#2dkaps updates

Hello hello, welcome to the sub-pinned post to my cool and awesome 2025!!! ...sooo why does this exist? Well, I was hard at work yesterday and today editing my massive new intro post for the account, but just as I had finished everything I wanted to add and was about to publish... I started getting errors with publishing or even saving the posts. It was a struggle to figure out the issue and I was smashing my head against my keyboard, but I found out that it was because Tumblr has a secret inline link limit of 100 per post, and any additional links would either disappear or result in an error.

The rhythm game, version, and miscellaneous tags already exceed the 100 link limit, so not even this sub-post was enough to contain them... Thus, I decided to split the main, important, all-encompassing rhythm game tags into the main pinned post, and the more specific/browsable version-specific and miscellaneous tags here so that they're easier to update whenever a new version releases. I apologize for the navigational inconvenience, but hopefully this solution works out best for the both of us! But for now, enjoy the browsing!!!

// Individual Versions (Arcade releases)

beatmania IIDX: 27 HEROIC VERSE, 28 BISTROVER, 29 CastHour, 30 RESIDENT, 31 EPOLIS, 32 Pinky Crush CHUNITHM: PARADISE LOST, NEW, NEW PLUS, SUN, SUN PLUS DanceDanceRevolution: EXTREME, SuperNOVA2, X, II (Wii), A20, A20 PLUS, A3, WORLD DJMAX: Technika, RESPECT V GITADORA: HIGH-VOLTAGE, FUZZ-UP, GALAXY WAVE jubeat: festo, 2021 maimai: FESTiVAL PLUS, BUDDiES, BUDDiES PLUS Pump It Up: Infinity, XX, M, 2023 PHOENIX, 2024 PHOENIX SOUND VOLTEX: IV HEAVENLY HAVEN, VIVID WAVE, EXCEED GEAR Taiko no Tatsujin: Web, 14 (AC), Drum 'n' Fun (NS1), Rhythm Festival (NS2), Rhythm Connect (Mobile), WACCA: 1st, Lily R, Reverse, Plus

// Miscellaneous (Years, Bonus, Etc.)

Years: 2DKaps 2019, 2DKaps 2020, 2DKaps 2021, 2DKaps 2022, 2DKaps 2023, 2DKaps 2024, 2DKaps 2025 Other: YouTube, Bonus Content, Updates

...Aaand that should be all for now!!! It's rather short when viewing as a complete post sure, but all the hyperlinks and colors definitely bloat up the character count a ton in HTML... Regardless, I hope this alternative post serves well in future-proofing my pinned and making both posts easier to update and potentially decorate further on my end!

(art by the wonderful CaminatorStones on Twitter!!!)

Greetings to all from far and wide! Whether you're a long-time follower, a mutual from another platform, or just someone who stumbled in through searches, I offer my sincerest welcome to my humble rhythm gaming abode!! This sideblog is where I share everything I've got to share with regards to rhythm gaming, ranging from new scores to personal comments to reflections on events/sessions! Alas, I'm rather verbose in my passionate writing of these comments, so I sincerely apologize if the scroll seems daunting,,,

For some backstory, I was first introduced to music games in 2011 when my dad arrived with an Xbox 360 w/ Kinect and the latest Dance Central (2010) game. Being only 5 years old at the time, I kinda sucked at the game and was immediately disinterested. But over time, I kept at it until I could 100% complete game on Easy, then Medium, then Hard, an improvement met with more Kinect dance games that I continued to complete and love fondly.

However, it wasn't until 2018 that I started playing my first true rhythm game: "RoBeats!", which (despite being a Roblox game) taught me a ton about other rhythm games through songs and fundamentals. I stuck with RoBeats and osu!mania for some time until I stumbled upon videos of arcade rhythm games in Summer of 2019, and wondered if I'd ever get the chance to play them myself. Then, just as September 2019 began, I visited my local Round 1 arcade with family and saw almost every rhythm game that I'd seen in those videos I saw over the summer. It was a beautifully overwhelming and overstimulating sight, and hyperfixated little 13-year old me was excited to try all of them.

I started visiting whenever I had the chance to exclusively play the rhythm games, slowly warming up to each of them until I settled on my initial least favorite, DanceDanceRevolution. And soon after, I joined this online community of arcade rhythm gamers and had so many beautiful encounters there, from making new long-time friends to even visiting dedicated remote events, ones that filled me with an indescribable euphoria that I just couldn't keep to myself. So as a personal passion project attempt to describe these feelings, I've dedicated this blog to archive every rhythm game score I've gotten since that fateful September 2019, including the aforementioned comments and reflections! I hope through these posts that I can articulate my love and passion for the scene and its art as best as possible, and I hope it can be an enjoyably entertaining scroll for you as well! ...though given that's 5 years of content and counting, it's a rather long scroll, so I apologize in advance or belatedly...

Overall though, thanks so much for visiting and reading though my post(s)!!! To make navigation easier for me and you, below is a sub-post of tags for each rhythm game, version, and miscellaneous post featured on this account, complete with hyperlinks and color coding for each of them!! Listed further below are my friend codes for Steam, Nintendo Switch, and individual rhythm games with account systems if you're interested in friending or rivaling me at all!!! I've also got an archive of text-only posts at the very bottom if you're interested in those too, but this is where the yapping ends for now. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you stick around as a potential follower to see what this account's all about!!!!!

// Rhythm Game Tag Browser

Arcaea, beatmania (5key), beatmania IIDX, Beatstar, Bleap, ChainBeeT, CHRONO CIRCLE, CHUNITHM, Cytus, DANCE aROUND, DanceEvolution, DanceDanceRevolution, DANCERUSH STARDOM, DJMAX, DJMAX Technika, Dynamix, Ensemble Stars!!, Etterna, EZ2AC, EZ2ON, Fortnite Festival, Groove Coaster, GITADORA, In The Groove, jubeat, Just Dance, KALPA, maimai, MASH VP!, MÚSECA, Muse Dash, Music Diver, MUSYNX, Neon FM, NOISZ, Orzmic,

osu!(mania), OverRapid, Paradigm: Reboot, Phigros, Pop'n Music, Project DIVA, Project MIRAI, Project SEKAI, Pump It Up, Pump It Up M, Quaver, RAVON, Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Hive, Rotaeno, Sixtar Gate, SOUND VOLTEX, StepManiaX, Taiko no Tatsujin, TAKUMI^3, Tetote×Connect, vivid/stasis, VOEZ, WACCA, World Dai Star

// Miscellaneous Game Tag Browser

Puyo Puyo, Puyo Puyo Tetris (1 & 2), Rivals of Aether 2, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, TEKKEN 8, Street Fighter 6, Tetris (NES), TETR.IO, Tetris The Grand Master

UPDATE: Due to the massive amount of links in the post as a whole, and tumblr's inline link limit of 100 links per post, I've had to move individual versions and years to a sub-pinned post so I can continue to update them with significantly less restrictions.

Click >> HERE << to browse my version/misc tags!!!

Alright!!! Finally that's all out of the way... it's a lot to navigate, but it should all be working just fine by the time I publish this post! But now, for the section you've hopefully been waiting for... the friend codes!!! Codes and links to pages where you can add me as a friend, rival, or just check out my scores in some cases. Most of these will just be copied from my older post, as not much has really changed, but there's a few new additions and more to come soon!

// Friend/Rival Codes

DDR Rival Code: 6158-7110 (2DKAPS) IIDX ID: 2349-1996 (DJ 2DKAPS) SDVX PLAYER ID: SV-3473-9971 (KAPS) ProSeka ID (Global): 162415143295172610 ([39s] Kaps) ProSeka ID (Japan): 170058506242576384 (Kaps) Arcaea ID: 334 526 936 (TopKappa) Steam (for DJMAX, EZ2ON, Muse Dash, Sixtar Gate, etc.): topkaps Nintendo Switch Friend Code: SW-3296-1907-2304 3icecream (DDR scores): Kaps SkillAttack (also DDR scores): Kaps Vaddict (SDVX scores): KAPS iidx.me (IIDX scores): DJ 2DKAPS

// Text-only Posts (Updates, Recaps, etc.)

November 4th, 2023: WELCOME to VIP ROOM (old pinned post)

January 29th, 2024: Unimportant Note Regarding Account Privatizing

December 27th, 2024: Rhythm Game 2023 Recap and Goals for 2024

January 3rd, 2025: Sub-Pinned Post: Blog Tag Browser!! (also linked further above)

March 23rd, 2025: 2DKAPSDDR: 2024 Recap & 2025 Goals!!!

March 31st, 2025: Account Update: Gaming Expansion

Aaand that should be it for the post!!! Once again, thanks for sticking through all my rambling and writing, and I hope this post at least captivated you enough to check out some of my other posts! I'll definitely be writing and talking more in my future posts (whether you like it or not), so stay tuned for those... but until that day comes, thanks for sticking around! See you next time on the dance floor!

Title: Unimportant Note Regarding Account Privatizing

Greetings, all! Sorry for the lack of updates recently, I've been really busy keeping up with general journal and life things, so I haven't been able to keep up to date with all my scores like I wish I could've done. Still, just in case there's more needed over the years, I wanted to make this update post and start an update log for this account whenever it needed a change, so here's the first one.

So then, this one's gonna be a brief and really minor change that won't really affect you unless you're one of my opponents in a tourney. While I like to keep my accounts and content accessible and free to view for both myself and anyone interested (hell, that's what this account was made for), I still realize the consequences that come with such a free effort. The most notable of these consequences came back to light when I saw a tweet about someone who lost a fighting game tournament due to their opponent watching a video with the same match-up as the tournament to study in advance.

While this is something I admit to doing when the opportunity is available, I kinda prefer right now to train and perform in tournaments the traditional way. Being the semi-underdog that I am (shoutouts to the PIU commentator at the MOTL5 who had no idea who I was), I like to be a sort of mysterious dark horse where any results I get are hidden and anyone who goes hunting for my weaknesses is hit with a "idk just git gud." It's a bit cheesy, I'm fully aware, but is it unfair to wanna win? Rather wouldn't have a handicap tied to my entry status when it's very easily avoidable by hiding my account and my scores in the process, kinda like taking a trip to a far-away mountain to train in secret before the big day.

Another reason for this, I guess, is because it really doesn't seem fun to be caught off-guard by something so calculated and targeted by my opponent. This point I'm debating because it sounds reasonable if you don't think about it, but then you give it a teensy bit of thought and realize, "Wait, isn't everything in tourneys calculated at that point? What makes this so much more different and unfair than the other preparations opponents make?" An extremely good point that I almost agree with, but in my own defense, I love the thrill of a completely random tournament where both players are meeting and learning about each other in the moment, maybe changing themselves up or making educated guesses on what strategies to use in real time. This isn't really possible in rhythm games, unfortunately, as you only really get two songs before the game's set, but it's definitely possible as I've proven to myself in my DDR performance at MOTL5, switching between MA and no misses when I deemed it fit for each matchup or difficulty.