DanceDanceRevolution A20 (AC)

Kevin's replies in that thread also strongly hint at D&B ordering additional DDR machines which is awesome.

This aligns with what I heard from people on Facebook, including someone who works at a D&B location. He said that any D&B location with a Pump DX cab is tossing it and replacing it with a DDR cab. Presumably a white cab, but maybe a gold cab, not exactly known yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DaveAndBusters/comments/bw222i/ddr_a20_as_software_upgrade/

Dave & Buster's confirmed that A20 WILL be a software upgrade at some point in the future.

Sure, we already knew that, but it's nice to have official confirmation.

This I don't like

Wait, hold tf up. Are you guys saying that there's about to be hundreds of PIU games tossed in the trash or in a warehouse somewhere?

Time to go dumpster diving.

But will they are installing in an outdated AC board? (Windows XP embedded) or replace the AC board per a Type 5? (Windows 7)

But some of the other DNB pump machines are total shit, hopefully they get replaced with shiny new Ace/A20 cabinets.

I expect both to be moved to Windows 7 sooner rather than later.

NAOKI's style largely consisted of rushed arrangements of the same template because he was given so much work to do and so little time to carry it out. His "signature sound" started to really blur together 4th Mix to SN, so much so that when other musicians came in to arrange his works in later mixes their versions seemed to adhere to NAOKI's bland soundbank that was exhausted and sounded hackneyed back in 2003. Gotta Dance would not be out of place in 5th Mix. And don't get me wrong, I am hesitant to undersell the immense amount of work NAOKI did for the series and how he basically soundtracked the games for several years, but the man only had so many ideas. The first time I heard INSERTiON and ECSTASY I could scarcely tell them apart. They have the exact same note progressions. It is so blatant that those two tracks started out as the same composition. Say what you will about the man, but he was quite the sonic economist.
At any rate, complaining that all modern EDM sounds the same and then promptly praising NAOKI for having a "style" is a really efficient way to flatten any credibility you previously possessed. I think it is plainly clear that NAOKI tried putting more craft into his work and generally tried harder than the average Zedd or Martin Garrix, but labeling rushed work as a "style" seems like nostalgic revisionist history.

I'm gonna guess they'll swap HDDs to the US version)