Big hits with one hand

[WallK]

I am at the start of my journey with Taiko and I'm consuming info like crazy (:
So, in all highish level arcade play I've seen on youtube people are hitting big notes with one hand
People are doing a stronger hit or just ignore those notes
But on PC and Switch getting double hits on Big Notes nets you more points!

What do you think about emulating both sides hit with a single strong hit for platforms that don't accept analog inputs?
This will allow using home games as a training tool for arcade and be competitive in online play at the same time

Cheers!

[ravinrabbid]

Hi!

I remember thinking about such a feature when I started with the project, but then probably forgot about it while struggling to figure out how to make single hits work properly in the first place :D

I'm not sure how much benefit there will be for arcade training, since to my knowledge newer arcade versions treat the big notes like any other notes (no guarantee, I might be wrong here). But this could still be worthwhile to offer an alternative (and more fun) play style for the home versions.

I can think of a few possible solutions right now:

• Add a second set of (higher) thresholds, if a pad is over this threshold, trigger both sides instead of one.
• Add a second set of thresholds, if a pad is over this threshold while the opposing side is triggered, also trigger this pad. This will basically make use of the fact that vibrations will bleed to all other pads on a hard enough hit. I'm under the impression that's how single handed play worked on the older arcades.
• Add a percentage setting, which will basically do the same as the second option, but consider all triggers which are hit at least n% as hard as the current trigger. This is what I currently do with a fixed value of 50% to avoid false triggers while still allowing to hit both sides at the same time.

I might experiment with this a bit in the next weeks, thanks for reminding me :)

[ravinrabbid]

I've also had a go in the meantime: 94e4911

[WallK]

I've also had a go in the meantime: 94e4911

Wooo, so much progress in such little time, thank you!

What do you think about small random delay between hits if double is triggered?

[ravinrabbid]

Is the a technical reason for this, i.e. will any home version reject perfectly simultaneous inputs? Or is it just to hide the feature when playing online (i.e. cheating)?

[WallK]

Is the a technical reason for this, i.e. will any home version reject perfectly simultaneous inputs? Or is it just to hide the feature when playing online (i.e. cheating)?

I don't want to find out it doesn't like that when it's too late
As with RF mods and stuff
As far as I'm aware -- no-one reported this as a problem, but I don't know if anyone tried or tried for any amount of time

[ravinrabbid]

I'm afraid until there is some evidence that it is indeed a problem, I won't add this since it is a bit messy to implement in the current firmware structure.

I also don't think this really is an issue, since this behavior could be easily achieved with any macro function/software and I can't imagine people don't already do this.