Talk:Beatmania IIDX

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Contents 1 Title standardization 2 Non-DX cab 3 Contradiction 4 Comments 5 Name Correction. 6 Beatmania IIDX 14: GOLD 7 HDTV/Timing Issues 8 5Keys

[edit] Title standardization

In an attempt to start cleaning up this article, I'm trying to standardize the spelling, capitalization, and spacing of beatmania IIDX. Konami seems to inconsistently use a space inbetween beatmania and IIDX. Using the IIDX Gateway as a main reference...

• beatmania IIDX, with a space, is usually used when referring to the series in general.
• Before 5th style, a space was used in the individual game titles.
• Starting from 5th style on, the space was removed from the individual game titles.
• At some point Konami retroactively renamed 1st through 4th style to remove the title space.

Based on this, we could do two things:

• Use beatmania IIDX when referring to the series, and beatmaniaIIDX in individual game titles.
• Exclusively use either beatmania IIDX or beatmaniaIIDX in all references to the series and the games.

The first might be considered more accurate, but I'm guessing most readers won't really care. The second option has the advantage of consistency.

As for italics, they should be used for the full titles of games or game series, just like books and book series. When using short-hand or abbreviations, italics are not necessary. For example:

• beatmania IIDX
• IIDX
• beatmania IIDX 9th style
• 9th style

Please share any thoughts on this matter. --Poiuytman 10:28, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Non-DX cab

Konami scrapped the standard cabinet mid-development, but the 'DX' suffix stuck and has remained throughout the series.

This is not true. IIDX 2nd machines exist in non-dx format. The cabinet looks almost identical to a KeyboardHeaven cabinet. The only differences are that the Dual Vertical displays of KH have been swapped with a 16:9, the keyboard controls have been swapped with a IIDX control set (including effectors), and there are two glass enclosed woofers under the IIDX keys. I would include an image of this cab if i could find one, but i cannot. <a href="http://www.videojuegosamazing.com/semicom/keyboardheaven.jpg">Here</a> is the KeyboardHeaven cab i am talking about. A picture of the non-DX cab was posted on bemanistyle.com, but they are down at the moment. -- 2005-09-05 03:31:28(UTC) 68.45.193.167

I've seen Non-DX cabinet which have following difference in 6thStyle on PS2(Non-DX cabinet is used in Expert Player's playing demo movie):

• Start buttons for both player are placed between each side of keyboard.
• Turntable is smaller than it on DX Cabinet.

--ja:PiaCarrot can't provide cutscene of Expert playing move because I'm Japanese wikimedian :-( 12:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Contradiction

This article contradicts itself. In the section on Hi-speed settings, it says that 1st style through 4th style had Hi-speed 1. In the history section, it says that Hi-speed settings were introduced in 2nd style. Anyone knows which is correct?

• For the time being I removed the unnecessary details from the special mode section. Obscure minutiae like that belongs in the History section. -Chardish 03:32, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

WIth the release of the US beatmania, and the new controllers, maybe some info about them could be added onto the page? Also beatmania IIDX was released in 1998, not 99. -NekoD April, 12th 2006

[edit] Name Correction.

First off, to Chardish, yes, 2nd was the first to have Hi-Speed.

Anyways, in the section talking about the normal beatmaniaII cabinet, I corrected the name of a player in the 6th Tatsujin. SILV did not make those, it was AGOP who did. They are sometimes mistaken as eachother. -06:50, 5 June 2006 (UTC)CSB

[edit] Beatmania IIDX 14: GOLD

I've added this to the release list, but don't add anything to the history section until more is known about the theme (such as from the location tests). --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 08:39, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HDTV/Timing Issues

The part on "propagation delays" in this article may not be the only cause for timing issues on HDTVs. It seems that, as some HDTVs run at non-NTSC frequencies, the video can either get behind or ahead of the music to some degree, as the game was written to run exactly at the US/JAPAN NTSC standard. CptMath 22:57, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 5Keys

The article states "Starting in beatmania IIDX 9th Style AC and beatmania IIDX 10th Style CS, this became a modifier, rather than a separate mode of play"; however, the IIDX 8th Style machine at the arcade I play at definitely has 5Keys as a modifer and not a separate mode. Does anyone know which arcade style this really started on? --67.80.140.35 04:06, 9 December 2006 (UTC)