STsung’s Blog

We did not need to wait for long till Jubeat’s test location. The first test location started today at Round 1 - Sanomiya . This one will end tomorrow at midnight.

Next test locations will be held at Round 1 - Yokohama Station West Exit and Entertainment Square Pasuka. At both locations Jubeat will be present from 17th of March till 22nd of March.

Jubeat Ripples theme looks like “Soappy Bubbles everywhere”. Different blue colors are the main color + orange. There is a new Touch marker. It’s not the Green/Purple one from the previous game. This one shows the perfect timing with a “cloud” turning from white to orange color. The super high-tech feel is gone…

Most of the songs on Jubeat Ripples are licenses. Few are covers and KONAMI Originals.

Songlist

AREA 51 by 96 (KONAMI original)
Russian Snowy Dance by Mutsuhiko Izumi (KONAMI original)
愛 NEED by キマグレン
今 by ET-KING
にんげんっていいな by ガガガDX
バカサバイバー by ウルフルズ
Musical Messenger by 九州男
労働 CALLING by 怒髪天
ロボットハニー by Aira Mitsuki
情熱大陸 (cover)

Everyone was wondering if KONAMI comes up with conversion kits for DDRX. And well the good news is that they will be released on 28th January 09. Cool isn’t it?

The special site was open on 10th of December and everyone awaits the release of the Japanese DDRX arcade machine.
Wonder how it looks like when new cabinets are being made?

We got a new TV, which is pretty nice Samsung HDTV. So I tried playing some DJ Troopers on it. The problem was that I was getting all goods with few greats (40). So I wanted to compare AC data vs PS2 data on the TV.

I found out this…
Happy Sky AC

-huge video lag (if played according to the rhythm the notes disappear on the targets, not the case of plasma TVs)
-no audio problem (can sync to audio thus^_^)
-clear image (looks so nice)

Happy Sky CS

-huge video lag (bleeee)
-some kind of weird audio problem (ehm IT’S OFFFFFFFF, can’t sync with it at all)
-pretty blurry image (does not look nice at all-_-)
-desaturated colors (I would be fine with this playing gold^_^ maybe it would render it playable)
-ghost notes at higher speed (erm…sucks)
-actually the fact that HS CS has such a f*cked up timing made it almost playable on this setup o_O

note: as you can see AC data is on P1 and PS2 on P2.

Two days ago Jubeat staff posted on their blog that a jubeat online update will take place during mid-december. Four new songs will be added to the game. Each song comes from a different “living” bemani game.

From IIDX - SigSig by kors k.
From DDR - TRUE♥LOVE by jun feat. Schanita
From PNM - 凛として咲く花の如く by 紅色リトマス
From GFDM - Slang by Kozo Nakamura

…almost. Few more days and Beatmania IIDX 16 Empress will be released (19th November).

Starting today Japanese people can try out the new Guitar Freaks and Drummania game. The test ends on 16th of November.

KONAMI announced that they will release 17th Pop’n Music in February 2009. The game’s full title is Pop’n Music 17: The Movie. The main color of this theme is light purple.

We don’t know much yet except that the game will be aimed for both beginning players (Enjoy mode) and expert players. KONAMI also announced that they will be organizing e-amusement events regularly and that new licensed and original music will be in the game.

Finally the long awaited DJ Troopers CS is announced. The game will be released on 18th December 2008.

Today is the official day of the Dance Dance Revolution CS USA release. The game will hit the shelves of your local game scores tomorrow so get ready and go get your copy!