1. Taiko no tatsujin (太鼓の達人)
Taiko no tatsujin is a series of rhythm games created by Namco. The series has seen releases for the arcade, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Wii, iOS, Advanced Pico Beena, and mobile phones. I only introduce arcade. While the series is mainly designed for use within Japan, there are also official releases for other regions, including two Chinese arcades accommodated for Asian regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. You can play Chinese songs in Taiwan. Please watch the video from youtube 蔡依林- 特務J. It's a pity, however, taiko arcade games in Taiwan haven't been updated for several years, so as the Asian version. The latest version in Taiwan is 太鼓の達人 14.
蔡依林-特務J
As the song plays, notes will appear and moves from right to left across the grey scroll bar in the center. Respective hits to the drums should be done as the notes reaches the hit mark towards the left to receive score and build up the "spirit gauge (魂ゲージ)". If it reaches the "clear(クリア)", you pass; otherwise, you fail.
Here are the introduction of notes.
Red marker (don (ドン)): hit the drum at its face.
Blue marker (kat (カッ)): hit the drum at its rim.
Large red/blue marker (don (dai) (ドン(大))kat (dai) (カッ(大))): similar to the smaller counterparts, but the score for this note doubles when hitting hard enough on the drum.
Yellow bar (renda (連打)): repeatedly hit don or kat as many times as possible across its length. This does not contribute to building up the spirit gauge, only to give players bonus points.
Balloon (fūsen onpu (風船音符), but shown as geki-renda (ゲキ連打)): repeatedly hit don for the designated number of times within the time limit. An extra bonus will be given upon completion of the note until counter hits 0.This does not contribute to building up the spirit gauge, only to give players bonus points.
2.Drummania
Drummania is a music video game series produced by Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., where colored notes travel down the screen which correspond with color-coded parts of an electronic drum set. The player must hit the drum parts when the notes reach the bottom of the screen in order to fill in missing drum parts from a song.
The latest version is called "gitadora", consisting of 9 drums. Upgraded from the old set -which consists of hi-hat, snare drum, bass drum, high tom, low tom and cymbal, a second bass pedal, a floor tom and a left cymbal are added, resembling a professional drum set.
The "Excite Gauge" at the left side is similar to the health bar in osu! When the Excite Gauge drains to zero, you fail.
For more professional details about drums, please consult 陳昶昇.
Let's enjoy the show in which 洪郁凱, the leader of NTU music game club, played drummania.
Last but not least, I arrange the notation of accuracy in the games I have introduced before.
Osu! Taiko Osu!mania Drummania
MAX 300 PERFECT
300 良 300 GREAT
200 GOOD
100 可 100 OK
50 50
X 不可 miss MISS
reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiko_no_Tatsujin
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%82%E7%83%AD%E9%BC%93%E6%89%8B
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrumMania_XG
reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiko_no_Tatsujin
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8B%82%E7%83%AD%E9%BC%93%E6%89%8B
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrumMania_XG