DanceDanceRevolution Classroom Edition (PC) (International)

This is for classrooms... so you'd think it'd be you know, clean for kids, yet they put in the original Dynamite Rave... whut.

20k for the entire system, a public performance license, and 48 pads seems both a really good deal, and a great way for Konami to recoup DDR development costs, promote the brand, and justify more CS and AC releases.

I'm going to have to agree with that... For a school, the only other alternative is to buy a real DDR machine... for $20k. ...Unless there's a gamer on the faculty staff who knows where to get and how to maintain old machines.

Those DYNAMITE RAVE steps were awful.

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You know what? Forget what I just said. 20k is best spent on a real machine... because it will play well and have steps that make sense! =\

Well Konami, congratulations. You've put me in a position to RECOMMEND that someone buy the American DanceDanceRevolution cabinet! T_T

I wish they'd put that program to use here in New York. We've lost three perfect dancing game locations over here. Something's gotta happen to make up for all of that, sooner or later. Putting this program in my school system would be paradise to me. Me and a friend of mine are most likely the best at my school at DDR/ITG.

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Hope your school has over $20k to spend on this rather than getting an arcade machine.

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most schools have large grants to spend. if they don't spend it by the end of the year they don't get that money for next year.

The last thing on their minds would be to buy this.

Trust me.

I don't know Aegis, my P.E teacher was pretty psyched when he found out at some conference they were going to do this, since DDR is super-fun for everybody and a great way to work out according to him. Just saying. It will definitely appeal more to the teachers than to the kids, though, since what P.E teacher doesn't like DDR

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Fixed.

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Actually, the P.E. teachers at my school actually go around and help the students, but I guess if that happens to you, than thats unfortunate.

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Last thing on their mind, budget-wise.*

why does the game's title have thre uni 3 title sound

this is why my ddr club had a ps2 ddr

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I don't see any reason this will do better than any of its predecessors. ITG2 Multiplayer, the first of this type of game, came out 5 years ago and is largely forgotten.

It's a good thing that this is not the final version. The pads look great, but the user interface is terrible. Why do the arrows have that color scheme in there? The advanced chart looks like a mix between Flat and Note. [Also notice the huge difficulty gap between the intermediate and advanced charts. O.o] I just hope the final release will be MUCH better than this.


I guess that's a plus when you're trying to learn the game. And to fix the judgement feedback, maybe there is some way to put individual score and judgement on the pad itself? [P.S. Why is "Perfect" blue and "Good" yellow?]

Finally, here are more videos from the conference. Anyone know what these songs are (Universe 3 licenses, I'm guessing)?







EDIT: So they're new licenses after all. But they still sound boring to me, even when compared to DDR II licenses.

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You guessed wrong.

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1st video: Fire Burning / Sean Kingston


2nd video: Tonight Tonight / Hot Chelle Rae


3rd video (horray for eataninja): Please Don't Go / Mike Posner


None of these songs were in Universe 3, in fact I don't think they were even out at the time. So these are new licenses (so far) exclusively for Classroom Edition.


Ah! I see it now.

Yellow arrows are steps (all three difficulties), green are steps (the top two difficulties), and blue are steps only. So the pads being played on are tuned into all three charts at the same time and you can choose which one to follow.

But Beginner is also colored blue in DDR. I guess this color scheme makes sense for now, But I don't mind the current color scheme that DDR has, either. Maybe they can do something like this for charts and judgement?

=Marvelous (optional for the purposes of learning, of course)
=Perfect
=Great
=Good or Average, as this game calls it
=Miss

Though I would imagine that the chart would consist of one giant cluster**** of arrows that seem randomly colored. I doubt there is going to be a "Challenge" difficulty for this game anyway.

But as I said before, if we want to play the chart, we have to deal with all the blue arrows squeezed together as if Flat is partly on. It doesn't promote rhythm and accuracy at all. Isn't learning the fundamentals of music supposed to be about keeping a good beat and, in this game, being accurate in your steps?

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Pump It Up doesn't color its arrows to the beat it's sitting on (rather to the direction they're facing), and the original DDR games were played on what we now call Flat. I can see that messing up existing DDR players more so than newcomers.

And I hear what you're saying but it would seem that this particular version of DDR isn't going to have Beginner or Challenge difficulties. I wasn't talking about the difficulty level colors anyways, rather the arrow color specifically and how they related to each other. Each difficulty's arrows are individually on Flat as it were, but color-coded to their level and the higher up you go the more colors you get as a result.