In The Groove 2 Home Version Discussion

[DJLC]

Originally Posted by HioMrSan

I'm kind of wondering whats the hold up? Honestly its stepmania on the ps2. They already had it working with the original, just take the shit from the arcade, copy and paste. Port over the theme and voila! You have ITG2 CS. Look at the modified "backup" copies of itg ps2 floating around. It's obviously already been done. *I know its that simple, but you get the idea*

I guess the theme takes awhile, but its not as if the actual work of the game isn't already done. Songs, stepcharts etc.... Maybe there's a lot of red tape you have to go through or something?

Their updating the whole game. Making a lot of stuff new again. It'll take a while.

[neko-demon]

i just wish ITG2 would hurry up and come out because it has some really good songs and my copy of ITG is busted and the nearest arcade with ITG2 is 200 miles away

[UncleQ]

Originally Posted by neko-demon

i just wish ITG2 would hurry up and come out because it has some really good songs and my copy of ITG is busted and the nearest arcade with ITG2 is 200 miles away

Me too. I was hoping it'd come out sometime around a year from ITG1 PS2, but it didn't. I'm hopinh it'll come out soon.

[Pakachu]

I think it'll come out around the same time as itg3, I mean when itg1 cs came out itg2 was just released something like that.

[dt_]

Yep probably BUT now that ITG 3 won't be at AMOA we won't have an idea of when ITG 3 is coming out in the first place.

[joe mama]

what if they made itg for xbox cause the ps2 has slow loading times.
-joe mama

[dt_]

DDR doesn't have exorbitant loading times on PS2; if Roxor and/or Red Octane had programmed the game more efficiently somehow the loading times could have been minimized. (I don't know if it's possible for an SM-based engine, though... ) just saying it isn't the PS2 that had made the loading times long on ITG1 PS2.

[UncleQ]

Originally Posted by joe mama

what if they made itg for xbox cause the ps2 has slow loading times.
-joe mama

ITG PS2 didn't have unbearably long loading times that would cause R0x0r to move ITG from the PS2 to Xbox.

[moop]

hmm..ive been wondering about the loading issues with itg for ps2 as well..i just hope its better on itg2

[RichardCozODST]

I checked out a beta video, but is this real? If so, loading is a bit shorter than ITG PS2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxoZ_sx-Z9o

[DJLC]

Originally Posted by Dark Coz

I checked out a beta video, but is this real? If so, loading is a bit shorter than ITG PS2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxoZ_sx-Z9o

Already been seen hundreds of times before.

[Antidote]

As far as the loading times, it's not really so much roxors/red octanes fault that they are so long. The original coding was done for a much higher spec machine than the ps2, where as ddr essentially runs on a ps2. Because of this the only way to really make the game load faster would be to completely re-work it to optimize it completely for the PS2, but that would take a lot of work for a port.

[RichardCozODST]

Originally Posted by Antidote

As far as the loading times, it's not really so much roxors/red octanes fault that they are so long. The original coding was done for a much higher spec machine than the ps2, where as ddr essentially runs on a ps2. Because of this the only way to really make the game load faster would be to completely re-work it to optimize it completely for the PS2, but that would take a lot of work for a port.

We're hoping they know what they are doing if they are optimizing it for PS2. We'll see what the team will do next.

[itgfreak925]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxoZ_sx-Z9o

game preview

[Jragon]

Come on now, the link has already been posted. Please read the thread ppl.