Thanks lilyquil for relaying this on the Discord.
If you know your arcade gaming lingo, you should remember that the NESiCA is Taito's proprietary arcade IC card brand for use in titles like the Groove Coaster series. Announced today (January 22) is that Taito will soon join in with BNEI, Sega and Konami and make the NESiCA compatible with the Amusement IC specs. The new Amusement IC-supported NESiCA cards will be on sale starting February 14 2019.
While it is a no-brainer that Taito will be retrofitting Amusement IC compatibility to existing, the only title that is confirmed to support Amusement IC cards is the upcoming Street Fighter V Type Arcade coming March 2019. I guess maybe it might take some time before you can just use one card to play all matches for a Tenkaichi Otogesai circuit...
Back to Taiko no Tatsujin, a reminder that only Blue ver. and up has support for the Amusement IC specs, so you cannot use an Amusement-IC NESiCA card to play Yellow ver. or earlier. Old NESiCA cards (without the Amusement IC logo) also still cannot be used to play any Taiko AC0 version.
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