DanceDanceRevolution A20 (AC)

So I got to play on a Gold Cab yesterday. It felt nice. The screen size didn't bother me much because I read around 400ish and look at the center of the screen anyway. It was funny watching the game pull up my chaos emeralds from Ace just to not give me extra stage at the end. The pads were stock, so not terrible, but not the best either. I enjoyed myself. 8/10, can't wait for premium mode.

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There's no evidence these will be removed when A20 comes stateside.

We got Happy Synthesizer, Houkago Stride, and Iro wa nioedo chirinuru wo as well as the default Touhou licenses (like Knight of Nights) and all the licenses still around from previous mixes (outside of the remixes in X3 and the one Coconatsu song). We just didn't get any licenses after that.

I mean we even had a chance to get the Floor Infection songs. It seems like the licenses could be added at the start of a mix.

(It also means if they add more licenses after it comes stateside we will not have those.)

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We only have the exclusives now because it's the Japanese version. I fully expect everything to be removed when A20 is officially released in the US. We've seen for the past 4 years that Konami will do whatever they want in terms of what gets licensed in the West and what doesn't.

inb4 Knight of Nights gets removed entirely when the game updates

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They probably have to pay extra to license it in other countries or something like that. Pump has had a good handful of region-exclusive songs as well. The earliest one being Korea-exclusive mostly due to copyright or something, apparently it sounded really similar to an existing song in the US, or something like that.

Are the 20th Anniversary mixes of Cartoon Heroes and Long Train Runnin' locked away in Premium mode? I was really looking forward to playing them, but they're not listed on my local machine.

You need to use an eAmuse pass, I'm pretty sure. They show up for me and I have no premium mode.

There was nothing in the song announcements that I could tell for needing to use a pass. However, if your location just got the machine, its software version may not be the one needed to play those songs (they may simply not be in the data yet). Cartoon Heroes probably requires 2019042400 or later, and Long Train Runnin requires 2019052800 (which is the current version). The version number is displayed on the upper left of the screen when it's on the DDR A20 title screen, and on the network screen (which is the first one you see after pressing the Start button or scanning a pass).

When my local Round1 got the machine, it was only 2019040100, though the machine was in an unplayable state (sometimes got into a boot loop, and the screen was flickering pretty badly). Those two legend licenses would have been missing from it if anyone was able to actually play it (and some other songs would have also been missing).

The machine periodically checks for updates, and downloads them in the background. When an update is finished downloading, it will display a notice (in Japanese for A20) in the lower left corner that essentially means "an update has been downloaded, and will be applied on the next restart."

I am using an eAmuse pass. They still don't show up.


Ah, this makes perfect sense then. Hopefully it'll be updated next time I go.

Sorry if this is a little off topic but A20 just got new stage shutter graphics. (@ 0:17)

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From what I've seen on various videos, the "pile of arrows" transition is for anyone currently participating in the Golden League event. Color of the arrows seems to represent which tier they are currently on.

Speaking of Golden League, New Era and the Kaiden course drop tonight, right? Maybe it'll be even harder than the SN2 boss rush.

Seems so.

iirc current Dan courses just use normal life gauge right? If the Kaiden course follows suit then I imagine Boss Rush SN2 will still be harder. I don't think any non-Life4 course will compare in difficulty until 20 footers come out and there are courses with them, and that's only if 20-footers are huge increases in difficulty.

The two things that make Boss Rush SN2 hard is it's battery life and you can't use speed mods.

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Chris can PFC Egoism 440 Challenge - can't clear Paranoia HADES in the SN2 Boss Rush.

I don't think any course could be as infamous as that mess. Three 18s, Pluto and TMPhoeniX all on 1x, vivid, and LIFE4 (which doesn't fully replenish every song...)? Christ.

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They use a normal-type lifebar that increases and decreases drastically slower (as shown in this video).

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SN2 Boss Rush is the hardest thing to ever come out of DDR. 1x and battery lifebar with that mix of songs is nightmarish and it's a very impressive feat on its own if you can even get through the first song with any life left, and if the game likes you maybe you'll gain some life back.

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It's only been in the last couple of years that it's been beaten, hasn't it?

It's always been one of those things that doesn't LOOK difficult...but then I'm not the one trying it.

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Yeah, only been like a couple of years, maybe close to three. Nobody is going to beat it on Double, it seems, at least not without cheating.

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Honestly I don't think that course can be passed by a single person. I wouldn't be surprised if two people together pass it on doubles though, even if it counts as cheating

Anyway, at what time will the game update with Sota's song and the Kaiden course? 11 am JST?

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