The future of pump it up

[cj iwakura]

A place in Miami got one by some miracle. I'm not sure how.

I only played a handful of songs, but here's a small breakdown:

Pros(pun not intended):

-The NX2 Pro songs are much, much harder in Pro (Dance All Night NM is more like a 14/15 as opposed to an 11, and Energizer is death incarnate)
-The interface is beautiful, aside from the clinical list format; cool background imaging, nice trance BGM.
-Easily selectable mods
-The new songs are much, much higher quality than ITG2's(most of which I thought were garbage)
-There are a lot of them. I think there's at least 40 brand new songs(including ITG/2 crossovers), each of which have every single mode of play(take notes, Andamiro).

-Random obscure old song revival! (Emperor! ...Everybody?)
-Customized banners for the Pump songs(some of which had an interesting bit of creativity put into their creation)
-The new background movies are far from generic blandness; I liked some of them. Incognito shows someone who I'm almost positive is K. Ward going around town in a hat with ITG/DDR arrows on it, and Summer shows some nice live action footage of a beach, for random examples.
(Stop & Go = Traffic)



Cons:
-Vivid coloring by default. (Ech; but it can be changed to classic in the mod menu)
-The speed mods follow ITG/DDR standards.
Put on 3x, and it'll almost be twice as fast as it would be in Pump proper.
-All the original double(namely the NM) charts are awkward. Not impossible, but awkward. Oasis has a S5 freeze that goes on for about 20 seconds with E7C1 hand plants going on during it.
It goes with the song, it's fun, but weird.


It's pretty much ITG with five arrows and a lot of Pump tracks thrown into the mix.

It's fun to experiment with, and a definite change from the norm, but I'd never take it over the real deal.

[aokiqiao]

Originally Posted by Kyosuke Kagami

Damn, people, you're lucky.

I wish I could even try Pro once :/

Dont worry, I havent either. Their even rarer than ITG machines here in TX anyway.

[h3llbringer]

Originally Posted by onedisk

I am limited to playing home versions of the game due the fact that there barely any pump it up cabinets in Canada although I did find Pro in Playdium Mississauga.

Assuming that you live in the Mississauga, there are two Exceed 2 (GX) machines nearby, one at Mississauga Valley community centre (about 5 minutes from SQ1) and another at Woodie Woodchucks (Dundas & Dixie).

In the other end of the GTA, there is apparently NX machine (FX) in Canada's Wonderland and a Zero machine (DX) at Dave & Busters Vaughn Mills.

[onedisk]

Originally Posted by h3llbringer

Assuming that you live in the Mississauga, there are two Exceed 2 (GX) machines nearby, one at Mississauga Valley community centre (about 5 minutes from SQ1) and another at Woodie Woodchucks (Dundas & Dixie).

In the other end of the GTA, there is apparently NX machine (FX) in Canada's Wonderland and a Zero machine (DX) at Dave & Busters Vaughn Mills.

Actually I live in Brampton, and I have been to Vaughn Mills several times but I never seen a Dave & Busters. Is Dave & Busters attached to the mall or near Vaughn Mills?

[Will154]

yeah....but you guys dont live in Montreal , where we are limited to DDR Extreme ¬_¬...

But i just want to say , that the way that i got to know pump it up was totally random...My friend wanted for her birthday DDR.....it wasnt availible anymore so she randomly picked PIU Exceed....Than we started playing PIU , and i went , well thats....AWESOME !!

So if it wasnt for that random pick at the store , i would have never knew anything about PIU. I think PIU only needs more maketing/publicity. DDR has tones of publicity (even though some people dont think so)....such as in movies and TV shows. Have you watched a ''todays sitcom'' without a DDR joke ?

So PIU could get many more fans....by the ''randomly pick at the store game'' way , or the ''i heard about the awesomeness of this game'' way....

PIU for the future , will have a larger community

[Blackraven]

Well, it will still have a following for people who love freestyle/choreography on dance games as it apparently seems charts are more freestyle/choreo friendly than the standard charts on DDR (yeah, even I refused to admit it first time I've heard that revelvation).

So there.

[kimbrasil]

Originally Posted by Kyosuke Kagami

As good as PIU Pro is in theory, but it fails.

Reason: it doesn't use Andamiro's MK hardware and, in consequence, its distribution is way harder.

What?! You said Piu PRO don't use Andamiro MK?? I believe you are wrong...
I really don't know so much about the PRO, but i have the executable and i believe i'm bolded below the probable support to MK6 I/O.

Originally Posted by piu

controller: %u >= %u GIC USB Joystick 4 axis 16 button joystick EMS USB2 GamePad Pro USB GamePad Pro USB SideWinder Game Pad USB Super Joy Box 5 MP-8866 Dual USB Joypad Super Dual Box NTPAD Psx Gamepad PSXPAD XBOX Gamepad Plugin V0.01 X-Box gamepad 0b43:0003 Dance LevelSix USB Pad (DDR638) SmartJoy PLUS Adapter RedOctane USB Pad|XBOX DDR Joypad to USB converter EMS Trio Linker Pump USB Pump USB pad ParaParaParadise Controller Andamiro MK6 I/O MenuLeft MenuRight MenuUp MenuDown Coin Operator EffectUp EffectDown Applying default joystick mapping #%d for device '%s' (%s) Couldn't open mapping file "%s": %s. Assertion 'MenuI != GameButton_Invalid' failed Boom USB convertor (black/gray) SideWinder Game Pad USB version 1.0 4 axis 12 button joystick with hat switch RedOctane Ignition 3 or Afterburner Positive Gaming Impact USB pad

note:

Pump It Up Pro has crashed. Debug information has been output to
Please report a bug at:
SourceForge.net: Submit New Issue/Request

[Kuhazan]

Pump it Up Pro runs on the same hardware as Exceed 2 - NX2. Anyhow Andamiro seems set on letting the players promote their game... and that does not work for the simple reason that we are not getting paid to do so.

[Sally Shears]

I first started playing Pump back when Zero was the newest mix, and I liked it then. Honestly I prefer Pro though, mostly because I like my music games to have timing windows. I'll still play Zero and NX when I get the chance, it just doesn't really feel like that big a deal when I S or FPC things on the game, as opposed to any other dance game where a 100% or AAA are kind of significant. I guess that's why I never really bar in classic pump, because accuracy doesn't really matter. It makes it a bit more entertaining, but I guess I already stated my preference so yeah.

I wish Colorado would get NX2 though. Also I would pretty much kill if it meant Colorado could have a tournament scene for any game that's actually competitively relevant as opposed to just DDR extreme (or stepmania skinned to act the exact same way as DDR extreme with the exact same types of stepcharts).

I don't know what the future of Pump it Up will look like, mostly I'm just sad about the loss of WPF and the decline of the dance game community on the whole. I hope there is a future