DanceDanceRevolution (AC) (Japan)

I did not know that...

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Tips for anyone who is able to access Over The "Period" and is reading this:
- Always play with measure guidelines on.
- Unless you are a deity, you will not be able to Perfect Attack 32.5 bpm and slower on 1x, and then no one will see anything that hasn't been seen before. Set the speed mod high prior to Max.(period) Extra Stage, then either play with someone else or play with Wave on. 600bpm at 3x is easily readable with Wave. Maybe even 4-5x.
- If on , practice the current simfile. Thanks to someone who saw the beginning on 0.25x we know everything up to 12 beats after the stop, so all we're missing here is a confirmation of speed + what the song sounds like.
- If on or and if you're willing to make the sacrifice, set the noteskin to Note and the speed mod to 0.25x before Max. (period), so we're guaranteed to see the chart after the stop and can extend the simfiles. Otherwise, keep following the above three tips. (Note: On Stepmania, I believe Wave is called Expand, and there's another SM mod named Wave that does something different.)
- If on , tell us how you hacked the machines.

I'm going to Japan tomorrow but I doubt that I'll be able to unlock everything necessary to get to Over the Period in time. I'm only gonna be there for a week. Otherwise I'd try really hard to pass it. =\

I'm going to Japan this summer, although I have a lot of catching up to do in terms of unlocking songs (like getting all of the BOSS ON PARADE songs before even starting RDI). Who knows what will happen to OTP by then.

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If you've got some spare time, give it your best! Would be pretty sweet if you were able to get further into the song than others have so far.

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don't forget you have to do BOSS ON PARADE first though (44 premium play credits in total, at best), then fill the nitro (40 000 nitro. that's 40 premium play credits if you get 1 000 nitro on average). then you need to play those RDi songs, EGOISM 440, clear MAX. (period), do it again, clear and clear MAX. (period) again to access Over The "Period" (add 8 credits).

total is about 92 credits so... yeah


just saying that isn't accessible for now unless someone plays with someone else who isn't using a card (apparently an oversight on KONAMI's part). so the only reliable ones are or .

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Thats the one thing I don't like about Bemani currently, its impossible to jump into events and get anywhere on a day trip to an arcade. I know even in the SN 2 era I could go and get to Pluto Relinquish, but now its a no go. boss songs are for people who play all the time only, and thats all Bemani.

the amount of grinding required to even get to RDI is nuts

I mean I'd typically be okay with that. I'm of the opinion that a bit of grinding is actually good for a game. In my mind, it's better than the alternative, which is that you unlock every song in the event in one day, and then it feels like a cheap event. There's a fine balance though.

Anyway yeah, I'm gonna give it my best, but I doubt I'll get anywhere. Though, if someone (Silverhawke? <3) could link me to/tell me how to unlock Boss On Parade/RDI stuff, that would be appreciated. <3

How to clear BOSS ON PARADE:
each song has at least 10 songs attached to them, as follows:



playing any of these songs (repeats allowed) gives you one medal (they are marked anyway on the songwheel).
collecting 10 medals for a certain song allows you one play of that song, after which, will give you two jewels, which functions as permanent medal.
collecting 10 jewels permanently unlocks the song.
so it goes like 10 songs → boss play → 8 songs → boss play → 6 songs → boss play → 4 songs → boss play → 2 songs → boss play →　unlock (total of 35 songs)

by the way, playing any song that are not any of the songs above gives you a quarter of a medal for the topmost song that has an empty slot (you'll see if you open the BOSS ON PARADE panel, panel 5).

but do that for all 5 songs, and it'll allow you to play Truare! on EXTRA STAGE. play it, and Replicant D-ignition will commence on the next credit.

How to Replicant D-ignition:
collect nitro, fill tubes to unlock the song for play in the Replicant D-ignition folder, which only appears in EXTRA STAGE (also, no backing out after entering the folder).

each successive tube requires 4 000, 6 000, 8 000, 10 000, and 12 000 nitro to be filled (only the order matters).
Green = Destination, Red = Samurai Shogun vs Ninja Master, Yellow = Sand Blow, Blue = chaos eater, White = HLY

nitro can be obtained by the following:


meaning, AAA FCing every song with LIFE4 guarantees at least 1 000 nitro.

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So almost 50 credits to get through BOSS ON PARADE, almost 50 credits to max the nitro, then you have to get the phase 1 extra stages, then you have to clear EGOISM 440, THEN you have to clear max. (period) (keep in mind failing either of these means you're fucked for yer medals, matey), THEN you're in phase 2, THEN do this R-D-I shit again, THEN clear the even harder chart for max. (period) which again takes your medals if you fail...

to get about seven seconds into OT"P" and fail

'bye bye medals', says the game

THIS IS WHY DDR IS NOT A THING OUTSIDE OF JAPAN ANYMORE

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well i did say if you did everything optimally it'll take 92 credits (may be less) to get to Over The "Period"... provided you cleared phase 1 in one try.

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Thank you, dude. You rock.

Whatever happened to simple events that didn't require like 1000 plays to complete them?

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Those don't engage players and give them long-term goals. Ultimately, it's about keeping people playing the game and giving them incentives to do so; long-term events do that better than something anyone can clear in a day or two. This last phase of RDi is probably the "final" event for this DDR for a while, so they made it excruciatingly dragged out.

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Quickman, about the red letters, don't repeat that, all here know the sad future of DDR outside of Japan, just... don't repeat it, enjoy the event guys, or the probably "last breath" of this arcade, please.

The series isn't going to die just because America isn't playing it. And with Round 1 expanding rapidly, Konami has an option that can't back out now of a deal as two of the games they make already are in their stores. If Konami wanted to kill any chance of DDR outside of Japan, they wouldn't of said the arcade support of DDR in America was Temporarily Suspended.

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"THIS IS WHY DDR IS NOT A THING OUTSIDE OF JAPAN ANYMORE" right. it's not like there weren't a myriad of other reasons, like dwindling public interest, licensing costs, shipping costs, etc. nope; it's because of events geared toward dedicated players. events that regular people can simply choose to not participate in.
cry harder

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Maybe the point was it's hard to recruit dedicated players with events that are psychotically long and complicated...?

What bothered me more were events that were so time constrained you have to visit the arcade every day or whatever just to get a song otherwise it's gone forever. I guess for that reason, I kinda like how RDI is dragging this out 'cause more people can get involved.

Not sure those songs are ever impossible to unlock for the duration of eAmuse support, though. Suppose the other thing that sssorta bothers me is these unlock conditions are really wonky and require research but to be fair it'd probably make loads more sense if I lived in Japan and could actually read more pages. xP

I'll whine a ton about permanently locked / permanently taken away content when this game loses internet support which is um... not in the forseeable future... so I might just forget. *shrug*

reminder previous event unlock conditions confused me all the time so if anything I just said makes no sense that's why

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Except that you're wrong and it's a thing in Korea and other Asian countries, nice try though.

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