Xbox 360 Fanboy

wrong post, you mean the post one newer. Sorry. Plus, there was a post about it earlier.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/10/09/avatar-customization-requires-256mb-storage/
Read next time. Thanks for your comment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat%27n_Groovy

Also if you enter in the Konami Code. (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a) it'll beep.


it changes the controller setup.

it uses LT LB A RB and RT for the buttons instead of the regular ones

Kinda like what you were complaining about... so there are two configurations for buttons in the game.

Why would they make you access a control config with a code?

I really don't understand Konami these days...

uh..... i don't understand konami either... i'm still trying to figure out why on the main screen there is a bunny and a girl with heart glasses... and so far i can't figure out how to unlock them...

but that's konami! odd and quirky

Left should be maroon.

PS: You stole my avatar! omzg!

Member for longer, plus my avatar is better! :D

That's all well and good, except this was designed for the Xbox 360. Furthermore, why not actually use the buttons that are on the left?

Shoulder buttons, triggers? It would make a lot more sense if you could have your fingers on each button. Hell, why not set the left bumper and trigger as the two left lanes, use a face button for the middle lane, and use the right shoulder and trigger for the two right lanes?

That makes a LOT more sense in the 'left to right' argument.

If you like it, great. I think it's a bad configuration, made even worse because you can't even configure it a different way if you want to.

Technically, Mr. Mitchell, this wasn't designed for the 360-- it's an Americanized port of a Playstation/PS2/Dreamcast(!) series that relied very heavily on a custom controller. I'm sure you've already been sent tons of hate mail with wiki links to Pop'n Music so I'll just leave it at that.

You're spot on about the incongruity between the colors and buttons, though. Except that, again, the control scheme matches that of the PS1/2 original (when not using the arcade-style or home-custom controller). Additionally, the control scheme is similar to that used by the somewhat more successful DJ Max Portable games (or so I hear-- I've yet to play any of those but I'm looking forward to it). It's inexcusable that the controls can't be rearranged, but when divorced from the colors it makes a little more sense.

I'm a big Pop'n/Beatmania fan, and dropped the money on this after playing the demo, but I can't in good conscience recommend this as a good way to get into the series. It's mostly the fact that the 360's d-pad is actually a detriment to playing it (you're penalized for pressing buttons when there's no note, and I have yet to reliably hit left without simultaneously hitting down and destroying my combo), but also because there are really only two good songs in the set (100sec Kitchen Battle and Starmine).

I respectfully decline to comment on MLB or Tenchu.

yeah i agree.. you didn't give any backstory on the game which i am kinda disappointed at cause you did for geometry wars, ikuraga and duke nuke'm

It wouldn't have been hard either to do some research.. you could have said what REALLY makes this a bad port(even though i bought it in support we get a ACTUAL pop'n music retail disc with pop'n controler)

how about mentioning... all the songs are easy. even through the diffculty meter has a 8 none of the songs go above a 4. How about the lack of DLC section?. Lack or a 7 or a 9 button mode? How about how the arcade mode knocks you back to the title screen after 1 stage?

there's sooo many things wrong with that needed to be mentioned than just the controller setup.