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supernova scoring system = :O<~ insert here please

(personal opinion: I don't like it. I feel Extreme's was better. Or could it be that I'm just "to stuck on Extreme".....

Or prolly 'cause none of you can FC a song. J/k.

New official website:

http://www.ddrsupernova.com

I'm happy to see the return of animated characters. I people have varying opinions of them, but I always enjoyed them. This time around they seem to have much more realistic models and motion. No doubt the new hardware has a lot to do with that.



There has also been confirmation on the availability of BOTH new cabinets AND upgrade kits. New cabinets are to feature a larger flat-screen monitor. There is also supposed to be some kind of memory card support that will link to the console versions but no details as to which consoles and what kind of memory cards those will be.

Release date has been set at a somewhat non-specific SPRING 2006.

Xepher. No. 13. Fucking yes.

I will be a little disappointed if they don't add a few more beatmania (or other Bemani) crossovers, though. I'll be especially disappointed if they don't put Mei on it. In fact, if they don't put Mei on it, I'll kill every single Konami employee who isn't named dj TAKA or Tatsh.

'Kay I'm done.

It's still not in illinois apparently

hascoolnickname wrote:It's still not in illinois apparently

its apparently going to be at the HIP(Harlem-Irving Plaza) sometime soon.

Have a peek at the new cabinet design...

http://gametechchris.livejournal.com/179532.html

Also, this is a test location...in Naperville, IL. That's only about 3.5 hours from Indy. The review, however, is not particularly good. I'm not sure if it's worth a road trip just yet. Of course keep in mind that this is still a test machine. Hopefully they'll get the problems fixed.

Personally, the new cabinet design looks pretty flashy. Overall, it's not too different. There's a lot more art on it, making it look a lot more like a PIU cab than the traditionally understated DDR cabs. The art looks nice though, so I'm fine with it. However, I can't say I'm knocked out by the boxyness of the marquee. It makes it look too big for the machine and makes the lighting and speakers look too small and just tacked on.

The original curved design feels much more unique and professional to me. This new one just kinda looks homebuilt--like someone trying to replace one that got broken.

yeah the flat marquee is a bit of a turnoff, and overall I think they could've done alot more.... like using gunmetal for the metal on the pads . That would be amazing, especially if they darkened the colors of the arrows to a darker red and dark blue......

ive just seen stuff online about it, and ive seen a preatty decent song list. Most of them though look like they've been on ps2 before though, bad news for me... XD

Pheonixguy wrote:Most of them though look like they've been on ps2 before though

Most of it is CS-exclusive songs and songs returning from Extreme AC. Glad about the console songs hitting arcade, hoping they remove many of the Extrem songs and add new ones.

The way Konami of Japan traditionally did their arcade releases was to keep as many songs as they could realistically license from the older versions (hence why Konami Originals and Dancemania songs tended to stick around) and just keep adding stuff, removing as little as possible. In other words, I hope they DON'T remove anything from Extreme and just add a bunch of stuff (and hopefully not just everything that's been on the American and Japanese CS releases...). You're probably just used to console releases which normally have mostly just new stuff on them (and of course, "new" is entirely arbitrary for American releases, the Japanese releases tended to parallel their corresponding arcade releases).

MonMotha wrote:The way Konami of Japan traditionally did their arcade releases was to keep as many songs as they could realistically license from the older versions

And then there was DDRMAX...

Ho wrote:

MonMotha wrote:The way Konami of Japan traditionally did their arcade releases was to keep as many songs as they could realistically license from the older versions

And then there was DDRMAX...

And then there was DDRMAX2... :)

Either you're just following the progression or you missed my point.

Ho wrote:Either you're just following the progression or you missed my point.

I was pointing out that MAX2 brought back a fair number of revival songs that MAX was missing (due to having entirely new songs). Yes, MAX was somewhat of a departure from their normal way of doing AC releases.