GITADORA EXCHAIN (AC) (Japan)

Just announced on Twitter. Surprise!

https://twitter.com/gfdm_staff/status/1017603281114107906

Matixx is not even a year old, so kind of surprised by this.

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Man, they're giving everything to us huh.

Damn - I thought Matixx would last a bit longer.

Oh Konmai - enough of your random English spelling.

Man, they've been announcing new games all week. Are they gonna announce IIDX 26 and the next DDR soon? XD

Too early to call it, given that CANNON BALLERS is still 7 months old.

If memory serves, IIDX titles are usually announced around this point of the year, with location testing in early August.

I'm fine with new GITADORA, but they do seem to be pushing those out rather quickly these days. Especially since we haven't had a new DDR, SOUND VOLTEX, or pop'n since 2016, with not so much as a hint that a new title is coming...

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If anything Pop'n is in dire need of a new version.

THIS.
THIS SO MUCH.

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Not to mention Konami has already confirmed that CANOON BALLERS' extra stage system is a year long event. So come back in 2019.

i hope you realize "YEAR LONG RACE EVENT" doesnt literally mean it will span 12 months

A typical IIDX game life cycle is about a year or so. Even if it isn't a year long event, Konami is not going to release a new game until the beginning of 2019 at the earliest, considering it has three games to wait behind.

If nothing else, "Exchain" is less awkward to say than "Matixx."

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New songs from the location test are...

シルエット / KANA-BOON (license, also in jubeat)
言って。 / ヨルシカ (license)
DANCE of the VAMPIRE / mitsuhiro
DEADMAN'S BED / Rotten Blotch (revival, from GFDM V4)
FIRE 2 / Mutsuhiko Izumi (from REFLEC BEAT)
恋のメロディー / SARAH
霖が哭く / Power Of Nature (from jubeat)
透明ジャスティス / 豚乙女

Release announced for September 12th in BEnama today.

https://twitter.com/matin_zekt_dqx/status/1037302109492793344

Game's out now. Nothing too surprising, aside from Yoshihiko Koezuka doing his first standalone vocal song in the series since XG3.

Deluxe Mode is still around, unfortunately.

Koezuka had a standalone vocal song in Tri-Boost (ブランコ).
Asaki being back in the default song list is still rather surprising though.

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New player here, are the snare drums supposed to only activate when you hit the center of them? They don't seem to trigger at all if I hit the raised edge, only the flat center.

This kinda thing depends *a lot* on the individual machine/pad (gitadora/dm drum machines tend to be very...characterful...depending on how well the arcade does maintenance), but yeah, it's not unusual. I find that the more 'down' angle you hit (as opposed to kinda laying the stick onto the pad, sorry, I do not know real drumming terms) and the closer to the centre, the more reliable *in general* - any given machine might have some quirky pad that wants to be hit nearer the bottom or whatever.

This post is mainly an excuse to say: I got to spend one magnificent week in Taiwan playing Exchain on a machine in more-or-less perfect condition with an e-amusement card and everything and it was *glorious*. And now I have to go back to Vancouver and play non-eamuse DMV8 on half-dead machines with fading CRTs again. I am very sad now. How to convince Konami to let me buy a private cab and connect it to e-amuse...hmmm...

I'd kill a man to be able to play on a non-XG cabinet again.