DDR X2 (AC) (International)

So, any reason why the X2 YouTube vids have gone private?

wait what? i'm like 99.9% sure that yoshinori ono is the lead producer of street fighter 4, which is a capcom game...

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then it goes on with the interview. i doubt he works for both konami AND capcom, and with the time going into SSF4 right now he and the time going into SF4 when X was being made i doubt he had anything to do with it.

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Umeda was the director of DDR X as well.

I think he means Yoshihiko Ota, who has produced the series for many years, but I'm not sure what he actually does, since apparently NAOKI is the "Producer" but the X2 marquee still credits Yoshihiko Ota. He might just be the extremely executive producer, so executive he doesn't have much to do with the actual game.

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that makes sense. if he keeps track of whos in charge of multiple games a name that similar would be easy to mistake.

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X2 CS has Yoshihiko Ota's title as "Executive Producer" while Naoki Maeda is credited as "Producer".

Does anyone have this feeling Konami told YouTube to mark those videos private?

Oh yes! Remember the case with IIDX EMPRESS, I remember all HIMIKO videos were removed due to copyright infrigment very quickly.

Whoops...Must've gotten the names mixed up...*facepalm into headdesk*

OK im back, sorry for leaving you guys hanging. big, busy and even frightening day.

Have lots to say and will post when i got more together but first you all probably nonticed the vids are gone or in other words private.

This is in fact do to the director finding out about them and telling me to remove them. I did the second best thing and marked them private for now. I will allow people on my friends list to view them for now and until then I really gotta keep a low profile so please everyone dont go sharing this info I give you with just anyone.

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According to atamax, Love Love Sugar has been revived.

Figured as much Konami had something to do with it but oh well lol. Good while it lasted.

Ok for starters I woke up to a rather threatening e-mail instructing me to remove the videos I had posted. I mark them as private for now and might go public after loc test or sometime in the near future. I wrote a letter of apology and handed it to the director U-san. Actually he wasnt too angry cause he thinks I`m a nice kid. So that was the morning. (btw can my friends still view my videos? I dont know about youtubes private videos work.)


After that I went in line to play DDR X2 and at the time there was about 10-12 people infront of me. I played my set and enjoyed it a lot. Second stage I played Smooooch and PFCed it to the crowds delight who gave me a round of aplause.

when I finished and wanted to go back in line, this is what I saw...


That was a bit too overwhelming so I decided to play some DDR X. After I wondered around akihabara for a good hour and then went back.

Next post soon. just giving you something to read now

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Depending on how you set it, it can be a limited URL that up to 25 different people can view or it can be set to email invites to watch only

Yes, everyone in that picture sitting down is waiting to play and there are even a few tucked away where the girl is.

I took this time to talk to the director. KK came with me to translate and we went somewhere quiet.

The man was nice enough to give me a half hour of his time. He even wrote in his note book all the suggestions I offered him. Some he didnt seem to interesting while other left him jotting lots of things down in his notebook.

The top things I stressed were these.
1. Announcer options
2. Challenge charts and or making more edits playable
3. Offset button to fix sync errors. (he asked if it should be a general option or for all songs. I said the latter would be better.
4. Better editing program to allow more beats.
5. X2 in places outside asia along with pointing out that other places are still in need of DDR X1 upgrade kits and stressing that the outside asia cabs are not playable and to make new machines through konami.

Of course I mentioned everything else on that list along with some suggestions I saw before I left and even included DDR Rays request for more Region options.

Other things I thought of today and said.
Shock arrows in edit data, shock arrows in other than 4 at a time, introduce a AAAA for a Marvelous full combo, and maybe a few others that slip my mind.

Overall I was really glad to talk to him and he seemed like he really enjoyed my input as well.

I will talk to him again tomorrow which is my last day in japan so any other important suggestions need to be said before i leave tomorrow.

Last part: Info

I did get a ton of pictures today so feel free to look through the album and if you find something interesting you can link it here. I dont have time to look through them and post myself.


I DID get more videos today HOWEVER, they will not be public for a little while. They are safely on my youtube now. They are the following (all great quality videos) Fire Fire, Smoooch, Second heaven (better than first video I uploaded) and Possession pass. All are on single and expert.

I would like someone to step fire fire, Smooooch and second heaven since we have the song file from IIDX and you can clearly make out the steps. That way everyone can play the official steps and see what they are like without me risking going public with my videos. If your interested please PM me and give me your youtube so I can share the videos with you.

Song comments.

Dazling Darling: Lots of gallops and usually following the beats very well. Some crossovers and the parts before the music goes silent and starts again feature jumps and quick 16th notes. Overall I like it though most players here dont it seems.

Fire Fire: This is a nice chart. It follows the music very well. it usually goes a 3 set followed by a 5 set 16th notes. Theres even a few 2 arrow runs in the beginning and in the middle. I liked this one a lot... though I flagged it

Possession Single: Looking at it, it didnt seem so tough but after playing it... holy shit! this is one bad ass mean song. I dont know where to begin. Well nothting gets too hard util the middle. Leading up there is a long session of 12th note jumps (there must be well over 100 jumps in this song) after that it gets tricker with quick 3 sets but the middle note is a short freeze making it really hard to see. The sets start becoming quick turns and then is the worst part... Best way to describe it is Healing-D-Vision ending on crack. I still dont know how to hit those notes in the 350bpm stream. And this leads to the ending another long session of 12th jumps. And now we are at the end. Up to this I`d call it a 17 but the ending makes it almost a 19... The ending is constantly at 350bpm and it dives into a seemly never ending set of 12ths followed by jumps followed by 12th and so on until it decides to through some cross overs as well. Honestly, the ending is just like Vertex Squared in ITG though a little* easier.


Possession Double: Yes I did see this song cleared today, you know why? cause 2 people had to cheat to do it... and I was one of them. Disney asked me to help clear it with him. It pretty much follows the pattern of single only the increased difficulty of having to strech in parts. I find it funny how on my video yesterday I said it was an almost cleared video, in fact it wasnt close and more over the next parts are seemingly impossible for a single man to combo. See the part about HDV on crack and apply to doubles and include that wonderfull ending.

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So is Possession finally an 18 that doesn't suck?

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I wont coment on that part yet since I havent played it enough.

I wont coment cause eitherway this song is VERY technical so until I know im playing it how I should I`ll reserve my comment. I havent seen anyone get an A yet btw.


PiePie messaged me. He`s looking at the videos now and going to step and I think even add the BGs

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Sounds pretty vicious. Kind of didn't want to hear "Healing-D-Vision on crack" but it's hard to make things that difficult without doing some crazy stuff. I wonder if POSSESSION is being tested to see how players react to the upper levels of difficulty in DDR? They've never tested something so hard in a location test.

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Oh and the director asked lots of people about the steps for second heaven to see what players think. Apperantly They might* change it if people dont like it. Guess they were trying something different and seeing if it sticks.

Also about changing options during game(sudden+ hidden+ and speed) They said if there is any kind of accident during the loc test they will not include this feature in the final version. Lets hope it all goes well.

Go Here for todays pictures.

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Tell them that the actual rhythm for Second Heaven is good but that the step placement needs working on.

Same thing for Possession too actually. FIRE FIRE also has a few parts where they could use a few placement changes, but its overall awesome.