HOW TO: Register an Aime card and join the Guilty Gear Player's Guild

[qwerty]

This thread will explain the convoluted and unintuitive process of registering an Aime card and joining the Guilty Gear Player's Guild. This info will only be of any use to you if you ever find yourself in Japan.

First and foremost, let me explain what an Aime card is. Here in Japan, people love their IC cards. So much, that damn near any transaction in or around a train station can be completed by swiping an IC card. These are similar to the magnetic cards used for arcade games (most people in the US will know them from Initial D and Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune), except that instead of inserting the card into a reader, all you have to do is put it up to a scanner. You don't even have to take it out of your wallet!

What makes an Aime card special is that it's designed to work with pretty much every current arcade game that supports IC cards. Aime is made by Sega, but, recently, it's become almost entirely interchangeable with Namco's competing service, Bana Passport.

However, at least as far as I know, GGXXAC+R only supports Aime. This is due to the fact that the GG Player's Guild requires a Sega ID. Which used to be separate from an Aime ID, but is now the same thing. See how this can get real confusing real fast?

Before we get started with registering an Aime card, you first have to buy one. Most arcades will either have a machine dedicated to selling Aime cards, or you can get them from cabinets that are designed to sell them. Either way, it'll cost you 300円.

Now that you have an Aime card, it's time to register it. This can be done at the Aime website. Thankfully, for those of us who aren't fluent in Japanese, there is an English version of the site that's just as functional as the Japanese version. You'll be prompted for your access code, which is the number on the back of your Aime card, and then it'll have you tie the card and account to your e-mail address. After that, you create your Sega ID (which is the same thing as an Aime ID, but not all Aime ID's are Sega ID's? I dunno lol).

At this point, you're done with anything involving the Aime website. You wouldn't know this if I didn't tell you, however, because nothing on the site indicates that you're able to do, well, much of anything. You can look at your game history and add another card to your account, but as far as the Aime website is concerned, that's pretty much it.

What you're looking for now is the GG Player's Guild. I mean, unless you actually want your name to show up as GG PLAYER.

I know this site is straight out of 1998, but bear with me here. We're almost done.

Click the login button, enter your Sega ID and password, and log in. You'll then be greeted by a bunch of crap you don't give a shit about, as well as the link to your profile (spelled in Katakana "プロフィール"). Click on that. You'll then see a bunch of empty fields and a link right below them.

That first field is where your name is. Click on the link next to it to change your name. I guess it costs 200W$ to change your name after you initially set it, but you get W$ even when you lose so it's whatever. Then click on the button below that, then go back to the previous page.

Remember that link at the bottom of those empty fields? Click on that.

Now, you'll see a dropdown menu and two text fields. The dropdown menu is asking for your gender. If you're a dude, choose the second one. If you're a chick (fat chance), choose the third one. If you don't know/care, choose the fourth one.

The first text field is asking for your birthday. Enter it in YYYYMMDD format with no dashes or slashes. Also, if you're a huge weeaboo and want to enter your birthday using the Japanese calendar, guess what it doesn't let you OWNED

The second text field is the fun part. That's the comment that'll show up every time you start a match. Be sure to have a really good comment so the guy you're playing will be too busy laughing to concentrate on playing.

Once you're done with all of this, click the button at the bottom, and then on the next page, click the button on the left. Congrats! You're finally done.

If you want to look at your statistics against certain characters, that's what the bottom two dropdown fields are for. If you can't read Katakana, I suggest you learn how to. Otherwise, this won't be of much use to you.

Questions/Comments/Concerns? Post em here!

Edited June 5, 2013 by qwerty

[capcom is ass]

good shit on the guide. cant wait to start my 1% win rate card

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