DanceDanceRevolution X (AC) (International)

To be fair, I've only used one SuperNOVA 2 dedicab (And apparently so have you) however it was perfect. I'm assuming that the physical construction of SuperNOVA 2 is the exact same as SuperNOVA just with blue graphics, monitor plate, marquee, et al. The place I played at was a minigolf place in Oxnard California. They got it just a few weeks after it came out (Sometime in February 2008, and I am under the belief that this was before upgrade kits were available as well) and the only issue I had with it was the owner kept turning the volume down (And the bass way up for some stupid reason). But the attendants played the game so they were more than happy to turn it up when I complained. It was about the best DDR machine I've ever played on, equal only to the brand fraking new imported DDRMAX I found in First Colony, Texas back in 2001... with memory card slots .

The SuperNOVA 2 even had Joint Premium turned on, double lucky!

I believe I have used a SN2 dedicab too, in Newport Beach @ the pier or something. It was actually quite good for the record...

Fyi, to use the USB slot, we need to enable it on the operator menu. After that, the Edit Icon will appear on the title screen

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..... Now that is just down right dirty business......
How low can they go???

Awesome. It's something that should be on by default to be honest, like memory cards on old DDR.

anyway, who did the manufacturing of the first Dancing Stage SuperNOVAs?
they are also in abysmal quality (mainly for the pads)...

I remembered when it first arrived near my place, the pads are TERRIBLE...
the pads are very hard (it feels like we stepped on a ceramic floor)
and the gamecenter (it's timezone) just don't care about it...

are non-japanese DDR machines always like that?

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No, as most Dancing Stages here are fine. The only one that had some major issue was Dancing Stage Fusion which required that the pads be "worn in" from regular play before they worked properly.

99.9% of arcade ops would not take out hardware from a brand new, netter looking cab (even if it performs worse) and put it into an ugly-looking old one... unless the new cab was physically broken. After all, what would they do with the expensive (and useless) cab that would be left over?

Also, it is worth noting that you can't just stick a DDR X motherboard into a pre-SuperNOVA cabinet unless it has been upgrade to SuperNOVA (as the monitor is 15kHz, not 31kHz (SuperNOVA and SN2 output both, not sure of DDR X as I've not seen the hardware), but more crucially it is missing a $1,000 PCB (called the Extended I/O board), and cables to interface the main board and cab with this PCB. It'd have to be a SN cab, and the build quality of those is not as good as the originals.


This is exactly the point of a location test - will the machine make money, and is there anything critically wrong (i.e. machine crashes). It's not about fine-tuning the gameplay (though this may be a nice consequence).



Actually, Dancing Stage Fusion came before SuperNOVA (a year before, in fact). Also, ITG came out in november 2004, SuperNOVA in April 2006 - that's not exactly "right away".

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That's not the Japanese define a "location test", they actually get to voice their feedback directly to KONAMI in location tests via questionnaires available with KONAMI actually being on the scene for the duration of the test. I don't see how Western feedback aren't just as important as Japanese feedback to be quite honest. The consequences of not doing so are very apparent now.

Indeed, but the Western viewpoint of a location test doesn't match the Japanese. Look at the press release from Konami of Europe after the DDR X location test here... it's paraphrased as "it makes as much money as the original, unlike our previous two releases."

I've seen many machines on location test over the years (not just rhythm games), and very rarely is there even anyone there to take feedback (the one exception I can think of was the locaiton test of Chase H.Q. 2 where the lead developer was hanging around the arcade and asked me what I thought of it after I had thrown in a credit).

There's also the fact that I highly doubt that the subsidary branches of Konami have much clout in getting things changed, especially in terms of software. When I asked if they were considering upgrade kits for X I was told they'd have to go back and ask Japan if they wanted to do this!

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So sad. Three years after SuperNOVA and we get this kind of treatment.

Three years after EuroMIX 2 we got the pup that was Fusion, so it's not the first time :{

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so isnt it possible to buy upgrade kits in asia and use them anywhere?


Also I'm proud of this so sorry for posting.

Isnt my highest score, but, I'm really glad I PFCed the whole course!

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Haha only possible in Course mode.

I sent this email to Betson:


I got this response

Sounds half promising...

I call bs, he didn't even address the issue of the product description differing so much from the final product. I think this is probably the standard response they're giving everyone.

If we can even get that much we'll have a miracle!

Wonderful news!!! We're getting location tests in America!!

oh wait......

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doubt it, but at least it's A response

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