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]

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)