Well I am starting to get nervous about this. I have a delivery confirmation # for IIDX 6th style and the IIDX controller. I am starting to wonder how well my skills will transfer over to IIDX from Pop’n. I know that my ability to read the notes will help me jump start on IIDX really quickly, but how well will I do? Were I to get it an not be able to pass a single song on Light 7 the first day would probably be a huge discouragement. I am probably just setting myself up for excitement though as I have seen great improvement in Pop’n music. I am at a skill level where 2 months ago seemed not only unlikely, but was flat out discouragening.

I have (on Pop’n 9 alone) 30 hypers cleared. That is about 1/4 of all the songs cleared in hyper for the game. I can clear most up through level 26 (6 stars, I think, for those curious enough) which seemed miles away a few weeks ago. Now I will play some 28 level songs and go: “Well no I can’t do that part, but the rest is no problem whatsoever.” Other level 24 songs still slap me with difficult 32nd note hits :X

Now looking at the IIDX sites that I have been searching it seems like some of the songs that I play are about the 4 or 5 star difficulty in IIDX. So I am hoping that my fingers just need an hour or so to adjust to the button layout. If they do not, just for fun, I will see if I can play IIDX with my Pop’n ASC.

I also only have one more trip throught the dungeon for Gambler De Z then I am done with the unlock system for Pop’n Music 9. I am also back to only playing hyper songs. This is taking abit longer to get through three songs (as I will fail quite frequently) but it is worth it seeing the leaps and bounds I have made since last Thursday. I just hope that IIDX does what I want it to do: act as another tool to improve my Beamani skills for both Pop’n and IIDX.