DDR to PUMP

DDRkrazy · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Location: Roebling, NJ

at my six flags, the only dance machine there is pump, i HATE PUMPS GUTS, they took out 4 ddr ex to put in a pump, i was pissed. but i may as well make the best and get good at pump. i got on it and it felt wierd. i put it on hard (i play difficult catas and 10s on ddr, how hard could it be) well i was flailing and stepping on metal where ddr panels should be. and well it sucked. anyone make this transition?
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shadowdance · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Location: plattsburgh,NY

It's good that your making the best of it but for christs sake quit with the pump bashing. The game is just as good as DDR and more challenging. At least give a decent reasonas to why you don't like it.

And to answer your question, approach like a different game. Start off on the easy mode songs and work your way up. It won't take long if you've played DDR for a while but you still need to work your way up. You'll find that the game is a refreshing change from DDR and that it can be just as much and if not more fun.

davidbrit2 · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 1:19 am Post subject:

There's stuff on Pump it Up that would easily be rated a 12 or higher on DDR. Take a look at Slam on Crazy sometime.

http://www.pumpxtreme.net/images/steps/slam_crazy.gif
Now imagine playing that at 131.99 BPM. Yeah, there are 3 panel steps in that song.

Oh, and Double on Pump it Up is WAY more fun than on DDR. The panel layout seems much less awkward.
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Kortsu · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2002

I'm a Pump player that picked up DDR on the side, and I've gotten several DDR players into Pump. I've noticed its easier to go from pump to ddr than the other way around, mainly because pump utilizes more of its difficulty potential than DDR does.

Kortsu · Trick Member Joined: 12 May 2002

I'm a Pump player that picked up DDR on the side, and I've gotten several DDR players into Pump. I've noticed its easier to go from pump to ddr than the other way around, mainly because pump utilizes more of its difficulty potential than DDR does.

Smbu |LÂ©| · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: California

Well the transition isn't that bad from ddr to piu. I just tried piu for the first time the other day in about a year(never really played it too much before then either) and I did alright on it. I was able to pass things like Mr. Larpus crazy, beethoven virus crazy, extravaganza crazy, dr. m crazy and some other songs that i dont know the name of, on my first try on it ever(A's on all except for beethoven which was a B). I failed winter crazy(right before the end), but that was just because my legs were tired from like 4hrs of ddr playing.

It will definately take some work for me to pass Slam crazy though. I didn't last too long on that one

, as i still need to get used to the different positions of the arrows on piu compared to ddr.

Doubles is a different story. Its much much harder for me than ddr on doubles. I can pass all the 10 footers on ddr on doubles, but since the layout of the pad is different on piu i barely managed to pass some doubles songs like dr.m and winter. I tried Mr. Larpus doubles, but failed miserabley.

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shadowdance · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Location: plattsburgh,NY

Yeah, it does take a little time. I spent maybe a casual 4 games in easy mode before I worked my way up into hard in crazy. One thing to note for a newb PIU player is the leveling system is really screwy. Usually the way it works is the harder songs from the difficulty before are about medium in the next one up. Just because is rated 3 in hard mode doesn't mean its the as a 3 in easy mode. Especially watch out in crazy mode where almost every song is misleveled, example: Extravaganza on crazy is rated a 4 while Maria is rated a 6. Anyone who has beaten both those songs can telly ou that Extravaganza is much more difficult than Maria.

Anyway, enough of my babling, just keep working at it and you'll have a great and challenging time with it.

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Ante (TFA) · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 8:42 am Post subject:

I really don't like piu. I'm great at ddr, but at dorney park I played a couple games of piu and I pulled something. It makes you spread your legs at a dangerous length and then jump. It's just not right, doing down left/up right, it's not right. I should sue, I couldn't walk right for a week.
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Daniel · Trick Member Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Location: Sonoma, CA

I too made the DDR to PIU transition. Only when I did I didn't whine about the diagonal set up. I just gave it a chance. Played more than once, and sure enough I liked it.

Don't bash PIU. PIU and DDR are equal. Even though they have different song lists and arrow placements they are all basically the same game.

davidbrit2 · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 8:41 am Post subject:

Pump it Up beats the pants off of DDR graphically, but DDR usually wins on features and quantity of songs. But don't even try to tell me that Zzanga from Pump it Up Premiere 2 isn't the best damned song that's ever been in either series.
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Neom's Maza · Trick Member Joined: 03 Jul 2003 Location: London

I made the switch by downloading the official pump PC game (for testing purposes only

) and using that to learn the songs, timing and ability to read pump arrows (playing on keyboard). Then when I went to the arcade I just spent about a fiver (5 credits) playing normal and hard to pick up the movement. Now I play high end crazy and am getting B's on most songs.
Bar rape like hell on pump though

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game_tip · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

pump is cool but once u have learned ddr doubles and try to do pump doubles its hard crossing over
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Eckostyle · Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 3:27 am Post subject:

For me, the transition from Pump to DDR wasnt really that hard. At first, understanding whre to step was difficult, but after a month of play, l was already FCing 5 point(or whatever theyre called) songs. I consider Pump a much harder game, because taking on most 1/8th chains can be hell, like Mr. Larpus on Crazy. Also, langind 3 steps at one time is pretty damn hard.
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DDRkrazy · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Location: Roebling, NJ

wassup again... im the author of this thread and i went back to that very six flags and i saw a guy doing songs equivalent to 7-9 footers on ddr. so for fun to maybe get allitle better i ask to shadow him (so i didnt have to waste my money and fail. plus there was already a crowd of basicly everyone in the arcade wrapped around the machine. with a few excuse me`s i made my way up and it happened to be the manager of the arcade playing (he was my age: 15 or 16) and i asked and he sayd sure no prob. so we started a hard level song i didnt know and somethin clicked in my head and boom i didnt miss a step except for a few jumps. and before i struggle on easy mode. i dont know what happend but i got such a rush simmilar to when i started playing ddr. and now

I LOVE PUMP IT UP!!!!!

im begging my mom to take me back so i can ride coastas and play some pump. could anybody give me some easy difficult songs that are cool that i could play next time? some that arent too hard but arent extremly easy. i like streams and few jumps. thanks for the help guys

are machine is: THE PREX-DX
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Tiger · Trick Member Joined: 18 Feb 2002 Location: Memphis,TN