Memories in Noise ULT 9: a hold-heavy first clear on film

Load-in, deck, first hold

1. 1

   Read the select screen before you commit

   The video opens on the song-select card: the 砂の記憶 jacket, Nyolfen's name, and the purple ULTIMATE 9 tab this whole log rides on. The REFLECT button at right is the door into the deck screen — the difficulty you lock here is the difficulty the whole dive runs, so confirm the tab before moving on.

   

2. 2

   Set the deck at the REFLECT screen

   At 000'000'000 the REFLECT screen shows the run's toolkit: Mei on the left, five card slots on the right — four filled, one left empty. This is the last quiet moment. Cards set here pay out across the whole chart, and nothing on this screen changes once the highway starts moving.

   

3. 3

   Meet the first hold early

   At 001'900'645 a yellow hold knob rides the center of the field with EXACT, NEAR, EXACT ringing the line and the chain watermark at 26. Holds are this chart's main currency — the community wiki's composition table puts the ULT chart at 42.4% holds, 565 of 1,332 notes — and the opening asks for one before your hands have settled.

   

The opening: wide beams in pairs

1. 4

   Take the first wide beam flat-handed

   A wide violet beam floods half the highway at 007'025'366 with EXACT EXACT stamped on the line. Coverage is the skill being taught: a flat hand parked across the lanes eats everything the beam covers, where picking at individual lanes drops the notes between them.

   

2. 5

   Hold the parallel pair to full length

   At 019'163'145 the chart shows its signature pairing: a violet and a pink wide beam, both full length, running side by side. Neither is fast. Both punish a hand that keeps re-gripping — settle one hand per side and let the beams drain while the judgment line keeps scoring underneath.

   

3. 6

   Split the jobs when a hold rides a beam

   At 027'504'398 a pink wide beam takes the right side while a yellow hexagonal hold knob waits at its foot, EXACT, NEAR, EXACT across the line. One hand commits to the hold's length, the other sweeps the beam's width — that split attention is what this chart's mid-game runs on.

   

Mid-chart: fields, holds, stacks

1. 7

   Read the stack before it lands

   033'441'274 stacks every signature on one screen: a broad violet field covering the highway, a cyan beam cutting across it, a yellow hold knob waiting underneath. Nothing here is new — the frame is the exam that checks you can read all three layers at speed, because the back half stacks them harder.

   

2. 8

   Ride the yellow field through the EXACT run

   The mid-chart's densest moment lands at 072'739'028: a yellow field triangle spreads from the top of the highway while EXACT EXACT EXACT scores along the cyan beam beneath it and +25 popups rise off the line. The encounter gauge ticking under the score shows the payout for keeping strings like this alive — the stretch that decides how close to the ceiling the run finishes.

   

3. 9

   The closing run is where the NEARs live

   At 091'696'589 the last stretch presses a violet beam down the right and the judgment line reads EXACT, then a red-tagged LATE beside a NEAR. The card's 81 NEARs and 58 BREAKs come from moments like this — a hand arriving behind the beat in the final push — and the chain watermark stands at 71 of this run's 83 ceiling.

   

The close: the banner, the card, the unlock

1. 10

   DIVE CLEARED — and why CONNECTED never comes

   The highway empties and the cyan DIVE CLEARED banner crosses with the counter frozen at 092'606'217. What does not follow is the purple CONNECTED banner this site's full-chain logs know: 58 BREAKs disqualified the chain early, so the next banner over the empty highway belongs to the encounter — CENTERED. The clear was never in doubt; the full chain was gone long before.

   

2. 11

   Read the card: the split, the link, the gauge

   The settled DIVE RESULT card carries every number this page quotes: 092'606'217 in SCORE, rank A, EXACT 1,111 + 82, NEAR 81, BREAK 58 — 1,332 judged notes, digit for digit the community wiki's ULT total — with MAX LINK 83, MISS GAUGE 13 and an encounter result of 000'079'183 CENTERED beside the deck that played it. One caution: the SCORE box counts up after the card lands (a mid-count frame at t=182 reads 091'366'583), so quote the settled card.

   

3. 12

   Close on the Song Unlocked reveal

   Song Unlocked presents the 砂の記憶 jacket beside the Memories in Noise / Nyolfen caption — the account's first play of the song, the same three-piece evidence this site quotes scores on: a blank HIGH SCORE box, a full-amount DIFFERENCE, and the reveal after the card. For an Act 1 story song it is not a progression spoiler; it is the receipt.