Scarlet Espada — ULT 9 Chart Guide

• ▸ULT 9 carries 946 notes (320 tap · 262 hold · 198 field · 166 flick) — a note count that never lets the phrases breathe, whatever the level number says.
• ▸The chart's identity is yellow flick arrows and wedge flicks plus wide purple trapezoid holds, with crossing beam streams firing through the middle lanes.
• ▸This sightread's longest chain was MAX LINK 201 out of 946 — flicks land mid-stream and snap the chain, so keep the swipe input separate from the tap rhythm.
• ▸The run still cleared: rank AA at 096'459'591, and the judgement rows (817 + 83 EXACT, 25 NEAR, 21 BREAK) sum exactly to the catalog's 946.

Every fact and screenshot on this page comes from one video: TrappyTheDemon's first-play sightread of Scarlet Espada on ULTIMATE 9. The capture is a single full-screen recording with no caption track, so the song cards, HUD and result screen are the authority for everything quoted here.

Two honest-scope notes: this is a sightread, not a farmed score — the run admits 21 BREAKs and 25 NEARs. And the upload carries the streamer's live badge over the lower-left scenery; on the screenshots here that corner was repaired by interpolating across it, while the embedded video itself is untouched. The FBD 12 chart is not shown in the video, so that level is quoted from the song catalog only.

Levels below come from the song catalog; the note split is the ULT chart's, and the sightread on this page judges every one of those notes. The FBD chart exists at level 12 but is not covered by this footage.

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The walkthrough below follows the dive in order. Each step is one screenshot from the source video, and the credit link under every image jumps straight back to that moment — open it side by side and the chart explains itself.

1. 1

   Pick the song — ULTIMATE 9 on the select card

   The run starts on the select screen: Scarlet Espada by Yooh, with the MIN 3 · EVO 6 · ULT 9 · FBD 12 tabs stacked above the PLAY button. The sightread goes straight into ULTIMATE 9.

   

2. 2

   Confirm the detail panel — FREEPLAY, blank high score

   The detail panel reads ULTIMATE 9 with FREEPLAY on the right and an empty high-score field — proof this is a true first play before the dive starts.

   

3. 3

   The dive opens quiet

   The score counter still reads 000'000'000 as the first purple holds slide down the A S D F key lanes. Scarlet Espada gives you a bar or two to settle before the real pattern work begins.

   

4. 4

   First yellow flick arrow

   A yellow triangle cuts across the lanes — flick notes ask for a quick swipe instead of a tap. Drop one early and the chain restarts before the first burst even arrives.

   

5. 5

   Wide trapezoid holds

   The chart's first signature shape: a broad purple trapezoid spanning several lanes at once, caught here at combo 90. Hold the anchor key and let the ribbon resolve.

   

6. 6

   Crossing beams over the middle lanes

   Two beams cross through the center while tap streams keep running underneath — the sightread rides combo 151 here and the EXACT labels stack up along the judgement line.

   

7. 7

   The run's peak chain — 201

   EXACT EXACT EXACT fires across the judgement line as the chain counter touches 201 — the MAX LINK this run ends with. Later sections keep resetting the chain, so this frame is the peak.

   

8. 8

   Wedge flicks in the back half

   Deep into the chart a broad yellow wedge sweeps the left lanes — the same flick input as step 4, stretched into a beam. Keep the swipe wide and start it early.

   

9. 9

   The last stretch

   The score counter reads 096'353'731 with combo 127 as the final streams pour in — between here and the banner sits only a handful of taps and one last hold.

   

10. 10

    DIVE CLEARED

    The banner stretches across the darkened playfield — the sightread survived all 946 notes with the miss gauge still at 15.

    

11. 11

    The receipt: rank AA, 946 judged

    The result screen closes the run: 096'459'591, rank AA, MAX LINK 201, and judgement rows of 817 + 83 EXACT, 25 NEAR and 21 BREAK — summing to exactly the catalog's 946 notes.

    

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