In two weeks time KDE will release the European version of DDR Supernova.

The game missions are even easier than in the American version (which actually had quite equivalent missions to the Japanese ones).

The songs are different as well. DS SN songs are for example Baile! Baile!, La Bamba (slow version), some songs from SySF (quite a lot), Goldfrapp and some other random songs.

The thing which surprised me was that I could buy FELM from the shop after clearing it on light, reverse in maybe area E? Not to mention that the song cost me just 10 000 points.

Today IIDX Gold 14 was finally and officially released in Japan. You can either get just the game or Special Edition or Special Edition Complete (15,950 Yen).

Today is also a release date for “Puzzle Maya Takamura’s pieces” and L.E.D’s album 電人. Both are part of the Special Edition Complete IIDX Gold Box.

Maya Takamura’s pieces DVD contains 19 videos (among them Xepher, Blind Justice, Zenius-I-Vanisher, Ageha…).

Starting yesterday a Pop’n Music mouse is available at KONAMI store. The mouse is green and white and it looks more like ladybug (mechanically). Under the transparent wings you can see 9 Pop’n music buttons on the mouse. Wonder why they are there? It’s not just a Pop’n Music related mouse, it is also a controller for Pop’n Music game.

This game can run on PentiumIII 800Mhz, 512MB RAM. It has 500MB and needs DirectX 8 or higher. There are 12 songs by default but you can also download more songs for this PNM game from KONAMI official website.

Game modes available are - 3 button, 5 button, 9 button normal mode, 9 button hyper mode.

You can get the set (mouse and the game) for about 5000 Yen VAT excluded at konamistyle.

The new and this time not really awaited game Pop’n Music 16 was released in Japan the 24th of March.

The game is full of colors. In general most used color seems to be yellow (at least that’s my impression). The game features 34 new songs. Some of the songs are completely new, some of the songs come from other games like DDR or IIDX (sobakasu, run to you, 月光花). I was also pleased that a new Contemporary Nation is available in PNM16.

There is Enjoy Mode, Challenge Mode, (Cool) Challenge Mode, Expert Mode and Battle Mode. The second Challenge mode has new challenges than those we know from normal Challenge mode. Also Cool evaluation is turned always on in this mode. The rest is unchanged.

Lately Maya Takamura’s video DVD was released.

Maya Takamura is the only female in the IIDX staff. She works along other members of the graphics team on 2d and now 3d movies for IIDX games (Movie Designer). Her 2d drawings easy to recognize. Her lineart is not so strong and her coloring style reminds of water color use (no cel shading as most other artist do). She brings a bit of lightness to IIDX graphic.

She is most known for the illustration of Killer from Genocide. (from IIDX Red)

She has done videos for Xepher, Zenius-I-Vanisher, Blind Justice, Twelfth Style, Little Little Princess etc.

THE GITADO LIVE BEMANI 10th Anniversary memorial event was held in Zepp Tokyo. The whole event was recorded on a camera so now you can buy this events DVD.

DDR Supernova 2 CS JP is out. The game contains songs from older DDR mixes as well new songs not available in DDR Supernova US. The Hyper Master Mode is more difficult and at the end is even challenging.

AOU2008 went well for KONAMI. For the second time people were able to try out the new KONAMI game called Jubeat (two linked machines were available).

“Long” awaited Beatmania IIDX Gold CS (for PS2) is announced for 29.5.2008. The game will be available for 7300 Yen.

L.E.D. releases its own first album called 電人K.

Guitar Freaks/Drummania V4 original soundtrack was released.

It is information acquired as of now.

Thugaru,Niah Figure.

It is a development phase still.

Souce by My LJ, Konami Oficial site.

It’s almost the end of January and that means that ATEI - a coin-op and amusement exhibition is held in London.

This year KONAMI went to ATEI 2008 with Silent Hill: the arcade and Drummania V4 and Guitar Freaks V4. Nothing was said about Jubeat or any other new Dance Game (only that it will come^_^). So it is up to us to wonder what KONAMI will do next. (hypernova?)

Andamiro stand was showing Pump it up Pro. For all these three days you have the chance to try this relatively new game out and meet Kyle Ward. He likes to chat and likes to play and having fun is what counts.

DDR Supernova is there too even though it’s not at KONAMI stand.

The next interesting thing is a new multiplayer by DifferentPlay (up to 72 players multiplatform). The game is based on Stepmania (it looks like StepMania played over LAN). You can see scores in different colors (each player has one) but that’s about it. The game does not have BGAs or even real backgrounds. The interface is mostly yellow and pink which are not the best colors I think.

KONAMI couldn’t decide better, after releasing IIDX15 they announced a location test of their completely new music game called jubeat. This game is played with your fingers on a 4×4 grid. Your aim is to press the buttons at correct time.

The game’s name came from the word “yubi” meaning finger and “beat”. Thus the game is also pronounced with “y” not “j” as many people like to say.

There are two modes of play. Online play and Multiplayer. Online - you will be able to compete with players connected to the same network. Multiplayer - you can play against anyone standing right next to you (if there are two machines of Jubeat).

After selecting mode of play, you are prompted to choose a song. There 21 songs from which you can choose. Just press the button correspondin CD picture of a song you wish to play. If you are in Online play one player chooses a song and the other one matches the choice. In Multiplayer mode this is not necessary, the game starts right after one player chooses a song.

There are three difficulties in general Basic, Advance and Expert. Each song has its difficulty of its own (level 1 to 8). The boss song being a Snow Goose (200BPM LVL8 on Expert)
(You’ve got arrows and buttons on the arcade, one is effector button, one is for changing the difficulty and the arrows are for choosing a song)

When you finally get to the game your aim is quite simple. You are supposed to listen to the music for clues when to hit the panels (for example if the clue is lyrics - then you will be pressing the panels with at the same time you hear the vocals). These panels (starting position is all black) will start lighting up. Your goal is to press them^_~. The button variations can consist of all the buttons (1 at a time, 2, 3,4,…16).

The score is calculated from the evaluation of notes. If you get all perfects you should be rewarded with SS and 1000000 score. The worst “not fail” grade is D.

The game ends if you won’t get over 700000 points on one song.

*edit* Tracklist of location test is after the jump!
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Yay! It’s finally released today! : D

Everyone in Japan is playing it atm so I’m collecting pics and vids which I will be posting here today.

Anyways, some early presents for you guys!

the new site is also fully launched which is here:
http://www.konami.jp/bemani/bm2dx/bm2dx15/

A video of a guy playing OMES on DJ Troopers brought to you by www.bemanitube.com, o gosh they really do anything to make the songs harder eh…
http://www.bemanitube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1e61cb8dd3612f26d5ec

More news and updates later this day so stay tuned!