Megatex in January to February this year

Megatex is back this year but unfortunately, this is not mega enough as it took place in half the hall which was Hall 5B at Singapore Expo and that was it similar to last year’s Megatex IT Show in December. So far, the new discoveries were again the new keyboards from Rangers and this time, they had come up with the smaller keyboard with laptop touchpad on the right. Unfortunately, you can’t even zoom in and out and that’s one of the disadvantages of the device and of course, since those wireless keyboards are powered by either Bluetooth or USB, they should be able to work on computers, tablets and other devices.

One more thing, since the Lunar New Year is coming near next month, the IT Show has been currently broadcasting the LNY music but what the hell was up with the non-Chinese lyrics? Man, this is like imaging that even the foreigners are celebrating the LNY with us, lol.

4K HD TV’s next year in Japan

If the retina display resolutions are not high definition enough to the future, the TVs probably will have even larger resolutions or so fit into one whole screen that may eliminate the pixellation on the TV screen just like other mobile devices are. So far, the cinemas may be having like two full HD projection screens or some sort that you can get even sharper and more pixel perfect HD experience on the 4Kp HD TVs in the future starting next year.

Apparently, they are starting to have the World Cup thing in 4kp HD in July next year that is taking place in Brazil. Rather than using the directed broadcast satellites, they will be using the company communication satellites to do the broadcasting. With the resolution of the live match program so gigantic, can they broadcast such a program like that at higher transmission speed? Later on, this kind of plan will be spread to broadcast satellites for even higher definition TV programs. Of course, most of the TV programs will be blurry by then on the 4k HD TVs even if they are in HD by 720p or perhaps 1080p. Even if you make an HD video that is above 1080p, it can still be that blurry on the 4k HD TVs and this is going to be a huge challenge in the future for today’s technology.

Yukei Seikai Reconstruction

It seems that Sasakure.uk is one of the band members of UK Rampage and the band name surely has some reference to his name and albums. Last year, there was an album consisting of the band’s covers of the respective Vocaloid songs we know of but there are also songs I don’t even know of. It doesn’t matter if the songs are composed by Sasakure.uk or not, it is basically a cover album of the Vocaloid songs. This was released in October last year and there was a concert with their covers being played and at the end of the concert, there was an announcement that some of their songs will be in Jubeat Plus and Reflec Beat Plus. Previously, Jubeat Plus had the Vocaloid songs which were the original versions but with this pack for both games, all the songs are actually the UK Rampage covers. Perhaps, it won’t cause the controversy that way but even then, we can still recognize some of the band members as well as the songs in the pack. Hello Planet and Freely Tomorrow are the known examples if you have played Project Diva series before like I did. Other known examples include Ura Omote Lovers, Senbon Zakura and Strobe Last etc. Perhaps, it is UK Rampage’s intention to put in their covers in Jubeat Plus and Reflec Beat Plus while they had given credits to the original producers. Hell, even Mitchie M already knew that his song is going to be in those two Bemani games on IOS. Also, the music pack was already released recently sometime this month.

Happy Internet Freedom Day in January 18

A day has passed since the Internet Freedom Day and this is gonna be a special report. A year ago, many IT companies including the ones behind the famous blackouts opposed the bad bills we already knew of such as S*** and P*** ever since the discovery of them in December two years ago. But after those bills were dead, there came even more of those governmental stupid-ness of last year and we can predict that more of these will approach us in the future so the fight over the Internet freedom is not over yet. From the email I received from AccessNow, you can lend your voice to the Thunderclap and send a message like I already did but before that, you may need to register your account of course.

Reflec Beat Plus for Iphone

Two years ago, there was an Ipad release of Reflec Beat under Reflec Beat Plus as well as the sequel to the original Reflec Beat known as Reflec Beat Limelight. The Limelight has the colorful and clean look to the interface and it's the same to Reflec Beat Colette. The series features some sort of mascot which is Pastel. The arcade original has the High Definition widescreen resolution that the Ipad itself is losing various vertical pixels like trying to make the game pixel perfect but there are more horizontal pixels than the arcade resolution. Unfortunately, unlike Jubeat Plus, there wasn't an Iphone port of Reflec Beat until the last year's release in which the Ipad version was re-updated with additional stuffs, tweaks and additional song packs. For Iphone 5 version, it is surprisingly looking close to the arcade port but even then, the screen resolution is a little bit smaller.
So there goes the equal enjoyment for Iphone and Ipad users when playing Jubeat Plus and Reflec Beat Plus.

DJ Max Ray Update

Ver 1.04 and 1.05 have 3 song packs each and various fixes. For Ver 1.04, I may think that there's no need to backup and restore your account data just to update the game to the next version while it adds additional 3 song packs while for Ver 1.05 which may be surprising to you, you can preview play the songs similar to TapSonic on IOS before you buy them. In addition, the medal system is changed in Ver 1.05 that you can get the respective three medals depending on how well you play for the number of cleared patterns. However, to get the Rainbow medal, you may need to get the Full Combo clear for all of 9 patterns.The final update of this game of last year was Ver 1.04 and this year, we get the first one of this year which is Ver 1.05.

New DDR by Konami

After the release of DDR X3 last year, it seems that Konami had announced the upcoming DDR game that was location tested last year. We didn't know if this was going to be released last year or so but it turns out that this is going to be this year's release as they had recently released other Bemani games lately last year. Why is this named DDR only again in the arcades? There was already a Wii DDR game simply named DDR as well as the one on the Playstation 3 which is also known as DDR New Moves in the Europe. Okay, tell you what? This year marks the 15th anniversary of franchise so we should call this new DDR game as DDR 15th Anniversary. You can read it out here or in my Wordpress blog just to know that the franchise is celebrating its 15th Anniversary.
The new features include the TAG Play which replaces the Versus Play, the additional of Good Full Combo and other changes. It will have a new cabinet and increased monitor size and the TAG Play requires the synchronized play, sort of like Sega's Maimai where there is some synchronized play with two players. The downside of this upcoming game is that this may be the last one in the arcades with subsequent updates.
DDR 15th Anniversary game will be released sometime in March.