qjuk said:
When I used to work for Playnation I remember a couple of Euromix 2 boards failing. When sending them off for repair I was informed that they were not fixable and the only option (apart from scrapping the machine) was to fit a Euromix 1 board instead. I believe the Euromix 1 boards are generally easy to fix, where the 2 boards are near impossible to get going.
Yeah it's apparently to do with Euromix 2's flash card. Euromix 1 doesn't need one of those, and runs on the same hardware, so it's easier for arcades to just get an EM1 disc instead, they don't care about actual DDR players like they used to, just the casuals who are fine with playing a bloody Boyzone song from almost 20 years ago
Konami haven't been treating the European DDR scene well for years now, while we did get a number of official releases that America never had from 1999 to 2005, it all went downhill from there. We never got Supernova 2, which led to a big gap in between Supernova 1 and the next release, and when the next mix (X) did come, they used poor quality parts for it which pretty much rendered the game unplayable. Same went for X2, though slightly less so.
We do now have DDR Ace, the latest release, with quality parts, but Konami have priced it stupidly high and not made their online network available to Europe even after making an effort to get it up in America, which I mention in the article of course. As a result a lot of arcades here haven't bothered getting it, and the ones that have are mainly ones down south- in fact the one machine in Skegness is one of only two above London.
Tedward2018-09-24 19:31:58
