im seeing your feet

nori and darq reunion stream when?

really impressed with nori san’s english in this video. this was a great watch!

dj darqs still the best iidx youtuber to this day even tho he doesn’t upload. no one else has ever tried to put out high quality iidx content like he does. we desparwty need someone like Darqs again

just watched this whole interview through. i love it, it gave me a lot of insights on my own life rn and how iidx could be causing some chest muscular imbalance issues to act up for me. it’s so interesting how Jordan has this double life playing iidx. also really miss ur content Darqs i only started watching u and playing iidx recently but ur a great content creator

the overscan tho

recommended to me in 2023 lol

There's been a resurgence of IIDX play happening among a group of friends on the East Coast, a few vet players and a few building up their skills. I vividly remember having a chat conversation with Ryan where I asked him about what's one thing I could do to improve faster. His response was to 'Start playing random. It'll get you used to hitting sh*tty notes'. I started playing Random from that day. Probably some of the best advice I could have been given because it increased my enjoyment of the game significantly. Thank you for this interview, DARQs!

But holy cow dude I would have been holding my guts on the ground halfway through that if I tried it right now

This on doubles 😊

Would a mini pinky extension be "cheating" for pinky scratching. I've been palm scratching for a a while but anything scratch heavy I just avert to one handed mode. I'm glad I can do one handed well enough because I can do held scratch notes and hit almost anything. 😂 Also yes learning new fingerings can help heaps. Especially in DP being able to adapt you hand to hit denser areas. Or being able to hit staircases without just sliding the hands over all the keys. 😅

I started in '04 and played every single day for years. Investing every scrap of free time into my progress. Around '08 I got really ill and was on permanent disability. Having nothing but free time for some reason I just didn't play much. The game still defined my personality though and I kept up with it from an outside perspective. When my health improved I got a full time job, this was around 2011. Now that I had way less free time I got back into the habit of devoting myself to improve. I only played at home on my RED and 3-16 cs. Round One opened in my area awhile back and I got even more into the game. Nowadays my free time is severely limited but I still grind when I don't have obligations. I see myself playing until my hands and wrists fail me. :)

Sounds like infinitas has come a long way since this!

I'm past the stage where i get angry it's just my wrist and arm are messed up and it hurts when i play and i can't play as well now

hey I found this video in 2023 and it's a revelation for me, thanks. No more claw method for me!

I would LOVE a modern day re-telling of this video, and updates on how life's been going since this. I would gladly watch some crazy ass like 3 hour supercut of your life LOL. I come back to this video pretty frequently to keep myself motivated in my own journey, not just through IIDX, but through life. There's a lot of subtle life lessons in here about persistence and keeping true to yourself, that I feel like I catch a new one every re-watching lmao. Cheers, DARQs. No matter how old these videos are, I swear they're still as fresh as they were the day they came out.

just thought you should know these videos are still a great watch almost 8 full years later. as someone who only recently had the ability to get into IIDX proper, it's nice to have some easily digestible videos about pretty important subjects.

Does the Arcin board work in PS2 Konami controllers?

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best thing I've ever seen

Good talk. Interesting to learn that basically offset just moves lift invisibly.

i just started playing IIDX off of data (bistrover to be specific) and as a former taiko player this is much more fun! i do not have a controller though

Just got this in my recommended and its 25th Aug 2022 I think more people are going to show up in the comments Also I dont even know whats going on in the video lol

i need the BPL discount, that controller costs more than my car

As a person who's been enjoying rhythm games since 2004: Even though I've never tried IIDX (Argentina's never had access IIDX cabs/network IIRC), I remember looking for IIDX related content a while back and thus found channel. Came for IIDX *knawledge* , stayed for your take on rhythm games as a whole plus your personality :D I really like the way you've explained every single aspect of the game and still remember your playstyles video haha I am happy of the progress you've made in your life and will forever cherish the videos you've posted ! :D :D :D and I will be lurking often to see what you upload :D Cheers from Argentina m8! may your keytaps be crisp and on time!

I love this song pack with all of the burst your acc was incredible on this song

I remember seeing your name on VJ Army scores like 15 years ago Is there a Discord channel where iidx/bemani players congregate? I am curious

I put it in my machine and it says it loaded the edit date, but i have no clue where all the edits are on the machine

3:42 Yeah, and we all know how this ended up *cough* Mare Nectaris *cough* For me the turning point was Copula as well but in a different way. The music just wasn't my cup of tea to be honest. Yeah, you could still occasionally stumble upon some bangers like Dynamite or Outbreak (Refrain being my favourite by far, a Taka song...duh) but overall there weren't that many songs I liked playing on a regular basis compared to the previous installments. Like the 19th through 22nd included felt like things were getting exponentially better in terms of OST to then just suddenly drop to a rather mediocre OST of Copula and that was a huge turn off for me. Cannon Ballers was nothing special either and eventually I got tired of waiting for any major news about the game all together. Yeah, I still played some songs from 24 through 26 much later from time to time but then there was silence and when Bistrover got released there were still no Heroic Verse BMS conversions available and if I wanted to play 28th I had to make the conversions on my own... which I did (not keysounded, but hey, I could play some of the more popular songs almost as soon as the videos on KZbin started popping up). Same happened with CastHour but at this point it's just a hassle to even bother playing any new IIDX songs in the BMS environment. There is a chance the conversions might appear in the future but for now (the experience of having converted 10 charts in just one day to play the songs as soon as they appeared on KZbin is still stuck with me to this day) I'm not really that dedicated to go that far to play new songs at all. Too much of a hassle after a hard day's work :D P.S Glad to see you're doing fine! Really appreciate your opinion and perspective on IIDX :)

This works on US KOC. I just got back into IIDX after a near 10 year hiatus. Decided to upgrade the one layer to three. Never been better.

can you help me install my arcin please i dont know how

just play pop'n music

Please come back!

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This was very insightful. Especially as someone taking fitness more serious and still grinding IIDX but on the lower side of 7s. This was a very nice interview and Jordan is a great example of how we can all be fit and healthy while good at the game :)

It's hard to explain to people how cool DDR was in the early 2000s. Everybody I knew who played it was super cool. I met a lot of people I am friends with to this day playing DDR and IIDX. I learned a lot about music too.

damn these new machines are so easy i couldnt lower myself to compete with this

I've played IIDX since 2003. I found that for me even way back then, there was a point where going beyond SP 9th dan felt like a grind and I wasn't having as much fun. Often, I felt like I was mashing crazy patterns on a musical typewriter instead of playing music. I took a step back and started to play more casually and found that I enjoyed 14-key/doubles way more than 7-key as it feels more musically connected. I also really developed an appreciation for the 5-key series to mix things up. It's ancient by today's standards but it has a very different feel from IIDX. The timing in 5-key can be absolutely weird and inconsistent sometimes but charts and keysounds are extremely "direct" and it's usually very clear what each button is playing. In harder IIDX charts, especially with random, the floods of notes made it unclear to me sometimes just what each key was playing. So that being said, in IIDX I've found that I enjoyed playing charts in the 7-10 difficulty range more than the 11s and 12s. I can totally understand taking a step back from the game, especially if you were extremely involved with it. In my time with IIDX, I've often found myself taking extended breaks, exploring new hobbies and dealing with new responsibilities. But I still come back to the game after those breaks and end up enjoying it more as a result. I don't play the marathon sessions I used to back in those early days anymore, but occasionally playing a quick set of 3 songs on doubles after work feels just right.

Amazing podcast. Thanks for doing this!

I haven't had any bad experiences with iidx, it's been a blast the whole way. This game is direct brain training, like that spinal jack thing in The Matrix

Exusia, yes!!!

beast

I'm late as always with things going on, but I just wanted to say that those old discussion videos despite their age really helped me learn when I was starting out back in March. I don't really know if anyone's ever tried to make anything like them since. Not to say there aren't good tutorials or resources nowadays, just a lack of videos on these topics and I kinda wish that wasn't the case. Thanks for the vids, and hopefully I can catch a stream some day.

Just noticed part 3&4 are now private. RIP

Do you still feel this "hitting the keys super hard" is as valid now that many arcades use lighter switches?

Hey man, appreciate all the videos especially this one. I started playing a few months ago and this game's a beast, I'll probably never even Dan but it's a great ride anyway.

nice change of pace in comparison to the 17

i also spilled beer over my fps emp 2 years ago...i couldnt get it cleaned enough and i thought i had to order new ones...after two years of dust collecting i started cleaning the microswitches again with hand disinfectant dipped q tips, soaked the microswitch pistons a little bit so it went inside, let it dry and repeated it like 5 times over 2 days or so. now they work perfectly, just like on the first day. back to playing on controller :D

i like using both random and nonran, but it seems a bit unfair for scores to be saved since some random patterns can be easier than others it adds an element of luck, which is something that shouldn't be considered for scores imo

what if we kissed under the wisely dartboard