Lunatic Rave 2 song previews?

[bchan009]

Hey!

I've set up Lunatic Rave 2 and it works great - but I noticed that there are no song previews when browsing through songs - it's kind of hard to pick a song when you don't remember what it sounds like. Does anyone have this problem, or is there a setting I'm missing?

Thanks!

[Meseki]

There are no song previews in Lunatic Rave because there are no song previews in IIDX. Also, with the way the BMS format works, it would have to load quite a bit to be able to do song previews.

[bchan009]

Thanks for the quick reply! I am, as you can see, a noob. Waiting to find a good deal on a real beatmania controller too. =)

[midnightclubx]

Originally Posted by bchan009

Thanks for the quick reply! I am, as you can see, a noob. Waiting to find a good deal on a real beatmania controller too. =)

Depends on what kind of KOC you want;

If you want the US KOC, then your best bet is Amazon.com since not only does it come with the US Beatmania game, they're selling at a really cheap price.

However, if you want the JP KOC for some reason, play-asia.com is your best bet, but they are kinda pricey.

[Ashura96]

beatmania iii was the only game in the series to use song previews, I wonder how they got that to work, they may have been separate recordings of the actual song that play.

[Jeff Paine]

No, they just used the BG track, which ended up sounding horrible in many cases

[Meseki]

Beginner mode of AC IIDX uses does use pre-recorded tracks of though.

[Meseki]

The 090917 (Sept. 17 2009) version and later now have song previews, but it just starts from the beginning of the song, and you have to wait like 5 seconds on one song for it to load.