Week Beginning Monday 7th, July 2008

News Clips (Last Update: 2008-07-13 06:02 GMT+1)

2008.07.13 - 25% Off @
There's 25% off all in stock items over at play-asia.com, if you want to buy anything from there, best do it before 20th July!

2008.07.11 - KONAMI @ E3 2008 (Thread)
According to GameSpot, KONAMI's game line-up this year includes the following games:

Xbox 360 & PS3 - Silent Hill Homecoming
Wii - Castlevania Judgement
DS - New International Track & Field
DS - Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Xbox 360 & DS & PS3 & Wii - Rock Revolution
Wii - Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked
DS - Time Hollow
Wii - DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY 2 (Thread)
Xbox 360 - DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE 3 (Thread)
PS2 - DanceDanceRevolution X (Thread)

2008.07.11 - DanceDanceRevolution X (AC) (Japan) (Thread)
am-net.jp has updated again, rough translation in this post. Some photos have popped up over at 2ch, they are also posted here.

2008.07.11 - BEMANI TOP RANKER 2008
Released.

2008.07.11 - GuitarFreaksV5 & DrumManiaV5 Rock to Infinity (AC) (Japan) (Thread)
Site updated. EXTRA RUSH LEVEL 3 has started.

2008.07.10 - KONAMI Sues Viacom Over Rock Band

2008.07.10 - DDR SuperNOVA2 (AC) (North America) (Thread)
CaptivAte ～誓い～ has been unlocked. One more week till Unlock Lv 3 for LOCAL MODE machines.

2008.07.10 - DanceDanceRevolution X (AC) (Japan) (Thread)
According to am-net.jp a widescreen monitor will be used and USB support is added for use with PS2 link and original sequencer support.

2008.07.09 - beatmaniaIIDX16 EMPRESS (Thread)
According to alpha-st.co.jp, this will be released in the first half of November, 2008. News from ミーヤの屋根裏部屋.

2008.07.09 - PARQUETS
New album to be released on October 8th, 2008. PARQUETS is a pop'n music artist. News from ミーヤの屋根裏部屋 and ゴクツウ2.

2008.07.09 - jubeat (AC) (Japan) (Thread)
Special (Official) site will be opening on 24th July. A campaign called ファーストタッチキャンペーン (First Touch Campaign) will be held from July 24th to August 7th in Japan where 400 people can receive a prize from KONAMI by playing jubeat. Players may get either the jubeat original CUBE speaker or the jubeat original 4-way CUBE clock.

2008.07.09 - jubeat (AC) (Japan) (Thread)
Product page has been renewed.

2008.07.09 - DanceDanceRevolution GATEWAY (Japan)
Site renewed. Europe and North America DDR gateways remain in their old versions however.

2008.07.09 - DanceDanceRevolution X (PS2) (Japan) (Thread)
Announced.

2008.07.09 - DanceDanceRevolution X (AC) (Japan) (Thread)
Announced. According to am-net.jp a private showing will be held on July 10th-11th, the release date is this winter and that the machine cabinet design has changed.

2008.07.09 - pop'n music 16 PARTY♪ (AC) (Japan) (Thread)
Site updated. MUSIC & CHARACTERS section updated.

2008.07.09 - pop'n music 16 PARTY♪ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Partial CD1 track listing published.

Pre-order pop'n music 16 PARTY♪ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

2008.07.09 - Sota Fujimori First Album SYNTHESIZED (Thread)
Two more tracks on CD2 revealed.

Pre-order Sota Fujimori First Album SYNTHESIZED
CD1 Clips (MP3 / v0) (17mb)

CD2
Spring Comes Around / Remixed by wac
together 4 ever / Remixed by TOMOSUKE

2008.07.08 - KONAMI @ Games Convention Leipzig 2008
KONAMI has mentioned some titles that will show up in this year's Games Convention in Leipzig.

2008.07.08 - Zenius -I- vanisher.com -5th style- beta (Thread)
Test drive the upcoming version. Please note some pages are not 100% converted yet.

Requests

Zenius -I- vanisher.com -5th style-
Any suggestions for the next version of the site will be appreciated. Please post your suggestions in this thread.

DDR Custom Backgrounds (Thread) (Background Status)
Any backgrounds you create contributing to the SuperNOVA and SuperNOVA2 simfiles will be greatly appreciated. Please check the current status before starting to make a background as one could have been made already. The backgrounds must be 640x480 in size, should resemble the banner of the song and finally, must be good looking.

DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 (AC) (North America)
Any DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2s you find in North America, can I ask that members post the location, version number and e-AMUSE status in this thread: DDR SuperNOVA2 (AC) (North America). You can find the version number on the top left of the title screen and the e-AMUSE status at the bottom centre of the screen. Any unlocks that appear one way or another should be posted immediately.

Feedback (North America) (www.arcadefuture.com)

This Week's Releases

BEMANI TOP RANKER 2008 DVD will be released this Friday.

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Hmm...methinks DDR X might make an appearance at Leipzig?

Either that or our overdue DS Universe 2...

DDR X AC and JP CS announced!
http://www.konami.jp/bemani/ddr/jp/am/ddrx/

http://www.konami.jp/bemani/ddr/jp/gs/ddrx/

I've translated the quote on the AC page as "Don't miss the moment of revolution!"

On the 2nd site, the final pic looks like a story mode, Like in Universe. Now if I can read what that song is on the 2nd & 3rd picture is?

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Woah, that's interesting.
I want to know what the hell Konami is up to then? I cannot think of how this is going to work out, but it looks like America is not catching up anytime soon.
And since when is the CS version announced the same time as the AC?

I'm not complaining at all, I just hope Europe sees this release.
And the silhouette image of the DDR machine looks... weird. Whatever those pole things at the front are.

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Can that be the new machine that's been buzzing around?

Bump. The lower lights can be well... lights and the poll looking things can be speakers. Just throwing something out there.

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http://www.konami.jp/bemani/ddr/jp/howtoplay.html

Has a secret snapshot of DDR:X, but the song name is covered up >_>. Looks like ???? DDR Re-edit. Also: demo movie with new character?

Oh i c wut they did thar

And what happened to Scotty D.? D:

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The pic of the covered song (Oh that sneaky Konami>_<) looks like Rage.

Bump: The only thing I can point out on the song is ????ED (DDR Re-Edit).

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Hmm..perhaps SYNTHESIZED, from SOTAs new album? ;)

Quote: piepiepie75
Hmm..perhaps SYNTHESIZED, from SOTAs new album? ;)

Looks like there too many letters to fit SYNTHESIZED.

Now looking at it harder, Looks like E____E (DDR Re-Edit). The 1st and last letter look like Es like how DistoreD dues with Ds.

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What I see is the open parenthesis, followed by four letters that look like "EDDR" and X-edit. "DDR X-edit".

If that's the subtitle, there's no telling what the rest of the title is.

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The more I look at this, the more I see. Now it's looks like the 2nd last letter might be a d or a i, and the last letter looks like a Z.

It's 2:30 in the morning for me, so if I get some rest, I might think better.

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Off the topic of DDR for a moment.

http://www.konami.jp/bemani/jubeat/

The jubeat special site will open on July 24th.

What about on the GS page in the second and third screenshots? Who wants to tell us what those are?

Speaking of screenshots, the "toasty" appears after a 22 combo in both of them. They changed it from 25, huh?

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Nah, the screen's probably just been taken a few arrows after the 20 combo, where the toasty is still up.

I have news but it's not good news.
My youtube account is suspended.
3300 videos down the toilet.
*sigh* Oh well.

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Oh dear. Any reason given for suspension?

10 news clips in one day, must be a site record. XD

Quote: Phantasmal
I have news but it's not good news. My youtube account is suspended. 3300 videos down the toilet. *sigh* Oh well.

I just found out too. Your video's were awesome! I bet YouTube got anal with the copyright stuff

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