Dance Dance Revolution X AC (All Regions; JP and US release)

[Reenee]

We are eagerly anticipating the Japanese Location Testing for DDR X. From the announced features so far, you'll see we have good reason to do so as it appears to be what should have been done since SuperNOVA and a good start in SuperNOVA 2:

New Cabinet Design: As seen in our newspost here, DDR's arcade cabinet takes on an old-school Beatmania-like appearance with some thin columns of lights on the side that may presumably act like one of those classic "bar" visualizers. There's also a set of buttons under the middle of the screen, and the 1p/2p buttons have new Up and Down arrows that have yet to identify their use.

And if it isn't obvious, the game is now in widescreen.

Edit Data Support Improved: DDR X CS versions will now support USB memory sticks to hold your data. Obviously this means scads more data to hold on your drive and the potential of more features.

Shock Arrows: They're mines. Don't hide the fact.

Dance Drill Mode: Advanced Mode is renamed to Course Mode and there appears to be an additional sub-mode that acts like IIDX's Dan Mode.

Songlist: 60 new songs, older songs revived (read: Butterfly and Dub-I-Dub on DDR X US CS), and the promise of more content for this or future releases. We're not sure due to translation issues.

Other: e-Amuse is still around with the ability that sounds like you can register your friends on your account. Beginner Mode is now Starter Mode and there's the inclusion of a Welcome System for new players.

Foot Rating Expansion: The foot rating meter has expanded to 20 feet. The scale only shows 10 marks but they are represented in this manner:

-If a song is 1 to 10 feet, the bar will be filled with yellow marks.
-If a song is 11 to 20 feet, the yellow marks will be overlapped with red ones. So if you had a 12-footer, you'd see 2 red marks and 8 yellow marks. 15 feet? 5 red, 5 yellow.

Now it's apparent that doubling the scale is meant to give more accuracy to song difficulty.

That's it for now. The JP location test starts in a few hours as of this edit.

LOCATION TEST INFORMATION

All SN2 JP CS songs are on X (Time Hollow, Puzzle, SAGA, etc)
Shock arrows cause combo breaks and life damage.
A bunch of old songs use generic videos.
Old licenses and deletions not seen yet.


New Songs
FINAL STAGE: SABER WING - TAG SP 4/8/10/13 DOUBLES: 8/10/12
EXTRA STAGE: On The Break - Darwin -/-/-/13
Dance Celebration - Bill Hamel feat.kevens / BPM 130 2/4/8/11 DOUBLES: 5/7/10
Dance Floor - neuras feat.Yurai / BPM 120 2/5/6/9
Flourish - sonic-coll. feat. frances maya / BPM 152 2/5/8/10
Inspiration - DKC Crew / BPM 147 2/5/7/9
Party Lights - Tommie Sunshine / BPM 130 DOUBLES: 4/6/9
Taj He Spitz - DKC Crew / BPM 107 2/4/7/10
Tracers (4Beat Remix) - Ruffage&Size / BPM 140 2/5/7/10
Slip Out - Hamony machine　BPM95　1/3/6/9
Fight of the phoenix - Jena Rose (SHOCK ARROWS)　BPM145　-/-/-/-/7 DOUBLES: -/-/-/6

Re-ratings
Fascination MAXX Expert: 17
Fascination MAXX Challenge: 18
Pluto Relinquish Expert: 17
MAX300 Expert: 15
The legend of Max Expert: 15

[Pie-kun]

Yay location test.

I wonder exactly how many songs will be there. If I remember correctly, SN2 only had about 11 new songs at its location test...and that was counting the "New from CS".

Can't wait to see what the ES/EES will be though.

[Ashura96]

Originally Posted by Reenee

Foot Rating Expansion: The foot rating meter has expanded to 13 feet. Instead of the extra 3 feet being a gauge for boss song accuracy, it's more for the sake of overall precision for the whole songlist.

Sure hope so, if it affected every song that would just be too many changes to remember.

[FFR4EVA_00]

Originally Posted by Ashura96

Sure hope so, if it affected every song that would just be too many changes to remember.

In that case, you'd probably rather wish it was added for boss song accuracy. If Butterfly oni is an 11, the ranking system is going to be practically completely rebuilt.

[霧の白]

That would be a perfect facepalm unless someone decided to revamp Butterfly to a killer boss song. >_>

We know they're mines.....Don't judge us. T_T

[Mantic]

If Butterfly Oni (unchanged) is an 11, something like Seduction better be a 12.

On the other hand, no one's said anything on whether or not they've also given charts decimal ratings. I guess we'll find out in a few hours.

[Dark Coz]

What would PARANOiA ~HADES~ rating be on Expert (not Challenge)? Since that song was misrated on that level.

[Reenee]

Let's not speculate yet please. Even on this new rating system it sounds weird that Butterfly Oni of all things would be rated so high.

[Arctic Wolves]

Reenee, we were promised FOX news style coverage; where's the conspiracies? The fear-mongering? I'm not panicked yet! GET TO IT.

[MdX MaxX]

Okay so has the location test started yet? I really want to see BIGGER and higher quality pics of the shiny new cabinet, and I want to see the SELECT MUSIC SCREEN.

[FFR4EVA_00]

Originally Posted by MdX MaxX

Okay so has the location test started yet? I really want to see BIGGER and higher quality pics of the shiny new cabinet, and I want to see the SELECT MUSIC SCREEN.

You won't be getting that from the location test. Cameras are banned, remember?

[Pie-kun]

Originally Posted by Arctic Wolves

Reenee, we were promised FOX news style coverage; where's the conspiracies? The fear-mongering? I'm not panicked yet! GET TO IT.

And damn you if it isn't fair and balanced.

Originally Posted by MdX MaxX

Okay so has the location test started yet? I really want to see BIGGER and higher quality pics of the shiny new cabinet, and I want to see the SELECT MUSIC SCREEN.

It's 7AM in Japan right now, which means the test is starting in two hours. I wouldn't expect anything right away though, we'll most likely be getting stuff throughout the night.

And FFR4EVA_00 is correct, cameras are not allowed. If we're lucky, someone will be able to sneak a few cell phone camera pictures, but don't get your hopes up.

[ranatalus]

People always manage to sneak a few pictures

[Wan]

Originally Posted by ranatalus

People always manage to sneak a few pictures

yeah. Just look at the photos taken at the IIDX EMPRESS loctest...

[FFR4EVA_00]

Originally Posted by ranatalus

People always manage to sneak a few pictures

IIRC there were absolutely no pictures from the SN2 location test.