[THEMES] Takuya's Dance Dance Revolution Themes

[AJ 187]

Originally Posted by Xavious

Problem is seeing as EM2 is an arcade release you'd either have to buy the machine itself for the disc or know someone with a EM2 (arcade owner perhaps) who wil let you take it out of his machine and have a fiddle with it.

I know someone who knows people who have it. Havok is said to have it, and my good friend Shuey may have it. (If he does, that's the best option, Loves Park is only like 2h from south side Chicago.)

Originally Posted by GatzBiZZLE

The other option is, well, AJ 187 could get a DDR USA cabinet cheap somewhere and put EM2 in there if it works and he can get it.

He could ask around at DDRUK.

I don't even need a machine for this. An upgrade kit would work perfectly. I could ask around at DDRUK, but I doubt I'd find someone willing to help, based on what was said about stealing a disc.

Originally Posted by Takuya20

The thing is not about buying an EM2 machine.
Someone just copy the disk and send it to AJ via internet... it's illegal, but who cares...... Better if someone could sell the disk without a machine... that will be cheaper.

And of course, Takuya hits all the points on the head before I reply.

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Takuya, I have a few questions about your DDR Arrows.

Are they only usable when you keep the original folder name? Or is it just my SM or my computer being a retard as usual? And also, are they all ripped from AC/CS discs?

[TakuyaMAXX]

Dancing Stage Mega Mix Rev 2.0
Sep 05, 2006: Rev 2.0
- Massive gameplay fixes: metrics, graphics, numbers, colours.
- Several Select music and course fixes.
- Results screen has metrics and graphic work.
This Revision was hard worked over gameplay, select music and results screen.

Theme Information
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Autor: Takuya
Release number: 02
Version: Rev 2.0 (Sep 05, 2006)
Size: 4.90 MB
Compatibility: StepMania 3.9
SMO: Compatible
Comments: This pack contains 'Dancing Stage Mega Mix' for StepMania 3.9

Takuya20: PS2 Image extraction (via snapshots and from the disk), animation, fonts, art and metrics work.
Some StepMania Default fonts are present on the theme.
Developed by Takuya20.

Download it here !!

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About DDR arrows, they work in the defined folder (they also can be used as default without problems)... and were adapted from DDR 7thMix Arcade Arrows.

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Nice.

um, was the first release Rev 1.0?

[SSGotenksUFO]

The link on laser123454321 is down.

[laser123454321]

It isnt down, Takuya just didnt read the note posted above that field

Takuya i fixed it for you but just make sure you read it next time.

[Xavious]

Great! With Takuya working on the Euro themes we now need an announcer to go along with that. What would suffice is just a modified Extreme or KatzeExtreme announcer replacing the "Dance Dance Revolution!" with "Dancing Stage!".
I have a Megamix vid where the announcer says "Dancing Stage" but unfortunatly it's in Quicktime format and I can't rip audio from that.

Can anyone rip audio from .mov files, or have a .mov to .avi converter or something?

[SSGotenksUFO]

Those announcer sounds can probably be ripped from the game (just like the songs). I think they are just located at a different spot. I could look into it for you.

[TakuyaMAXX]

AJ... There's a way to get DDR SuperNova Images from disk?
Because I think that SuperNova disks could be more easier to get than DS EM2.

PD: Sorry if I'm bugging you man... I know that so many requests could make you feel bothered about this.

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Are all AC discs able to be ripped the same way?

Or have they changed dramatically from version to version?

[AJ 187]

Supernova is WAY different from System 573 (the old DDR AC HW). If you can get me disk images of BOTH the DVD and HD, then I can look into it. I bet the graphics are GCZ though, just like on IIDX and PPP.

Takuya, think nothing of it. It beats having to work on something everyone else hates.

[TakuyaMAXX]

Cool... so, there's work for you guys:
- Get DDR SuperNova DVD and HDD.
- Get DS EM2 disk.

All for AJ, then he is going to try get graphics from them.

[SSGotenksUFO]

The home version to SuperNOVA will be out in a few weeks. We can always get the graphics from that, right?

[AJ 187]

Yeah, it'd probably be easier to do that too.

[TakuyaMAXX]

I'm waiting that day to do the first DDR SuperNova beta release... not like my actual betas that seems to be more stable releases than previews... this will be different, because the whole theme metrics will be recreated from scratch.