We all know how it goes. You keep messing up in a certain song, and you want to ask other people for advice on the part you just can't seem to survive/FC/PC. But how do you indicate which part? My suggestion is to add a time bar below the score window (that is, on the bottom), sort of like the one you see with movie clips. A marker would move along the bar, and the time elapsed would be contrasted with the length of the song at one end of the bar: ex. 1:23/2:00. The results screen would also show this when the level is finished, thus also letting you know if you passed or not. So, if you failed Chrono Trigger about midway through, it would show somewhere on the results screen something like 0:49/1:39. A pass would be indicated by the elapsed time matching the length of the song. Adding this feature would enable players to mention exactly how far into a certain song the rough parts are. This would be a little difficult to see unless the game was run in Normal mode instead of FullScreen or Low Res, however, but it's a small price to pay for enabling players to pinpoint where they're having problems, the better to help them.
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Originally posted by thesunfan
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RE: Time bar?
instead of using time to convey a troubled area.... use the notes. i have trouble around notes 400-405. no confusion.RIP -
RE: Time bar?
It's hard to know what notes if you can't FC it to that point, though. An added boon is that one can track improvement (for example, that one guy who kept getting ever closer to passing Bumblebee). It's primarily for those who have trouble passing, though in theory it could apply to the other two categories as well. I personally find it difficult to keep track of the steps and the combo length at the same time, though.Originally posted by thesunfanComment
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