DanceDanceRevolution (AC) (Japan)

Most players want to stand facing the screen, with their left foot pressing the left panel as often as possible, and their right foot pressing the right panel as often as possible.

Most players only want to move their feet in order to hit an arrow, and any chart that requires you to shift your balance, or make a crossover in-between arrows, in order to put your feet in the correct position to perform the next stream without double-stepping is considered a bad chart.

Some of the most fun charts in the series are bad charts :{

There are a lot of assfuckingly bad charts from 2002 and earlier, but that was the classic era so those are pretty much protected.

For example, Leading Cyber is a mess but a ton of fun.

Sorry to bring this up so late. Are the 2ndMIX licenses still present?

They were removed in 2013, so probably not.

2nd Mix Licenses are gone. (Dub i Dub X-Special, Boys X Special And Butterfly X-Special are still there though.

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Kung fu Fighting, Boom Boom dollar, Bad girls and Stomp to the beat still are on 2014 list, at least on Asian-Japanese relases. On final USA DDR 2014(or 2015) they and other licenses will return.

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Talking about DDR 2014 US , Is there any video on Dave n Busters Loc test yet?

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love the new song
the steps are pretty good too

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As far as I was aware searching YouTube last night on that, I've only seen one but it was offline at the time and not much of any gameplay footage.

I'm at the test location right now, and found out the machine was left on Standby mode so I asked the tech about it. Apparently, the machine has been having problems connecting to eAmuse over the course of the week. Supposedly it would go online at random times unfortunately.

He went afterward to reset the network, but it's been about 15-20 minutes and it's still offline ': \

Hoping this at least helped a little on updating how the D&B test location is currently doing. I've only been to this test loc. right now, so I don't know how it's been on the other days it has been here.

this completely sucks. very bad. needs to be extended

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What time did the machine go offline? It's offline between 1p-3p for sure every day for maintenance so the tech may be confusing that. If it's having network downtime other than those hours can someone let me know (preferably on twitter since I don't check here too often, @collectiphile) so I can let the guys at Konami know just in case D&B hasn't been communicating?

The cabinet has been offline since I got here (~3:45pm). I asked the tech again about the times of when it was offline (whether they were at a specific time or not) and as far as he knew, the DDR machine goes offline during some time of 2-5 pm or 6pm.

I informed him about how during the Round1 test location had the machine offline during the 1-3pm as that was definite, and he admitted that he honestly doesn't know when those offline hours are, exactly. He was mainly informed by his manager supposedly (well, that's what I believe I heard on that matter).

The tech knew that the manager would call Konami on that, but the tech didn't know anything else like whether or not it happened o.o'

To sum up, the tech did tell me that the machine has been going online and offline over the time it's been here, outside of the supposed maintenance hours (as an example, it'd go offline suddenly when finishing a song or during song selection, and it would go online when final stage is over).

So, definitely might want to let Konami know o-o'' I'll try to stay here until 7pm but I don't believe my phone battery will last the entire time if I do.

Well, if it were the third Tuesday (Japan time) of a month (Monday here), e-AMUSEMENT would be down for the 5 hours preceding 3pm PST, but that wouldn't have anything to do with 3:45pm.

Somebody really should let the D&B people know about 1-3pm daily maintenance though, wouldn't it have been the same for Tsum Tsum which they had a week before DDR? (Did Tsum Tsum have connection problems too?)

fwiw R1 PHM was having very slow network performance on DDR, but I don't think the machine outright went offline outside server maintenance. And towards the end of PHM's test, the issue was more the Embed card swiper than the e-Amusement server (literally taking 25-60 seconds after each swipe before the swiper would accept the next swipe)

Yeah, it had some serious lag after the maintenance window when I was there on the last weekend of the PHM test. It was frequently taking over a minute to sign in to eAmuse. It's possible that there is some kind of network interference, or maybe a port that needs to be forwarded, or something. I'm not too familiar with eAmuse's networking needs, but if it's maintaining enough of a connection to jump back online at the end of the test but not enough to send session play data, my assumption would be that there's something wrong with D&B's setup.

Please don't tell me that the stupidity of D&B is what's going to kill all chances of DDR getting outside of Asia again

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again?

do you think it's really just D&B's fault or what

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I went on Saturday (and will be there tomorrow). I'm pretty sure it's just their internal network being weak.

More importantly though, it was getting nonstop play over the weekend and there were huge crowds of onlookers at times. The feedback with the more casual/home-version crowd has been pretty positive as well.