as title mentioned

1) i know that djmax technika is in genting, other than that where else?
2) does anyone know where can i find any beatmania arcade, if possible give me a nearby location please, i'm living in sri sentosa, KL

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Added on February 14, 2011, 3:49 pmbump~

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Added on February 14, 2011, 4:13 pmok......how to delete this topic?
looks like i ask a question at wrong forum
i shouldn't post it in gamer's hideout, right?

This post has been edited by eleongo: Feb 14 2011, 04:13 PM

Number 1 : AFAIK, DJMax Technika is only available in Genting.

Number 2 : I have only seen Beatmania 2nd Mix (I think) in Times Square. Besides that, there are no other Bemani games in Malaysia. You will have to make do with Rock Fever and EZ2DJ. (I personally think they suck)

Number 3 : There is no arcade subforum in lolwut.net so you might as well post it here.

>Ez2dj
>Suck
What?

Anyways, there's supposedly a IIDX 14 GOLD machine rumored to be in Malacca. But I have no idea if it's still there or if the story is even true in the first place. Since I've heard it years ago. Your best chance is still to head over to Singapore if you're looking for Bemani games.

nvm the beatmania, i google-ed the ez2dj, and it looks similar to beatmania.
i also tried rock fever in awana (RM1 per game lol), but not as exciting as others

ok so....
1) where can i find ez2dj?
2) do you agree that many malaysians are not "fancy" on music games, but other games like action games, FPS games?

these will be my final questions

Bemani whore. Don't ask, don't tell.

1) I'm not sure.

2) Now this is an interesting question. I'm a Malaysian, and I am a huge fan of Jubeat and Reflec Beat (google them up if you don't know it). I think its not a matter of Malaysians not interested in music games because I pretty sure o2jam is quite popular in its heydays. Guitar Hero/Rock Band also do pretty damn well among the crowd. However, if you are asking about Rhythm Arcade Games, then Malaysians aren't exposed enough in that genre.

aiks.....i forgot the term "rhythm arcade game"
and =.=" they prefer rock songs

i saw jubeat in genting and melacca, but i didn't happen to try arghhhh

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Added on February 14, 2011, 5:15 pmarrrr.......i've gone crazy on music games

This post has been edited by eleongo: Feb 14 2011, 05:15 PM

Ez2dj 6th Trax is still available in Times Square.

There used to be a Popn Music 14 Fever in Times Square as well, but they said it got moved to Genting.

Plenty of people are playing the Emagic China Jubeat knockoff, it's not that they are not willing or exposed in these kinds of game. Jubeat and Reflec beat is easy to get into because of the interface, it's just that the bosses of the arcades refuses to throw in the money for newer cabs.

=.=" they keep their money for themselves? lol

Put it this way.

Bemani games aren't cheap.
Reflec Beat uses a touchscreen. Jubeat's controls are the screen itself. Guitarfreaks and Drummania comes with their own peripheral. Beatmania IIDX comes with a turntable and 7 buttons.
Malaysians handling the machines....yeah...its a scary thought.

ya.....some malaysians play rough (can be consider as vandalism), and of course arcade machines from japan are very expensive

i didn't say that all operators have to spend money to buy those things, but sometimes they have to consider, so that the public can enjoy themselves, at the same time public also have to behave themselves by not playing rough and cause the machine to be vandalize/malfunction (such as buttons loose or insensitive), so that the operators will be willing to spends money on purchasing arcade machines

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Added on February 14, 2011, 8:57 pm=.= why singapore? because singapore is more popular than malaysia, or more otaku than malaysia? lol

This post has been edited by eleongo: Feb 14 2011, 08:57 PM

Because in Singapore, arcades are held in a different light. It's an amusement area where people go to play games.

In Malaysia, the view on arcades is that truants, drug dealers and gangsters go to these places, and they're worse than Cybercafes.

Hence the amount of customers arcades in Msia and Singapore getting is different. Thus the operators are unwilling to take risks to import something that costs almost a hundred k each. Because they might potentially take a long while before the machine pays for itself and a profit shows.

Imagine. A 2nd hand Technika 2 unit is 17k USD. A new one should prolly be in the 22k range before bulk discounts. That's before shipping. A Technika 2 machine with shipping to Malaysia would prolly cost above 80 thousand ringgit. Even when priced at 2 ringgit per game in KL, it would take 40 thousand games. Each game takes about 7 minutes, that's 195 days worth of NONSTOP gaming on the machine, before calculating overhead and maintainence. It's simply too risky. So they go for cheaper alternatives.

An IIDX machine is about 70k before shipping btw. Before accounting for the latest HDD updates and internet service charges.

Singapore is having an advantage solely because their currency is bigger, and their tax for importing machines is lower too.

=.= they don't need to rush catching up the other countries, but at least ship in djmax technika 1st version since this 1 you mentioned is the cheapest (well, don't need to say it, as it's already in genting)

and those good-for-nothing-hang-outers had embarrassed malaysia, amusement park is suppose to be an entertaining place for everybody, not a hideout for those buggers

that makes me wonder if the government decides to continue the plan about banning arcades as mentioned around 10 years ago

Technika 1 isn't exactly cheap. Technika 2 is running on the same hardware, it's practically just a software and network upgrade.

WTB beatmania iidx 18th ;_;

Bank in to me 90 thousand ringgit malaysia and I'll help you order one. I'll bear the remaining difference (Yes, 90k isn't enough to buy an IIDX machine.). IINM shipping is 14k minimum. XD

=.= since when your bank has that much money, mine usually max only around 15k+

Or if you can find a HK arcade that's letting go of IIDX, I'm pretty sure you can get it sub 80k with shipping. Not sure about taxes though.

My bank account haven't exceeded a thousand in 2 years. My monthly income is about 1k for now, I'm a college student and a part time teacher.

=.=" i just graduated from secondary school and waiting for SPM results, then only go to college (unless i fail malay, but that's mostly not possible to fail LOL), and i still don't have any part-time job yet, also i'm lack of communication skill......

I'm lazy to edit my post, so here it is.

I've seemed to have put in an extra 1 in front of the Technika machine's price.

The actual price is around 8,000.00 USD before taxes or shipping.

IIDX machines are around 14,000.00 USD before taxes or shipping. Not including Harddisks costing about 2-3k USD for the latest installment. Or any other hardware upgrades (For example, there will be a hardware upgrade needed for an IIDX5th to IIDX6th, IIDX10th to IIDX RED). I'm not sure about whether an upgrade is needed for Empress to Sirius as they changed the coding, but not the hardware running it.

Pop'n Music machines are around 6,500.00 USD before taxes or shipping. This obviously excludes hardware upgrades that is almost ensured to happen every 3 installments.

Jubeat machines are 9,000.00 USD before taxes or shipping. This doesn't include the prices of the newer content like Knit/Append.

I'm not sure about Reflec beat though.

i've done a little research, and based on this website --> http://www.coinopexpress.com/products/mach...dance_machines/

beatmania is currently the most expensive rhythm music arcade game, and the most expensive beatmania arcade machine isBeatmania IIDX 16th Empress (whether is this currently the latest version of beatmania or not, i don't know)

No, the latest Beatmania is Beatmania IIDX 18th Resort Anthem.

Which is why sites like those are unreliable. Most of the cabs are also 2nd hand prices btw. Not new.

I don't know we should be happy or not, but of course it will be cheaper compared to the Japanese version, do expect it what our arcade centre will bring to be something like this instead of the japanese version.

I'm listing some here :

1. Theres a DJMAX Technika at IOI Mall Puchong, As well as an ez2dj 7th Trax.
2. The Beatmania IIDX 14th Gold At Dataran Phalawan Melaka, opposite Mahkota Parade is confirmed to be there.

Still have yet to check out IOI Mall.

Drum mania V7s spotted @ Times Square as well as Wangsa Walk since about a month ago.

1. WTF EZ2DJ 7TH TRAX, ARE THE BUTTONS WORKING PERFECTLY? IM DOWN FOR IT NEXT WEEK!

oh shit! DJMaxT is in IOI?!? Got to check it out. I havent have chance to play that arcade and planning to go up to genting to play it.
Want to ask, how much will it cost for one game of DJMT?
And can buy card one ah?

OOOOMMMMMGGGGG
YOU GOTTA BE FREAKING KIDDING ME!!???
i lived in sri sentosa and there's TECHNIKA IN THE IOI MALL!!????
then i don't have to go to genting just to play technika XD

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Added on July 27, 2011, 9:04 pmi also wanna know the cost too, and to answer you question, i don't think it's possible to buy card because we malaysians do not have access to platinum crew, moreover we're getting trend of our neighbor countries because singapore, thailand and even phillipine have access to platinum crew

btw, just to tell you for fun, that i can play up to normal mode of Landscape and The Clear Blue Sky

EDIT: forgot to tell you 1 thing, the cost in genting is RM4 per 3 songs in normal mode

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Added on July 27, 2011, 9:32 pmit's technika 1 or technika 2?
it's even better if it's technika 2, because i got lots of songs that i wanna play so much
1) cypher gate
2) beat u down
3) whiteblue
4) divine service
5) thor

This post has been edited by eleongo: Jul 27 2011, 10:41 PM

Djmt2 is freaking expensive, seeing the trend we get djmt1 so long after it release, we will only get 2 after i died.

actually, it's said to be dj max technika is literally not suppose to be in malaysia since we do not have any agreement with Pentavision (not me say this, but a "friend" of mine told me)
dj max technika 2 SOLO will be released, but dunno when only
http://www.google.com.my/url?sa=t&source=w...iyzlf07NkEPelww

they said that it's much cheaper compare to dj max technika 2 with 2 screens
and to tell 1 thing, technika1 is already in genting since 2008 (and again, not me say this, but you can search the thread in this forum)

This post has been edited by eleongo: Jul 28 2011, 08:34 AM

i can confirm not since 2008. Since i work in genting before in 2010, and i will definately be aware of it if its there on the arcade floor. Its not until recently the machine arrive.

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Added on July 28, 2011, 12:04 pmWow cool, hopefully someone will brought in dj max technika 2 SOLO. And hopefully those who bring it in connect it to net network online and doesnt let it sit there doing nothing but SOLO

This post has been edited by joshuatly: Jul 28 2011, 12:04 PM

i think "solo" means 1 screen instead of 2 screens
and yeah....hopefully by the time we have agreement with Pentavision, they will officially import the machines and enable internet access
hope miracle comes~~

Went to Puchong IOI mall arcade centre to test out EZ2DJ 7th trax, its an upset tho, buttons not working, 1p start button not working, forced to use 2p, some buttons cant register well makes me miss a lot, big sigh.

And no DJMAX Technika spotted over there tho.

No regular maintenance = Unresponsive keys

Went back to check out the place for updates during lunch few days ago. I noticed that one of the two Jubeat machines is gone, so they only have one Jubeat machine left.

It's not jubeat fyi lol, its the shan zai version of jubeat, with justin gaybier's and so on.

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Added on August 2, 2011, 10:53 amReally wish Berjaya Times Square arcade will purchase the 7th trax HDD, i'm getting sick of 6th trax, nothing to play at all, and the management over there is far better than any arcade centre i've been so far, frequent maintenance on their machines.

This post has been edited by kEazYc: Aug 2 2011, 10:53 AM

The only reason why there's regular maintenance on Ez2dj in Times Square is because one of the technicians is a player. >_>"

It's possible to download the image off the net from those spanish sources and update the HDD, but the problem is the boss of the place doesn't want to decommission the machine for a week.

You're talking about the technician is a kinda old guy with spec? I thought he resigned.

Pardon me but what's decommission? @@

This post has been edited by kEazYc: Aug 2 2011, 04:02 PM

Decommission means deactivating the machine.

Oh okay.. oh my god its just 1 week, after 1 week the boss will gain more business for that machine man...

so, you confirm there's no dj max technika in IOI mall?
well, that's kinda disappointing, because i have to go to genting to play =.="
btw, does that means that person gives the wrong/false information about technika?

This post has been edited by eleongo: Aug 2 2011, 06:13 PM

Check what ramchyld said.

i'm talking about technika, not jubeat

He clearly stated jubeat was gone, so it might be the same case for technika that has been brought away together with jubeat.

=.=" guess i have to go to genting to play lor

Well...too bad then

On another note
You guys jelly?

what game is that?

Reflec Beat

ooooo, that crazy music game with lots of BALLS
btw, i don't see any of it in malaysia, i assume no one has import it into malaysia?

Malaysia didn't even import Jubeat or IIDX.

The chances of this getting imported is nil.

=.=" guess you're right, there's no way they will import japan products to malaysia, since you are from japan and know malaysia so well

Someone successfully smurf IIDX in, its at melaka.

Actually, I'm a Malaysian living in Japan. Not the other way around.

wha...hahahaha sorry i get the idea wrong

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Added on August 3, 2011, 9:12 pmwhere is it?

This post has been edited by eleongo: Aug 3 2011, 09:24 PM

Dude, browse the topic a little will ya?

http://www.myspace.com/elonbelon/photos/44...%22%3A44459907}

"BEATMANIA IIDX at Melaka Parade.."
melaka parade = mahkota parade?

lmao the picture you got isn't beatmania iidx... seriously you need to climb the topic a little bit like what yuki suggested.

In real life during yum cha with friends, what you missed you might be able to ask because what comes out from your mouth are all flew with the airs, online isn't the same, its all in black and white, so you can browse back, save the resources, don't ask what has been discussed earlier, always climb the topic before you post a single thing in a thread.

This post has been edited by kEazYc: Aug 5 2011, 08:46 PM

need to plan my trip to Genting soon....

sorry, but i really didn't see beatmania before, so i don't know anything about beatmania

Nah, it's kay. It's a Beatmania machine, but it isn't Beatmania IIDX.

Sichiri did confirm the existence of a IIDX 14 GOLD machine in Malacca, as he is a good friend I'm going to take his word for it.

Well, still prefer to just head up to Singapore for Resort Anthem. Hell, even Lincle is reaching them soon iinm.

!@#$%^&* LINCLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, commencing singapore end year trip.

Jubeat Copious release date : August 2011

Beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle release date : September 2011

Unrelated note, I'm looking for someone who is willing to grind the shit out of Beatmania for the Lincle Link songs

This post has been edited by radkliler: Aug 7 2011, 10:29 PM

As with the usual release schedules, expect them to hit Singapore about 4-5 months after the japanese release date.

Who the hell is going to go to singapore and grind the shit out of IIDX for your lincle link songs? Need to finish like 700 songs for them leh. 2xx games who pay o?

I'll sponsor the tokens. You happy?

And no, I do not want every single song in the Lincle Link category. Just Bad Maniacs (Sirius Full Clear).

o.o you're not able to play most of the beatmania iidx song if you don't unlock them?

Lincle's system is basically like this.

Play Jubeat like MAAAAAAAD = Unlock jubeat songs on Lincle and Reflec Beat
Play Reflec Beat like MAAAAAAAAD = Unlock Reflec Beat music on Lincle and Jubeat
Play IIDX like MAAAAAAAAAAD = Unlock Lincle songs on Jubeat and Reflec Beat.

By mad, I mean at least 200 games kind of mad. Even for pro players, they're objectives and requirements of the utmost tedium.

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Added on August 7, 2011, 10:54 pmSirius full clear on Lincle folder should be about 30-60 songs, that's way more manageable. XD

This post has been edited by Yuki Ijuin: Aug 7 2011, 10:54 PM

Correction

Lincle Link only works for Lincle and that's it.

Your crossovers from Reflec Beat to Lincle will not be crossover-ed to Jubeat.

Crossovers from Jubeat to Lincle will not be crossover-ed to Reflec Beat.

Crossovers from Lincle, however, will be crossover-ed to both Reflec Beat and Jubeat.

Meh, I forgot the details from bemanistyle. So it's basically a two way link from lincle to jubeat and reflec, but no links at all between Reflec and Jubeat?

Lincle Link is only on Reflec Beat for now.

Any intentions to crossover RB songs to Jubeat is yet to be known, and frankly speaking, I grind both Jubeat and RB like a motherf*cker anyway so that isn't much of a problem for me.

So basically when you come back. We try to organize a trip to Singapore?

Can....

But you see hor. I'll need to use the card you want the unlocks for on Lincle, then you use what card o?

I've yet to decide if I seriously want Bad Maniacs.

So...I'll see how.

Okay this is confusiing.. lololol, so means i have to play all the music games in order to play the songs from jubeat and reflect beat on IIDX?

Let me see if I can simplify this.

There are a few events which Konami/Bemani has held in Japan.

Both these events have crossover songs from their respective games.

The first event is Append Festival in which Jubeat Knit was the focus of the event. If you played Jubeat Knit, then you will unlock Love<3KM on IIDX. Playing Love<3KM on IIDX will then unlock STELLAR WiND on Jubeat Knit. Once you played STELLAR WiND on Jubeat, then you will unlock the same song for IIDX.

Lincle Link is somewhat similar to the Append Festival concept, but much more tedious.

The current games involved in Lincle Link are Beatmania IIDX and Reflec Beat.

Playing Reflec Beat first then playing IIDX will unlock China Express on IIDX which can then be unlocked on RB by playing the song. Doing it vice versa unlocks Thunderbolt.

Those are the 2 easy ones to unlock.

The other 6 or so songs from either RB and IIDX requires serious amounts of grinding.

Basically, to unlock all IIDX songs to RB, you'll need to clear every single song in the Distorted catergory all the way to the Resort Anthem category in IIDX.

To unlock all RB songs to IIDX, you'll need to grind from level 1 to 100. So yeah, its a credit feed.

This post has been edited by radkliler: Aug 8 2011, 03:20 AM

I think tomorrow im going up to Genting for DJMax Technica specifically

Sigh that means no place have jubeat yet ?? zzzz

Need run down to SG and rush song .......

perhaps you can prepare a petition, or have some friends to ask for a request together?
i'm also trying my best to do my part as a DJ Max Technika fan...sent a request to galactic laser

btw, i'll be going to genting to play technika again =) gonna spend RM80 again lol...i'll be there around end of the week on january (eve of chinese new year eve if i remember the date correctly)

Technika require really good technique to play and win, i hardly able to beat level 3 songs without any practive.
And thats why you see, many of the genting's technika dont have much scores recorded.

i got top 5, 6 for my scores
previously i can beat level 7 son of sun PP (grade C), haven't try blythe PP and sin PP (the hardest for non-platinum in popular mixing), but so far haven't pass any technical mixing before....
but this month i'll definitely win!!! i practiced a lot lol (pretend playing on monitor, and ended up my monitor has lots of "bruises" haha...i even practiced with technika 2 and 3 songs like bamboo on bamboo, black swan, cypher gate, xeus which is insanely hard...) i'm pretty confident that i can beat all non-platinum technical mixing song sets XD

i just hope there is "challenger set" which may be the hardest set of songs, otherwise it will be "customizer set" which is the one i wanna play the most (especially level 9 boss song - son of sun TP)

One question, do you get the member card for the genting technika? They dont sell card they but i think you can buy card somewhere else and the machine is online.

And first time playing technika really failed miserably cos didnt know the touch screen is SO FREAKING HUGE! take lots of time (and $$$$) to get comfortable with the game... LOL

But definately use earphone, less distraction! Bring own headset = win!

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Added on January 6, 2012, 5:52 amIm actually waiting for the PS Vita version, and it might be the reason why i buy PSvita... have tons of good time with DJMax Portable on PSP. and almost the only game i play on my PSP.

This post has been edited by joshuatly: Jan 6 2012, 05:52 AM

I saw a Technika machine in a mini-arcade in Kepong Village Mall, but it was unplugged (that was 2 weeks ago)

Google maps :
http://maps.google.com.my/maps?q=Kepong+Vi...vpsrc=0&iwloc=A

no i didn't get the member card, because genting didn't include the membership for the machine which means they only bring in the machine itself
wait...did you just said that they are online? i thought they are offline already as the server for T1 is down long time ago
and if you buy card from somewhere else other than malaysia, i don't you can use it as it violates one of term of service

and about the psvita version, at first i want to buy psvita, but i personally think that the screen is a little too small for me...moreover it costs over RM1k...not to mention the shipment tax

btw, if you only tried dj max portable, then i recommend you to play black square, clazziquai edition and fever as most of the songs for technika are from these games

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Added on January 6, 2012, 9:10 amO.O "unplugged" you mean it is ready to be shift out?
lol another failed investment after IOI mall that i heard from someone

what version is that machine: T1, T2 or the latest one T3?

This post has been edited by eleongo: Jan 6 2012, 01:52 PM

Well it could either be preparing to be plugged in, or be shipped out.
and it was a T1. lol

if T1, the possibility to be shipped out will be higher (unless he or she really ships in the cheapest technika), or else it won't be shipped out if it's T3 since T3 just released internationally about a month ago
btw, have you ask the manager before, maybe you can get information form him or her

This post has been edited by eleongo: Jan 6 2012, 03:12 PM

maybe can recommend those arcade manager or importer to get the solo version, 1 screen only, much more cheaper.

owwwhhhhh yeah, WHY don't i just remember about solo version?
wait...is the solo version already on market?!
lol i gonna smack the pentavision staff who didn't announce about it (or i just plain forgetful about it already =.=")

but, the only thing i feel concern is that without the 2nd screen, it won't attract much audience

they announced long time ago, didnt know if technika 3 got solo version.
many arcade also has only 1 screen.
if cheaper to import = faster breakeven = more possibility to import (more) = we win!

O.O do you know which country already has technika with 1 screen?

EDIT: lol there is T3 solo version, but....the price is not much difference
http://www.bmigaming.com/games-video-dancemachines.htm

it is only 1.5k dollars difference, perhaps it's the copyright of the songs and the hardwares that make it expensive?
not to mention the cost of the internet and platinum membership, i wonder how much the total cost is

This post has been edited by eleongo: Jan 6 2012, 02:45 PM

Still haven include the-imba-epicness-1malaysia-tax.

ya....the shipment tax is the major problem....you know how many % of tax?

Not in this kinda industry, and you know the industry behind arcade centre in malaysia is very dark, its not really "official" in malaysia, whereas other country they get official licensing for their arcade machines.

One of the reason why we still see daytona in malaysia, in other country already got daytona hd running already (during 09 to be precise), now we only able to get it, saw them on midvalley.

This post has been edited by kEazYc: Jan 6 2012, 09:45 PM

that's why i planned to send a request to some new places like galactic laser in mid valley, that shouldn't be a problem, right?

btw about the license, you say "not 'official' in malaysia"
is it because of big crackdown in year 2000?

This post has been edited by eleongo: Jan 6 2012, 09:55 PM

Well you may try, i've tried to ask bts arcade centre to bring in beatmania iidx and ez2dj 7th trax, they say its very hard to just bring stuffs in, even if they got the money to do so, its just too hard.