Which Version is better?

corporatesatan · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

I work at arcade 2000 at the BVM in PA and the owner's distributor has 2 Beatmania machines. One is a 2nd mix and the other is a 3rd mix. He doesn't know much about music games and I am basically the final decision on which mix we get.

My question is which one is better? I haven't played either because this part of PA (30-40 min north of pittsburgh) has no beatmania machines and it would be great to finally get one. I played it in Las Vegas last year and liked it alot.

I was looking in gamefaqs for some info on both but found none. Oh when I say Beatmania it is of the IIDX kind if there is any difference(gamefaqs showed both just 3rd and 3rd IIDX etc.).

So which is better people??? And can someone please give me some info on one or both of em'?
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Baka of the Orochi · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Chicago area

In all honesty, neither.

Both have different song lists, no real new features. 2nd Mix has the songs from 1st Mix, but that isn't a whole lot. Oh yeah, and it has the "free scratch area," where you can scratch whatever you want, I think 3rd Mix took it out. And DJ battle. Aside from that, you're looking at old and old. Might as well just get a Complete Mix 1.
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JustJeff · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:36 am Post subject:

Get 3rd Style.

I mean, doesn't it have Mirrorball Satellite 2012 on it? Then, yes. Get 3rd. They are both so old, it's not really going to matter so you may as well get the 'newest' of the two.

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davidbrit2 · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: Which Version is better?

JustJeff · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: Which Version is better?

corporatesatan · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Pittsburgh, PA

I found out which it is. It is Beatmania 3rd style/mix no IIDX is in the title. None of us have played any beatmania and it looks to be a good mix to start on then if it catches on we'll upgrade.

I'll try to find a songlist for this but in the meantime can someone post any info that they have on this version? A songlist would help, etc...

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davidbrit2 · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject:

Beatmania 3rd Mix is really, really crappy.
Beatmania IIDX 3rd Style is quite nice.

That said, here is the (tiny) song list, and the note charts for Beatmania 3rd Mix.
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Regenesis · Trick Member Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Location: Rockford, IL

Meh. I had a nice long post typed up summarizing what you can realistically expect from BM I in terms of revenue/drawing crowds/etc., and the differences between it and IIDX in that regard, but it got swallowed by the internet. I don't feel like typing it all over again....someone else explain it.
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dog$ · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jul 2003