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During the long-awaited release of [[CS 7th style|7th style CS]], the IIDX community as a whole was surprised and excited to see that not only had Konami included an 8th style song in the game ([[murmur twins]]), which was selected from a player poll, but Konami had secretly included a 9th style song as well ([[Abyss -The Heavens Remix-]]). In addition, during the early hours of 7th style's release, an anonymous poster claimed that [[Setsugekka]] from the then-brand-new [[AC 10th style|10th style AC]] was also included. This turned out to be false; however, during 8th style's release, there was much speculation and rumor that Setsugekka was being included in 8th style, which also proved false. During the 9th style release, still more rumors and even a few faked photos purported that Setsugekka was included, and by that point the phenomenon had taken on a life of its own. To this day, people still joke about Setsugekka being included "as a preview song" in current releases. | During the long-awaited release of [[CS 7th style|7th style CS]], the IIDX community as a whole was surprised and excited to see that not only had Konami included an 8th style song in the game ([[murmur twins]]), which was selected from a player poll, but Konami had secretly included a 9th style song as well ([[Abyss -The Heavens Remix-]]). In addition, during the early hours of 7th style's release, an anonymous poster claimed that [[Setsugekka]] from the then-brand-new [[AC 10th style|10th style AC]] was also included. This turned out to be false; however, during 8th style's release, there was much speculation and rumor that Setsugekka was being included in 8th style, which also proved false. During the 9th style release, still more rumors and even a few faked photos purported that Setsugekka was included, and by that point the phenomenon had taken on a life of its own. To this day, people still joke about Setsugekka being included "as a preview song" in current releases. | ||
== Alternate grading methods == | |||
While beatmania US was in production, it was noticed at E3 2005 that the grading system for the game was toned down considerably, shifting all grades up one level automatically (such that a score that would warrant a AA on a Japanese game would be a AAA for US players). | |||
This lead to "US locale" mode being implemented, which allowed the appending of "&locale=usa" to any query URL on the site to force all grades to appear as AAAs. | |||
Example: [http://vjarmy.com/iidx/viewsong.php?songid=524&mode=A&locale=usa] | |||
During the ensuing discussion, davidbrit2 made [http://vjarmy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1256&st=1340&p=53597&#entry53597 a comment] that "they can change the grades to "cat" and "sailboat" for all I care, so long as the timing and EX scoring is the same." This lead to the implementation (on April Fools 2006) of '''catsailboat mode''', which replaces all AAAs with a picture of dj BTNS, and all other grades with a picture of a sailboat. This is done by appending "&catsailboat=on" to any query URL on the site. | |||
Example: [http://vjarmy.com/iidx/viewsong.php?songid=524&mode=A&catsailboat=on] | |||
Neither of these work on 4.0 - yet. | |||