Originally Posted by
[Ayumi]
Here's a little trick I've shown one of my friends who don't know a bit of Japanese whatsoever.
The 1st word you will see will always be beginner. As the 1st block will be the beginner block.
The ones after that will be normal block. So the moment you see the 1st "scribbled" word changed to another word, that's where the normal blocks start.
After those will be the Hard blocks.
Because the rest of them use the same "scribbles" (yeah, he once said that Japanese look like someone gave Michael J Fox a pen and told him to keep still on a piece of paper so... that's where the scribbles come from) for hard it's not hard to see that the next ones will be Very, Super, and Extra added in front of the ones that has hard in their name.
After those will be Ultimate and Casino and Premium and so on and so on which most people don't bother doing because most that will do Ultimate will do them on Extra blocks.
If you remember this set up, whether you know Japanese or not, whenever Sega changes the names of the blocks, you should be able to follow which block is which from now on.
Of course at times by friend still gets a brainfart (or maybe just due to force of habit) accidently goes to the wrong block at times.