DanceDanceRevolution X (AC) (International)

Pie pie:

Thanks again for those edits. I play some of them last night. They are all easy but fun. I especially like koko soko.

I wish you can find harder edits for me to try though. Somewhere aroung 13-16's

Reach Up Beginner almost MFC (I really mean almost... hard to watch. not for the faint of heart)

After the final day of the 2009 ASI amusement trade show only a few note worthy information on the final release of DDR X North American and most likely European versions has been discovered..

The version on display at the show is was the most recent (2009020600). This version is also being used at the Brunswick Zone, IL location test. USB and e-Amuse slots were still covered.

Yesterday the DDR X flyer was posted which confirmed two things:
e-Amuse Ready.
Dedicabs will be shipped with e-Amuse readers and service will be available at launch. The e-Amuse service will be a fee of 50$ USD per month. This also includes the specialized router, but does not include the standard fee for broadband internet. This is quite pricey for such a simple feature that could be accomplished in so many other ways. With the foreseeable limit of arcades willing to adopt such a high overhead cost for e-Amuse lets also hope that codes for unlockable content will also be used.
Step Chart Edit's
The PC program mentioned on the DDROnlineCommunity website for creating X edits will in fact be happening. This is quite good seeing that it is very hard to swap edits using the ps2 edits system, though hopefully we can share edits with the JP and Asian versions also.

After the poll presented on the DDROnlineCommunity website asking players if they would prefer USB or SD cards as their choice of medium for edits; USB clearly was the most favored. However, a Konami representative posted stating that USB will possibly not be used due to the security risk. It now very questionable about this actual point of this poll. The ASI09 flyer states that edits will be utilized over SD cards making Konami's, not the player's, decision of SD cards the final choice. It is understandable to take measures to insure a game is secure, but it does not make sense when the game has already been released with USB in Japan and Asia.

Another minor change is the keymapping of the cabinet buttons. Up and Down no longer changes songs, the original Left and Right keys now change songs. However, Up and Down does nothing on the Song Select Menu, they are only used for the Mods Menu. Preferably Up and Down should be used to change difficulties on the Song Menu, but I doubt this will be changed. For Doubles Mode, both 1p and 2p buttons can be used.

Betson is still the official distributor for Konami. It is very clear most DDR players dislike Betson after their production of terrible quality SN2 machines, but these new X dedicated cabinets are being produced by Konami. They will however be released without the light sticks on the sides of the machine. This was done to reduce cost. It was said that more slight modifications will most likely occur to the cabinet before the final release.

The details of upgrades are still unclear.

edit; Also the projected release date for DDR X dedicated cabinets is set for May 2009.

Reach Up Beginner almost MFC (I really mean almost... hard to watch. not for the faint of heart)

It is understandable to take measures to insure a game is secure, but it does not make sense when the game has already been released with USB in Japan and Asia.

I wouldn't want to give us USB slots either looking at some of the shit people have done to ITG cabinets.

I wouldn't want to give us USB slots either looking at some of the shit people have done to ITG cabinets.

This same old dance again?

(no pun intended)

maybe the 1st MFC at Hong Kong , done by Cata , congratulations!

Some photos from MIEYA of the online update:

Notable changes include:

2. New and old scores are now displayed as a graph in the results screen.