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Back in the PSone days, Konami kept a steady stream of Beatmania and DDR home ports going. Now however IIDX 7th Style doesn't have a release date whilst 8th Style has been in the arcades for a while now and the GF/DM ports have stopped at 4th/3rd mix despite the games' huge popularity in the arcades. Anyone know what's going on? This is very unlike Konami and quite concerning for me as a IIDX newcomer.
You and me both. I'm hoping I didn't just drop $100 just to play IIDX 6th.Quote:
This is very unlike Konami and quite concerning for me as a IIDX newcomer.
Still, I think they'll be released. I don't see why Konami would sit on the games and not do a thing about it.
When was IIDX 7th released in arcades?
IIDX7 came out months before IIDX6 came home, and then a few weeks later, 8th Style came out in the arcades. 9th will be coming soon, too.
Later rumors indicate that IIDX7 CS may get a fall release, and may lose a few songs in the process, if it even manages it at all. Sending emails to KCEJ and trying to ask at J BBS's like the-curry.com have given me little help. Nobody I have contacted has answers, here or abroad.
Blame apathetic consumers and Konami, I guess. BM 6th&Core had a shit load of songs, IIDX6 did as well as having 15 player movies on the disc as well as other extras, and none of their recent efforts have helped a Beatmania title sell more than 12,000 copies and stay on the charts for more than a week.
Beatmania 2nd Mix is still the best selling BM home release to date.
ps Tain relax, you didn't spend $100 to play 6th Style. You spent $100 to play BM2nd-6th, Gotta 1, 2, Club, DCT, SOT, IIDX3-5 as well. Even if IIDX6 is the last consumer IIDX title, the series is still stronger (ie more supported) than any other console music games.
IIDX: There was a HUUUUUUUGE....HUUUUUUUUGE gap inbetween 5th Style home and 6th Style home. You can blame this on-Quote:
Originally posted by Sidez
Back in the PSone days, Konami kept a steady stream of Beatmania and DDR home ports going. Now however IIDX 7th Style doesn't have a release date whilst 8th Style has been in the arcades for a while now and the GF/DM ports have stopped at 4th/3rd mix despite the games' huge popularity in the arcades. Anyone know what's going on? This is very unlike Konami and quite concerning for me as a IIDX newcomer.
-Konami having to completely redo the layout for 6th Style. It was the first major layout change since the first.
-Licensing of the Avex Trax stuff. There was lots of it.
-Waiting to see whats going on with 7th Style for preview songs.
-Konami wanting to give the fans more, and that they did. Hologram post card inserts, a V-Rare extra CD, Tatsujin movies (2 of the best IIDX players in the world showcasing their skills across 15 videos), an unlockable art gallery and....ready? Hi-Speed 4! WhooWhoo!
As popular as IIDX is, the home versions don't seem to sell very well, so that may be one point of concern for 7th Style release date being pulled. Another is that with the huge gap between 5th and 6th Style home made the home version feel out of date by the time it came out, seeing how it even had 8th Style preview songs. So what KOJ might be doing is a hybrid 7th/8th Style home version, considering that 9th Style is schedualed for testing around March. Something will be released soon. Also, did you notice how the release date for Beatmania 7th Mix got pulled too? They might be doing the same for that and THE FINAL.
GD/DM: Licensing. Thats all you have to say. When they stopped is when the licensed songs kicked in big time for the arcade versions, and they were mostly from different companies and labels. Also, sales were uberweak, but that's KOJ's fault for making such a horrid DrumMania controller.
IIDX 7th Style came in innnn....April of 2002? Somewhere around that time.
I heard that too. GEE! I WONDER WHAT COULD BE MISSING!? Could it be...Quote:
Later rumors indicate that IIDX7 CS may get a fall release, and may lose a few songs in the process, if it even manages it at all.
The Sound Of Goodbye
The Beauty Of Silence
and Never Look Back?
HMMMMMMMMMMMM....... :D
5th Syle is ripping me as we speak, so I'm in NO hurry for any new titles...
What a mess, cheers lads.
3rd Style for me right now (I got the IIDX controller for $20 new in Sofmap 3 Akihabara), seeing a guy in Yokosuka rip through Symbolic on Hi-Speed 3 showed me how I should be playing the game. His girlfriend was clearing 7 star tracks on Hi-Speed 3 also :eek:
Mmmm..My kind of woman :lol:
Oh, you have to understand that over time, the Hi-Speeds got slower. In fact, Hi-Speed 3 on 8th Style is probably the slowest so far, next to 6th Style (Which is why they made a Hi-Speed 4 on the home version). Hi-Speed on 3rd Style though is a death wish. I remember going back to it and trying R5....HAH....HAHA........That was a good time.
So yeah, Hi-Speed 3 is a must for everything on 8th Style outside of Max300 and Sakura of course. Otherwise everything is too scrunched up.
*timidly plays vanilla 5 key 511* ;P
While we are kinda on the subject, how long before you beatmania veterans really got the hang of the game? I knew this was gonna be a tough game to get into, but I'd like to see how everyone is has fared/is faring...
Uhhmm..It took me about a month of playing two days a week during the Beatmania 2nd Mix days to start doing 6 stars. When I started playing IIDX (I started when SVGL got their 4th Style machine when it came out) it took me about the same time to get up to 7 stars, then I rarely played until 6th Style came out for arcade, then I started playing flashing 7 Stars in about 2 weeks.
Now I only play about 2-3 games a week and I can still do most of the hard stuff with the exception of random BS like Sakura [A], Spica [A], V [A] and other songs that I really don't care to go nuts about to attempt to beat. I'm happy with where I'm at.