Hanabi ULT 9: 951 notes two sources agree on

Pre-dive: arc, card, empty field

1. 1

   Where the song sits: A Past Best Untold

   The video starts mid-wipe, and the one label that survives the transition is SELECT ARC: A Past Best Untold, the chapter Hanabi belongs to. Do not look for the difficulty column in this frame — the rail is masked away by the wipe, which is why the ladder quoted further down this page comes from the community wiki rather than from the video. The recorder's live badge is fully legible at the left edge here.

   

2. 2

   The contract: ULTIMATE 9, HIGH SCORE blank

   The pre-dive card reads a 9 above DIFFICULTY ULTIMATE — the same 9 comes back on the pinned HUD card and on the jacket's corner badge in the result screen — and credits the artwork to さんぱち under ILLUST. HIGH SCORE reads a dash: no record on this account, which is half of the first-clear evidence. The right-hand panel already shows a REFLECT card selected, with figures this page deliberately does not interpret.

   

3. 3

   Read the HUD before the notes fall

   An empty highway at 000'000'000 with the song card pinned top right — Hanabi / Snail's House, ULT 9, SPEED 7.00, read at full resolution. Four key lanes take A S D F; the two wide side rails read Umschalt and Leer on this German client. The encounter meter starts at zero and finishes the dive at 837.79%, so AYAME is a second scoreboard running underneath the whole chart.

   

Loadout, then the first chains

1. 4

   Check the deck — and what it does not say

   The REFLECT screen lists its loadout outright: An Absent Freedom, 4AM, A Wandering Seeking Silence and Architect Advisor, with one empty CARD UNIVERSE slot among them. Just as useful is what is missing — no assist wording anywhere on this panel. Read alongside the ordinary particle drops in the result card's IOTA row, that is the evidence this run stands as assist-free.

   

2. 5

   PHASE 1 opens on spaced notes

   The first phrase banks 000'322'904 at chain 4, PHASE 1 on the meter and 667 points on the encounter score. Nothing here is difficult: Hanabi ULT 9 opens with room around the notes, and the run's real question is how long a chain survives — the best this one reaches is 117.

   

3. 6

   Chain 32 while the encounter climbs

   By 006'042'496 the chain reads 32 across two EXACTs, and AYAME's meter has reached 42.12% with 9'203 encounter points banked. This stretch rewards playing strictly to the beat: the patterns repeat at a spacing you can hear coming, and the damage is still ahead of you.

   

Mid-chart: two beams, flicks, the climax

1. 7

   Two beams at once

   A cyan hold beam and a violet field beam run in parallel at 026'126'122 — and the chain has fallen to 13, so a break has happened between these two frames. That is Hanabi's middle at ULT 9: two sustained note types on different rhythms, one hand parked on a hold while the other chases the field.

   

2. 8

   Flick arrows at 052'212'084

   Yellow flick arrows enter over two EXACTs at chain 17. Flicks are the timing ask of this rung — the stroke has to carry past the lane — and the card's second EXACT row, 84 entries deep, is what the clean ones are worth. The encounter meter has run to 455.2% by this point in the dive.

   

3. 9

   Let EARLY coach you in the climax

   Deep in the dense body an EARLY NEAR lands beside three EXACTs at chain 41, the counter at 077'266'850. Direction tags are the cheapest coaching in the game: EARLY means the press arrived ahead of the window, and 53 of these are waiting on the final card. Holding a chain of 41 through this section is already a good result — the run tops out at 117.

   

The settle: HUD freeze, banner, card

1. 10

   The frame that fixes the score

   On the emptied field the HUD has stopped at 089'538'071, chain 18, and the encounter score reading 165'533 — the same number the card prints two frames later as ENCOUNTER RESULT 000'165'533. That agreement is why this page quotes 089'538'071 as the final score instead of the SCORE box on the card itself.

   

2. 11

   DIVE CLEARED, still no grade

   The banner crosses a darkened highway with the German side-rail labels still visible. On an account's first entry this is the frame that matters — but no grade letter comes with it, and the Rank box stays empty on the card that follows. The upload simply ends before that box fills in.

   

3. 12

   The card sums to 951

   Line by line: EXACT 741, a second EXACT row at 84, NEAR 53, BREAK 73 — 951 judged notes, the same total the community wiki's ULT column carries. MAX LINK 117, MISS GAUGE 11, HIGH SCORE still a dash beside DIFFERENCE +089'538'071, the full amount: a first clear on this account. The SCORE box reads 088'429'215 and is still rolling, reaching 088'682'130 on the last frame, and the Rank box is empty. Below it all, the IOTA panel drops ordinary particles rather than an Assist Mode banner.