KONAMI annouced that they would officially release Drummania in Europe. The game concerned is Drummania V4. DMV4 is supposed to be released in September 2008 for Europe.
The game features 450 songs and some awesome licenses as KONAMI says, just hope it won’t be anything like European licenses for Supernova.
The thing I don’t understand is…..where the hell is Guitar Freaks? You know session linking is kinda of no use without GF machines.
This game can run on PentiumIII 800Mhz, 512MB RAM. It has 500MB and needs DirectX 8 or higher. There are 12 songs by default but you can also download more songs for this PNM game from KONAMI official website.
Game modes available are - 3 button, 5 button, 9 button normal mode, 9 button hyper mode.
You can get the set (mouse and the game) for about 5000 Yen VAT excluded at konamistyle.
Lately Maya Takamura’s video DVD was released. Maya Takamura is the only female in the IIDX staff. She works along other members of the graphics team on 2d and now 3d movies for IIDX games (Movie Designer). Her 2d drawings easy to recognize. Her lineart is not so strong and her coloring style reminds of water color use (no cel shading as most other artist do).
She brings a bit of lightness to IIDX graphic. She is most known for the illustration of Killer from Genocide. (from IIDX Red)
She has done videos for Xepher, Zenius-I-Vanisher, Blind Justice, Twelfth Style, Little Little Princess etc.
This weekend there was a long awaited and well organized meeting in Stuttgart. The meeting was meant for all the music games players from Germany and Austria (and who else could come and speak German^_~). People could chat, play all the games as they liked and well in general have fun. This meeting went smoothly to the likes of the people who organized this meeting and by this I would like to thank then and encourage them to another meeting like this.
The games available were DDR, ITG, PIU Pro, Pop’n Music, Taiko no Tatsujin, Beatmania IIDX and even Donkey Konga. As you can see this is quite a lot and ASC were available (thanks to the people taken them there).
BeatMania IIDX tournament was held there.(Cebix won the tournament)
People who got there could also try out the new Impact Dance Platform (not the final version though) and compare it with the new PG Cobalt Fluxes.
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Thanks Wiebke Timm for his photos.
As the title says. A new channel was open for all those interested in meeting other players from other countries (at least via IRC).
Location: quakenet
Channel: #machinedance
It consists of the exercise program itself, a dance pad and a motion sensor belt. A person can choose what kind of movements he wants to do for example yoga or martial arts. After the selection the person just follows the “notes” on the screen and performs the predefined moves (at the right time). The belt calculates the score and calories burned so the game keeps you post it on your calories burned and if you are the best at this kind of exercise. Could be fun don’t you think?
573 does this number sound familiar? Do you know what it has to do with this blog? Well, I will tell you.
Beatmaniaiidx.com was supposed to be mainly about the great music game BeatMania IIDX (7K) which is an “upgrade” of BeatMania (5KEYS). BM is the first musical game from a series called BEMANI. As you can see everything on this blog has to do with either BEMANI or other music games. BEMANI games are produced by a company named KONAMI. So you wonder where the number 573 is hidden in the word KONAMI?
It’s easy actually. KONAMI is a Japanese company. Isn’t there something more to the name? Well, there is. Five is said “go” in Japanese and it can be changed to voiceless version “KO”. Seven can be said nana and from there comes the “NA”. “Number” three can be described by mittsu from which comes the last syllable “MI”. From this 573 was born and the company is also known under this number. That’s also why the KONAMI’s name is written in katakana rather than kanji characters (which would have a real meaning).
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573 number can be found in KONAMI games. For example both The Legend of Max and Max300 from DDR have max combo exactly 573.
Last year on this very same date a Chinese company EZ2Dance produced and released a new version of Dance Station 3DDX. The game is called now Plus Dance Station 3DDX 3: D-Tech.
The machine differs little bit from the previous two versions. It red and blue panels on the platform and the hand sensor cage is red. On this cage you will also see flashing lights.
The game contains 87 songs. 15 songs are Chinese, the rest of it is Korean and the songs come from the previous two versions of 3DDX and Pump it Up.
The game has 2 difficulties for single (Easy, Hard - earlier known as pretty steps and hard steps) and one difficulty for double (club, earlier known as dual mode).
The Hidden Codes stay the same as on the previous version, so no need to learn new codes for speed modification or random steps.
all the information is taken from the official website at EZ2Dance.com
There is a new community around this game and they are making videos and comments ^_^. I’m happy that this game is not dead yet.
Note: for some basic info or videos you can check my site DS 3DDX 2
MG-Impact a new BEMANI community in France prepared us a new version of their BEMANI riddles.
There are four types - DDR related, BEMANI related, Mixes and Special.
The first two ones are riddles about DDR or other BEMANI games. In Mixes you have to download a mp3 file and recognize all of DDR, BeatMania or Pop’n Music songs. And finally there is special where you have to use some other programs to actually finish the riddle.
Sometimes the questions are easy. For example there is a picture of KONAMI log and underneath is written “the code”. You only have to enter the KONAMI code. Or you have 21 [japanese character] FAST. You are supposed to rewrite the FAST to the right BPM and I guess everyone knows that^_^. This was really fun.
There was one really difficult one^_^. There is writen AROHI and a slowed and maybe reversed audio can be heard. When you finally find the name of the song you find out that the song name is not supposed to be written in English but in Japanese. So you can continue looking for the name in Japanese …it was fun to find this one out. I really ran the game to find both the song and its Japanese name.
There are even more hardcore tasks. Recognizing songs from a mixture of mp3 is quite fine, but recognizing a song from one key sound is HARDCORE for me. (speaking about BeatMania IIDX key sounds) or there is a crossword which is pretty difficult…and you have to fill in all the letters in there!
And finally the address for those who speak at least a little bit of French.
http://www.mg-impact.fr/bemanifacile/
And RESPECT for those who created BEMANIfacile.
We are selling the new shiny sofpads from Positive Gaming in the Czech Republic. Before actually starting to sell them in big I decided to test them what they can survive.
I played In The Groove on it and everything went ok. My results were slightly lower than on my Cobalt Flux pad but I could play whatever song I wanted unlike on pads like Deluxe Ignition pad where you are happy if you actually clear a song on hard.
A friend of mine who actually started the distribution of the pads in the Czech Republic gave me a challenge - Pass Paranoia Survivor Max on a softpad and get over 75%.
So I said ok. But for that I will need PG’s Dance Impact Pad.
Well, here is the result - a video of me passing PSM on a SOFTPAD.
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