Whats the story with SuperNova?

Eckostyle · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: Whats the story with SuperNova?

I strictly remember all the hype and a statement on how Extreme was the last mix.

I havent been into DDR since 2004, I grew kind of bored and I got back into playing fighting games on a competitive/tournament level, and I just play IIDX at home casually. Only times I really play is when its in a family/gimmick arcade where I can muster a crowd of kids/parents.

I walked into my local arcade and I found a big red DDR machine called SuperNova. I instantly thought "pirate-knock off" because of the huge amount of pirated DDR's in NJ. I'm now finding out it's official.

So, what exactly rocketed out SuperNova? I'm interested, and couldnt find any old forum posts discussing why.
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Da Bar · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:17 am Post subject:

itg became actual competition, so konami got off their asses and tried to make a comeback.
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XohshitztonysbackX · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2006

No, Konami plan on having supernova. ITG has nothing to do with it.

Notice on the DDR EX machine it says : We Are Starting Over.

Synaesthesia · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:

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Synaesthesia · Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

It's kind of suspicious that they would "start over" and then do absolutely nothing new.
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Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

stop being a nub

battle mode
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Synaesthesia · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:36 am Post subject:

In addition to battle mode being old, most people who play for score are not really going to care about it. Here's a question for everyone: if SuperNova had come out 6 months later (so in November or December or whenever), do you suppose Konami would've synced stuff better, maybe written some more inventive stepcharts, that kind of thing? In other words, if they spent another 6 or so months on the game, would it be better, or about the same?
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The only thing I think would have been different were more songs being synched correctly. Probably all of them, for that matter. The stepcharts, on the other hand, probably wouldn't have changed at all.

Synaesthesia · Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

Since the syncing is the worst part of SN thus far, would it be fair to say that the game is worse than it would've been 6 months later?

Edit: I guess I can do this too to save time. If the above is fair to assume, would it also be fair to assume that if Konami is acting in the interest of releasing the highest quality product (surely more people use your product the higher quality it is) that they SHOULD have released it later (late fall/early winter, whenever it falls)?
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XohshitztonysbackX · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2006

Konami just trying to get new people a chance to play old KO songs.

So my guess is that DDR SN is almost like DDR EX arcade but with new songs and old KO songs...etc...

Oh and that tutorial that never had in any ddr mixes.

Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

have you even played battle mode, it's not even the same thing

plus betson or whatever is retarded they can't even synch the songs right in the first place what difference would 6 months make
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PBoy227 · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:31 am Post subject:

...Konami announced a long-buttocks time ago that Extreme was the very last arcade DDR mix... Konami is just scared because they know they havenothing over Roxor when it comes to the lawsuit, so they decided to bring back DDR. You say more power to Konami, but you don't realize that konami is trying to put roxor out of business...sounds like unfair competition...

and just so there isn't a huge flame-fest, yes my sig says i respect them both... I respect DDR as a game and ITG as a game. I do not however repect konami one bit. They need to grow up... /edit
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XohshitztonysbackX · Trick Member Joined: 10 Jan 2006

Roxtor doesn't own ITG anymore. Redoine or something owns it now.

I like the Batter Mode on DDR KonamiX. that was tight!

Why did Konami keep making home versions of DDR then?

Konami knows what they're doing.

Even in the DDR EX JP Home version manual it did say : WE'RE STARTING OVER.

The Home version was released in 2003 we before ITG was out.

Sorry to tell you that but it's true.

*Grrr I sound like a Fanboy now