A Beginner’s Guide to Typing Mania 4

Taken from here

Typing Mania 4 is a Flash game first stumbled upon by Divine from Random Curiosity . The reason why it’s note-worthy is because it has a nice assortment of anime songs, which is probably the primary reason that’s gonna keep you playing after awhile. Those with 100+ words-per-minute typing speeds, please do not be too overconfident because most of the lyrics are in romaji (ローマ字) and there are quite a few quirks . There are also some English songs as well such as ‘Eyes on Me’ from Final Fantasy 7.

Now that the brief introduction is done, let us get to the controls and game-play of Typing Mania 4:

— A Beginner’s Guide to Typing Mania 4 —

Basic Gameplay , Navigation & Controls Explanation

1. Press Arrow Key 「↑」 「↓」 to select the song you want
2. Press Arrow Key 「←」 「→」 to switch to next page/different level.
3. In the menu, press number 「１」 to switch to Hiragana mode
4. In the menu, press number 「２」 to switch to 「Hard Mode」, a nightmare mode!
5. In the menu, press number 「３」 to switch to 「Light Mode」，to reduce the graphic quality of the game
6. In the menu, press number 「４」 to switch to 「Sudden Mode」, the sub will appear “suddenly”
7. In the menu, press number 「５」 to switch to 「Interval Reverse」
8. In the menu, press number 「０」 to turn off/on bg
9. Start typing!
10. Press ESC to quit the game & view your results so far
11. Press 「S」 & a summary of your result will pop out which you can copy and paste to somewhere else.
12. Press Enter (”Return for Mac”) to return to the main menu
13. Press 「Ctrl」 to sort the musics according to their respective difficulty
14. Press Alt + F4 if you find your boss is behind you! Or I guess you can let him try this game anyway…

Levels of Difficulty available

There’s a total of 13 levels of difficulty to choose from, starting from Level 0 -13 ( 0 being “impossible fail at all” to 13 being the hardest ) though a check back at Typing Mania again reveals a Level 99 difficulty song. The song? It’s from Lucky Star’s “Motteke! Sailor Fuku”

Currently ranked the 2nd hardest in the game at the moment at Level 13 right afterLevel 99 are; Eureka 7’s OP song ‘Shounen Heart’ by Home Made Kazouku, Ghost in the Shell 2 : SAC 2nd Gig OP - Rise & Black Lagoon OP - Red Fraction. There’s also other songs ranked at Level 13 but I’m just naming some example here so I’ll leave the rest for you guys to find them yourself.

FAQs

Below is the Q&A section taken directly from Typing Mania without modification, for those who are curious or interested to know more.

Q: Who made this game?

A: Sightseeker is the author of this game. you can find the latest version of typingmania (Typingmania 5 RC1) at his website sightseekerstudio.

Q: What is “_” in the lyric? I can’t type it!

A: It simply means “space key”, when you saw a “_” in the lyric, just press space key once.

Q:Why I found many errors in the lyrics?

A: We are using “Kanji to Hiragana” auto convertion program since there is no many Hiragana lyrics on the internet, it always has some mistakes. We do hope you can tell us where the error appears so we can fix it.

Q: where can I download it?

A: Since you are playing it , there is certainly a way you can download it. But you have to figure it out by yourself :) Also, you can find and download the original game from the website mentioned above.

Q: why I only see a few songs?

A: You need press left or right arrow keys to access more song from the main menu of the game.

Some Tips & Pointers from Divine (Below is a quote taken from Divine without any alteration)

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.

I hoped that these explanations above, has given you an insight and clear picture of Typing Mania 4’s mechanics & gameplay. Now then, what are you still sitting here for !? Run along now and give Typing Mania 4 a try!