STsung’s Blog

Two days ago we could find the information that KONAMI announced that PNM 16 will be released in March 2008. The game’s full name is Pop’n Music 16 Party. It will contain more than 40 new songs. The song total should be over 700 (I can’t even imagine that).

A part from Battle Mode, Challenge Mode and Expert mode there will be once again Enjoy mode. Beginners will have once again a place where to start (hope it won’t be pink…-_-).

The whole interface should be blue.

The game will also have a new character^_~.

Today we went to Liberec once again to play Pump it up.
When we came there there was a blond girl playing Pump it up. We asked her if we can play after she finishes her game. To our surprise she told us that if both of us want to play then we have to pay twice the price. I decided to quickly proceed to Arcade mode so I would avoid her in tutoring us how to enter Easy Mode and tell us how to actually play the game.

After this I chose Csikost Post on Hard to warm us up. From this moment on she didn’t say a word^_^. Anyway we had a nice time playing and some probably local girls had their time also. We also got some audience. It was quite funny to see them watch the local girls and then watch me playing let’s say Come to me CZ. I couldn’t see their faces but I can imagine their WTF looks. Well, I just got the description of their looks when they saw me play.

I don’t know when but we also decided to try our luck on Dignity CZ in two. We said to each other it’s possible, we could get D on it? Well, I wasn’t that positive on that but I said ‘ok why not try it.’ So we tried it I took the red arrows + center and NX blue arrows (and the center for a while). The result? Well, we passed the song somehow with a nice D. I have to say that I couldn’t almost breathe at the end (you know there is such a nice stream near the end…mostly of red arrows and then there is a series of triplets.)

I also cleared Canon D full remix. I have to say that the stream is not funny at all. But people watching me clear the song applauded me so I didn’t feel that awkward (I don’t like playing crazy-killer songs in public).

Anyway I have to thank to my friend who went there with me. And also I would like to say thanks to the local girls. I hope more underground players will show up^_^.

Time for another routine!

Check my download page at my parapara site. New routines were added.

Download => Thanks to my fans

Another routine is there. I love this routine but I don’t look that well while doing it^_~. Maybe there will be version two later.

Download => Watashi no kare wa sekiyuou

Well, some of you have already wandered to my ParaPara site but those who did not should know that I have something like this^_^.

I started this page to put there some information, but lately I uploaded videos of me doing parapara routines and they are there for you to download.

(all the routines from this blog are there plus there is some more)

The link is http://czech-ddr.info/parapara/

We went shopping with my boyfriend and as usual we started with local game store. And you know what? I just stood in front of the PS2 section and I was just looking at Rogue Galaxy as this is my favorite game but Xsoft saw something else which caught his interest.

So I looked at it and I couldn’t believe my eyes, I saw a black haired girl on a blue background with DDR arrows. I told myself “I know this game, it’s Supernova”. After this I was like…’I want this, even though I won’t play this’.

The first Pump it up arcade arrived in the Czech Republic so we had to go there and check this out for ourselves. The machine is located at Centrum Babylon (there’s Aquapark, Lasegame…). The good news is that the machine is in front of the main entrance to the amusement park. So we could just go there there and play.

Another good news was that one credit costs 10CZK. But we soon found out that there are also bad news^_^. The platform is not connected correctly. Player 1 is actually player 2 and vice versa. This meant for me that the real reason why I came there was now nowhere (I wanted to play double).

Next thing was that as I never played on this machine I didn’t know how to change difficulty (because I was used to be prompted for it) and also I didn’t know that there are four channels instead of three. This meant for me several credits lost, because I chose nightmare several times (because of the use of speed mods).

After some time I mastered the basic operations as choosing a song, speed mod and difficulty^_^ and I could finally play. But I got another problem, the middle panel did not work as it should. So after three credits I decided to switch sides and I tried P2 (player1).

Fortunately this side of the platform worked fine so after this I had a nice time playing PIU Zero. I found out that Moonlight has really nice stepchart and that Vook is actually a nice song. I played also Beat of War 2 which has also good stepchart and on crazy it’s like a nightmare. But I haven’t tried playing dignity yet.

Next time I hope the machine will be in a better shape and that I will be able to play double.

Today I had the chance to play the PSP version of Taiko no Tatsujin. I have to say this game from Namco is really colorful (well, mainly red and blue).

On PSP you can confirm the “don” drums by either pressing the arrow buttons or x, circle, square or triangle. The “ka” drums are confirmed by those L1/R1 buttons.

I skipped playing kantan (the easiest songs), played some 7/8 stars songs on futsuu (standard) and then I tried some muzukashii (hard difficulty) songs. I have to say that using the “sticks” is much easier than pressing buttons. I felt quite uneasy confirming each blue note. But well it was fun and I could clear some fives on muzukashii.

When I got back I wanted to play more of Taiko no Tatsujin so we helped ourselves for a copy of Taiko no Tatsujin DS.

This game is played with your styluses (you should be careful not to damage your Nintendo DS) instead of using the buttons on PSP. The game is slightly different as it is divided into two screens (one where you hit and the other one where you see the notes scroll).

But anyway this game is fun. Much better Donkey Konga^_^.

I decided to take a video of me doing Gamble Rumble so I could use it for my ParaPara DVD.
I did it but it has one slight problem…the source video was really blurred so I sharpened it more than 50% and also I don’t really stand in the middle. So I was quite sad about this one..-_-

But I converted it and I uploaded the video to a new hosting (almost unlimited traffic. yay!)

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From now on I will only post the videos for my DVD. That means that the videos are bigger and better quality and with effects and such…^_~. The size various from 15-35 MB for the time being for one video. Enjoy it.

Download -> Gamble Rumble

We found out by accident that we have another dance machine in the Czech Republic. We asked the owners what the machine is and if they could do some photos.

We planned to go there next weekend but we found out that the arcade is out of order. A new machine and out of order? Quite wierd.