DanceEvolution!!

    A few days ago, my Mother asked me to buy an Xbox 360 console with Kinect. I'm shocked to hear that she will buy a console for herself. After buying her a console, I loaded a game that I'm longing to play and that game is Dance Evolution.

DanceEvolution game art cover
 

    I bought a Japanese copy from an ebay seller for only $6.53, a very cheap price for a good game. This is the second time to play this game, first is at Quantum in Lucky China Mall in Manila. The gameplay is to follow the dance moves shown by the dancer on the screen.The first song I played is Sakura in light difficulty and received a grade C and later some B and A grades on other songs. According to my friend, in order to unlock songs I must pass all courses with a grade of A or better in each song. The song list in this game is very familiar to my ears as some songs came from Dance Dance Revolution and Para Para Paradise.

   I have to practice frequently so that I will be able to familiarized the dance moves of every song, get higher grades and have fun.

BEMANI Spree! limelight, copious and XG3!

        Last Wednesday night, I went to play a few rounds of DDR at Timezone in Glorietta 4, Makati City. I asked the security guard if when will be the new BEMANI games deliver to this branch. He said that the machines will deliver tonight. A few days ago, Timezone, the biggest operator of amusement games in the Philippines posted a hint about there new machines.

Reflec Beat limelight

       That same night my friend called me that the machines has arrived at the store, pulling out existing games and replacing it with new ones.

       Next day, I visited Timezone and 3 BEMANI games are working. These are DrumMania XG3, jubeat copious and Reflec Beat limelight. Unfortunately, GuitarFreaks XG3 is absent at the location because the game system is still unstable and needs further troubleshooting in their warehouse.



jubeat copious

       Many avid players are gathering around especially DM XG3. I got my first shot at Reflec Beat. I'm clueless about the interface because I'm used to play these games using an Ipad. Luckily, I managed to get a fair score in my first tune. Next is the jubeat game. This game used to have an imitation arcade game in other arcade operators before and they call it "e-Magic". Both games have only music licenses available for play with a few Konami Originals are playable. Both games cost 30Php per credit.

       I never had the chance to play DM XG3 on that day because the credit line to long around 20 credits. I will try it next time.

DrumMania XG3

     Good thing Timezone bring these new games here in the Philippines, at least we were able to play these games without the e-AMUSEMENT service. I also hope that players here would support these games.

"beatmania makes DanceDanceRevolution powerful". DDR+IIDX = CLUB VERSION!

    During the early months of 1999, DDR is the game craze in Japan and IIDX is beginning to make a scene simultaneously with it's older sister beatmania. In order to add marketing to there BEMANI line of games (I think?), they decided to link both games similar to the current session link of GITADORA (GuitarFreaks & DrumMania). Click here for the Youtube link on how DDR and IIDX link. DDR CLUB VERSION introduced the 9 foot difficulty, also known as "Catastrophic", the highest foot rating in that time.

    Also, Konami released a PlayStation version of the CLUB VERSION for DDR However, IIDX link is impossible due to limitations of the CD and IIDX console version are released for Playstation 2. These CLUB VERSION's were released in 2 Volumes and released on the same year (1999). These CLUB VERSION's are APPEND DISC, which you need to have a DDR 2ndReMIX or DDR 3rdMIX game in order to play the game. A Sega Dreamcast version of CLUB VERSION is also released but the game is standalone disc. When the first console version of IIDX released, all license songs from 1st to 2nd style are not included, making the CLUB VERSION the only console game that has the license songs from IIDX.

DDR 2ndReMIX and DDR CLUB VERSION APPEND DISC Vol. 1 and 2

When I was young, playing these append discs' at home is annoying, because the copy that we used to have is fake one and fake copies for these games are off sync and most songs donˇt play. The interface of the PS CLUB VERSION is different from the Arcade, it uses the 2ndMIX interface with a few changes. Years after, I finally managed to buy an original copy of the 2 volumes of CLUB VERSION and played all over again. Catching-up to those years that I havent played it properly.

 I realized that if the link of both games still exist right now, will it have the same success as the session link of GITADORA?