I have noticed that ALOT of Bemani dancers wear Puma shoes.  Someone told me at the Gaming Show in Vegas at the Andimiro and DDR booths that they prefer that particular style of show because it gives the player a quicker response time.

I think they said it was either the slide or blade or edge?  Can anyone out there tell me?  It is very important info.

Thanks Yack-Town O.G.

Should be exiting. I'm all ears. Or eyes. Or whatever is appropriate for a forum.

Stay tuned to the forum this week.  We have something FUN in the works!  We are working closely with the programming and development team of PIU Pro 2 and want to make sure we have eveything dialed in.  Following the Fun Expo in Vegas a week ago we changed up the test schedule and did not tell the local staff.

As always thank you for your interest and support of Power Play.

So I went in today and asked 4 different staff people about the location test and none of them had any clue what I was talking about, much less what Pump It Up Pro even was. Poor show, Power Play, poor show.

Anyway the machine works well and I got a 95.xx on Summer CZ so that is cool.

Man, Portland never gets anything cool.

Oooooooooh Sexy. I'll definitely be there to check out the new system. Even if I'm not a Pump Freak I can still enjoy a good dance game.

PUMP PRO 2 LOCATION TEST COMING SOON!

Thanks for everyone that came in and played over the weekend.  The videos look great and it looks like you all had a good time.

anscik, you should also rate arcades (including this one).

Good to hear the patch is up and running; I was starting to know a few unlock codes by heart.

I haven't been by PP in awhile despite living less than a mile away (been too busy).  I should make my way over again at some point.

So Rain, Null and I all went to PowerPlay for some PiU today. We had an interesting guest show up to lay down some hip moves...G. None other than Chris Foy showed up to check out the latest PiU: Pro spot. We played a few rounds with the guy and had fun chatting with him.

It was pretty awesome getting to meet one of the more prominent guys on the ITG2 and PiU:Pro team.

Here's some videos taken with my cellphone's camera. Sorry about the poor quality, but I'll post some that Null took with his high end camera once we get'em uploaded.

Btw, he fuxing ROX at PiU:Pro! <--

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Edit: The patch is working as is the encore pack. All is right in the arcade.

Dan, Tom, our ladies and myself will be at PowerPlay sometime this Saturday. Probably sometime around 3 - 7  PM. If anyone wants to meet up we'll be there with our video camera to show the world how purty this machine is.

Welcome to the forum Jim!
Thank you for showing the interest in keeping in touch with the community! Most people who run arcades don't do that. So thank you very much.

I need to find the time to get up to bellevue to play PIU hahaha, I've been meaning to for the longest time.

I am.  Joined the group so I can keep in touch with the community of players and stay on top of issues and concerns.  

I apologize for the delay in getting the patch installed but BIG THANKS to Chris @ F.I.M. for cutting through the red tape.

Thank you for everyones feedback, comments and suggestions. Designing, building and managing an arcade in these economic times is a tough business.  We can not always exceed our guests expectations, but know that we do make every effort.  If you experience an issue with a game or service, please feel free to let me or any of the staff know and we will do our best to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.

Jim a.k.a. Yack-Town OG

I think the only thing this venue needs now is a little more volume!

Yack-Town OG, are you Jim from Power Play?

The new patch is in place and the Encore update is working 100%. 
Someone needs to goto Power Play and post some real high scores though!

OK everybody, after a few email chats with Jim at Power Play, it sounds like as of today they've got the encore pack installed on the PiU: Pro. I haven't verified this personally (I will this weekend) but if someone goes there before I do, I'd like to know if they patched it and if all is working well.

Personal note: Jim seems to be just as awesome as Bill and was really cool to talk with. Looks like we've got two decent arcade operators in the Seattle area now.

Went here on Saturday. Pads are in good shape

Possibility of winning Power Play game cards at their Super Bowl event...  

I have a dentist's appointment in Bellevue today so I will probably be here for a little around 4:30 or so. Just a heads up.

installation is the same as an itg patch btw

Newer Pro machines (which switched to SATA hard drives) have a bug wherein scores simply won't be saved to the machine.  Patch r6 fixes it.  When we talked to him about the patch (and I brought it on my drive) a couple days after PP opened, he said that Pro came with a warranty, so he didn't want to use anything that didn't come straight from the company and that he had already requested the Encore pack which, in addition to a few new songs, is supposed to come with the newest patch.

As far as I can tell, no encore songs are on the machine, therefore no Encore patch.  Since save data still doesn't work, it's clear that no other patch has been installed either (the machine came with r5, and there's no r7 to date).  The r6 patch can be found here: http://www.piupro.com/page/arcade-usb-patch/ and the Encore stuff is an incentive to register your machine with Andamiro, so you can only get that stuff when they get around to sending it to you.

I'm not entirely knowledgeable about this encore patch thing myself. Tell me what I (or he) needs to know and I'll try to get that to him within the week.

I don't believe so, though I haven't stopped by in a few weeks.  But they were supposed to get the encore pack within a week of registering the machine, and they didn't have any of the encore stuff (as far as I could tell) last time I was there.

@Suko: you seem to have the best connections with them, any way you can find out what's going on and/or link them to a download for the patch?