflec Beat Colette but I’m sure that the Encore Extra Stage song is obviously Tohoku Evolved. It may be harder than London Evolved but the meaning of Tohoku Evolved is about the March 11 disaster aftermath in which the song is arranged for praying for Japan’s national recovery.

Next day may involve looking for the fountain speaker thing by ATake which surprisingly comes with the Male To Male Audio Cable that allows you to get direct audio from two devices at the same time. Last time, I confused the shit out of the staff working at some shop as I was trying to look for that cable until I realized that that speaker from ATake finally had that cable but yesterday, I finally figured out with another online research on Google about getting the computer to directly receive audio from PS Vita console and things worked out correctly after following the instructions. All you have to do is to connect one end of that cable to the Microphone jack of the computer and the other end to the Headphone jack of whatever mobile device you want. You can optionally hook in the earpiece/headphone cable to the Headphone jack of the computer to see if you’re hearing some sound from the mobile device. When I did that yesterday, I finally hooked things up correctly. I could hear the sound coming from my computer and the PS Vita simultaneously. I guess that it can be useful for my video capturing of mobile devices in the future with that cable hooked in like anytime I want. Note that the video capturing is still done with the webcam though.

LNY Day 1

Well, this is about what I did yesterday in personal video gaming work. I started off with the remix of Prana from Jubeat Saucer while at my big aunt’s home. Surprisingly, there was an old desktop computer that was powered by Pentium 4 HT processor and that looked like it was quite old and slow compared to the computers today. However, I don’t know if this is true or not as I have no rights to know the actual system specifications. Sure, you can replace the motherboard with another one for the desktop computer but for the outside case, people may claim that the desktop computer is still old or slow even though the newer motherboard is inside, revealing the better system specifications than the ones that came with that desktop computer. During the visit, the nieces were already there playing a bunch of casual games on the mobile devices. While working on the remix with the computer offline completely, I was distracted by them like they were having me to play those casual games. Games I never played before were Subway Surfers and Temple Run 2. Unbelievably, I scored a million in Temple Run 2 on one of my nieces’ Ipad. Perhaps, the device was big enough to do the swiping but having to tilt it might be challenging.

Next, I visited the home of another aunt of mine at Tampines where I continued my work there and fortunately, there was a power strip with empty slots for charging my laptop. However, it seemed that one of my nieces was completely clueless in using my Playstation Vita and of course, since it was a visit, all the gadgets of mine were offline so some games could be played there. Even worse was that he did something funny by taking photos with my Playstation Vita but nobody else knew that that console has various smartphone like features.

Back home, I managed to finish the work in one day before moving on to another song to arrange. The next song as of today will be December Breeze from Reflec Beat Colette, which is currently being progressed.

Yukei Seikai Reconstruction

It seems that Sasakure.uk is one of the band members of UK Rampage and the band name surely has some reference to his name and albums. Last year, there was an album consisting of the band’s covers of the respective Vocaloid songs we know of but there are also songs I don’t even know of. It doesn’t matter if the songs are composed by Sasakure.uk or not, it is basically a cover album of the Vocaloid songs. This was released in October last year and there was a concert with their covers being played and at the end of the concert, there was an announcement that some of their songs will be in Jubeat Plus and Reflec Beat Plus. Previously, Jubeat Plus had the Vocaloid songs which were the original versions but with this pack for both games, all the songs are actually the UK Rampage covers. Perhaps, it won’t cause the controversy that way but even then, we can still recognize some of the band members as well as the songs in the pack. Hello Planet and Freely Tomorrow are the known examples if you have played Project Diva series before like I did. Other known examples include Ura Omote Lovers, Senbon Zakura and Strobe Last etc. Perhaps, it is UK Rampage’s intention to put in their covers in Jubeat Plus and Reflec Beat Plus while they had given credits to the original producers. Hell, even Mitchie M already knew that his song is going to be in those two Bemani games on IOS. Also, the music pack was already released recently sometime this month.

Reflec Beat Plus for Iphone

Two years ago, there was an Ipad release of Reflec Beat under Reflec Beat Plus as well as the sequel to the original Reflec Beat known as Reflec Beat Limelight. The Limelight has the colorful and clean look to the interface and it's the same to Reflec Beat Colette. The series features some sort of mascot which is Pastel. The arcade original has the High Definition widescreen resolution that the Ipad itself is losing various vertical pixels like trying to make the game pixel perfect but there are more horizontal pixels than the arcade resolution. Unfortunately, unlike Jubeat Plus, there wasn't an Iphone port of Reflec Beat until the last year's release in which the Ipad version was re-updated with additional stuffs, tweaks and additional song packs. For Iphone 5 version, it is surprisingly looking close to the arcade port but even then, the screen resolution is a little bit smaller.
So there goes the equal enjoyment for Iphone and Ipad users when playing Jubeat Plus and Reflec Beat Plus.