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This night Andamiro upgraded their site. Some changes are in the community forums (one forum completely deleted, new submit forms) but mainly all changes were made to PIU ranking.

Now the NX2 ranking is finally available so you can upload scores and be in the ranking. The countries in the NX2 ranking are now: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Korea, Mexico and the USA. If you want to manage your NX2 scores and stats you have to download a PIU manager from the official PIU ranking site. Then you can browse songs scores, whole game scores, world max missions etc.

Unfortunately the system is pretty buggy so Andamiro tries to do its best to get rid of these bugs. But I think this might work well. I have to say that the system now is better than the previous one even though it’s still a mess.

Now I wonder why I have Korean flag next to my nickname and I can only add scores to Polish Internet Ranking. I can’t even browse these scores because they are not in the country with which I registered. cool…

The new and this time not really awaited game Pop’n Music 16 was released in Japan the 24th of March.

The game is full of colors. In general most used color seems to be yellow (at least that’s my impression). The game features 34 new songs. Some of the songs are completely new, some of the songs come from other games like DDR or IIDX (sobakasu, run to you, 月光花). I was also pleased that a new Contemporary Nation is available in PNM16.

There is Enjoy Mode, Challenge Mode, (Cool) Challenge Mode, Expert Mode and Battle Mode. The second Challenge mode has new challenges than those we know from normal Challenge mode. Also Cool evaluation is turned always on in this mode. The rest is unchanged.

KONAMI hired several people from the French DDR players to show the newest DDR games (DDR Hottest Party for Nintendo Wii and DDR Universe for MS Xbox) in game stores in Paris last weekend.