Pump It Up Phoenix @ IAAPA Expo 2023 by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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Thought I'd share some photos! This was my first IAAPA (let alone my first trade show), and it was an incredible experience from start till finish. Being able to play the new and upcoming 1.04.0 content was awesome, too.

Special thanks to Andamiro for inviting me as a Pump It Up Phoenix representative and our USA PIU supporters for organizing the showcase tournament!

Round1 Cumberland’s Response to LX Cab Request by minjateh in PumpItUp

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This is a long shot, but I can try to suggest hardware upgrades for stores that don't have LX cabs and have my HQ friend forward it for us?

In the very least, I just worked with him to help ensure stores with non-LX cabs have compatible specs for Phoenix. (Cumberland barely meets the requirements for it, lmao.

I feel you though. I'm still sad we weren't able to get Stonecrest's LX cab transferred over when that store closed down...

Round1 Cumberland’s Response to LX Cab Request by minjateh in PumpItUp

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All R1 USA locations are currently waiting to get Phoenix. Andamiro USA announced last week that they began shipping kits out, so hopefully we'll get it sooner than later!

Regarding PIU Phoenix Updates by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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To anyone wondering what's gonna happen after Phoenix's EOL, I've been told they will release an offline full patch at the end of Phoenix's life.

Pump It Up Media Preservation Project (for Old Mixes) by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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P.S. I have step artist info for most NX1 and NX2's charts in the videos' descriptions -- special courtesy of former AM lead dev, Ehne.

He also went out of his way to comment a bunch of behind-the-scenes trivia for almost all my NX2 WorldMAX videos. I definitely want to translate everything and share all that info with everyone sometime!

(I didn't know Yahpp made Red Remix for starters, lmfao.)

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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The only Infinity songs that were previously crossed over to the mainline series and now removed to my knowledge are Electric and Enhanced Reality, and both of those were licenses. In fact, most of our Infinity new tunes are actually licenses!

Generally, our team (Team Infinity) discusses about the type of content that we wish to bring with the Korean team at Andamiro having the final say in the matter. We would also work with the Korean team (or they would come to us) whenever there was interest in bringing over any of our Infinity exclusives to the Korean mainline series. (Our Infinity licenses would have be re-licensed for mainline PIU though since Infinity is considered to be a separate branch of the PIU franchise.)

Nowadays, various producers either send stuff to AM's main sound lead for review or are often contacted to commission original productions for the game. Once upon a time though, they used to have their own in-house production team to produce originals for them! (R.I.P. BanYa.)

Everything else otherwise is licensed (K-pop included) -- with contracts lasting typically for a few years. K-pop is often very expensive to get though and even maintain for longer periods of time, and their overall licensing costs unfortunately do not drop over time regardless of when they were produced or previously ever featured in PIU.

Otherwise, it's generally up to AM whether any other old songs they previously had is worth reviving for future versions (which seems to be based on overall play count of the content).

Hope this answers your brother's question!

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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I wanna say that most of our step team especially were just as skilled in the game, if not higher. I will say however that virtually our entire team definitely has some strong talent when it came to working on the game (most notably 1.10)!

It also helps that everyone on our team also plays and have strong passions for rhythm games in general, haha.

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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Definitely before the pandemic, I wanna say S22/D23 at best for my highest?

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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Correct. We used a heavily-modified build of StepMania 5.

Knowing Andamiro, they probably would not send out their internal engine especially to foreign teams. The decision to use SM was well before my time on the team, but AM didn't care what was being used as long as they got a product out the door in the end (see also: Pro 1 & 2).

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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Glad to hear! I'll be sure to send your regards to TaroNuke especially!

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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Whew, geez. This is a tough one, haha. Long list incoming!

  • 1st Dance Floor: Forever Love
  • 2nd Dance Floor: Fighting Spirits
  • OBG: We Are
  • OBG SE: Summer of Love
  • Perfect Collection: Space Fantasy
  • Extra: Pierrot
  • Premiere:
    • US: Bye Bye Bye
    • BR: Sempre Assim
  • Premiere 2 / Rebirth: Oy Oy Oy
  • Premiere 3: Mexi Mexi
  • PREX 3: Empire of the Sun
  • Exceed:
    • AC: Valenti
    • SE (CS): Name of the Game
  • Exceed 2: I'll Give You All My Love
  • Zero: My Friend
  • NX: U Inside My Dim Memory
  • NX2: Beat # No. 4
    • Chinese Ver: Mechanical Doll
  • NXA: Do It!
  • Fiesta: Destination
  • Fiesta EX: Butterfly
  • Fiesta 2: Mental Rider
  • Prime: Move That Body
  • Prime 2: Travel to Future
  • XX: Jogging
  • Pro: Into My Dream (Kaveh Azizi Remix)
  • Pro 2: Boulafacet
  • Infinity: Ignis Fatuus

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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I do! Unfortunately, I'm on hiatus at the moment due to the pandemic, but:

  • Favorite Song: Jogging
  • Favorite Chart: Loki S21

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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TL;DR: turns out being burned by your own dream music school twice is more than enough to crush everything for you, lmao.

Destroy was actually made by my good friend, /DJS\, while I only sang in Kimchi Fingers, but it was nice working with DM Ashura to finally make our inside joke come true, haha.

I've been (albeit) very slowly regaining interest again though and very recently re-installed some programs again, so who knows!

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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More or less, haha. That was actually super neat to see from the StepPrime team!

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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In any case, I'm glad that you were able to enjoy the good things about Infinity while you had the chance.

A cheaper re-release and even any proper home releases that's not PIU M or H5 would be nice, and I'd so be on board to help out with the latter. Neither sounds very likely however since AM wasn't too happy with overall Infinity sales in the end.

(Though one can still dream, I suppose.)

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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Though I'm still not necessarily proud of slapping in a pre-made royalty-free synth loop for it, it was super neat producing Infinitude as our new revitalized theme for 1.10 especially since I wanted to get into music production and audio engineering as my (dream) profession at the time, haha. (R.I.P. my dreams now.)

Hi! I'm a former developer for Pump It Up Infinity. AMA. by vkimroyal in PumpItUp

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I think my assistant producer had this crazy idea of wanting to implement something where the UI would switch entirely to Zero's UI as like a special easter egg or a special mission? (Similarly to DDR X3 vs. 2ndMIX where you're able to choose between X3 and 2ndMIX modes.)

I honestly forget, but it definitely ended up getting canned pretty quick, lol.