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I guess this is both a question and results thread. UPDATE: Thanks to some help in the comments, I've gotten the game working. I'm just playing on the computer keyboard, but it's surprisingly not that bad. You unlock songs as you play and there are missions, but it gets VERY grindy.
You can find out more info on that in the comments below. I recently got a Konami account and am about to download IIDX INFINITAS. However, I only have the IIDX controllers from back in the PS2 days. As I'm a casual player, I don't know if I'm ready to drop 200+ on a DJ DAO controller. I am planning on trying to get one of those converters and tray mapping my PS2 controller to the computer keyboard and play it that way. Has anyone tried this?
I'll post my findings as I go along. I haven't seen any INFINITAS posts in quite some time so figured I'd do kind of an updated one just incase someone else is interested in playing the game and wants to know a bit about it. Well you get bits by clearing challenges. Some of them are one-time like 'clear x song' etc but there are daily repeatable challenges like 'get an A rank on a level # song' where # is literally every level from 1-12. I can't get As on hard songs so I just grind songs from level 1-9 to get bits. And it takes a lot of bits to unlock harder songs but you don't feel like playing harder stuff because you don't get any bits for failing hard stuff.
I guess if you're really dedicated you can unlock stuff fast (there are many types of challenges so if you clear them all daily you can progress somewhat quickly) but I'm not a fan of it. Alright, I've found the missions and HOLY HAMS you are totally right.
Super grindy. Heck, the repeat missions only give you like 100 bits, and there aren't even that many that give you 1000 or even 500. Things like Play X amount of songs or clear Y amount of songs or get X amount of GREATS or PERFECTS will take you some time. And that wouldn't be so bad if they allowed you to do more than one mission at a time.
But you can only do one at a time unless you BUY a ticket to unlock another mission slot. You have to buy tickets to do half the things in the game it seems. WTF Konami!?!?
And I beat the tickets are like 500 yen. Nevermind that I'm already paying 1500 every month just to play the darn thing to begin with. I mean, I have more money on the card I used, but SHEESH! Lol $30 3,000 yen. I was a bit tired when I wrote that.
Or maybe I just wasn't paying attention. XD Either way, the game itself is still fun, surprisingly just as fun on computer keyboard. I do kind of wish there were more English guides so I could figure out how the other modes and mechanics work. Looks like they add new songs every now and then. Oddly they don't have any songs from Pendual and as far as I can tell, only one from COPULA.
I think you unlock more as you get a higher level, but I'm not sure. There's a ticket system, but not really sure how to get those either. I use this set up just fine. I use a Beatmania IIDX ASC (the one from Konamistyle released in 2005) and a blue PS2 controller adapter which has 2 controller slots. I had to adjust the Infinitas delay to -1.0 but I can AA Normal and Hyper songs up to Level 7 (this isn't due to controller not being able to handle anything harder, that's just my skill level).
So I don't know if I got lucky with my brand of adapter or what, but it's been working great and I'm surprised to see so much backlash against this setup. Another side note, I have a US IIDX controller too and it worked well, the thing that held me back with that was just the quality of the controller itself. It was hard to get flashing GREATs because the keys were so spongey. EDIT: I also want to note that now is a FANTASTIC time to try out Infinitas. They're running a campaign through the end of January, I think that grants BITs (the currency for unlocking songs) according to how many followers of the @infinitas573 twitter account there are as well as 1,000 BIT per day for just logging on. With that and enabling the 'Clear' missions, I've been able to unlock A LOT. It sucks because you have to unlock per difficulty so.
Normal charts costs 3,000-6,000 and Hyper costs anywhere from 3,000-6,000 too. So that's annoying but there is quite a lot unlocked in the higher end of the difficulties. Wow I thought the bits per day was a normal thing. Hm, well I'll go follow them on twitter. What really upset me though were the tickets.
It's basically a dollar per ticket and the other slot only lasts 24 hours when it comes to missions. Also I found out that running through classes gives you a TON of bits. That's just on easy classes too. Wow I'll see if I can grab that brand of the converter. I actually have another one somewhere, but I doubt I have drivers for that or that it even works anymore. I just wanted to come back and add some insight after I got my DJ DAO FP7 controller.
So with my Konamistyle ASC controller and PS2 to USB adapter I could get Bs on most songs up to level 7 and a rare AA on a few level 4 songs and one AA on a level 7 song. Since I had taken a long break from IIDX and was just getting back into it, I thought I just needed to improve and my skill had decayed while I had been away from the game. I couldn't have been more wrong.
Once I got the FP7 songs I could only get a B on immediately jumped up to AA. It was a night and day difference. With the old ASC controller I was constantly adjusting the timing offset because I thought the problem might also be the display delay.
But it was just the PS2 to USB adapter. So definitely go for buying a controller with native USB. I went with the FP7 because I wanted slightly more portability than the Platinum EMP. I also upgraded my FP7 to the 50g microswitches. But everything about the DJ DAO controllers are better than the old ASC controller. The LED lights are just too damn cool too. But it just plays like butter.
I really wanted the Konamistyle ASC from 2002 to be a viable controller, but its days are past unless you're using it directly into a PS2. One other random note, my FP7 shipped to me incredibly quickly.
There was only one shipping option for me and when I got the tracking number it said it would take 12 days to get to me. It ultimately took 4 days to ship to me from Zhengzhou, China to my apartment on the West Coast. I was seriously impressed.