SMS post - DDR

[ciphergoth]

dance dance revolution best arcade game evah! trounced all comers ie jess cj yday. anyone want a game? happy clam!

Update: I am in the library at the PC. DDR mats cost around GBP 15 each, and a USB adapter to plug them into a PC costs GBP 12. PyDance costs nothing. (I want an open source one so that I can write files for good music...) I am getting these things NOW! Sorry, downstairs neighbours! U: Purchase made. Now to buy a hard drive to put those .dance files on...

I don't remember what machine it was. I think it was "Euromix" and "Euromix 2" - I played the latter first but the former had better songs.

I enjoyed DDR *vastly* more than I have ever before enjoyed an arcade game. I was bouncing off the machine by the end.

DDR to VNV!

Comments

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD WHITBY HAS DDR??

If only I'd known! That would have been the only thing that could have got me there. WHICH VERSION? Might it even be the old one with Boom Boom Dollar aka the best song ever?? Butterfly!! Paul you must get the BEAST able to play mp3s so I can listen to fantastic j-pop cds again (I will pay you)!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

You're on. DDR followed by PC fixing. Top plan.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I kiss you!! I'm very curious to know which version of DDR you played - what were the Western songs on it?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh my GOD I might have to go and play Para Para at lunchtime. I AM FEEBLE.

[babysimon]

But if I get the home version, will the downstairs neighbours complain?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I WEEP WE LIVE IN A SECOND FLOOR FLAT.

(Yes).

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

If you hadn't gathered, I am up for a game at ANY TIME.

[tornewuff.livejournal.com]

If I ever find myself up your way, I'll challenge you. Fear the bouncing wolf puppy. =)

[zz]

i have a secret desire for ddr fun, but no way am i doing it in public, and in private would cost lots of money :( :>

[synthclarion.livejournal.com]

CUNTSOCKS

The arcade had DDR?

SPAFFSTICKS.

[babysimon]

If you play DDR on a PC, does that mean I have to play some hideous MMORPG on my playstation?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Stop making me post a million times to your post! I have a dance mat and you are more than welcome to borrow it as long as I can come and play on it (our floors are nowhere near robust enough). The problem with the placcy mats is that they are useless for any advanced play with quick steps as the mat slides about all over the place. I guess you could TAPE it if you've got wooden floors or mod it with a sturdy backing but I am nervous about doing that. ISTR there were some good emulators about but I can also bring you my playstation and first two UK domestic games (nowhere near as good as the arcades, need to get some Japanese games and chip the PSX and and and *sarah watches her money run away*)!!

Digest: I can bring the goods to your house. It be good. Also I can direct you to the arcades in London :) Invite me over quick, before I invite myself over :)

[babysimon]

What about that rubber mat backing stuff they sell at IKEA? Very non-slippy.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Hmm, you say? I can't say I've been to IKEA for years but I was vaguely aware of the same kind of stuff being sold. I'm incredibly incompetent about this kind of thing sad to say :(

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I have a wooden floor, so I can gaffer tape the mats down or something.

Maybe it's because I'm not an ADVANCED PLAYER but I can't imagine how a different version of the game could be much better except for having BETTER MUSIC. With pydance we can write our own dance files. Of things that have a strong enough beat to make it plausible, what would be the most SICK AND WRONG choice of music for DDR then?

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

The only problems with it from a stepping perspective is that quick time steps (ie double triple and you can forget entirely about quadruple) become impossible to do on the plastic mat as it slips about so much. Also you can't *STOMP* on the baby mats like you can do in the arcade and you can really notice it affecting your play ERHEM not that I would know :)

It is the music that makes it better yes - there's the extra FREEZE ARROW! move on the latest Euromix but that's not a be all and end all. I love Tsugaru on Euromix 2 (I think that's the right one).

I know what the most wrong song would be but I'm not telling you, as you'd do it! I say the theme from Ghostbusters.

(invite me over my primal urges are taking over)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Do It All Night for example would be impossible on a not severely taped down and made-less-slippy mat. That song is my UTTER NEMESIS - I always fail right at the end!

[tornewuff.livejournal.com]

DIAN is my showoff track to make people start watching me. AAA on Expert almost every time. =)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I get perfects all the way til the end sequence, then I just get a massive blind spot and fail! I'm sure it's psychosomatic by now. Apparently the trick is just to turn to the side. I should just memorise the steps but I'm wary that that is too much fanny dangle and not in the Spirit Of The Game :)

So may I have seen you hanging around dodgy arcades playing DDR then?

[tornewuff.livejournal.com]

There are rather a lot of people who memorise them; you can tell who they are, they dance like robots on amphetamines. Impressive from a technical POV but boring to watch. =)

You won't've seen me for ages, I've pretty much quit (spending too much money, probably heading for three or four hundred quid).. I normally play in Namco Station at Waterloo. Dungarees, pacifier, possibly more overt babyish clothes.. that'd be me =)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I'm so with you on the quitting thing. Namco at Waterloo ah I think know the one you mean, by the aquarium by Westminster Bridge? I haven't been there for quite a while, it being NASTY and no dancing partner... I wonder if ciphergoth should be dragged there...

[tornewuff.livejournal.com]

I'd come for that =)
Though I fear my skill may have vastly deteriorated; it's something you really need to keep practicing..

[cryx]

i have to admit that i, too, have seen the wonder that is dance games.. luckily the arcade is just far enough away, and i am just poor enough that i will not waste my entire life stomping around..

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Got a spare $3000?

[lark-ascending.livejournal.com]

http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=172

hysterical laughter so unappealing at the workplace

[webcowgirl.livejournal.com]

I wish I could have seen you in action! But now the idea of getting this game installed in my favorite goth dance club in Seattle is sounding extra spectacular, especially since most of the folks don't seem to actually lift their feet when they dance. But then, getting these dance steps set up for some of the normal tunes the club plays would be EXTRA hysterical.

[plumsbitch.livejournal.com]

DDR rocks. But the machines on the pier here are always taken over by frighteningly good 14 y-o girls.

They have entire dance routines that go with the foot movements.

*gulp*