[Ratix0]

Congrats on your records. Those are quite high. Its a pity you're stucked with these pop songs. They're quite easily 990ish able especially after playing them a few times. The 9s and 10s are more of a challenge. ^_^. I didnt play them much. Of course theres a deceivingly hard level 8 unlock song in Ripples... I manage to at least S all the songs in ripples(Including the 9s and 10s like macuilxothl) on my first try but that level 8 song(Sumidagawa) takes the cake of just being a high B on my first try. Its definitely not an 8. Haha.

Hope you get e-amusement soon. The bemani songs are usually more popular around here. ^_^. Though I lost interest in Jubeat after a while, didnt bother to rank up all the way to SS in the first Jubeat even though I played for like almost 8 months. Didnt play a lot, compared to most other local players. Same for ripples. Currently only silver Ocelot, when there are a buttload of gold rankers and platinums. Haha. Losing interest in Jubeat.

I would say you should star playing more extreme songs. If you can get those scores for basic and adv, I would say the ext should be very doable for you ^_^. I skipped basic and advance songs totally, felt like a waste of money playing them. Haha.

As for marker, I would say pick something that can help you easily spot and gauge the timing. The more popular markers around here would be the Shutter(One of the most popular ones, I use it too because its simply good), flower(basing on jubeat markers alone, this is the fastest marker after mirrorball), fireworks(Slowest marker, but very little movement on screen. Doesnt make things hard to see) and gauge. Theres also people playing Mirrorball, those are beyond me. Mirrorball is almost unplayable on reaction, most probably the players have memorised the bulk of the song, or at least muscle memory. Its rather fast, but what makes it unplayable is how its so small during the first 1/2 of the animation such that its almost unnoticable. Its as if you have sudden on in IIDX. All in all, there are also people who can get superb scores using weird markers. Its up to you getting used to a particular marker, once you're used to it, you're all set. My personal recommendation is try around and see whats best, but most people sort of like the shutter because of how it is the only one that covers the whole box(not including ripples marker).

In my personal humble opinion, both jubeat and ripples default markers are horrible. Jubeat marker is hard to tell the timing and doesnt cover the box, kinds of hard to spot. And moves a lot. Very horrible to tell the timing. For ripples marker, it covers the box and is pretty, can easily tell your own accuracy but the problem is it doesnt close in uniformly like the shutter. It closes in fast then slows down as it reaches the center. A bit weird in my opinion.