Have 8 feet? Try the new DanceDanceRevolution

I'm pretty sure it's just the same mat and you don't have to buy a new one. (This mat is just easier to rationalize that they have diagonal arrows)

Nah, the front left and front right tiles are the only corner tiles that're buttons on current DDR pads. This is kinda disappointing, because I plan on eventually getting an Xbox 360, but I recently purchased metal DDR mats that're obviously now obsolete. D'oh!

@kevinski - hm really? Pretty sure mine has all eight buttons, and I thought that was common with a lot of previous third-party pads.

@current state of DDR: yeah, I still occasionally play StepMania with all the old tunes...

Ideally, Konami would:

a) Keep licensed tracks to none or a minimum. If any, they should be picked so they're actually danceable and work well in the game, rather than being 'something random Konami can afford that happens to be quite popular in the mainstream'.

b) Make sure they're selling a platform and not a game - hopefully tracks on the disc, but definitely downloadable ones, need to be guaranteed compatible with future versions [obviously without having whatever extra features might appear in those future versions]. So buying a new DDR game needs to be 'oh cool, 100 more tracks' and not 'oh bugger, 100 tracks but i can't play the old ones any more without rebooting into some old version of the game'.

c) Provide a decent number of tracks. 50 isn't be terrible but if they're all licensed, meaning at least two-thirds are probably horrid (which two-thirds depends slightly on personal opinion etc)? Okay, that's now looking weak.

and finally

d) Not use 8 buttons ffs

The better the milk your bank account with DLC my little pretties.

Note that that's 50 "licensed tracks". There'll probably be a ton of Konami Originals to go along with those, as usual.

I only had two feets on the regular DDR with four squares..

Don't I only need four feets for one with eight squares?


/down votes self

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How about because songs arent free.
Every song has royalties attached, they'll have to pay say $0.50 for every song. The fact that you get 50 free means $25 of the cost covers the songs included.
Now, if you want 100 free songs, then someone has to pay for them, and you'd be bitching a whining more if the game was $25 more than regular retail price.

Why do people struggle to understand sometimes its just not financially viable to give away things for free, because its costing someone money. Whether thats the music industry royalties for GH/RB, covering the cost of making additional maps for Killzone2, or **SOME** other types where there are geniune costs involved in making it, which make it impossible to give it away simply cos some whiney bitches think because its already done for launch then it HAS to be included on the disc.

I've only ever bought LBP's MGS pack and Monsters Encore when it comes to DLC, im not its biggest fan, but people like yourself need to accept sometimes things cant be free just cos its there.

Good Eye: http://gamesroom.union.rpi.edu/TechnoMotion.jpg

from the TechnoMotion page on Wiki
"echnoMotion has three distinct gameplay modes:
Cross mode: Uses the left, right, up, and down panels (like Dance Dance Revolution).
Diagonal mode: Uses the corner and center panels (like Pump It Up).
TechnoMotion mode: Uses all panels except the center.
Double mode (both sides), only in 4- and 5-panel modes. There is no 16-panel mode.
It is possible to change the panel mode between and during songs in the game with switches on the cabinet. A player has the option to play in Single mode (one player, one pad) or Versus mode (two players, two pads). There are four difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, and Double(one player, both pads). Each difficulty has a separate songlist, and each pattern is rated with 1 to 12 small diamond icons."

So it was a bit more versitle than this new pad. But thats given the fact that the Diagional arrows + center button are probably copyrighted by the company that develops Pump It Up.

starting to?
i haven't heard the words "dance dance revolution" in like 3 years

Technomotion was big in Korea afaik.

I used to be a HEAVY DDR/ITG/Pump player. As in, I lost 30 pounds playing it. (side note, since I've stopped playing I've gained it all back).

I live in Vegas and the nearby Excalibur Hotel had an arcade that had an ITG, Pump, and Technomotion machine that I was able to get free credits on. I play on the hardest modes on PIU, ITG/DDR and playing the 8 panel mode on Technomotion on an equvalent medium difficulty sent my brain through a loop. I'll be surprised if Konami can pull this off.

I read that as it being what they would include along with the dance pad, considering that was the focus of the post leading up to that point. I could be wrong (obviously) but I'm not sure it's completely clear what they mean.

umm how is giving someone who likes DDR the new DDR game a joke gift. ... htats like saying you like god of was well i got you god of war 3 ha ha.

oh by the way i cant spell for shit. : (

It's not really like that. It's like someone who liked the original NES giving them a Wii now.

The Wii is a completely different beast, totally unrecognizable from the NES, even though it's by the same people.

Doubles mode has been around for yonks, this more like Solo mode which was around for 2 arcade mixes. Doubles is going to be eaiser than 8 panel play which is bound to have awful Cross overs and spins, Mark my word if "Can't stop falling in love ~Speedy mix~" make's an appearance, the initial cross overs are going to be HELL.