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November 21, 2006

WPF 2006

Freestyle
1st Place-Korea
2nd Place-Brazil
3rd Place-Columbia
4th Place-Mexico
5th Place-Malaysia
6th Place-United States
7th Place-Ecuador
8th Place-Italy

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Arturo from Pumpcore
The venue has now been secured and we're pleased to announce the date and location of the inaugural United States Pump Festival (USPF), featuring the U.S. Nationals to determine our best pumpers to represent us at the World Pump Festival (WPF) in Korea!

Saturday, September 30th, 2006, will be the tourney date, to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina. The tournament itself will also be an outdoor event! Prizes are nearly finalized, and of course the winners of each division will again receive free trips to Korea for their shot at the huge WPF2006 prize pool of $146,000!!

We have other events planned as well, where you don't need to be an elite player to win a cool prize and have tons of fun with your fellow pumpers from across the nation!

More details to be announced soon. We're also working on possibly securing a special hotel rate nearby, so you might hold off on your rooming plans to see if we can save you some money. We'll likely have a Friday night welcome reception (so you might want to arrive then), and then some fun Saturday night events after the tourney, so the ideal stayover would be for 2 nights, leaving to return home on Sunday in time for school/work/etc. The tourney is on Saturday, beginning late morning/noonish (TBD very soon), btw.

Even though all the details aren't quite ready for release, we wanted to put out the date and location now, so everyone can begin looking at and/or purchasing airfares in advance, and securing time off from work, etc. We'll have more info soon!!

And feel free to use the official logos below in your sigs or wherever (myspace, livejournal, etc.) !!

SEE YOU IN CHARLOTTE !!!
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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Projekt MSG Initiated

Also in other news I talked to mymybox about their new metal pads and got some answers out of them. Go to the mymybox forum HERE to read up on my interview? I guess you can say...

Monday, February 20, 2006
Aoki
One of your representatives sent Arturo a message saying you guys were coming out with a metal PIU dance pad around february. Was the date pushed back or have they decided not to make them? Wede really like to know because many of us are anxious at ordered 2 each person.


MyMyBox
Hello

We are currently making 1 inch Thick PIU Metal pad in China. However, due to
Chinese Holiday,
the production and release date of PIU Metal pad has been postponed.
First version of PIU 1inch Thick metal pad will be available with limited number
of units.
For More detail information will be posted on the Forum.mymybox.com
We would like to how long you have been playiing PIU Game and We would like to
know what version
of PIU Pad you played on.
We would like to know more about this game and actuall Pump It Up user's
experiences.
If you can tell us your experience with current pad that you have, it would be
much appreciate it.
if you can post on the forum.mymybox.com under Pump it up, We will check it
out after you post.
You might be qualify for Free Beta Version of Our PUMP It UP Dance Pad.
Let us know.

Thanks,
mymybox online team

Wednesday, February 15, 2006
PumpXtreme is now back up at this new URL addy. PumpX.net
Its about time....I know.

Also, I emailed mymybox about the delay on the metal pads, ill post their reply in full when I get it. 3nodding


Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Proud supportor of Outphases Petition!

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Also, I found some supposedly official piu pads for the home version so you WONT have to buy the whole bundle again! It retailed for $39.99!
The link to the pads!

No word on the mymybox metal pads as of yet.


WELCOME!

Relax with the Gaian PIU crew. This is a place to talk about PIU with your friends and discuss scores and what songs you love and what not. This is also a place to meet new friends who share the common love you do that keeps our calves hard and our adrenaline rushing.

Pump It Up?

Pump It Up is a rhythm video game developed by Andamiro, a Korean coin-operated games producer. It is commonly abbreviated as PIU. Similar to Konami's Dance Dance Revolution play style, you use your feet to step on arrows according to the music.

Questionaire!

If your new to the thread take some time to fill out our PIU survey so we can get to know you better.

1)How long have you been playing?
2)What is your favorite song?
3)Do you have a freestyling routine?
4)Have you played in any official or non official tournaments?
5)What shoes do you prefer to play in?
6)Do you own any home versions?
7)What is your rank on www.piugame.com and on what chart/system?
cool Do you have any memorable moments? (Awesome, seksi, hilarious, embarassing, etc.)
9) Do you play Freestyle or Nightmare mode, if so what songs do you play for Speed or Freestyling?
10)Any tips for playing?

Websites

Official Multi-Language PIU Website

The Pump It Up Official Website
This is the Official Pump It Up website where all of the pump community from all over the world can interact. The site includes a huge forum, a decent library of PIU videos, a good selection of downloadable Banya MP3's, and of course the cross platform ranking system that keeps track of pumpers scores for Exceed, Exceed 2, Exceed for the PS2 (Korean), Exceed: SE for the PS2 (American), and Exceed: SE for the Xbox (American).

Getting a Machine

Andamiros Website
Andamiro's website is the place to find out about getting a machine directly from the company.

Channel Beat
This is another good site to get a PIU machine and spare parts.

Fan Sites

Pump Core
(ENGLISH)
The people who run it are official PIU supporters for the american division. The site is really good for its forums, video collection, and up to date news.

Pump Haven
(ENGLISH, but can be translated to several other languages)
Good site that includes a forum, chat, SM.KIU files, radio, videos and other media.

Pump Warriorz
(Spanish, but can be translated into Spanglish)
A very awesome site thats a personal favorite. It has alot of things to offer like step charts, SM/KIU files, pumper videos, artist videos, a good spanish forum, an OST library, lyrics, and even some BG vids!

Videos

Speed

Dignity on Crazy
Pedro (Yosho's 1337 cousin) playing Apokalipsis in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Pedro II
Another vid from Yosho's trip to Los Mochis this Christmas break.

LIADZ on Crazy
Some unknown guy named mario A'ing LIADZ on Crazy with the x8 speed mod.

Canon D on Crazy
Some unknown guy named mario A'ing Canon D on Crazy with the x8 speed mod.

Dignity on Crazy
Some unknown guy named mario S'ing Dignity on Crazy with the x4 speed mod this time and with a FC.

Step Charts

Mathcorea

All credit given to Wikipedia
Gameplay

While the game's interface has changed as new versions were released, the basic remains: you have a pad composed of 5 buttons (two red ones on the corners closest to the cabinet, two blue ones on the corners farthest to the cabinet, and a yellow one in the middle of them). These are normally called arrows because of their drawings and representation on screen ? the middle button shows a drawing of two feet, but for simplicity is also called an arrow by players ?. On the screen you'll see a fixed line on the top of the screen, with gray arrows on the same shape as those drawn in the pad. As the song plays, colored arrows will appear on the bottom of the screen and go up under the same column of their gray counterparts. When a colored arrow reaches the fixed arrows on the top, you must hit its corresponding button on the pad.

When you hit an arrow, a small word pops on screen, depending on your accuracy: from best to worst, the ratings are PERFECT, GREAT, GOOD and BAD. If you miss an arrow entirely or press it earlier or later than the threshold for a BAD, you get a MISS. The threshold for each of these ratings varies across different versions.


Difficulty

Songs are ranked by difficulty levels, and a song often has more than one difficulty (one for each game mode in which it is listed).

Before Exceed ? more information about game versions is available in the Releases section ? was released, the difficulty for all game modes ranged from 1 to 10, with the exception of "Vook", a song introduced on The Premiere 2, which was level 12 on Double mode. These difficulty ratings were only useful with respect to other songs in the same mode: a level 5 Crazy song will likely be easier than a Crazy song ranked 8, but is probably more difficult than a 7 on Hard. With Exceed's debut, all levels were reworked, in a unified range from 1 to 15 for Crazy mode and ranging as high as 20 for Nightmare mode. The rating system was again slightly reworked for the upper level songs with Exceed 2's release, raising the range to 20 for crazy and going even higher for Nightmare mode, with a high of 22. Exceed 2 also added the infamous "??" rating for the truly top-tier songs. However, the difficulty ratings are by nature subjective, so are not always deemed accurate.

The way the difficulty rating appears on screen also varies a bit, depending on the version's interface: on The Premiere, The PREX, The Premiere 2, Exceed and Exceed 2 , the difficulty is indicated by a natural number, like "3" or "8"; on all other versions, they are indicated by a line of circles, with as many circles as the level of the song.


Combos

When you successfully hit several consecutive arrows, you get a combo. If you get 4 or more consecutive arrows, the game will display, right below the accuracy rating, a counter informing how many consecutive steps you've hit.

Only PERFECTs and GREATs count for combos. Any other ratings will stop your combo. On some newer versions, though, a GOOD won't break your combo (but won't increase it either).

The greatest combo you make in a song is called max combo, and when you keep your combo going for the whole song it is called a full combo. If you manage to complete a song with a full combo consisting of only PERFECT steps, it is called a full perfect combo or FPC.


Jumps

Sometimes two arrows may go up side-by-side. When that happens, you must hit both of them at the same time, or you'll get a MISS. Because of the movement players most often make to hit those arrows, they are called jumps.

On the harder songs, three arrows or more may go up at once. In such cases, players normally try to hit two pad buttons with a single foot, or stoop and use their hands and/or knees to help.

Unlike in newer versions of DDR, jumps do not count as several points for the combo counter.

The versions up to The O.B.G. SE, however, worked on jumps differently: each arrow was independent, meaning hitting only one arrow of a two-arrow jump would count as a non-MISS (a PERFECT, for example) followed by a MISS, and hitting both could increase your combo by two. This behavior resembles Beatmania and other rhythm games, as well as Dance Dance Revolution's Solo series.


Hold Notes

The Extra, Exceed, and Premiere 3 versions as well as the Prex series also feature another kind of arrow on screen, normally called hold note, freeze note (from DDR) or long note. These arrows look like stretched versions of the common arrows. Their corresponding button must be held until the whole arrow passes through the gray arrows on the top.

For each half-beat or quarter-beat ? the duration depends on the game version and song ? a hold note is held, a PERFECT is scored; if it is not held, a MISS is counted.

Note:
Konami's Dance Dance Revolution used hold notes after Pump It Up used after Extra version.
Ez2DJ was the first arcade beat/music game to introduce long (hold) notes.


Modifiers

Since the first release, all game modes accept modifiers which are enabled by using special codes. The effects vary from speeding arrows up to making them fade as they go up, or making them appear in random places instead of their pre-defined column (while still being on the same beat).

Most players, after a starting period, get used to applying the modifiers to make arrows faster, which makes them more spaced. This is a matter of personal preferences, but the Pump It Up culture generally favors speedy arrows (requiring faster recognition of movements).


Final Rating

When a song is cleared, a results screen appears, which shows how many PERFECTs, GREATs, GOODs, BADs and MISSes were made, and the max combo. Then a final rating is given, which may be S, A, B, C, D or an F. An S (at least on Exceed and Exceed 2) means that no MISSes were made, while an F means a fail, and generally the player can't proceed to play another song.


Bonus Stage

If the game is properly configured, and if all stages are cleared with an A or an S the player will be able to choose an extra song to play. This is called the bonus stage.

From a bonus stage, it is not possible to get another bonus stage.

You little biatch! You knocked me out of the top ten! How dare you!!! xd Man...I really need to stop being so nervous. I want to get better...but...I dunno...I hate being so shy around people. sweatdrop
Muahahahaha!!! Excited about being first place Aoki? Lol. You and YOSHO are getting really good. It's going to be cool if Blue Kagaroo ends up having a Pump It Up tournament. I pretty much know that one of the two of you will win. *thinks in her head* why do I have to be so nervous...? sweatdrop
There has to be other people who enjoy playing Pump It Up! xp Come on people!
...damn you DDR...people just don't know...how good Pump It Up is... xp
Look at me...I'm talking to myself... sweatdrop
And still...no Pumpers... xp
aokiqiao
omfg crying i was typing and my gay dial-up signed off and i lost the original post...im so mad right now scream SOB it was a hella funny post...cheesus man.......WWWWWAHHH *going ******** insane on computer scream my head hurts sweatdrop

Lol. You poor thing you! *rubs his head*
I've never played this game before. I saw it once in my PSMagazine, but I've never played it. I'm too much of a DDR freak. Is it on that site? I might try it if it is.
Kaze_Midori
I've never played this game before. I saw it once in my PSMagazine, but I've never played it. I'm too much of a DDR freak. Is it on that site? I might try it if it is.

Your missing out. Pump It Up is really fun. You should give it a try. 3nodding We need more Pumpers. And I'm not sure if it is on ddrfreak.com
Sorry that I came in so late. I'm just a small-time Ohio pumper. Not really professional material, don't have the funds for the practice (nor the time).

Otherwise, my favorite track has to be K-POP...though I do love the other two, but I'm just a whore of com' back. Rolling Christmas freestyle is absolutely addictive, and I just gotta do Conga every once in a while.

I miss a lot of my old songs from OBG....like Summer of Love and Sad Salsa. I forget if they're on Exceed...been a while since I've pumped.

IMO, Pump is much better than DDR for only one reason: better music to actually dance to.
-dies from playing ddr- crazy dance mat! scream
Pchantastic
Sorry that I came in so late. I'm just a small-time Ohio pumper. Not really professional material, don't have the funds for the practice (nor the time).

Otherwise, my favorite track has to be K-POP...though I do love the other two, but I'm just a whore of com' back. Rolling Christmas freestyle is absolutely addictive, and I just gotta do Conga every once in a while.

I miss a lot of my old songs from OBG....like Summer of Love and Sad Salsa. I forget if they're on Exceed...been a while since I've pumped.

IMO, Pump is much better than DDR for only one reason: better music to actually dance to.


Yay! A Pumper! My favorite channel has to be the Banya channel. I like his music. I havent tried doing freestyle yet. I'm not ready for that. So far...I only do songs on heavy. There are some songs I can do on crazy. I've never played the OBG version. I've only played PIU the premiere 2 and prex3. Then it was upgraded to Exceed 2. And yes...PIU is way better than DDR. It gives you more of a challenge than DDR does. You only make little steps when playing DDR. xp

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