What you're not hearing from DDRuk.

can someone explain if this was meant to be an open-to-the-public test or not?

As you are probably no doubt aware, there has been a few incidents over the last few days, I hope to clear this up.

I was contacted by a member of DDRUK, who wishes to remain anonymous, that they had discovered a location of a DDRX machine within the UK. Using my contacts I made a few queries into what was going on, and found out that the location was being used to test how the DDRX would do against the original Euromix Series at a place where the general public would be able to choose.

Note This location is not the test location, it was chosen to discover how the machine would do against the others. A very incomplete version of the software designed for the random member of the public, not the fans.

We decided to pay a visit to the machine, to take notes and to write up a review of how the machine was at this point, feed back my comments to the relevant parties, and just to see if the machine was actually there.

After we found the machine, we took our notes and came back to write up the review / article. However some of the site code had not been finished to accept the article, so I spent a few days working on this. A few days ago, I had finished the code and started work on uploading the photos to be used in the article.

Within a few moments of the first pictures going up, I had a couple of people already trying to call me up, contact me via email / msn / other, asking what was going on, and demanding to know where this location was. I told each person that I was currently in the process of writing something up, and just to wait till I get it on line.

Now take these and do what you must with them.

1) I do not know of any machines in Liverpool or Blackpool.

2) This location was designed for the general public, this is NOT a fan test location. That will be announced at a later date, and it will be in an accessible place, and be announced here when we know.

3) The machine will be at ATEI, to show to the trade. This news is public knowledge already though.

I hope this clear things up, however if you wish to discuss this with me personally, or anything else, my details can be found on my profile page.

I apologise if this has caused any problems or issues, and for the inconvenience this has caused. I will do my best to get information up as quickly as possible in the future.

I personally can wait until the official release in my local arcade. It's a load of hype and drama over nothing in my opinion

Personally, I want to keep out of the way about this. If there was any loc test, I wouldn't care unless it was in the East Mids.

If the machine was truly just to test X against Euromix with regards to the general public, then Myst shouldn't have gone. After all, he's a fan, isn't he? Seems kind of arrogant to say in one breath that the machine was for testing "random members of the public", and in the next breath talk about how you and your DDR buddies went down there and took plenty of pictures without telling anyone else the location.

I'm with Oni on the actual location being a problem for me. I'd love an excuse to got over to the East Mids though because Oni seems nice and I'd love an excuse to meet and play DDR with him. :3