255

255

Song Information

Artist: 255
Composition/Arrangement: ?
BPM: 255
Length: 1:50
Genre: HYPER SPEED RAVE
VJ: VJ GYO
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• 255 shares samples and sounds with early Naoki Maeda songs, including BRILLIANT 2U, BRILLIANT 2U (K.O.G G3 MIX), MAX 300, PARANOiA, SP-TRIP MACHINE (for beatmania II), and TRIP MACHINE.

Trivia

• 255 is one of the unlocks of beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS' Gekisou! Cannon racer (激走！キャノンレーサー) event. It can be unlocked from July 26th, 2018 by beating Saruis & Rche in the fourth continent, or by clearing the fourth continent.
• 255 is recognized as a special number in computing, being the maximum representable value in an 8-digit binary number (11111111).
• 255 is speculated to be Ryutaro Nakahara.
  • 255 is the maximum value that can be assigned to a primary color channel in the RGB24 color model. When maxing out the values of all three primary colors, the end result is white, the HTML color code of which is #FFFFFF. Many of Ryutaro's songs reference colors, specifically his works named after wavelengths of light.
• Other than sound samples, 255 references Naoki Maeda's style of genre and alias naming (usage of the "SPEED RAVE" and "HYPER ____" genres, and artist aliases named after the BPM in songs).
  • The cryptic song information comment on the CANNON BALLERS page also references Naoki Maeda's comment patterns for his difficult songs.

Song Production Information

255

＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
SAD + GLAD
CHARGE + RELEASE
MACHINE + HUMAN
YOU + WE
＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝

Video Production Information

None.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd and TexTage.)

Game	SP Difficulty					DP Difficulty
	BEGINNER	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA	NORMAL	HYPER	ANOTHER	LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts	-	469	823	1676	564	953	1590	{{{8}}}	{{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS→Present	-	6	9	12	6	9	12	{{{9}}}	{{{10}}}