Narrows update, will post it here due to previous discussion, the SN has had a full pad service today.  I did it myself, so i think it should be tournament ready.  If anyone plays, please give your opinions.

Acme update,
All dance floor pads serviced today, with a complete cleaning.

New game arrivals in 3-4 weeks,
sega Rambo 62" deluxe shooter

HO-LY SH*T!

Rambo is the manly dude ever next to Clint Eastwood. I can't wait to check this out!

P.S. I played Afterburner Climax @ an arcade last weekend, it's pretty radical. Sure takes me back to my younger days in the arcades. =]

Lol, rambo. gameworks has one of those. Sure does remind me of my Time Crisis obsessed days

If you are going to play at Acme, PLEASE DO NOT USE YOUR USB DRIVE WITHOUT BACKING UP YOUR IN THE GROOVE 2 FOLDER FIRST!!

I don't know what might happen when this theme is installed. Theoretically it should create a new In The Groove 3 folder, but there's also the possibility it'll just completely fuck everything in the ITG2 folder up.

Hacks are going on right now. Expect a full "ITG3" by this evening.

ITG3 has arrived.

Notes:
- The game may crash on Saving Machine Records. If it does, please let me know on the forums or AIM ASAP. I think there may be a fix for this, but then again it only happened to me once.
- Volume might be slightly louder. If Bill wants, this can be fixed. It was an issue with the default settings of the ITG3 theme.
- DO NOT USE YOUR ITG2 USB DRIVE WITH THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE BACKED IT UP! There is a possibility that it may completely break your ITG2 folder. It should not, but just back up in case it does. All new files should go in an "In The Groove 3" folder on your card. That's where ITG3 looks for stuff.
- New modifiers have been added. The speed mod menu now goes off the screen so it only shows one speed at a time. Current speeds are .5x, 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 3.5x, 4x, 4.5x, 5x, 6x, c450, c525.

Please let me know if anything is broken. I'm going to resync the Rebirth files tomorrow; it was just too much of an effort after spending 4 hours trying to get this damn thing to work.

One more note: PLEASE DON'T UNPLUG THE MACHINE UNLESS IT IS FROZEN!!! I know you might want your USB drive to load faster, but seriously the ground pin on the power cable is stuck in the wall socket and I would not risk messing around with this.

Bill, can you send a tech around tomorrow at maybe 2pm or something? I would like to back up the machine scores before I do any more modding; I'm sure people would be pissed if they lost their scores when I add new songs.

Enjoy!

Hey kevin, as for volume, I will trust you and Amber to have the machine adjusted to what the normal volume is at the tournaments end.

As for tomorrow, you should call me and I can see how the tech schedule is going.  Two people on vacation, ;eaving only one tech to handle everything tomorrow.  Hopefully it will be a quiet day, but who knows, luck of the draw.  I will PM you a phone number

was there tonight. Everything looks super duper!

It crashed on me twice. Only when it was saving scores.

other than that. everything looks awesome. oh and CURSE YOU Kevin for getting a 92 on Epileptic Crisis :p
I played it and got a 91, so close.

I think I have a fix for it. Whether or not I'll get it installed by the tournament is anyone's guess. If not, I'll just reload the ITG2 theme for the tournament.

ITG3?!?  So you changed it from just adding the songs...  I might have to drive up there today and play a few games...  I need to take a study break from these boring ass classes...
*packs up bag and preps to leave*
Zoom!

So the machine is currently reverted to ITG2 because of this crashing issue. The ITG3 theme and OpenITG are both installed now, though, so it's actually running OpenITG's default new theme. The machine basically needs extra RAM, which I tried to install today and was met with the Boxor just refusing to boot.

I thought we agreed to not making long songs 2 stages and keeping it as it is as long as no one abuses it. And holy shit EVNT got a 98.80 on Epileptic Crisis

EVNT was Kevin playing either last night or this morning.

ITG Rebirth has been resynced. Let me know if anyone finds any problems. It seemed fine at the tournament today, but you never know.

What about the long songs lol

According to Eddie from Bemanistyle, via twitter, some lawyers from Konami have been hitting up local arcades in Nor and SoCal asking about where arcades with import BEMANI games got them.  Hopefully this isn't bad news.  I'm sure a post will be made on Bemanistyle when things are clarified.

I understand all the licensing issues, but I never thought that anybody would do anything about these games being imported. Keep us updated on any more posts on this situation - it's definitely kinda creepy to hear about lawyers scoping things out.

Yeah that is pretty scary. I'm hopin there not seriously considering re-taking the machines. That would screw over just about every bemani arcade over here.

If they're asking "where they got them" it's probably to track down on the machines that are leaving the country: aka they're going after the exporter/importers, probably not the arcade machines themselves.

Even still, I don't see why they care that much. Is it seriously just legal issues?

Best case scenario: they're trying to track down exporters so they can get DDR Extreme arcade sales data for the US and better represent us in their future releases.

Worst case scenario: they're confiscating unlicensed machines and shutting down folks like Coin-Op Express who help get those machines imported.

Even worse case scenario: North Korea has made a nuclear missile that runs on imported arcade machines.

I'm figuring it's neither the best or the worst.  Honestly couldn't say for sure even if I had more information about it.  Konami's motives often don't make sense to me.

Was at acme today. I had a fantastic day of getting new ITG scores, which I'll post in the accomplishments thread.
I'm not completely sure, but every now and then it seemed like the up arrow on 1P side was giving me some greats and misses. Nothing to extrodinary, but on pandemonium I missed I think 6 arrows on the big death run and I KNOW I hit them. Maybe I'm just being retarded and small stepping TOO much, but eh, whatever. Just thought I'd post it. 

Just a quick FYI on the DM V2 machine:

Last time I was there, pads and foot pedal were all working fine.   However, it looked like the hinge pin holding the foot pedal in was sticking way out and maybe about to fall out.

Thx for the heads up, will have the tech's take a look.  :-)

FYI,
Acme will likely be losing the old school DDR Max 2 cabinet as it has slowed down considerably.  Do any locals want to buy it to take home?  2400.00, you haul.  2500.00 delievred to your GROUND LEVEL unloading location in the Seattle/Tacoma area.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Damn! I loved DDR Max 2. I wish it wasn't leaving Acme.

I don't have enough "liquid funds" to make a purchase this big at this moment, but I am interested. If it's available in a month or two, I'd be in a better position.

If it was available for another 2 years when Iget a job and don't live on the second floor of an apartment building D:
that max 2 would so be mine, but this kid will keep dreaming. Sad to hear it has to go.