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Hey cool I can finally spill the beans since this is now 100% officially confirmed.
Konami informed GVM R1 last week that they'd be getting A3 upgrade kits this week (likely on Wednesday). You will start seeing it pop up at R1s on the west coast as early as today. Happy Monday!
The US has ~50 Round1 locations. These are the only US locations where we can play DDR A3 on legal eamuse. Round1 isn't only location Japanese players can play at, but they have 100+ locations.
The US is 26x bigger than Japan in land size.
This is why people play on data.
Round 1 machine rental policy goes into effect tomorrow.
Worth noting that SMX is also included on this list even though it's currently only in one venue in a location test.
Round 1 - "Hey everyone, there's something wrong with the A3 update. Immediately stop trying to update machines until we find out what's going on."
San Antonio - "YEEEEEEEHAWWWWW WILD CARD BITCHES!!! 🤠🤠🤠
...oh."
Dallas D&B maimai updates -
- Apparently management is giving people free eAmuse/Amie cards (not sure which one, they both work on the game). Props to them.
- Dallas had a second maimai cab that was supposed to be there for the location test. It got damaged in transit 💀
Had 1.5 hour break between work meetings today, so I decided to check out DDR World. After 6-7 sets, I can confidently say....the game is complete dogshit in its current form.
Pros - Speed mods, Constant option, and fixed Shock Arrows. Shock Arrows now feel like ITG mines.(1/?)
The state of SMX cabs in DFW makes me sad. Tons of cabs. 0 viable machines if you care about grinding out the game to get good at it.
This isn't an indictment on the devs at all, this is just the sad state of arcades/entertainment complexes in 2022.
For those curious -
@hudsonfelker
translated what Brosoni said earlier. He was essentially shit talking Konami for throwing an event on a new cab that players don't have time to adjust to, and because of that, he wanted to pick the shittiest song (Endy CSP)
My man.
To put in perspective even more how messed up the Konami KAC situation is:
If you want to play DDR in Japan, you have to have a Konami ID account because of Paseli. In past years, Konami FLEW Chris over to Japan for KAC, REQUIRING HIM TO HAVE A JAPANESE ACCOUNT TO PLAY!
The CFO of 7-Eleven has pending legal action against him due to him not paying a land owner in San Diego the past 6+ months.
If you're wondering how I know this, it's because the CFO of 7-Eleven shares the same name as me, and their legal team somehow got my number ☠️
Some additional clarification -
- 2 month test (roughly)
- Daily maintenance from 1:40pm to 5pm (ouch)
-Machine might be tested at another store at some point
There's a new(ish) DDR version being announced in a couple days? Cool.
Live in America? Act like it doesn't exist, because you shouldn't fucking go out to the arcade until we have COVID-19 under further control.
Saw a bit of Twitter discourse from people complaining about why RGC events tend to exclude non dance games from their events (with the possible exceptions of IIDX and SDVX). As a rhythm game TO/EO, I've got a great explanation for you! Full 🧵below (1/?)
More info from A20 white cab upgrade in the US -
- Update is just a USB drive + security dongle.
- Connects to US server, Premium mode there.
- Machine records intact
- Area records intact
- Region locked songs apparently available (not sure if all are).
(1/??)
Whoever is the audio engineer on
@dfwticket
right now might be a DDR head. They're playing Sana Mollete Ne Ente on loop during this segment. Did a triple take to make sure I was hearing it correctly, because it's wild hearing it on one of the biggest sports radio shows in the US
KAC rant - it's bullshit that 9 out of the top 11 spots were American, yet we only get 1 rep there. We've proven for the past 4 years America is the deepest region when it comes to talent at the top level, yet America keeps getting fewer and fewer spots. It's a fucking joke.
3rd place at Mistake on the Lake.
Nearly 20 months of not playing much DDR because of COVID and I get 3rd at a pretty major event.
There's still rust, but DAMN does this feel good knowing I can still do this.
Thanks to everyone who watched in person or on stream 🥰
Congrats to top 4 of Extreme Pro at Raj!
1. Chris4Life
@CHRS4LFE
2. Ben Madsen
@BenMadsenGaming
3. Krono (idk if he has a Twitter)
4. Kevbo
@bevinkoddy
Chris was also the proud recipient of a W-2 form for winning Extreme (total prize pot was nearly $1500)
Obviously heartbroken for multiple reasons. Just to be clear I had zero symptoms yesterday until I woke up this morning feeling fever-ish. Rebooked my flight and am at the airport now.
Fuck man.
EvilDave has notified us of a positive Covid test this morning and has dropped from the event. Event staff are all currently testing and regardless of result will wear masks for the remainder of the event.
So a friend of mine bought the Vic Viper Gradius shirt off of
@Konami
's official online store. First picture is what the shirt is supposed to look like as shown on their store page.
They sent him a blue grey shirt WITHOUT THE GRAPHIC EVEN BEING PRINTED!
Abbreviated life update post:
Few months back, I got laid off unexpectedly from my job of 8 years (boo 👎)
Today I started my new job (yay 🥳)
I'll be working remote most of the time, but when I do have to work in office, here's my view from 40th floor into downtown Dallas.
If all you care about is pumping up your AAA/PFC/MFC/quadstar count of easy songs, you will never be good at dance games until you realize that shit doesn't matter at the highest levels of play and what does is your consistency at the gimmicky/hardest songs in the game.
We're quickly approaching the point where there's about to be more SMX cabs than white DDR cabs in the US, if that hasn't already happened.
Awesome for SMX, shame on Konami for not making DDR more accessible outside of the big arcade chains.
Tentative plan for TBD4 next year -
-Becomes full 3 day event starting early Friday.
-100% remote qualifying only - no Friday qualifying
-More side tournaments for DDR (women's/doubles)
-Additional DDR cabs (4x cabs very likely)
-Compendium for flying out international players
Hey cool I can finally spill the beans since this is now 100% officially confirmed.
Konami informed GVM R1 last week that they'd be getting A3 upgrade kits this week (likely on Wednesday). You will start seeing it pop up at R1s on the west coast as early as today. Happy Monday!
Hey look the thing that's been rumored forever is finally true.
Cool for SMX though. Would love to see a decent local public location here for the 3(ish) months I can't play the game in a garage.
2nd place at Eclipse East! Has a bunch of very close matches, but clutched it out. My only losses were (unsurprising) to
@CHRS4LFE
, but it feels good knowing I can still somewhat hang with him on 18s in a tournament setting. Or he just gets distracted by my beard.
Magfest debuting a new crack of Extreme Pro with all the MAX2 and Euromix songs added back in is the best news I've heard in a long time.
Max 2 Stay with MA timing. Hnnnnnnnng
If I had a nickel for every time I've gotten a picture with a Bemani artist with alcohol, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but weird it's happen twice.
(
@tag_underground
seems like a real nice guy! 🤩)
Forgot to post this yesterday - we met with the R1 GVM managers yesterday for a post mortem Big Deal discussion. Nothing but overwhelmingly positive feedback from them with discussion on how we want to plan out the next event to make it even better next year👀👌💯
RIP to the GVM X2 cab, which got permanently yeeted this week. This cab started at the PHM R1 (might have been when they opened?) and moved to GVM when they opened in 2016.
This cab was a complete POS, but it somehow survived over a decade.
We salute you GVM X2 cab 🫡
Unfortunately out of DDR at MotL. Sadly underperformed to my normal playing level and was dealing with bad leg cramps most of today, but sometimes that stuff happens. Shoutouts to
@zippo3rd
and
@MarkGrady_
beating me in bracket. Can't believe Jun PFC Pluto Relinquish CSP on me 🤯
Eternal Tower in Japan looks like it's shutting down permanently.
I seriously want to cry. For those who had never been, this place was clear and away the best place to play DDR in Japan. Lots of love and care went into their machines. 😭😭😭