Pop'n Music for Dreamcast

videoCWK! · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:33 am Post subject: Pop'n Music for Dreamcast

Can I set it to English? Or will I have to learn Japanese? I'm thinking about getting Pop'n for Dreamcast, but this is something I'd like to know before I do. Also, I have a few questions. One, which one should I get? I'm a complete beginner. I've never played Pop'n before, in fact, I've never even been in the presence of a machine or CS verion.
Two, are there any articles around that will tell me what all the Japanese stuff says? If it does have an English translation, I'm going to have to know how to get into the options so I can change it to English. Alright, thanks.

CStarFlare · Maniac Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

Ehhh

Pop'n probably has the most Japanese out of the Bemani games, and the games before 6 (IE: everything on DC) don't even have banners to help you tell the songs apart. I don't think menus would be much of a problem, though.

If you can read Katakana, you should be OK, but otherwise you're probably going to have a hard time with song selection.

videoCWK! · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject:

jpoppyz · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:56 pm Post subject:

katakana is a set of japanese characters usually used to represent japanese words based of foreign words(such as banana in japanese is banana, and it's wrote in katakana).

Wow i'm rusty on my japanese....

anyhow i reccomend(if you can) taking japanese in high school so you can take a language you'll actually USE on a regular bases.
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ceraf · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

jpoppyz · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:50 pm Post subject:

im gonna be a freshmen in high school next year and have about as much japanese under my built as a 2 year old....haha...

TAKE JAPANESE IN HIGH SCHOOL IF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL OFFERS IT!!

if not(coming from a person whos gonna be a freshmen in high school) you can do what we did.

i go to a school that opened 2 years ago. Its a midddle school/high school. The 1st year they offered japanese. The 2nd year they decided not to. Many people got mad. So we started a little japanese club that was pretty fun that met every monday and friday after school. Once we heard they were having some "foreign language meeting" in some conference room we decided to do what a bunch of people who want to learn japanese would do and march in and talk about why they should offer japanese next year. They told us if we got a list of 25 people, they'd have japanese next year. SO we did all that and BAM now we have a high school japanese class.

Now, none of this really has do with pop n' music, but the point is this: if you plan on importing games(unless you have dreams to live in mexico or something), take japanese. It will serve you well. Then you can face import games and say "BLAH!!! I ALMOST COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND YOU!" with an iron fist and wont have to worry about a game having too much japanese.

Wow, the things you type at 4 AM.
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videoCWK! · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:40 am Post subject:

mtstew · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:01 am Post subject:

I would just go ahead and get a PS2 and mod it. Honestly, PS2 Pop'n owns DC Pop'n in all ways imagineable. More games, more songs, fluid animation, speed mods, everything is better on the PS2. I dont even think it's worth it to get the DC Pop'n, because it'll probably get old quick.
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videoCWK! · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject:

mtstew · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject:

Not unless you really screw it up. I would suggest getting a fliptop and a Swa p Magic disk. That's what I have right now, and I havent had a single disk read error yet, even after 3 years.
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videoCWK! · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

mtstew · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject:

videoCWK! · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:55 pm Post subject:

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