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Apparently no EB in Canada has the game yet, nor any FutureShop, nor any WalMart, nor any Toys R Us.

In short, it's ANOTHER customs issue.

I want to swear but I don't normally so I won't.


I live in Edmonton and I bought my copy at a Future Shop store on April 1. Actually, last Thursday (before I bought a copy), I went to the same Future Shop to see if they had the game in. It might surprise you to know that they did.
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My stats right now:
Can do about 2-3 Hypers (easy songs, though, like Funkytown)
About 4-5 on Normal
Highest song on 5-key is Battle Breaks
Unlocked Another

& now, time for my favs & hates!

favs:
Battle Breaks
MGS Theme
Funkytown
321 Stars (too bad it's a 7 stars...)
Colors (Can't beat)
Hitch Hiker
Holic (Can't beat)
V (Hardest song)
Overblast!
Summer Vacation
Toxic (It's stuck in my head)

Hates:
First Day
Lift Me Up
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Suckage! I came home Tuesday night to play some BM, and the controller was dead. Just no reponse at all. Tried all the standard diagnostics... nuthin. Fortunately Gamebuzz still had 2 of em so I exchanged it. All is fine now. E1.gif
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Almo,

Did you read the controller's manual about not doing certain things with it, and plugging it in only when the PS2 power's off, and unplugging it when the power is off, and so on and so forth?

I know it's a little overkill when they say not to sleep with it, butter it, or submerge it in water but maybe that's why it died?

Josh924, I'm jealous! My EB said that "All of EB Canada doesn't have the game yet, until yesterday." So did FutureShop.

And I live outside Toronto, the biggest freaking city in Canada, and you live in BooneyCity (no offense but you're really NORTH of me) and yet you get it so much sooner.

I really am jealous. I understand that Alberta's got a pretty good music game scene though so maybe that's why. In Hamilton, it's just dropping deader than a rock in terms of arcades. Thankfully DDR and KR are going strong.
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P.P.R wrote:
My stats right now:
Can do about 2-3 Hypers (easy songs, though, like Funkytown)
About 4-5 on Normal
Highest song on 5-key is Battle Breaks
Unlocked Another

& now, time for my favs & hates!

favs:
Battle Breaks
MGS Theme
Funkytown
321 Stars (too bad it's a 7 stars...)
Colors (Can't beat)
Hitch Hiker
Holic (Can't beat)
V (Hardest song)
Overblast!
Summer Vacation
Toxic (It's stuck in my head)

Hates:
First Day
Lift Me Up


What! How can you hate Lift Me Up!! First Day isn't too bad either.

Favorites:
Toxic
Colors
Summer Vacation
Nothing Ain't Stoppin Us
I Was the One
Attitude
jelly kiss
Mr. T Take Me Higher
in my eyes
5.1.1.
emotion
Virtual Insanity
Hunting For You
The Cube

Hate:
s.d.z.
You Really Got Me
Love So Groovy
g.m.d.
Hitch Hiker
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ACtualy an arpeggio is a sequence of notes played invididually in rapid sucession and repeatedly. this is often done to "simulate" a chord with only one synthesizer voice.

They were used a lot on the commodore 64, a conputer with a 3 voice sound chip, which can without doing that do ONE chord at a time with nothing else.

I suspect e-motion has delays and/or slow attacks in it's instrument sounds, and that's why it seems so offsync. TO be fair I havent' played it but that would be my guess. Konami must think it's right as it's been that way forever and never "fixed"
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I can't wait!!!
i ordered the game in dvdboxoffice (for free international shipping) and they doesn't have stock.
when will the game arrive to Canadian stores?
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zaphod wrote:
I suspect e-motion has delays and/or slow attacks in it's instrument sounds, and that's why it seems so offsync. TO be fair I havent' played it but that would be my guess. Konami must think it's right as it's been that way forever and never "fixed"


Well, no. e-motion has always been fucked up. Some notes are early, some are late and even playing it with the SOUND OFF and a METRONOME on, its still off. Nice theory, though.

Oh, I can't wait to see what they do to Gambol if it ever comes here. The cries will be so amazing when everybody says "I CAN ONLY GET A C!!! WHY KONAMI WHY?!?!?!!?"
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Gambol has the most horrible timing on 3rd style. I managed to B it. :\ but yeah. Malice, there isn't much of a difference in the JPS2 and the American except the regional blah blah.
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zaphod wrote:
I suspect e-motion has delays and/or slow attacks in it's instrument sounds, and that's why it seems so offsync. TO be fair I havent' played it but that would be my guess. Konami must think it's right as it's been that way forever and never "fixed"


Well, no. e-motion has always been fucked up. Some notes are early, some are late and even playing it with the SOUND OFF and a METRONOME on, its still off. Nice theory, though.

Oh, I can't wait to see what they do to Gambol if it ever comes here. The cries will be so amazing when everybody says "I CAN ONLY GET A C!!! WHY KONAMI WHY?!?!?!!?"


Do e-motion and gambol both on hidden it helps, i have them AA'd, still havn't gotten use to them though E13.gif
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I got it at the local gamestop in the mall, then walked to the best buy and saw it for $5 less.

But i was still exstatic that I only paid $65 for a game that would have cost me $300 to import.

Its got some flaws to it sadly, theres only the split view, and theres no options for an event mode until you play EVERY song, they're unlocked in free play as you play them in game mode.

The 5 key mode is fun, but only has one difficulty, which I found weird.

And some songs are horribly difficult, I can pass many 4's and yet I cannot pass some 1's.

But well worth my money, ill be playing it for a while.
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Guymelef wrote:
I can't wait!!!
i ordered the game in dvdboxoffice (for free international shipping) and they doesn't have stock.
when will the game arrive to Canadian stores?


I'm happy to announce Canadian stores (EB, FutureShop, ToysRUs) all should have it now.
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Wermo wrote:
Guymelef wrote:
I can't wait!!!
i ordered the game in dvdboxoffice (for free international shipping) and they doesn't have stock.
when will the game arrive to Canadian stores?


I'm happy to announce Canadian stores (EB, FutureShop, ToysRUs) all should have it now.


Thank god for you Canadians. Maybe it's more rarer there than America?
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Shad0wZer0 wrote:
I got it at the local gamestop in the mall, then walked to the best buy and saw it for $5 less.

But i was still exstatic that I only paid $65 for a game that would have cost me $300 to import.

Its got some flaws to it sadly, theres only the split view, and theres no options for an event mode until you play EVERY song, they're unlocked in free play as you play them in game mode.

The 5 key mode is fun, but only has one difficulty, which I found weird.

And some songs are horribly difficult, I can pass many 4's and yet I cannot pass some 1's.

But well worth my money, ill be playing it for a while.

What do you mean by split view? And about the $300 to import.
Flip Top $40.00 + Game $69.99 + KOC $80.00 = roughly under $200. Your exagerating.
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that and the controller you get with the US game is superior to the japanese KOC and if you were smart like me you only paid 50 for the game and controller bundle so you cna knock 30 more bucks off that price AND you get two games (plus depending on what style you want some of them ebay for as low as 40 bucks)
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Almo,

Did you read the controller's manual about not doing certain things with it, and plugging it in only when the PS2 power's off, and unplugging it when the power is off, and so on and so forth?

I know it's a little overkill when they say not to sleep with it, butter it, or submerge it in water but maybe that's why it died?


Yup, read all of that, and tried everything. Tried pulling the keyboard out and putting it in backward (right-handed scratch). The dudez at the store re-tested it as well.
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zaphod wrote:
They were used a lot on the commodore 64, a conputer with a 3 voice sound chip, which can without doing that do ONE chord at a time with nothing else.


Um... the later C64 composers found clever ways to make it sound like there were more than 3 voices. http://www.hvsc.c64.org/ Go get the Tetris music for the C64 for a really good example. There's a low percussion part, a chord rhythm part, and a melody.

The percussion is mixed in one voice with the bass, and they can "warble" one voice to sound like a chord, and the other voice does the melody.
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So my playing level is about 4-5 pass. Just passed Fly Through The Night And In My Eyes On Normal.

Really addicting (back to BM i go E10.gif)
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Wermo wrote:
Guymelef wrote:
I can't wait!!!
i ordered the game in dvdboxoffice (for free international shipping) and they doesn't have stock.
when will the game arrive to Canadian stores?


I'm happy to announce Canadian stores (EB, FutureShop, ToysRUs) all should have it now.


I'm happy to announce that my local Future Shop here in Edmonton has had the game since last week Wednesday. E15.gif
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josh924 wrote:
Wermo wrote:
Guymelef wrote:
I can't wait!!!
i ordered the game in dvdboxoffice (for free international shipping) and they doesn't have stock.
when will the game arrive to Canadian stores?


I'm happy to announce Canadian stores (EB, FutureShop, ToysRUs) all should have it now.


I'm happy to announce that my local Future Shop here in Edmonton has had the game since last week Wednesday. E15.gif


And you're a tease Josh! Stop it or I'll blush!
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