[theonecalledy2ckt]

DDR SUPERNOVA IS OUT!

I was talking to a friend about DDR a few minutes ago, and he informed me of something on DDRFreak.com. I'll repost it here...

Betson Enterprises and DDR Freak are proud to announce that the newest DDR arcade game, DDR Super Nova, is coming to North American arcades (EU also possibly), and very soon. We're sure you all have many many questions about the game, and we'll be giving you more information as we get it, including news about the upcoming location tests, so watch this space!



Read on for more information...

Betson assures us that quality is of the highest concern with this game, and we know that a very high bar has been set by both Konami and Roxor, so rest assured that this will not be a repeat of the Dancing Stage Fusion release in the EU.

We will have more information for you very soon!

This has officially made my day.

[chris]

[ryisakooguy]

wow really a new ddr? awesome. ddr is super fun...too bad im too old to play that game. i was super good at that game like 5 yrs ago, now after seeing max300 or that ultra crazy max one, yeah im good. ill just stick to my poppin.

[theonecalledy2ckt]

wow really a new ddr? awesome. ddr is super fun...too bad im too old to play that game. i was super good at that game like 5 yrs ago, now after seeing max300 or that ultra crazy max one, yeah im good. ill just stick to my poppin.

dude, i'm like 20, and i still play. and i don't know what ultra crazy one you're talking about. either maxx unlimited (i've gotten half way on that one at home) or the legend of max (i can fc the first 130 steps fine, but my longest survival is the end of the freeze). or paranoia survivor max.

i just hope they are gonna put the time and effort to make this good. or perhaps add memory card slots to unlock "memories" on extreme us. xD

[Tetra]

pfft what, are we going to have hit 5 buttons now simultaneously?

I hated PIU. Bending my knees is tiring and I hate using my hands, especially when I can't look up very wel.

But if this is normal, feet-only DDR-style, it'll be fun.

[theonecalledy2ckt]

pfft what, are we going to have hit 5 buttons now simultaneously?

I hated PIU. Bending my knees is tiring and I hate using my hands, especially when I can't look up very wel.

But if this is normal, feet-only DDR-style, it'll be fun.

roflmao, i bet that everyone who plays ITG now is gonna have arthritis in the knees in like 5 years. hands are annoying. so are rolls. and let's not forget mines, which make every song less danceable. i hope konami learned well enough not to do that, but at least take the fact that ITG had very hard songs.

p.s. didn't know pump also had something similar to hands o.O

[Tetra]

omg those mines totally killed my reputation level >_______________>

Konami produced it? I thought it was some american company. Oh well, I guess the machine at the arcade here didn't have the konami label cause everything was in english (credits, forewording, etc.)

[theonecalledy2ckt]

ITG is produced by Roxor, an american company that also gave us Stepmania, the computer DDR sim. it was given permission by konami originally to make a DDR clone, but then some legal problems happened. ITG is designed for experts, and features more techno/rock music.

anyways, i can't wait for new scores for my DDRecall account. i'm getting closer every day to a AAA on firefly ^^

[~fantasygurl~]

I LOVE DDR!!

[theonecalledy2ckt]

oh god... more news about about supernova. i can't believe they're adding BeForU's Ki-Se-Ki (let's hope they add in the awesome IIDX Red Edit ^^!). the other song i'm creaming myself over is Tatsh's Xepher, which is possibly my favor IIDX 12th Style song. if anyone wants the mp3, i'll u/l it for you guys. 321 kbps ^^

and for those worried because they don't know who beston is, they're the american company that produces the machine. not the game, according to something i just saw on orangelounge. so do not worry. bust out those DD:Recall accounts and get ready for some new AAAs.

ATEI Update DS Supernova
Community News
News Source: Me
Posted by dancefreak on Tuesday 24th January 2006 12:38:30 GMT
You asked and you recieved:

First things first it has a KILLER theme, its bright red with lots of wireframe, has EVERY 10 footer except max period, PLUS all the originals from DS Max/Extreme 2, and a large handful of new songs, the first thing you notice is the new select mode screen, you have single versus and double plus an unkown 4th option where the symbol is two arrows facing each other, im assuming its unison or battle but dont quote me on that, ill find out later.

Anonther thing you notice is that after you select a style you can choose :
All songs
Tutorial
easy
medium
difficult

pressing down on difficult reveals nonstop and challenge mode!!!!!
none of these modes are selectable except all songs.

Song select screen:

Think DS Max but red and wired, the first song is long train running but its the Xtreme version, not the bus stop version. Ive noticed a shortage of licenses so far but ive been told they are still working on them, and all the licenses are in fact dancemania, they have toxic by helen and what a wonderful world by beatbox and someone else.

Options screen:

All the usual mods BUT on the select skin for your arrows its default is vivid, right on that you get flat, right on that you get rainbow which is basically solo, right on that you get NOTE! you can also turn all jumps off or just have them as single steps and little has now been renamed to CUT.

Gameplay screen:

You have like a 3d wireframe dancefloor with a random cyber dancing character, like baby-lon with a headset on, all the older songs have the original videos so far, like your rain and tommorow.

Results:

Again not much to say here, no marvelous as of yet and the perfect window is huge, i AAA'ed one of the new songs, (Red zone) on basic 6 (First AAA in the world XD) but i noticed its stil 5th mix grading

The good stuff:

LOTS Of new ko's, there is a 10 which barely qulaifies as a 10 more like an 8 because me and ricky (Tsugaru03/STardragon04) Fc'ed it barless first try.

the songlist spans OVER 300 SONGS approx! thats got to make you all happy, no sorting yet though but i assume they will implement that later.

new songs that i can tell you about:

Long train running - Xtreme
A LOve like this - Pandera
Toxic (Company edit) - Helen
What a wonderful world - (Beatbox ft DJ Miko)
Curus - D-Crew
Dragon blade - Kozo Nakamuro (I cant see the spelling very clear on the video)
Happy * Angel - Jun
Mugen - Terra (10 Foot but shouldnt be)
Nijiiro - Cant see the artist
Red zone - Tatsh and naoki
Xepher - Tatsh
konako no nanatsu no okwaini - Asaki
Moon - Dj Taka ft erika
No. 13 - Taka (Respect for JSB)
Centaur - Jimmy Wekcl
Ska Ska No.3 - Again i cant see the artist
Murmur Twins - See above
FLy away -Chiyotio
Innocence of silence - NC Ft nrg factory (We think this is the DS Max Backgroudn music for select a mode

Calico Cat rock (Mikeniko rocks official name )

Ki-Se-Ki - be 4 u

Doll - Terra
Isputureusti (DDR Version) - Akira yamaoka oh and if we spelt that wrong, we tried.

Unconfirmed :

We assume max period is on here but as an unlock because when we recorded the first songlist some songs werent there than on our second credit.

The extra stage :

Now we know the limit is 7 foot AA it might just be anything on expert but 7 is the lowest ive tried. and getting extra stage gives you the most BS Max song ever, rating in at about 2 minutes 5 seconds, worthy of a 13 foot itg style, the bpm keeps changing from 400-200-100 with stops everywhere and over 600 steps!

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Fascination MaXX!!! - 100-200-400

This song is stupidly hard, nobody has passed it yet, only me and ricky hvae seen teh ending because it was on fail end of song when we got in, we can say that the final run is at 400 bpm with jumps thrown in at random.

Expect more after 3 o'clock

Is that all your after ? ;P

Kris

P.S.
Im aching all over from the 5 pad itg setup so i wont be ddring for another hour or so.

Source: DDRUK.com

Oh yes. XD

[KAME]

i still think pump>ddr !
i dont play anymore but i was never much of a tech freak.

[skwannabe]

^i think i hear a flame war near by.................

[Tetra]

DDR > PIU

[Eddokun]

^I like both they are both dancing game and they are both fun ^^;;; I hope the new DDR will be cool because I haven't been playing much waiting for some new songs I guess hehe

[theonecalledy2ckt]

^i think i hear a flame war near by.................

only if KAME really wants one. i'm personally not anti-PIU. it has good music, i'm just not used to playing it, and some of the steps feel really awkward, more so than doing hands in ITG. i still like DDR better because it's more readily available. if anything, i'm more anti-ITG, since ITG is a direct ripoff of DDR, while PIU was made in response to DDR.

anyone who wants to get their music should consider this... [found on DDRUK this morning]

Konami's Musicmanship Trials!
Community News
News Source: Orange Lounge Radio
Posted by YURILOVER on Wednesday 25th January 2006 11:56:48 GMT

Originally posted by: Orange Lounge Radio
So you've always wanted to have your music in a DDR game, right?
RIGHT?

Well guess what? Konami is showing you the love.
Hot off the heels of the announcement of SuperNova comes the Konami Musicmanship Trials of 2006.

Notes about the contest (from the website):

DDR song criteria:
(must comply with or entry will be rejected)
* If lyrics are used (optional), they must not contain any profanity, overt sexual references, or drug references.
* Any audio samples used must be legal/legitimate.
* Songs must be between 1 min 30 sec and 7 min.
* Artist agrees that their song, if selected, may be edited for length by Konami.
* Tempo must be above 120 BPM. There is no upper limit.

DDR song suggestions:
* Music can be within any genre.
* Songs should have multiple parts/themes, but it is not necessary. If the theme is strong, then it can be desirable to have it continually develop throughout the song.
* Full compositions work better than minimal compositions.
* Strong and/or catchy melodies lend themselves to this game. This catchy-ness factor is paramount to this game. The music is the central game play mechanic, so catchy, memorable songs are what we are looking for.
* Other compositional gimmicks also work well: tempo changes, musical stops, etc.
* Diversity is encouraged, but songs should retain a high level of accessibility.

Contest Starts Wednesday, February 01, 2006

And to top this all off?
The entrants will be judged by none other than our biggest Bemani (Ultramix) buddy, MIDIHEAD.

Enough of all that, what's at stake in this contest?
$250 dollars and your song's appearance in "an upcoming version of DDR".

Check out the announcement on broadjam.com for full details including a blurb on Midihead, the contest schedule, and more!



Even more exciting stuff from Konami here guys! And this isn't for any Japanese residents! Its all non-Japanese residents that would like to join!
Konami Songs Nomination
All the info you need is on that link! Good luck everyone!

[Tetra]

^I like both they are both dancing game and they are both fun ^^;;; I hope the new DDR will be cool because I haven't been playing much waiting for some new songs I guess hehe

My friend got back problems from getting down low too much cause of the 3 and 4 button-hitters =/

[Eddokun]

^he must be a hardcore player ^^;; because all my friends that play it have no problem with it beside you don't really have to hit it with hands and stuff unless you want to be real stylish ^-^ I think its fun either way I been playing for a while and i have no problem with it DDR or PIU they r both fun games for me hehe

btw I love your icon! ^^;; miroku yukihiko was cool although ban is always better ^-^

[DOVAHKIIN]

hot diggity damn

[theonecalledy2ckt]

i'm really happy cuz they've put in my favorite BeForU song into this mix, Freedom. this looks so good... <3

a partial list of songs that have clearly been confirmed. posted by Louie826 on aaraoninjapan.

LONG TRAIN RUNNIN' - X-TREME
A LOVE LIKE THIS - PANDORA
TOXIC (FT company Edit) - HELEN
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD - BEATBOX vs DJ MIKO
CURUS - D-crew
Dragon Blade - Kozo Nakamura
Happy*Angel - jun
Mugen - TERRA
NIJIIRO - DJ YOSH!TAKA feat G.S.C license
RED ZONE - Tatsh & NAOKI
Xepher - Tatsh
Konoko no nanatsu no okwaini - Asaki
MOON - dj TAKA feat erika
No.13 - TAKA (respect for J.S.
Ska Ska No.3 - ANETTAI MAJI-SKA BAKUDAN
murmur twins - Yu_tokiwa.djw
Fly away - ChiyoTia
INNOCENCE OF SILENCE - nc ft NRG Factory
Tomorrow Perfume - dj TAKA
Try 2 Luv U - S.F.M.P.
MARIA(I believe...) - NAOKI feat. Paula Terry
IFUTURELIST(DDR VERSION) - AKIRA YAMAOKA
DoLL - TERRA
KI-SE-KI (DDR edit) - BeForU
A - D.J. Amuro
ABSOLUTE - dj TAKA
I Need You - Supa Fova feat. JennyF
PASSION OF LOVE - NAOKI feat. PAULA TERRY
INSIDE YOUR HEART - AKIRA YAMAOKA
Polovtsian Dances And Chorus - Naoto Suzuki feat. Martha
You gotta move it (feat. Julie Rugaard) - Yuzo Koshiro
TOMORROW - nc feat. Dreamscanner
WILD RUSH - FACTOR-X
WILD RUSH (FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX) - FACTOR-X
xenon - Mr.T
sync(EXTREME version) - OutPhase
Fascination MAXX - 100-200-400

From other post:

CENTAUR - Jimmy Wrekl
Calico Cat Rock - ANETTAI MAJI-SKA BAKUDAN *this is Mikeneko Rock renamed*
"All 10-footers except for Max Period"

From photos:

Freedom - BeForU
You're Not Here - Heather

some things i've found...

<-why i play ddr (fyi, it is DDR. dancing stage is the UK name for it.)







for the hardcore players, crap your pants to this.



for those of you who wanna see video:
http://www.gamespot.com/arcade/puzzle/danc...nova/index.html

i thought this was funny



finally, i'll leave you all with the song that looks like it'll be more frighteningly hard than Paranoia Survivor Max Oni or the legend of MAX ever was... Fascination MAXX

http://misuzu.ddruk.com/Fmaxx1.MPG
http://misuzu.ddruk.com/Fmaxx2.MPG

as the guy at the end of the 2nd video said, that is a complete f'ing joke. it looks literally almost unpassable. when they were trying to get video of it, the people were having trouble, so they set the machine to "Fail at End of Song" just so they could see the ending. nobody in the trials of DDR Supernova in europe has been able to pass it, so it seems. o.O

[ShouHipon~]

sweet!!!!!

[bLufurBaLL]

I play both DDR and PIU .. but I'm not that good.. I play Standard on DDR and Hardest on PIU... but yea it takes me forever to get good as some people..
But from what I've played I think PIU really prepares you for DDR .. cuz I only use my legs in PIU .. I guess..