http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiko_no_Tatsujin

Made by Bandai Namco, similar to Donkey Konga, there was a PS2 version released in the US as "Taiko Drum Master," and there's a DS version that's worth importing if you like Nintendo DS rhythm games that are awesome.

Anyway, the reason I bring it up is because I think it wouldn't be too hard to adapt Osu! to have some kind of Taiko mode. They gameplay is similar, but simpler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWqgXUraHXo

For red beats you hit the center of the drum, and for blue beats you hit the side. I think it'd be possible to map this to left mouse button for red, and right mouse button for blue, or something. Or just keyboard keys.

The only reason I suggest it for Osu! is because I was thinking about making a beatmap with all the beats in the exact same spot as a joke, and that got me thinking about this. That, and the timeline at the top of the Osu! editor reminds me of the Taiko interface. I realize it's kind of outside of Osu!'s premise (that's why I'm posting in off-topic rather than feature requests, because it's more of a separate game idea), but it seems that the fundamentals are pretty similar, and . . . it would be cool.

Hmmm...
I think this would work better with a keyboard, but then beatmania would probably be a better program to do something like that with. I distinctly remember some percussion battles in the good old days of beatmania, I'm sure that is pretty close to Taiko No Tatsujin. I guess you could even use the on-screen keyboard to go one step further :P

I don't think keyboard support will ever be seriously considered by Peppy unless the mobs get angry. That being said, I think there was another post in feature requests where someone wanted numpad support for playing, but I think the general response to that was "use beatmania/stepmania"-

I suppose. I think my roundabout logic was this:

Osu! uses the mouse to simulate a DS touchscreen
Taiko DS uses the DS touchscreen to simulate a drum
Ergo, it'd be cool if Osu used the mouse to simulate a drum

Obviously that has its flaws, but I think that's where my brain was. I'll take a look at Stepmania sometime, though.

I definitely agree that keyboard controls don't make much sense for an Ouendan simulator.

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