I can't believe they finally decided to make another one!! The newest installment will be titled DJ Max Fever and is aimed for particularly western masses this time. It will have 100 songs, including the ones from DJ Max Portable and DMP 2.

Brobably not many of you have heard of this excellent music game series since the previous games haven't been released outside Korea and Japan (and maybe some other countries around there), so I'll try to explain the gameplay a bit.

The aim of the games is quite simple. There are 4, 5, 6 or 8 rows of notes (depending on the mode) falling from top vertically towards a red line displayed on the botom side of the screen (pretty much in Guitar Hero fashion actually.) Like in most of the music games, you are supposed to press a corresponding button when the notes are overlapping the target line. You'll hear a sound every time you press a button so the aim is pretty much to make the background tracks complete with keysounds, perform badly and the track will sound just as bad as you are playing.

Check out:
- The new trailer here and gameplay footage of a good player playing DMP1 here.
- Game pages for the previous PSP games are here and here.
- Read more about the new game here. (Sadly there was no GS story yet.)

Stuff about DMP:
- With easy 4-button songs the games are very playable by anyone.
- First PSP DJ Max game was released in 2005.
- DJ Max Portable 2 is one of the best selling PSP games in Japan.
- A song named Dreadnought in first DJ Max Portable was removed from the english language "international" version (sold online for importing) because the backround video of the song had a stick figure with Gearge W. Bush's face on it.
- Default 8 button mode key configuration: ◄, ▲, ►, □, ∆, o, L, R (6 notes from left to right + the 2 big red ones). Also analog for the long-shiny-spinny-thingie-notes.

So if you have PSP be sure to check Fever out when it's released.

I have played the previous games since the release of second so I'm definitely glad to have something new to play. Bought my PSP for those games and they are still the only ones I have. Actually I could post some videos later when I have time. The framerate might not be ideal, with the video mode of my still camera I have, but I'll post something if I manage to get decent footage.

It's a good flash game, try it here.

Played until level 16 but I need to go to sleep now, way too morning again. Level progress is auto-saved on a cookie so it's easy to continue later.

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Just made my 800th post. ^^ Also I broke the 100,000 read posts mark the same day. (that is 08/15)

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Kinda stupid but I would have wanted to see my post count at 777 which was 4 posts ago...

Only 109 posts to go for the next one . Wait... that's kinda much . Maybe I'll aim for the next hundred and play something instead of posting that much, heh.

[Ugh needs to think of more stuff... way too lame otherwise]

Um, I'm playing Final Fantasy XI on 360 currently. I like it since it's different compared to the other MMO:s. Couldn't say it being really a beginner friendly game but Wiki helps alot. If anyone else plays on Ragnarok server, let me know.

[What are the chances really? The game has around 20 servers...]

Hmm and about the (sort of) new page layout. I already hate it, I should have gone back to the old page after checking out the beta. Plus I gotta say I absolutely hate the way emblems are hidden now, kinda unbelievable that they are even more useless now.

[Ah, better. Maybe I'd need to set a word limit for my blog posts xD]