Opening for today's hotch-potch of topics, we have a tweet from voice actor Aya Kabasawa (樺澤綾) revealing that she is tasked as the voice behind Machina (まきな), the Donder Scientist from the year 2765 bringing AI Don to us to enable the AI Battle Performance mode.【出演情報】— 樺澤綾 (@kabaccho) July 2, 2019
6/27よりアーケード版「太鼓の達人 グリーンVer.」で配信された まきな のCVを担当させて頂きました！
是非！ゲームセンターに遊びに行ってください✨💪
私も打楽器経験者として挑みたいと思います！
しかしながらまきなちゃん、可愛いなぁ🤤✨https://t.co/cJMmKtuIqe#太鼓の達人
— marupo (@marupo10) June 30, 2019
Other than that, the AI Battle Performance mode has been analysis to its bones by persistent Donders, including multiple people already snatching enough points for the elusive AI Battle Rank 10+ and being officially recognized as the "most powerful Donder". We will soon be penning a feature post on the mode and all its details, but check the compilation on wikihouse for now. (what about the feature for PS4 Taiko Ranked Match then)
Finally, we welcome the return of out Taiko Goofs feature because AI Battle Performance mode brought with it some natsy bugs from year 2765.
Most of you should know some songs on specific difficulties has different notecharts for 1-player play and 2-player play (officially known as 双打 Sou-uchi). Given that AI Battle Performance mode features simulated PvP battles, the Sou-uchi notecharts should not have been used, right? However, as at release of the mode, if you play such songs with Shin-uchi (真打) scoring on, the game will have you play the 1-player notechart but wrongly use the scoring basis for the 2-player notechart.
As a result from this, some notecharts get crazily erroneous ceiling scores. The worst offender found so far is KAGEKIYO (Ura Oni) with a bugged ceiling of 1.84 million points, since that scoring was based on a 500-something-note notechart applied to a 999-note notechart. For example, check this video by Taiwan's Taiko Teamfish for evidence (with some usual Hiroba-nai banter):
Currently there is no word from the Taiko Team regarding any fixes slated for this error. However, with the prospect of people abusing the bug to unjustly hog the rankings, this should be high on their to-do list (we/people think). In the meantime, the Donder community asks that people practice self-discipline and refrain from playing the affected notecharts (like use normal scoring, or use Shin-uchi scoring only in normal mode).
