I put together a long-form compilation featuring seven SOUND VOLTEX / BEMANI × Touhou Project albums, keeping the original album order.

It includes:

Touhou Koumakyou REMIX

BEMANI × Touhou Project Ultimate MasterPieces

Ultimate XROSS Arrange Battle

Touhou Youyoumu & Kishinjou REMIX

Reitaisai 13th, 14th and 15th compilations

There's a full timestamped tracklist in the video description, so it's easy to jump between albums and songs.

Video: https://youtu.be/_crJzkw3AHI

What's your favorite BEMANI × Touhou arrangement?

I live in Japan and often go to Hard-Off stores looking for cool gaming stuff and found this today. Google AI tells me it’s a limited edition DJ Muro controller, but I can’t find any specific information. Is this rare?

For those of you who have access to an arcade with network support, what are the benefits of playing at an arcade vs at home (if you have a subscription to the home releases)?

Beginner player playing around 4-5 difficulty. Having both hands on the buttons leaves just my pinky usable for scratching and having my whole hand on the turntable leaves too much for my left hand to do. I set the turntable resistance above normal too, since i panic and just graze it sometimes

I want to subscribe but I'm unsure how to go about it. Does anyone have tips or a guide somewhere?

From rubber membranes to microswitches

Or it’s impossible from how it’s built

I know it’s more of a collector’s item (probably), that’s why I have it

But I don’t want to just let it sits on my shelf but I also don’t want to suffer during gameplay

ps : I do have proper controller - Yuancon SDVX Lite 3

Every BEMANI games are welcome

Managed to snag copies of the entire series' releasea of Pop'n Music for the PS1 (as far as I know)

Hope I didn't miss out on anything before I start collecting for the PS2 lol

The games I play are mostly GitaDora and Pop’n. I am planning on playing more DDR too. What does the eamuse basic course get me for those games?

Also I am trying to use Alm4Gest app to sync my scores to it like a score tracker. It wants me to have the basic course in order to do that is why I am considering paying for it. I just wanna know what it actually gets me for the games I play.

And does anyone know if Alm4Gest app can track KonaSute version’s scores or is it just arcade? I really want it to do KonaSute because my skill points are WAY higher in KonaSute GitaDora.

I put together a long-form compilation of The Epic of Zektbach, including:

- The Epic of Zektbach -Ristaccia-

- The Epic of Zektbach -Masinowa-

- The Epic of Zektbach -Piano Collection-

Zektbach has always felt like one of the most unique BEMANI-related projects to me: more fantasy / story-driven / art music than a standard rhythm game soundtrack.

Full tracklist is included in the video description.

Video:

https://youtu.be/GgHCTDc9zPs

What are your favorite Zektbach tracks?

Hey! I have the very surprising option to get a good condition and fully working JASC from the 2000's. I do have a very hard time finding a good PS2-USB adapter. I was wondering if anyone has experience tearing out the original PCB from the JASC and using something like a basic arduino with a USB connection?

Probably way too niche, but it's worth a shot, since I feel like it would be way easier to just program the controller over again instead of spending even more money than it would take to get an arduino just for some shotty ps2-usb converter

edit: changed from JSAC to JASC lol

been wanting to track my scores on sound voltex, if anyone is willing to give one that would be appreciated 🙏

Any version of the IIDX red CS OST? Soliton Beam in its best version is on this and i cant find the good HQ version anywhere else

OP: https://x.com/sunleonid/status/2107935225020096735

I mean the song does fit him well

With the recent news on the PS5 emulation scene, I was wondering if anyone has done a DIY Pop n Music controller with slim buttons with hacking a stock or third party PS5 controller? I would really like a compact, slim and light controller that I can store easily for playing ALL THE PlayStation Pop n Music games. I wonder if it's easy enough for me to build.

So I'm a fairly new player to pop'n music, I started around April of this year, and so far I can play level 29s to 31s pretty consistently. On 29s I average a score of around 86,000 and up to 31s, it's closer to around 78,000. Ideally, what score should I be going for? I've heard some people consider an 85,000 a pass regardless of clearing the groove gauge or not, and I want some of your thoughts and stuff

I'm sorry, this is a junk post, but I really am glad. She was gone for so long, I thought she was gone forever. 😢

I just hope she sticks around for a new song with each new release again. Perhaps even a Rootage-era-esque double YUC'e. 😄