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It looks like a pretty standard update with challenge charts and paid customization, I must be missing something. What is weird about it?

It’s not a cab, it’s just a PC running the emulator with Born To Lead (B2L) pads hooked up to it. They’re arcade replica pads from iborntolead.com. Also the sync drift in the emulation is very apparent once you kick up the difficulty. I played for about 2 and a half hours today and genuinely had a blast but this is only good for players who aren’t looking to PFC most of their songs even if they normally could. I got one more PFC today and then spent a good chunk of time in Challenge mode since I generally care less about accuracy in courses. But for a large chunk of players the emulation is definitely good enough.

Yeah, of course. I used FFE9 which is -23. It might be off by 1 or 2 for what you need but you can see it lined up well for me.

I got SN2 synched really well. It's tedious, but it turns out reloading cheats after making a change doesn't work. You have to exit the game and reload it, which takes ages. But I managed a PFC on Your Rain even if it isn't the most difficult song out there without my preferred speed mod of choice so I think it's okay. I'm excited to play it. I just need to figure out why cheats aren't working on SN1 now. Thanks for taking the time to explain what the values are, btw. I really don't know anything about hexadecimal, this is my first time messing with that kind of thing.

I just wish i understood what the “units” are that I’m adjusting. From 0000 to FFED is a change of -19 and I notice that change. But from -19 onward I don’t notice any change at all. And there is just flat out no change in SN1 it’s still like a full 1/4 note behind.

What is the best way to get these games synced? I started with Darkfeline’s FFED on SuperNOVA 2 and that took me from wildly late to within the late Great window, but after that it felt like nothing I did would change anything. I swapped the converter to convert to hexadecimal and threw the wild value of FED4 (-300) at it just to see what it would do and there was no change. I’m reloading cheats every time I make a change and it gives me the pop up saying it reloaded but it’s not working. Also UAA SuperNOVA 1 doesn’t want to load cheats properly. It comes up saying it loaded 7 and loaded 14 in one dialogue box and none of them seem to do anything at all. I don’t have the debug menu option and the sync won’t change at all. Does anyone have any ideas there? While I’m here, the cheats won’t load automatically even though it’s set to. I have to reload cheats every time I launch the game. How can I get that to work properly?

These updates are in the game files for a while before we get them in arcades. Is This Dance Hakken? is in the data we have for October 2024 and it wasn't unlockable until December 11. I think there is a very strong possibility that the leakers saw something in November that they didn't want certain subsets of this community spoiling for the larger playerbase like they did before.

Oh please. It's far more likely that DDR World updates aren't leaking because we're in the middle of an event and the people who leak it don't want people uploading the unrevealed songs to YouTube like they did Hou. That's the kind of stuff that harms this scene.

Small channels don't even get their attention. If Chris' "hypothetical" DDR X3 scores didn't catch their attention and get them to tighten security then I can assure you they don't even know I exist and I'm not even uploading DDR World footage to my youtube account. I think it says a lot about you that you're picking this fight with small channels and not going after people like Chris or Kon with larger channels where you might actually get some push back from their viewers. You don't have a cause you're fighting for, you're a coward looking to pick a fight with someone you think you can win against. Go up against a big channel if you want to change this aspect of the community. I dare you.

What do you mean hopefully? You seem to be very against this.

I have a question about Asphyxia. The Sanbai Ice Cream website lets people log into their Konami account if they pay for the basic course to get their scores. Would it be possible to set something up like that for Asphyxia? Obviously it can't write scores from home into the arcade, but I'm thinking more of a one time pull your scores from the official server into your home server kind of thing. I have a lot of scores at the arcade that would be really cool to import into my home database.

That’s my understanding, I did my own for A20 Plus a while back and that’s how it was. If you did the hex edit to unlock all the songs then the removed licenses would show back up but with white jackets and no preview, and the game would crash if you picked one. I went through the older builds of A20 Plus to get the files for the removed songs and replaced the empty files and then they worked. The build for A3 I have with the licenses put back was posted earlier in this thread, someone else made it. I guess Reiwa was an oversight in restoring the licenses since the best I can tell all the others work just fine, but the big difference is unlocking all the songs in A3 didn’t put the empty licenses back like it did in A20 Plus.

You rock dude! Thanks so much!

Reiwa was in early DDR A3 versions and was removed kinda early on. It’s the A3 version with the new A3 challenge chart that I’m trying to play, and it’s a build someone in this thread put together with all the removed licenses retained. I know the others like the 20th Anniversary songs work, Hillbilly Shoes, Only My Railgun, etc, just this one is giving me issues. The files I had in the first place should have all been from A3 to begin with. I can’t see why it wouldn’t be compatible like you’re saying, it has to be another reason.

Unfortunately it's still crashing so I guess that's not the file I needed but I appreciate it. I'm not sure which file I need. I copied the video from A20 Plus and I know the video works there so the video file isn't why it's crashing. Maybe it's something in the startup.arc. I'll have to tinker with it and see if I can figure it out.