Typing Mania 4 - The Game You Wish You Didn’t Start Playing September 6
Here’s something to try if you’re bored — just try to not get addicted in the process. You have been warned.
If haven’t gone off and started playing already, it’s a Flash game I stumbled upon tonight called “Typing Mania 4″. Now the only reason why it gets mentioned here is because it features a very nice assortment of anime songs, which will be the ONLY thing keeping you playing after awhile. For those of you with 100+ words-per-minute typing speeds, I wouldn’t get overconfident too quickly because most of the lyrics are in romaji (ローマ字) and there are quite a few quirks (mentioned below). There are some English songs as well though, so give ELISA’s “Euphoric field” from ef - a tale of memories. a try if you like.
Each song is ranked with a “Typing Level” ranging from 0 to 99. If you want to experience some level 99 insanity right away, give Lucky Star’s “Motteke! Sailor Fuku” 「もってけ！セーラーふく」 a go (pictured above). Even eufonius’ “Reflectia” 「リフレクティア」 from true tears is pretty tough, and that’s ONLY a level 9 song. With that said, you might want to start off with something reasonable like Nakajima Megumi’s Aimo 「アイモ」 from Macross Frontier, so you don’t end up hating the game right away. Most of the time, you’ll probably be staring at your monitor in awe wondering how anyone’s ever supposed to play this properly, but as with Rock Band, you just know there are people out there who will go to lengths to master this kind of stuff.
Note: You can access more songs with the left and right arrow keys.
*UPDATED* Now if you’re actually serious about doing well in this game, there are some things to keep in mind, especially if you’re familiar with some Japanese. However, if you’re only looking at the letters and not the Japanese lyrics, then these probably won’t help much.
- The particle は has to be typed out as “ha” and not “wa”, which is an accepted romanization of it.
- The hiragana し is “si” rather than “shi”. You can type “shi”, but you’ll get a miss for the “h”.
- The hiragana つ is “tu” rather than “tsu”. You can type “tsu”, but you’ll get a miss for the “s”.
- The hirangan じ can be typed as “ji” or “zi”.
- The hiragana ふ can be typed as “hu” or “fu”.
- The hiragana しゃ, しゅ, しょ are spelled as “sya”, “syu”, “syo”, but you can use “sha”, “shu”, “sho”.
- The hiragana ちゃ, ちゅ, ちょ are spelled as “tya”, “tyu”, “tyo”, but you can use “cha”, “chu”, “cho”.
- The katakana シェ and チェ are spelled “sye” and “tye”, but you can use “she” and “che”.
- If the hiragana ん appears in the middle of a word, you can simply type “n” instead of “nn”.
- If a small っ appears at the end of a word to shorten the last vowel, you have to type “ltu”. e.g. ぎゅっ
- None of the Japanese lyrics have spaces.
- When spaces do appear, they’re displayed as underscores, but you can use Space.
- You do not need to capitalize English words.
Let the madness (and frustration) begin!
MaimeDaifuku at 2:18 am on September 6th, 2008
OMG FIRST GOING TO PLAY IT NOW!!!
Ignit at 2:22 am on September 6th, 2008
omg great game, especially when you are learning japanese right now.
MajinAndy at 2:25 am on September 6th, 2008
Very addictive :S
Kaioshin Sama at 2:27 am on September 6th, 2008
http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?image=2ndtryra4.jpg
Hmm….not bad for not really paying attention and being up for the past 23 hours.
Chimasternmay at 2:29 am on September 6th, 2008
lol at first i had no idea what to do, and thought who do u get addicted to this, but then figured it out and its kinda fun trying to keep up with the notes, and listening to the song…
lol first try got a E with only a 16 hit combo lol
Chimasternmay at 2:34 am on September 6th, 2008
i got better now, hey thx for letting us know about this, some of my fav songs are on here.. im gonna master Hitomi _ Stories pretty soon lol.
AGear2Ax at 2:37 am on September 6th, 2008
OMG! it’s really hard, being good in stepmania doesn’t help to achieve a good score.
faisoka at 2:40 am on September 6th, 2008
argh, my biggest problem would probably be the replacement of “shi” with “si”. It has messed me up so many times.
Exia at 2:41 am on September 6th, 2008
i just tried the game. damn you will need to be a hardcore otaku to master this game. sing way damn too fast.
Chimasternmay at 2:43 am on September 6th, 2008
Practice.
ilikefood at 2:54 am on September 6th, 2008
i played this ages ago, if you want difficulty, try to find one of the gurren lagann songs I found that one extremely difficult and i type 130 wpm!
KokWeng at 3:00 am on September 6th, 2008
o.O , there got another game using anime song but not typing 1 [ like o2jam ]
forget call wat mania liao @@ “
Kaioshin Sama at 3:04 am on September 6th, 2008
Hmmm..if there’s one problem I have with this game then it’s that there just aren’t enough songs that I want to play.
bobofet at 3:13 am on September 6th, 2008
dammit forsome reason my words get stuck on a letter and no matter what i type it does keep going..until the next verse starts…
Fumika at 3:14 am on September 6th, 2008
I realize I type too quickly for this game to recognize my keystrokes properly, leading to endless frustration.
The English songs are surprisingly easy, the Japanese romanji ones, not so much.
Wheremylunch at 3:18 am on September 6th, 2008
Wow great find so great that I commented for the first time in 2 month
disgradius at 3:19 am on September 6th, 2008
how can I get the game to start?
clicked the link, a world vision ad hijacked the page…waited 5 minutes… still nothing…
Bran at 3:23 am on September 6th, 2008
o.O , there got another game using anime song but not typing 1 [ like o2jam ]
forget call wat mania liao @@ “
^What would this be
A Anime Loving Republican at 3:24 am on September 6th, 2008
There is no way i going to play this game. The fact i don’t know Japanese and i’m not a super fast typer is going to make my fingers bleed.
shakugan no yuji at 3:29 am on September 6th, 2008
Couldnt get even 20% SOOO HARD