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DDR Freak just dropped a bombshell on the collective DDR universe by making an official and exclusive announcement of a new US arcade mix of DDR!

So it looks like we're going to have a US arcade mix of DDR for the first time since DDR USA waaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2000. There aren't many details yet to go with this announcement, but I think everyone agrees it's big news.

Discuss.

Holy new ddr mixes Batman!! This may very well spark me back into my old ways of haunting the arcades to play didder.

Alright! This is awesome. New great Bemani songs, new great Bemani steps!

Oh, but the questions this raises:
Will there be songs brought over from home mixes?
Will any Ultramix I, II, or III, songs back a debut?
Will the songlist consist of lisenced crap?
Will there be new cabinets produced for this mix?
How soon is the 'soon' they are talking about?


I'm excited to say the least.

Wow. Please don't suck, please don't suck, please don't suck...

If it's a new Extreme quality mix, I am happy, if it is like the console releases of late, I am deathly ill.

My biggest question: will this allow DDR USA machines to be upgraded?

Either way; this news is fantastic. Finally something we can get fired up about.

Fluffyumpkins wrote:Will the songlist consist of lisenced crap?

I am having a premonotion.

But, I hope it's wrong.

I'm taking a wait and see attitude on this one. Konami's work hasn't really impressed as of late. Maybe we will have the hard-work-and-quality Konami behind this one, and not the quick-let's-make-a-buck-on-those-stupid-Americans Konami.

ShammerS wrote:My biggest question: will this allow DDR USA machines to be upgraded?

Either way; this news is fantastic. Finally something we can get fired up about. :lol:

It will *probably* run on the new hardware that Dancing Stage Fusion and GF/DM V run on, which is basically a PS2 with a JAMMA harness (even more so than S573 is a PSX - it's literally a black PS2 inside a metal box with wires running to it). If they offer conversion kits, it should convert just about anything, including the numerous bootleg Japanese mixes you see in the US. In sort, yes, probably.

If it for some reason runs on the old hardware, it will probably ONLY upgrade US (and maybe Korean) machines - there is a region code on those suckers, after all.

I think we had something like that at Greenwood. Someone put a Modded PS2 in an arcade cabinet and some US PS2 Mix. I don't remember which.

It got broken really easily. It was on those cheap Namco pads, so a lot of people had to stomp, that, and some kid eventually came in with wire clippers and snapped the pad cable when no one was looking.

I'm HOPING TO GOD that this will be nothing like that.....assuming this is even true..

That was a (illegal) hack on the Extreme US CS release. There is a reason Namco recalled those machines. Interestingly, I believe this is what the Terre Haute ITG machine (with the already dead pads) is. Konami had nothing to do with that.

I'm excited about this.

Don't know if this is a song or just a remix but it was on DDRfreak.. http://shiningpolaris.com/supernova-locationtest.mp3

It cool to hear but i will be more excited when more info is available.

UnLiMiTeDmAxX wrote:Don't know if this is a song or just a remix but it was on DDRfreak.. http://shiningpolaris.com/supernova-locationtest.mp3

That sounds really awful. It's got no coordination between the super fast Sandstorm and LOM. Sandstorm just randomly cuts out too.

I hope I'm wrong, but I think Konami is rushing this out after seeing Andamiro's and Roxor's sucess in the USA and that it will fall flat on its face.

Doubt it. I think they'll actually take a page from the gamebook Roxor has been using and try to make the patterns of comparable quality only with a decent song list.