Usually, in SP, this happens around the time you can normal clear AA shortly after getting 10th dan but before Chuuden. It is also good to start when you “hit a wall” in IIDX, the feeling you get when you are no longer making good steady progress.

When you start to “run out of songs” in IIDX at your skill level, it’s a great time to get started with Insane BMS.

Most of the time, charting style tends to be much more straightforward, focused on high density - often lacking “gimmicks” elements like BPM changes or scratch-heavy patterns.

Excessive POORs also work differently in LR2. In LR2, and in the default mode of beatoraja, charge notes have a judgement in the beginning, but unlike IIDX, there is no judgement for release.

There are slight differences in gameplay, biggest one being how charge notes work.

In general, timing is much more relaxed for BMS.

Accessible can run on basically any PC.

Music from more diverse pool of artists & genre.

Plethora of charts with an extremely wide range of skill levels.

If that is your main goal, BMS does has a lot to offer. There are lots of reasons to check out BMS (and not just Insane BMS), but if you are here, most likely you are hearing about IIDX players using Insane BMS as a means to improve IIDX skills. (Difficulty tables are explained with more detail in a later section) Why should I play BMS? High-level IIDX and BMS players will say “BMS” and “Insane BMS” interchangeably – they are referring to Insane BMS in both cases. You can think of it as splitting ☆12 into many different sublevels, and also adding difficulties that extend far beyond the hardest charts in IIDX. Insane (発狂) BMS refers to a difficulty rating system that extends beyond the traditional ☆1-☆12 scale, and charts (fumens) that are rated on the scale. It shares a lot of similarities with beatmania IIDX, but you should consider it a separate thing.įor more background information on BMS, see BMS Overview. BMS is entirely community-driven collection of music, charts, animations, events, and simulators that form a button-based rhythm game. What is BMS?īMS stands for Be-Music Script. It is meant to serve as an entry point further reading is recommended via the provided links. It will omit a lot of the historical context and skip a lot of details for brevity. This is not a general introduction to BMS for everyone. This is an abbreviated and simplified introduction to BMS for advanced level (10th dan+) IIDX players, specifically aimed at players wanting to use Insane BMS as a tool to improve their IIDX skills.

Create a play environment similar to IIDX.

Which difficulty tables should I be using?.When should I start playing Insane BMS?.Introduction to Insane BMS Table of contents This site uses Just the Docs, a documentation theme for Jekyll. Switch and Spring Weight Recommendation.

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