The next screen cut? =D An FFR Mirror Mode (Caprice & LW4 AAA's)

[XPYRYMYNT]

Soooo, I found out a nifty little trick that makes me rape every song I have mental blocks on. Reminds me of screen cutting back in the day. Generally, I couldn't play certain songs like Rottel and Balloon Fever anymore because I've been playing the same steps for at least two years now. And even though I'm loads better now, as I was playing the songs, my brain already knows the notes that are coming, so it's thinking ahead of my hands, making me slip up and just **** up in general. But with this trick, it's virtually the same as using the MIRROR Mod in Stepmania, so it's like I'm getting a brand new stepfile to play, like the joy of playing sightread, or when you forget how a stepfile goes and come back to the song and dominate your old score. But before I tell everyone the trick, lemme show off what I've done with it =D










(First try on this, could definately improve)



To add to those, I also got these scores without SS'ing:
Rottel: 5 goods, 2 boos
Molto: Full combo
Runny Morning: 12 goods, 1 boo
EHHS: 6 goods, 2(?) boos
Epidermis: 4 goods
FotBB: 18-3-0-4 FC
Balloon Fever: 4 goods (I've sucked at this file since the dawn of time)
Frictional Nevada: 28-10-0-10 FC
BB Revenge: 30 goods, some ave's and boos FC

Alright, so enough with the bragging. Here's what I did:

All you do, is switch to the opposite "scroll" (If you play upscroll, switch to down; vice versa), then change your hotkeys to the opposite of what they are. I play ASKL so when I rotate I switch them to LKSA.

Now find the "Display" options from Control Panel, then click the tab all the way to the right labelled "Settings". Once there, click "Advanced" to bring up more Tabs. For me one of the tabs says "Rotation", and within that, I can rotate my screen on my monitor 90, 180, or 270 degrees. For now just try 180. But keep in mind, after you rotate, navigating your mouse and whatnot will be tricky since everything is up-side down.

So basically, once in this mode, you're playing downscroll, yet the game is upside down, so to you it looks like upscroll. And since you flopped your hotkeys, now when you see a 'right' arrow, in the game it's actually a 'left', since you're upside down now. It's EXACTLY the same as playing Mirror on Stepmania.

So, for me, it helped GREATLY because I had so many mental blocks to stepfiles it's ridiculous, so having pseudo-"brand new" stepfiles to play now that I'm better, allows me to do amazingly. I'm sure other top players have this issue as well. Plus, I'm a lefty, and most of FFR's jacks are right handed (Molto, Runny, Revo, etc), and I literally can't jack with my right hand. But playing my FFR Mirror mode, I'm jacking with my left hand now and I dominate lefty jacks.

But yeah, to do this, I now have my F9 key hotkey'ed to rotate my screen 180 degrees, and my F5 key set up to rotate back to normal mode. So in normal mode, I'll select downscroll, flop my hotkeys and everything, find the song I wanna play, highlight it, then hit F9, click the song again for it to start, do my bidding, then when I'm done, hit F5 and have a heart attack looking at the score I just got. =D

Also, I understand that many people will be unhappy about this and some people may not be able to rotate or whatever, but.. I wouldnt really say that's a reason to declare it "cheating". Considering not everyone has sweet FFR-capable keyboards, I'd say that's just the same as not everyone having the cabability to rotate their screen. It's all about what ya got.

Anyways, yeah I'm done typing my novel. Have at it, FFR.

[Phynx]

Omfg I'm ****ing Trying This **** Thanks Eli!!! You Are A ****in' Ninja!

[09876]

Pretty cool. I should try that too. And I'm pretty sure that a lot of people will be saying that this is cheating.

Edit: Actually, I'm unable to do it. Oh well.

[Phynx]

Sadly, as super-powered as my computer is... FFR lags when I try this and I can't read the arrows due to it... /cries I really wanted to try this out.

[[HectoGtzMX]]

That's actually awesome

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I might try it someday, thanks for the tip! :]

EDIT: Oh btw, those scores are sick o_o

[Sprite-]

omg genius!!!!!!!!!

[HammyMcSquirrel]

Yeah, FFR lags a lot for me when I try this. I'll just have to get better at songs the hard way, haha. Nice scores, though.

[dag12]

this method has actually been known for a while guys...
just no one has explicitly stated how to do it like this :P
it was always kept quiet.

[The5thMoon]

Doesn't lag at all for me, it's really awesome. Good job eli

[XPYRYMYNT]

Originally Posted by dag12

this method has actually been known for a while guys...
just no one has explicitly stated how to do it like this :P
it was always kept quiet.

Well, I figured it out all by myself, so **** you

Oh yeah, this could also be used for LEFT and RIGHT Stepmania-esque mods, just by rotating either 90 or 270 degrees and playing Left or Right scroll. Just have to figure out the new hotkeys. All I know is for left scroll, ASKL becomes KALS, and since the flash window is elongated more width-wise than height-wise, I had to tape a peice of paper to my screen to cut off the new "bottom" of the window to make it a perfect square and relevant to my speedmod again.

[[TeRa]]

you are officially much better than me avmiss or not.

edit: well, maybe i should read your idea thingy first, but the scores are good.

edit2: ooh, i see, i actually did this to pass max 300 extra stage in ddr max home version, except i had to flip my tv over and turn the pad around, rofl. i couldnt read reverse back then, although i never though of something like that for this, very good idea though, nice stuff, itll help me with my mistakes on caprice and runny, and maybe rottel, i think my mistake on that is me though =/

edit3: play h2 ts with me C:

[XPYRYMYNT]

Originally Posted by [TeRa]

you are officially much better than me avmiss or not.

edit: well, maybe i should read your idea thingy first, but the scores are good.

edit2: ooh, i see, i actually did this to pass max 300 extra stage in ddr max home version, except i had to flip my tv over and turn the pad around, rofl. i couldnt read reverse back then, although i never though of something like that for this, very good idea though, nice stuff, itll help me with my mistakes on caprice and runny, and maybe rottel, i think my mistake on that is me though =/

edit3: play h2 ts with me C:

I'm pretty sure I'm like level 44 and I haven't played that game since September 22nd (MLG Orlando) XD

[[TeRa]]

Originally Posted by XPYRYMYNT

I'm pretty sure I'm like level 44 and I haven't played that game since September 22nd (MLG Orlando) XD

can you get on now h2 now C:
we'll get you to 50 so you can retire h2 matchmaking, 44 isnt high enough.

anyway, back on topic, im trying this tomorrow, see what i can do with caprice.

[XXXsmittyXXX]

sadly, i cannot do this lol damn you >D >D

[Adamaja456]

lol nice job

and amazing scores!

[omgitznpv]

I can't ****ing rotate my screen

/suicide

[Problems]

This is awesome.

[ninjafury]

You can also rotate your screen by holding down alt and control then pressing an arrow key. It only works on some computers though

EDIT:

This works on my computer

EDIT2:

Hold alt+control then press left for the screen to shift left, right for the screen to shift right, down for upside down <- For the mirror and up for going back to normal.

REMEMBER!
This only works on certain computers or maybe it has to do with the keyboard.

[Fantasticone]

Brb EHHS AAA.

Edit: It dont work for me =(
Edit: Forget this, getting a real mirror and experimenting.

[xinpig]

whee!!!!