DDR SuperNOVA 2 AC: NAPERVILLE TEST RETUNES

LAMBORGHINI FCUKER · 03-29-2007, 11:51 AM

New details from the Naperville test!
Licenses
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH / SLOTH MUSIC PROJECT feat. MPLAYA
Burn Baby Burn / SLOTH MUSIC PROJECT feat. ANDY L
COME CLEAN / NM featuring Susan Z [from DDR SuperNOVA US PS2]
FAINT / PEGASUS
ME AGAINST THE MUSIC / HELEN
My Favorite Things / SLOTH MUSIC PROJECT feat. ALISON WADE
SUNRISE (JASON NEVINS REMIX) / Duran Duran
Two Months Off / TECHNO MASTERS
Unbelievable / EMF
WAITING FOR TONIGHT / P.A.T [from DDR EXTREME US]

New Konami Originals/Transplants/From CS
Electrified / SySF
Freeway Shuffle
Music In The Rhythm / nc ft. Electric Touch
Vem brincar / Caldeira feat. Teka Penteriche
Why Not / Darwin
Baby's Tears (SKY GIRLS Opening Theme) / Riyu Kosaka
Raspbery <3 Heart . jun feat. Paula Terry
Feelings Won't Fade (Extend Trance Mix) / SySF
Fly Away -mix del matador- / Shawn the horny master feat. ChiyoTia
Flow (Jammin' Ragga Mix) / Scotty D. revisits U1
Silver Platform -I Wanna Get Your Heart- / U1 Reincarnates w/ Leah
Star Gate Heaven (Future LOVE Mix) / SySF feat. Donna Burke
SOUL CRASH / nc ft. HARDCORE NATION
Trim / Kobo

BOSS SONGS
EXTA STAGE ENABLER: volcano / Yasuhiro Abe
EXTRA STAGE: Unreal / Black Rose Garden
ENCORE EXTRA STAGE: NGO / Keiichi Nabeshima

Details:

-volcano shows up on the final stage. Currently, you MUST play it to reach Extra Stage. AA the song to reach Extra Stage.

-You are free to choose any song as Extra Stage or play Unreal. Your performance from previous stages affects how many lives in the Oni battery you get. In other words, play well throughout your set or else you'll be faced with an unforgiving song.

-You must AA Unreal to reach the Encore Extra Stage. Nothing less. Once again, you are free to choose any song or play NGO. No mods allowed but no mods are forced on you either. One misstep or letting go of a freeze arrow and it's over.

-Modes: Tutorial, Beginner, Standard, Battle, Nonstop, and Challenge.

-Battle can now be played against the CPU. The CPU has 5 levels of difficulty.

-Marvelous timings are now enabled in normal play. You also no longer need a perfect score to get a AAA. The cut-off is 999,000 points and above for a AAA. You can actually get a few Greats too.

-Getting a AAA with a mix of Marvelous and Perfect step timings grants you a Full Perfect Combo title at the results screen.

eAmuse

The eAmuse module was present but disabled. The game also displays LOCAL PLAY onscreen.

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OLDER DETAILS
-An introductory opening movie is in the game, like EXTREME 2.

eAmuse:
-The name that you used in SN works in SN2.
-eAmuse can now track calories burned like in Workout Mode and you can even put in 0kg as your weight if you so desire.

Modes:
-The game can point out how many credits you need to play a mode.
-There are 6 modes: Tutorial, Standard, Battle, Nonstop, Challenge, and another mode with a yet-to-be translated name.
-Battle Mode can be played versus the CPU from 5 varying levels of difficulty.

Songwheel:
-Sorting modes: Series ("DDRMAX", "DDRMAX2", "SuperNOVA", etc.), ABC, BPM, Artist, Difficulty, Dance level, Top 30 based on your personal usage, Top 30 based on machine usage, and Top 30 based on usage stats as gathered by eAmuse.
-When you press the left and right buttons on the cabinet to change sorting method, the songwheel will no longer change and rotate through the sorting methods. Instead, you will now get a simplified menu that pops up and you can scroll to your sorting of choice quickly.
-Groove Radar values have been "expanded". It was reported that Fascination Maxx and Chaos looked more difficult according to this change.
-When a song is cleared, there will be a light by the side of the song. If you're on the 1P side, it'll be blue. Red if you're on 2P.
-The halos that were introduced for denoting a full combo on SuperNOVA's letter grades are now with the grades on the songwheel.
-There are marks on the songwheel cursor that denote the foot rating of the songs directly above and below the song currently highlighted. For example, in of the the screens showing Soul Crash, i feel... is above Soul Crash and What a Wonderful World is under it. The marks above show 9 ticks while the marks under show 7 ticks, both matching the foot rating for those songs.
-Roulette feature is gone.
-If you've chosen a song and immediately decide to set modifiers but you've let go of the button, you can press and hold the button again and not worry about not changing options like in DDR EXTREME.

In-Game:
-Best score for the region according to eAmuse is no longer there. Instead, your personal best and the machine's best is shown instead.
-In Versus games, two dancers can be displayed but only one at a time.
-Yuni is one of the new characters, looking like a punk schoolgirl of sorts.
-The name of the song and artist is always shown at the bottom of the screen.
-A portrait of the dancer will appear at 20 combo, 50 combo, and then every 50 combo after that (100, 150, etc.). In a Singles game, it will take up the entire unused portion of the screen. In Versus, the middle of the screen will have two portraits with one dancer at the top and one at the bottom.
-The portrait will not appear when a song has a background movie or you're simply in a game of Doubles.

Post-Game:
-N.G.'s will now be shown.
-The maximum score attainable is 1,000,000.
-Each score is some value of a multiple of 100. No value of a multiple of 1 or 10 is available.
-For reference, a AA is attained with anything over 950,000 points.

Extra Stages:
-The usual conditions for reaching Extra Stages is to still AA your last song on Expert/Heavy.
-You can change the modifiers used in ES/OMES with button cabinet combinations. The changes are known but not the combinations.
-For Extra Stage, the mod combos:
+x1.5, Reverse, Rainbow
+Reverse, Boost
+Reverse, Sudden
-For OMES:
+No modifiers
+Reverse, Dark

Post-Session:
-The game will show you workout results before ejecting your eAmuse card.
-A session can go towards "Enjoy Points" which can increase the "Enjoy Level". The use of these features is unknown at the moment.
-A personal Groove Radar is shown along with a dance rank.
-The ending screen usually shows Afro/Disco but reaching OMES can change the portrait to one of Yuni.

(Thanks to al2k4 for translating information.)

typobox · 03-29-2007, 12:49 PM

One more tidbit from BEMANIwiki that needs a real translation, but for now...

Quote:

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# Degree of hardness inscription of the cherry tree has become the intense 10→9/ogre 9→10, but the 譜 aspect does not change, (SP DP both)

* BPM inscription maximum BPM was corrected to the 20~320, but smallest BPM by mistake is….

Sounds like they flipped Heavy and Challenge (or maybe just changed the ratings stupidly without changing the charts? not sure what the last part of the first point means) on Sakura ("the cherry tree"), and changed its BPM to 20-320?

DragTheCigaretteKing · 03-29-2007, 01:57 PM

Cherry Tree? OH maybe they changed Sakura's difficulty finally . Too easy for a 10 IMO

TimeSpaceMage · 03-29-2007, 02:29 PM

Mmm, 3 background videos according to BEMANIwiki. Nothing for the extra stages, though =/
It would be cool if the Extra Stage's changeable settings were like in PoMu, where you can see which one you're picking while the song's loading.

ColorOfSakura · 03-29-2007, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by typobox43

One more tidbit from BEMANIwiki that needs a real translation, but for now...

Sounds like they flipped Heavy and Challenge (or maybe just changed the ratings stupidly without changing the charts? not sure what the last part of the first point means) on Sakura ("the cherry tree"), and changed its BPM to 20-320?

From what my rough Japanese skills can pick up, you are correct:

They switched the charts, making the original Oni chart the Heavy chart and vice versa as well as correcting the BPM mistake they made on Extreme and SuperNOVA (where the counter stopped at 300 instead of 320).
Although, they messed it up still because it slows down to 14 at the slowest part, not 20...unless that's a typo on part of the editor of the BEMANIwiki.

Again - I said my skill with Japanese is ROUGH, so I may be reading it incorrectly.

DragTheCigaretteKing · 03-29-2007, 04:24 PM

Nabeshima Keiichi the guy that made NGO ... is that ANOTHER Naoki psudonym?

vjgyo · 03-29-2007, 05:34 PM

The character portrait thing sounds weird. Does it appear by your combo? And Enjoy Points?

haha.

There's a picture of Yuni in her 'punk' outfit in the background of the machine here: KONAMI ƒA[ƒP[ƒhƒQ[ƒ€

Otherwise, the new features look pretty good. Awesommmme~

Corootai_dolphin · 03-29-2007, 06:05 PM

so wait. does that mean we're gonna be able to buy cards to track our songlists and stuff?

DragTheCigaretteKing · 03-29-2007, 06:45 PM

Most likely cuz didnt Beston say they were gonna bring the system over?

Dan. · 03-29-2007, 06:49 PM

Based on the description, doesn't it sound like the whole "toasty" character picture popping up thing is somewhat of a ripoff on Elite Beat Agents? Where in that game, a picture of the character you're using would pop up every 50 combo... it worked fine in EBA, but I can just see that possibly being annoying/distracting in a DDR game.

E-Amuse in the US would be nice, but yeah that's probably up to Betson.

Any location test videos yet? Haven't found anything on youtube, and I woudn't mind seeing the ES/OMES.

tora · 03-29-2007, 07:00 PM

A few more notes from BemaniWIKI translated by me:

+ MUSIC IN THE RHYTHM has several tempo stops.

+ In Unreal, from around the middle to the end of the song, it slows down.

+ When NGO starts it immediately slows down, from after that, nobody knows yet.

ranaratlusai · 03-29-2007, 07:12 PM

Yeah that toasty feature might become a problem for some people. The song list looks nice. Does anyone know if the boss list from supernova will be accessible through single player mode or do we still have to play it through ES?

tora · 03-29-2007, 07:46 PM

Also, in reference to the Raspberry Heart + Extra stage thing, it was a comment saying that "In trying to get Extra Stage, Raspberry Heart is relatively easy [to AA]."

Paradox0 · 03-29-2007, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mapo

Does anyone know if the boss list from supernova will be accessible through single player mode or do we still have to play it through ES?

It'll probably be playable through normal play. The ES and OMES of past mixes where always selectable in the current game. I'm still curious about the current boss songs, 1st for not being a Max, 2nd wondering how much harder they'll be in retrospect to HDVO,FELMO and FAXXO.

I LOVE MY DAUGHTERS · 03-29-2007, 10:41 PM

It will take a few months before its playable in normal play, and it might not even happen if we dont get e amuse.