In the Groove - Pandemonium [Played by iamchris4life]

[@harktischris]

as of a couple days ago, iamchris4life is also now the world DDR champion (the first time North America is invited in and he takes the prize for the USofA). Wow, can't believe this video is more than 10 years old. I thought with his guitar hero videos that came out later he had moved on from DDR, but apparently from the world tournament guess not.

[@Shottyshotgun1]

Chris Lee-Egan This is just amazing

[@Khritter]

and he did it again yesterday!! 2x world champion

[@stetsonvestal4751]

@@Khritter lol you beat me to it. I was gonna make that comment.

[@vipersuphere]

@@Khritter drdisrespect vibes

[@kidboo377]

He also re-fc'ed through the fire and the flames expert lol

[@MisterGuy_]

even by today's standards, this score is absolutely bonkers, and this was done over 17 years ago

[@michaellyga4726]

This score would be 54th in the world (on groovestats) if it was performed today. It was done in 2006 on a home setup using a chair as the bar 😂

[@incongruous4]

It's a really slow song by today's standards, but consistent accuracy like that is timeless

[@CallMeNevermore]

I can't believe this video is over a decade old. Mother of God.

[@kujakubes241]

CallMeNevermore ikr

[@nickel7o740]

3 more until 20...

[@patrickmccarthy5617]

I can't believe this comment is over 8 years old. Mother of God

[@dreem_kitten5628]

its been awhile, but i just wanted to reach out that 16 years ago i watched this video non-stop and you were the inspiration for me buying my metal pads around that time. worth several allowances and bdays

[@donutreligion2979]

You know it's an old video when the TV is the size of a car.

[@itsMapleLeaf]

It wouldn't be considered a AAA because he missed a note, but in ITG, it is a AAA, or triple star, if you will. 99.04 is a very good grade, something I can't get near on that song with a controller! You have earned my respect!

[@davidhunter2824]

Even today, in the year 2024, this video is still impressive! Well done Iamchris👍

[@maxpeg]

Haha I love how only about halfway through the song the combo already tops most DDR songs' 10 footers (500-600+)

[@kuraikozo]

OMFG! u are the best ive ever seen! kudos to you! you rock sox!!!!!! keep on rockin' my man!

[@Blizzrdball]

Your best bet is to work on songs with 16th note streams from the bottom up. Start with songs around 110-120 bpm. Once you can nail three of those in a row without any heavy breathing, move on to 130-140 and keep doing the same thing with 20 bpm increments up until you get around 200 bpm. It's a lengthy goal and it'll probably take around a month or longer, but if you play consistently around 2-3 times a week with this practice, it'll arise quite quickly. Approximately a month or two at most.

[@iKaGe01]

That is the Cobalt Flux, but it has been discontinued. It was a wooden base with pexi-glass panels, with metal inbetween for the sensors. Higher quality than the standard affairs.

[@brunolg]

Inspiration 👏👏👏

[@dreman367]

No wonder his name looked so familiar! I was just looking him up on his Guitar Hero vids and I knew I saw his name before. I remember when he first released this video. He's insane!

[@brigs369]

i was always wondering how could some at guitar hero be that good and as good as shape as he is, this shows me the asnwer

[@cardboardcat1515]

Indentation? It's called a recessed pad. The arrows are recessed, and you are right. It makes all the difference.

[@trev0115]

Thanks for the reply, I've been doing something sort of like that but I am already at Vertex on Challenge xD So dead after one of the itg boss songs U_U I think I'll try taking on either energizer on challenge or pandemonium on hard (that one's tough) I've been playing every day and it's definitly helped, even if I've been stuck on some songs for a while. Can't wait to get into the higher level songs :D Thanks for the advice though, I'll try some of that for the challenge levels like by Smiley

[@TuucciZ]

I have an old CF, must've been owned by at least three people before me. It's working fine, the only thing bothersome are the screws which sometimes don't stay down if you kick them. I've heard Bluesharks are the best pads around if you can mod them well. If not, they're no good.

[@MEareCAT]

Wow one of the best ITG performances I've seen

[@FunOrange42]

lol no rail, so he uses couch xD

[@SmoreJoy]

Why are you everywhere

[@ddefinder]

This is ITG 1 for ps2. The song was frist on ITG 1 so it appears on both.

[@taylor9124]

Its a cobalt flux, runs about 300 bucks. i bought the red octane afterburner for the more arcade feel, but that pad is by far worth the money.

[@fartmonkey200]

thanks darkcorexx for finally explainging to people why they use bar.

[@Vulcapyro]

same here. He's the reason that drives me forward and helps me pass the 10s on expert! >=D

[@travelsonic]

"just because you can play that doesn't mean you can run fast. " Yup, the correlation isn't absolute, though in many cases I'd say it did a HELL of a lot in terms of leg strength, which is good for kickboxing and the like... assuming you didn't do it after a rigorous hour of ITG/2.

[@VictorGonzalez-sk5yq]

Ese modulo de baile como esta hecho me podrias decir se ve rigido

[@ferdk16]

if the guy who make this game watch this vid , what will he think?? "oh ! my game is so easy!!" , well actually not! it's just this guy is damn jesus!!!!!

[@DanaO1230]

wow he reminds me of theses guys who r always playing this in the cinema at 401 morning side or scarborough town centre. they bring their water bottels and towels. my sister taped it with her cell or camera she was like wow look at that maybe ill tell her to upload it

[@deadricwarrior91]

There's a lot of far better players, but Iamchris4life have something special which i cannot describe ^^

[@john0692]

This is In The Groove 1. You gotta keep playing and eventually the song unlocks.

[@JayleeJ]

Thanks!! ^_^ I always thought speed mods we're like a handicap...so I try not to use them. But I think i'll start now...

[@Weemo]

His pad didn't have the arcade mod, so it's completely flat, and the timing on ITG PS2 is slightly larger to accomodate the PS2's lag. Pandemonium is a lot harder in the arcade.

[@tajishima]

Chris is like Chuck Norris!!! I take that back...Chris IS CHUCK NORRIS of DDR!!!

[@ThaATXBalla]

i have a cobalt flux, and when i play on it, it feels incredible. very solid. it gets great response. just don't trash it out with dirty shoes or spilling shit on it, and it'll probably be the best dance pad you've ever used. i have some videos of me playing on it on my profile

[@john0692]

hey whats the difficulty for One More lovely? I just saw a vid for it and it looks way harder than this. I still love this song.

[@Tiduspeco]

No wonder he's so good at GH. He's got some serious co-ordination.

[@tony056]

hey whatup i remembered you when u was playing DDR wow u even rock at ITG cool man

[@grandhustla50]

very niice,i can do pandamonium on medium,but where do u get in the groove game for ps2?

[@bjamiork]

I think the best I've seen arcade-wise would be LilQ's video where he gets a 98.xx on Pandemonium.

[@dudeitsivan]

wow. i couldnt even AAA this in stepmania this is pretty amazing

[@Critteri]

they don't sell this game anymore because of the law suit against roxor, but you can find it at ebay which is where i found mine and i love it :D. i'm going to pick up swapmagic tho so i can play rynkers custom which is a nicely made iso of groovestats songs :D

[@ArkanoidZero]

@vietkid4life253 he only stopped because he broke his Cobalt Flux trying to change to mechanical sensors.(CF uses contact sensors)

[@maldonvic]

wow awesome video had my heart pumpin

[@GrunterKEB]

joker619, shurf said that because PSMO is the hardest on DDR, and he said it for ITG meaning it's the hardest song on ITG.

[@Radric33]

oh by the way his pad isnt raised which makes it ten times faster to move feet and keep way more energy.

[@selesher]

iamchris4life FTW! =D IMO, he owns at any kind of (W/E you would like to call it, but i prefer calling it) simulator-game. xD

[@fenrir13337]

i love you chris. i strive one day to be as good as you :']

[@julzrockssocks]

All I got to say is I WOULD love to meet this kid. :) And be as good as him, haha.

[@fergatronanator]

What brand of pad is he using in this video? I'm willing to invest in something that sensitive! Thanks!?

[@akpokemon]

WHAT!??! WHAT!??! Oh my goodness. *faints* And you gave yourself a thumbs down! Ugh...you are too amazing...O.o

[@fartmonkey200]

yeah me too ive also noticed my running stamina and Speed!

[@Ismibeg]

Yeah, you're right, I have supernova 2 and got a AAA last night with a great....but like you said, I was correct for the time of the video.

[@idkwhattosayxD]

i still wonder how his legs are used to doing all the weird crossovers on his other videos and this one too. how does his CF not even move a bit? mine keeps moving everytime i do some 16th streams.

[@danielyeh]

they are simply amazing

[@mc2esr]

if i had a combo for that long and missed one step i would have cryed lol good job

[@Zeiram]

I think he meant "Thumbs down?" as in why did he give his own score a thumbs down when it was obviously quite impressive.

[@Perdet]

simply amazing...

[@ydaytodie]

i will admit "iamchris4life" is a very good DDR and In the groove player, if you want to see mouth dropping performance. search calimist itg. look at all the things he does

[@WPGsk8Dillon]

Now this guy today is the best gh2 player on xbox360

[@T-sHz]

Holy crap!! iamchris4life is awesome!!

[@implode573]

Did you read his post? "I'd rather buy nice pads and get a game i can have for free and is portable." He's obviously talking about playing SM on the pad.

[@claporga]

hahaha no joker, that is not what he meant.. "it is the psmo of itg." not saying that it was psmo, it was just a really good analogy of the difficulty of this song. summary: psmo is hardest song on ddr. pandemonium is "arguably" the hardest song on itg. and that's it! yay!

[@Dpark95]

it looks like a custom pad to me. the arrows arent rised or below the reular metal sheets and the arrows are close together

[@SonicArena1]

Nice DDR Pad and TV!

[@crystarichards7834]

Nice :) dancers like that is amazing

[@zZzFalaecozZz]

Insane skills O.o I wish I could do that someday...

[@ddrusa]

dam this dude is awesome crazzy steps

[@cayozera]

O M G!!!!!!!

[@stavie33]

i've been playing DDR/ITG for 6 years and i'm one of the slowest on my track team and DDR wise, i AA some 10s

[@ShadeLRK]

which ITG is it? I bought one a while ago for ps2 that was just called "In The Groove" but I didn't see this song

[@kujakubes241]

ShadeLRK This is PS2 this song has to be unlocked

[@JacobPadlock]

my feet are obsolete for pandemonium. but for some reason i can do chaos really good.

[@Ch3mG33k]

I'd love to see what this kid can (or can't) do on a machine. CF pad are amazing but they're easier to play on. The lack of raised edges makes it easier to do those suicide runs.

[@Vulcapyro]

Awesome...

[@yomominbed]

have you ever seen chris' face?

[@ipfreely122]

if u got a decent ddr game at home(supernova, supernova 2, X) then u probably should buy it if ur a hardcore player since its pretty durable and lots of the hard songs will probably need that pad. but if u barely play at home or are just starting out as a newbie, then dont bother because there is a reason for the $100+ price tag

[@FpsOwns]

whos better iamchris4life or admstyle??

[@SimDuff]

I wonder how many hours you played... I will NEVER be able to do such a thing!

[@trev0115]

It may be a really dumb question, but how to you work up to even passing a song like this? Right now I am stuck at passing Maxx Unlimited (Passed Max 300 finally U_U) but I need some help with stamina. I already know that the "best" way to progress is to "keep playing until you pass", but are there certain songs that could help me with this? Thanks, trev :)

[@JayleeJ]

That was reallllllly good. That kind of accuracy is hard to come by. How long have you been playing ITG???

[@KeekeeKarin5]

Woah, dude. You need to get out more. :) JK you are awesome at this.

[@itgscv]

it actually is, candle steps? That part is easyish compared to other parts of the song but still fairly difficult. how come your still playing 9s? some 10s are really easy

[@Weemo]

I know a lot about the game. I meant in respect to how difficult the stuff a lot of players can pass now (One More Lovely, Holy Orders, Return of Salieri, Dash Hopes, etc.), Pandemonium doesn't seem that difficult.

[@awesomeincarnate87]

@Straberri25 Naw not jealous at all. Have you tried doing hard as shit songs on a soft pad, on carpet, not holding onto anything? It's fucking intense and challenging!

[@tiwo1008]

not true, i have one and it gives me random shit al the time... though that being said, the four corner sensors don't really help either...

[@SnKKermit]

I don't play often, just every now and again, i guess i could probably give 10 footers a try.

[@donnyf88]

Dude screw the chair... I want that TV! 0.0

[@v4extreme]

Definitely the best home version player, that's pretty much undisputed. I think now he's the best music games player in general, as far as precise timing goes. His stepmania videos scare me... no one was meant to be that good at anything.

[@Bradyarnottt]

where do u see him play live

[@rapidkey1]

this song is crazy i always do this song

[@b0de]

i donno tim, i think if chris had a ddr arcade machine closer to his house he would have AAA'ed that game long ago.

[@itgscv]

yeah, most people online have no idea about this stuff

[@Radric33]

the reason why is because ppl want to AAA and put it on youtube im sure everyone thats good has FC'ed taht song and is getting close to AA but what we wanna see is a AAA

[@tiphlos]

wow, this is the song im still trying to beat. i have been playing for about a year and a half (on and off) but i dont have the stamina, or the skills yet to beat it lol.

[@PkGam]

At the time that technically wouldn't be like a DDR AAA so some info is incorrect. But regardless, this is a incredible run!

[@xxDarkCorexx]

Basically...all serious ITG players are like that. Now DDR on the other hand is a different story.

[@alangadbois]

thank you.

[@BudgiePixel]

O.O bravissimo!!

[@erikrass]

Its obviously bonus points that he does most of his videos with shoes on, but i just noticed that theyre SKATING shoes! those are heavy!! why not track shoes or something light? crazy guy.

[@pencilman222000]

if your talking about cobalt fluxes i hate them, we have them at school and they suck(i doubt they take and care of them but still, the stick alot) im sticking with my 100 dollar tournament pad

[@Vulcapyro]

wonder if he can play both at the same time...

[@itgscv]

AAA is all perfect. QUAD star is all fantastics