STsung’s Blog

Well, the game’s being around for few days and people are really having fun to play this game. I wonder how popular this game will get.

Anyway more to the game play mechanics. You already know that you have to confirm the panels that light up with music but I guess everyone wondered when exactly the panels were supposed to be confirmed. People could think that it needs to be confirmed as fast as possible, but those playing BEMANI games were like “there has to be something like ‘just great’ window”. And there is actually one. The just perfect window is at the time when the panel is full lit.

Songlist:

KONAMI original

ki☆ki - Happy Happy
Mutsuhiko Izumi - Polaris
Mutsuhiko Izumi - Snow Goose
Mutsuhiko Izumi - 天国と地獄

License

AAA - BLOOD on FIRE
鈴木亜美 joins �*田ヤスタカ - FREE FREE
Mi - Good bye little girl
Chris Brown featuring T-Pain - Kiss Kiss
川嶋あい - My love
�*ードオブメジャー - PLAY THE GAME
ANNA inspi’ NANA(BLACK STONES) - rose
Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
VILLAGE PEOPLE - Y.M.C.A.
THE BOOM - 風になりたい
mihimaru GT - 気分上々↑↑
RIKI - �*�！ミッドナイト
MINMI - シャナナ☆
FUNKY MONKEY BABYS - ちっぽけな勇気
Do As Infinity - 冒険者たち

Cover

BONNIE PINK - A Perfect Sky
Ai + BAND - BELIEVE IN LOVE
浜崎あゆみ - BLUE BIRD
UVERworld - endscape
POLYSICS - I My Me Mine
Nolans - I’M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING
嵐 - love so sweet
大塚愛 - PEACH
平井�*� - POP STAR
絢香 - Real voice
Rip Slyme - SPEED KING
コブク�* - YELL ～エール～
THE BLUE HEARTS - �*スしてほしい
倖田來未 - �*ューティーハニー
レミオ�*メン - 粉雪
Crystal Kay - こんなに近くで…
ス�*マスイッチ - 全力少年
山下智久 - 抱いてセニョリータ
MISIA - 太陽の地図
BUMP OF CHICKEN - 天体観測
サンボマスター - 光の�*ック
NANA starring MIKA NAKASHIMA - 一色
YUKI - ふがいないや
ZARD - �*けないで

Hidden

Kozo Nakamura - Jumping Boogie
kors k - Special One
Jimmy Weckl - Icicles

Changes:

- Added “Half Double” steps, added missing FS and NM charts (view below)
- Red button unready
- Mod names on Results
- Sort by Freestyle, Nightmare, Half Double
- Song wheel icon for Edits
- Faster life regeneration on Easy
- Show disqualified on Results
- Fix high score score name blacklist
- Fix RANDOM SPEED MOD will not turn off unless using “ALL OFF” option.
- Fix some saved mods (like Perspective) shouldn’t be applied in Progressive
- Credits screen names updated
- Fix very short hold notes (Utopia Crazy) complete without stepping
- Add toggle songs screen
- Fix machine eats credits on title screen
- Fix grade gems now displaying correctly in Freestyle and Nightmare

Pump Original revivals:

Can Can - Banya* [1, 4, 7, 10 .2. 8, 11]
Miss’s Story - Banya [1, 4, 6, 9 .7. 6, 11]
(*actually composed by F2 Systems)

In The Groove crossovers:

Euphoria - KaW feat. Smiley, [1, 3, 7, 12 . 9. 4, 11]
Tension - Inspector K, [1, 4, 9, 11 .4. 7, 12]
Tribal Style - KaW [1, 4, 9, 10 .7. 3, 11]

New Songs:

Epilogue - When Machines Dream, [1, 3, 7, 10 .3. 7, 13]
Kitty Cat - Coconut, [1, 3, 5, 9 .7. 2, 9]
Ladybug - Coconut, [1, 3, 7, 8 .8. 4, 9]
London Bridge - SCIGuyz, [1, 4, 7, 10 .8. 4, 11]
Move It Groove It - KaW feat. Sam I Am, [1, 3, 5, 10 .7. 4, 11]
Shooting Star - Coconut [1, 3, 6, 8 .7. 2, 10]
Style On My Speed Dial - Oscillator X [1, 3, 7, 8 .4. 2, 8]

Added FS and NM charts:

Blow My Mind (FS added [4])
Coming Out (NM moved to HDB [10]. New NM added [9])
Dawn -Perpetual Mix- (FS moved to HDB [7]. New FS added [8])
VVV (FS moved to HDB [12]. New FS added [8])
Chicken Wing (FS added [6])
D Gang (NM added [10])
Dance With Me (NM added [9])
Don’t Bother Me (NM added [9])
Emperor (NM added [9])
Eres Para Mi (NM added [12])
Everybody (NM added [8])
Ignition Starts (NM added [11])
Let The Sunshine (NM added [8])
Maria (NM added [8])
Mexi Mexi (NM added [11])
Monkey Magic (NM moved to HDB [9], New NM added [10])
Oh Rosa! (NM added [9])
Space Fantasy (NM added [10])
Starian (NM added [10])

Starting yesterday and ending on 23rd of July Japanese people have the chance to try the new DDR arcade game out. As you may know this mix is celebrating the 10 years of DDR’s existence and thus should be innovative or revolutionary.

The cabinet itself looks different. It has bigger and wider screen and more lights next to the speakers. Also the banner is bigger etc^_~. Anyway the platform has changed quite a lot. At least the looks of it (no pink/blue panels, red bar). KONAMI asks the player what they think of the panels (playing-wise) so I guess they changed more than just the look^_~ (hope it is better than the SN platform). In overall the cabinet is more western urban styled and I’m quite afraid of how the game will look like.

All songs have been rerated to 1-20 scale. So most boss songs have different difficulties now. (So max300 or TLOM are rated 15 and FELM and FAXX are 18s)

KONAMI also introduced a new type of note. It’s called a shock arrow. When you step on the arrow you will get a combo breaker, you will loose a bit energy from the lifebar and the scrolling arrows will vanish for a while.

Today KONAMI announced 2 big and long awaited news. ….

1. DDR X is going to be an arcade release! (as well as the CS one, but everyone knows that already).

2. Jubeat is going to be finally out! Site is opening on 24th July so it’s going to be soon!

edit: Jubeat is out.