Pressing the buttons slightly late grants you more score than hitting the buttons right on time.

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I like how the game never really explains this, i spent days trying to get cool on these levels back in the day

This is VERY helpful and also very interessting. You defiantly have alot of insight to the inner workings of the game. The way the PaRappa games are put together is pretty complicated. As a huge PaRappa fan and hobby game designer it is my dream to someday put together a working parappa game engine. Personally I very much prefer UJL and PaRappa 1's gameplay though. A video showing your knowledge of the inner workings of those games (similar to this video) would be very appriciated.

Very helpful figuring out how the game judges your freestyle. Thanks for helping me complete the game!

or use the easy way: spam buttons with the max difficult

I honestly have no idea how I got cool on all the levels without this

Oh you’ve answered so many of my questions about this game thank you THANK UOU!!!

This really helped me, now i got cool on every level!

This take me 10 tries to go, but i finally did it! Thanks

I still didn't get cool mode but thank you this was still helpful to this day lol

People have gotten cool mode by repeating exactly the same pattern as the teacher. Don't ask me, I have no idea.

Awesome video! Thank you for uploading bud. I've been struggling with this level for a while!

Thanks for the video this helped a lot and now I can get cool mode on the other stages the only other one I did was stage 3 on complete next can you do a tutorial on staying on cool mode?

Thanks! I just finished stage 1 and 2 in cool mode

This really helped me understand how to do it, but I still can't seem to do it!! If I focus too much on trying this strategy I miss the dots completely, although sometimes I just happen to get halfway to cool and then I fuck up the next line. Damn :(

This may help to a few people, it may not, but I some-what figured out methods for most stages, which will mostly require the R3 method, so I'll explain which each R3 tilt you would have. You would also need the Yellow hat for this. R3 Up - Red Hat(Easiest Difficulty) R3 Left - Orange/Blue Hat(Easy/Intermediate Difficulty) R3 Right - Pink Hat(Hard Difficulty) R3 Down - Yellow Hat(Hardest Difficulty) And I think just by pressing R3 without moving it either gives you a random hat, or the Hat you have on. Anyway, here's the difficulty's I suggest on the stage, and what you should possibly do: Stage 1: R3 Up - Mash the Button 4 times in the beginning, then do a little offbeat, like a one-two-two one one, two-two-three-four type of thing. Stage 2: [Possibly] R3 Alone, Somewhat of 'Follow the rhythm and also adding extra buttons do the song.' sort of thing. Stage 3: R3 Alone/Down: Be a little off with the buttons to get the tip of Cool, then make up your rhythm while still going a little bit off. Stage 4: R3 Down: Follow with the rhythm with some button beat mashing, For example: [Moosheshia] To the-To the right. [Parappa] To-To-To the Righ-Righ-Rig-Right! Stage 5-7: I haven't tried yet, but I'll reply once I understand it. Stage 8: R3 All but Up: Basically just do some more button mashing, then make your own groove. Hopefully this is helpful to you, it'll certainly be helpful for me as a reminder. Let me know if it helps, or it just doesn't, as the game may be strict on you and be like "Nah, that's not how you do it." Like me in cool mode of Stage 2. EDIT: Just going to put my tips of my own replies, just to make my own words shorter. HOW TO DO ALL THIS: The PSC has two sticks on the bottom, called Left Stick (L3) and Right Stick (R3) and both sticks work like how a normal stick in any other controller can be, whether it be an xbox, a gamecube, or a N64 Controller, they work like each separate controller, with the ability to move 360 degrees. Although, a more special feature of the Playstation Controller is that pushing down on the controller acts as a button of it's own self, in some special games...Which a few other controllers also have this aspect, but in this game, it's very critical. Now with that explanation out of the way, Here's a simple way on how you activate the R3 trick. On the Right Stick, push and hold down the stick and aim in the direction you want to specify (Up, Down, Left, Right) As I had listed above, each movement of the stick corresponds to a hat (Example: Up = Red Hat, the first set of 8 stages. If confused, read update that I will post shortly below.) Now the tricky part about this is basically selecting the stage. Considering your thumb is already locked onto the right stick, and also aimed in a direction you want to select your difficulty in, I find it best to use either your other hand or your middle or ring finger. Now why I mention both your other hand or middle/ring finger is because you could also do yet another trick,the L1 and L2 trick, which essentially when you hold both L1 and L2 you can skip the cut scenes and the annoying Boombox. Stage 5: R3 Down - I found out that the R3 Down thing may also be wrong, so it's more or less the mode with the fast lyrics. Anyway, it'll mostly be in the beginning verse, and it's really just button Mashing. Stage 6: R3 Any but Up - This one may be a little tough, as it's a mixture; so it's best to try out the stages before tackling this one. Stage 7: R3 Down[A.K.A, the one with the shortest lyrics.] The trick here is mostly in the part where you list off countries, mostly at the L and R section, but who knows, maybe it's somewhere else. While I was testing out some tries for Cool Mode, I found out that you can actually do the Stage 3 trick in all of the stages, which thanks to that tip, the only level I have left to get cool mode is stage 2! So once I beat that, I'll try my best to explain how to keep each cool mode by re-watching the special replays I gave myself. Incase you're lost, the trick for every stage is to slightly be off with a few/all buttons until you reach the tip of cool. Once you do reach that tip, either make up your own rhythm, or button mash whatever the last buttons were in the line. If you're still lost, just...Watch the video. I didn't really check it out until after typing it. While I was testing out some tries for Cool Mode, I found out that you can actually do the Stage 3 trick in all of the stages, which thanks to that tip, the only level I have left to get cool mode is stage 2! So once I beat that, I'll try my best to explain how to keep each cool mode by re-watching the special replays I gave myself. Incase you're lost, the trick for every stage is to slightly be off with a few/all buttons until you reach the tip of cool. Once you do reach that tip, either make up your own rhythm, or button mash whatever the last buttons were in the line. Ok, so for a long forgotten stage...Chop Chop Master Onions, to be exact. Thanks to his very strangely short rhythms he is pretty challenging to get really good 'Cool' rhythms on. So I did take a break from the game just trying to try the other games, specifically Um Jammer Lammy. And it's way of getting cool mode actually made me interested and try it out. Surprisingly enough, it worked! Now while UJL expects you to make up a lot of separate and funky grooves and strokes, the best method I found for the entire game was to basically Spam all of the buttons in a "one-two-three" kind of rhythm. Most of the time, it worked! Another thing, specifically for people who read the comment above. I mentioned "sets of 8 levels" in this game, and some people may not get what that means. Well, what I mean by "sets of 8 levels" is the sets of 8 levels in the game, from Beard Burgers to Party Time. Now why I also mention the word "sets" is because, if you haven't beaten/seen PTR2 to it's fullest, there is actually 3 other sets of the same level, just now with a new hat and added difficulty (Which IS why I mention random colors way back up at the R3 method!)

I've been trying this technique on both stage 1 and stage 3 (where everyone seems to get cool mode accidentally) and it still isn't working. I think I'm just completely out of rhythm.

ES RE ESTRESANTE CUANDO ESTAS APUNTO DE SACAR EL COOL Y EN LA SIGUIENTE LINEA TE BAJAN LA BARRITA. O PEOR, CUANDO ESTAS EN EL COOL Y A LO ÚLTIMO FALLAS AAAAA

This is the only one I haven't completed cool mode on. Yellow hat ;-; it looks so easy but when I'm almost at cool I fail the next line and go back to good :')

1/3 as strong beats are for classical/church straight rhythm. 2/4 is very indicative of jazz rock, pop, and syncopated feel.

The best part was the slowed down footage. Drunk and Funky!

Thank you so much. I just got the game but I dunno the controls for PlayStation and I binded it to my keyboard with an emulator. I failed the first stage. I need to get cool mode.

You are the lord. You have the fame.

I have a method that gets me cool on the first two lines of thesong. Sometimes it works for me and i use it all the time. I reccomend using it but you dont have to. So even if you get cool 2:30 Repeat the first 2 words over and over and boom instant cool, although im not sure if its for yellow hat. I have yellow hat and it works, so try it with orange hat and tell me results. I think its yellow hat exclusive. Even with it not being on with the dots, its still good and it always gets me cool mode. I only know how to do yellows hat method because its easy. I dont think orange hat works because it usually says "Cut!" Just once but yellow hat is easier because it says "Cut! Cut!" And you still hit that second triangle, so give orange hat a test and see if my method works, if not. Yellow hat is the way to go for cool mode with my method. Again: I use this method and reccomend it.

The only way to get cool mode is to stop and play parappa 1 instead

i spent hours trying to get cool mode in stage 7. if anyone still can't get cool mode try slowing the game down!! shift and tab in pcsx2. way easier to hit the backbeats when it's slower

3:12 *MMMMMMMMMMMM sigh*

Stage 3 cool mode pisses me off because you have to freestyle at a certain tempo, and i screwed up because the game thinks I'm freestyling too slowly.

A S C E N D

learned so much here

i think you can tell that you are doing it right if the charting changes overtime.

I have no idea what you're talking about I've got as much rhythm as that chair What happened to me was a tragedy But I don't have to be a rap god Look, I got a sweet deal going on here I got all the records that I can play All these sweet old labels And this hat from the 00’s What more could a rapper need? Besides, I ain't got rhythm No, I ain't got rhythm I said I ain't got rhythm I ain't got rhythm

Thank you so much!

Y'all remember the ps4 version that he says "Tastes better than wine!", i GOT THIS in my new ps4 from dad in christmas, and it was ps premium, and costed about 45.00$, AND I SHOWED THIS TO MY DAD, and the lean to each other, parappa the rapper 2 is weird🙄

I accidentally got a Cool at the very end of Guru Ant's song so it counted as a Cool completion lmao

This is Work Thx Man

ODDmLan, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO F###### GET COOL FOR A MONTH NOW, AND I ALMOST BROKE MY CONTROLLER! ok let's tone this down, but srsly, I have been trying for so long now, and many other sites either show me misleading info or they are full with s###. So thank you for making this :) And i also feel like frickin' ELON MUSK DEVELOPED THE COOL CONCEPT HOLY SH-

Even trying to do what this video says, it's still damn hard to try to even get halfway to cool...

GOD SOUND

Can you do a video like this but for PTR 1? I tried a lot of ways that could possibly work but I always keep getting the "almost cools" and then end up going back to good

This feels really helpful but no matter how much I try it just won’t work and it’s really discouraging :/

Thank you!

Cool job

make a video to explain how to keep cool mode pls

Thanks for guide now i have 7103 score in 1 stage tysm

You never taught me how to stay on cool :(

Ok I get it but I don’t have ps4 until Christmas.

big brain

awesome video but dang this is way too complicated for a simple freestyle mode

If the blue meter is adherence to the teacher and the orange is originality, what is the pink meter?

THX

3:11 speed up max so it is normal

i guess it was luck i got cool mode in stage 3

Interesting...

I'd Imagine How Hard It Is To Get Cool With Black Hat

What the video does not explain is how to get the blue bar but I can tell you get it by hitting some main beats as well

This why Parappa 2 better than Parappa 1

If only my timing was better

I can't seem to get cool mode! i try my hardest to do a backbeat and i'm really bad at it! ;_____________;

I still can't get it even with this (levels 6 and after)

ok thx

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didn't work :/ i did what you said but in stage 3 and all i got is : Bad mode.

put it at 2x speed

omg thats it

or spam as much as possible

Input delay be like:

its sorta hard to get used to

*a s c e n d*

what's a downbeat?

Tried this method many times and it doesn't work

I still don't get it can someone enlighten me please

This is really hard to time right

I got it but i screwed up thanks

I still can’t get it…

I STILL CAN'T GET COOL

I still don't get it

It makes me reach bad!

get cool mode is easy in hard mode

He said: 4:30 without even saying it

This is very hard I cannot get it :(

SHIT i have a yellow hat difficulty

OFF BEATS GIVE MORE POINTS WRITE THAT DOWN

getting a cool mode on parappa 2 is so easy 😂👌

IT GOES TO FAST

still didn't help(

i think i just suck that i don't get cool mode even with this method

It doesn't work

wat

Imagine this in real life: Math Teacher: Okay so, class... Can anybody tell me what 10 plus six is? Me: T-Ten p-plus Si-Si-Si-Six i-i-i-i-i-i-is Ten-Six. Math Teacher: Holy crap why don't you have a degree.

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omg thats it

It makes me reach bad!

3:37-Even Parappa is ashamed. XP

dammit, i keep getting the "almost cools" and then going back to good.

so its a rhythm game that encourages NOT following the beat of the songs?

thank you so much, i only got cool mode on Guru ant and that was by mistake but I've been trying everything instead of looking at the simple strategy behind the mechanics, I'm actually surprised so many people play the game but this video gave me a lot to stand on

I am so glad you made a video for this as it helps people but I just cant do it. I cant get cool mode no matter how hard I try. I just can't keep a consistent flow. This is the final trophy I need too.

Even with this I still can't get cool mode, at least without savestates, and even with savestates I struggle a lot. God, I miss how easy it was to get cool in the original PaRappa :''(