DDR HP3 / DDR MUSIC FIT (Wii) (International)

ROFL! XD

KOE's thought process: Well, in HP2 we got a chick with the Wiimote standing on the DDR mat...LETZ ADD A DUDE AND ANOTHER GIRL DOING THE SAME EXCEPT WE HAVE HIM ON THE WII MAT AND THE ARROWS ARE NOW CORRECTLY PLACED!

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Alright Lady Gaga! She's my favorite

Tonight's gonna be a good night D:

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Can they just be consistent with US's logo? This one looks more plain, not counting miss Ca(ra)mel-Toes Swirling-Remote mk II (it doesn't have the sparkles, but blech).

Unless it is marketed solely as an exercise game and not a dance simulation game (she seriously isn't going to a party dressed liked that).


brb, gonna b disappointed at BEP.

EDIT: Since someone said I should.

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Camel-Toes

Remember when Black Eyed-Peas weren't generic and boring? Oh, wait.

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Not sure if this is the spot to ask this but does anyone know how work is coming along with the MP3's for the songs in HP3 under the Simfiles section?

-To answer your concern, no, this is not the place to discuss the simfiles. That would be the thread in "Simfile Discussion".
-Also, in answer of your main question, the mp3's have been in the first post of the aforementioned thread for a while. I assume the problem is that the .sm files aren't ready.

Oh, I had no idea. Thanks a lot.

Still playing Music Fit, and I guess I'll mention something I had noticed by now:


I don't know about the charts, but Kimono and roppongi (all versions) require gimmicks.
Kimono, roppongi and You Are a Star are the only songs in Music Fit to use diagnal arrows,
and they all have at least one difficulty that requires those arrows to get AAA.


Any official pad from the bundle will work, however I've heard complaints that some cheap but crappy 3rd-party pads will only work on early games.

And btw, I tried Freeze with cut, jump off, freeze off and gimmicks off, and I got a PFC with a D rank
Looks like there's something really weird about the whole FC thing in this game...
(In contrast, you won't earn the FC crown in FFP if you choose a song that requires gimmicks, and FC it with gimmicks turned off.
This serves as a hint to tell if you need gimmicks to AAA a song.)

EDIT:
I checked again today, so now I have a list of all the songs in Music Fit that need gimmicks to get AAAs on
(I haven't checked other difficulties yet.).


Dunno if HP3's charts are the same as MF's though.

Annnd, the first UK order links have come:

http://www.play.com/Games/Wii/4-/15110200/Dance-Dance-Revolution-Hottest-Party-3/Product.html (Game Only)
http://www.play.com/Games/Wii/4-/15110208/Dance-Dance-Revolution-Hottest-Party-3/Product.html (Bundle)

'least you guys get game-only.

With a compromise of a 6 month wait? Uhhh no thanks.

I actually broke down the whole gimmick requirement thing long time ago on a Youtube post of mine. Let me see if I can find my list, because there is an explanation as to WHY a song requires gimmicks to AAA. Here it is.

"Come to think of it, with HP3 I may have a hunch as to when a song requires gimmicks and WHY. I've noticed that in ALL of the AAAs that require gimmicks, these songs usually have double stomps notes tied to jumps. Normally landing a jump only counts as one note and you get the total score for that one note. However, when one of the two notes is a gimmick note a jump counts as two steps in a combo AND in scoring. This is why the ending scores on these songs don't even out when gimmicks are off. It's also why on DDRX2 You Are A Star Expert only has 352 notes when AAAd while its HP3 equivalent has 355 notes with the same grade. The three extra notes are from the gimmick jumps.

The way the game sees it, it is similar to the loss of total point values when you turn freeze arrows off.

This also goes for songs in HP2 with hand requirements. The reason for that is because on double hand markers, each hand counts as a separate note and gets a separate judgment. When hands are off, you're essentially cutting one note off of every jump in the song. Double/Triple Stomps work the same way here as in HP3 too, explaining why We Will Win The Fight and 5 O'Clock required gimmicks and hands.

Now it seems like if two double stomps are used together in a jump, the jump is again counted as ONE note in a combo. This explains why Walking on Sunshine could be AAAd without Gimmicks when beforehand I thought they were required. Now the reasoning behind the score caps on AAAs for HP2 is still very much unknown to me though. My theory is that it's based off a percentage of notes shaken

In short, whether something requires gimmicks or not is entirely based off of whether it affects how many notes are counted in specific jump situations in a chart."

Songs that require gimmicks to AAA.

You Are A Star: diagonal arrow is placed on three jumps
Crazy Control: (triple stomp is part of the jumps at the beginning of the song)
This Night (double stomp on jumps)
Brilliant 2U (double stomp on jumps)
Be With You (Still Miss You) (double stomps on jumps)
Enjoy The Silence (double stomps on jumps)
Southside (double stomps on jumps)
True Love (Clubstars' True Club Mix)
Roppongi Evolved (all three, due to diagonal arrows on jumps at the beginning of all three charts)
Pluto The First (sudden arrows are on jumps)
Kimono Princess (diagonal arrows on jumps)
Hottest Party (sudden arrows and double stomps on jumps)
Hottest Party 2 (on the VERY first jump a foot missile is placed as part of a jump)

Nonstop courses work like this too. If ANY song in a nonstop requires gimmicks, the entire course will require them for a AAA.

Free Play Mode courses:
Kamikaze Princess
Dreaming Air
Crazy Squall
Freezing Gust
Blasting Time
Night Storm

Workout Mode courses:
Aerobeats
Stepping Out of the Box
Funky Grooves
Sizzlin' Beats
Cliffhanger
Swinging With Swiftness
Reaching Out

^ This.

I thought that the game would be out already by now. I must say that for all the suing each other Harmonix and Konami do they sure do have a lot in common, including lax release dates for Europe...

I know that they have to translate it into a couple of European languages, but Nintendo managed to release a text-heavy game like Zelda: Spirit Tracks a couple of days after the US AND with the European version's English actually being in proper British English.
I know, Nintendo were just spoiling me and we can't expect every company to put in that amount of effort.


Also, HAI GUYZ! Missed me?
I'd say not.

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So, DDR HP3 out in Europe this week and only Konami's Italy site has the game up on their site. Brilliant.

Bump: This should get the message across juuuuust right:

Truth has been spoken

btw, who's Xavious?

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D8 Why does the German official site have that kind of footage? I've been checking the Japanese site literally every day for some kind of character official art. Nothin' doing.

I did!

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You shouldn't have because:

a) I'm an annoying, whiny git.
b) I still fancy you.

Konami's handling of releases in Europe no longer surprises me: America is more lucrative for the amount of effort Konami need to put in, Europe isn't.

Wow, I've been gone from the DDR community for so long I feel completely out of the loop of what's been going on. Have I missed anything important?

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Just one thing...
DDR X2 (AC) (Japan)

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Thank you Konami France: http://fr.games.konami-europe.com/game.do?idGame=275

Though it's a bit shameful for them to use a trailer that states the ESRB rating which Europe doesn't even have!