[PSA] - Get Your Taiko DLCs Before The eShops' Closure

One bit of news that has made the rounds of gaming in the past month was the upcoming closure of the Nintendo eShop platforms for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems worldwide, meaning that no further additional purchases of any kind will be allowed after this coming March 27th.

For the time being, it will still be possible to use the platform afterwards to both update digital/packaged games in your possession and re-download eShop content (games/DLCs) that were already purchased before the store fronts' ending. This means that we're at the final raw call for Japanese-systems-owning donders to catch whatever piece of (the still available) DLCs they're missing for the trilogy of Japanese Taiko games on both systems.

As a post-script addendum, we remind you that the digital versions of both 3DS and Wii U games were already removed from the storefront beforehand, and that its former purchasers can still be able to redownload if these were already bought when they were available, alongside all their respective single/bundled DLC deals.

Source (Nintendo of America eShop Discontinuation Q&A)

[RANDOM] - Taiko 3DS 2's Digital Content Removal

Out of nowhere, the website for Don to Katsu Jikuu Daibouken has reported the gradual digital content removal concerning the game in question, also ruling out one removal notice issued back in January this year we previously missed.

Starting out from DLC songs, these tracks will (or have already) become unavailable to download make new purchases from the suggested dates:

• Hare Hare Yukai (from January 31st)
• Let It Go ～Ari no Mama De～ (from June 25th)
• Yukidaruma Tsukurou (Do You Want to Build a Snowman) (from October 31st)

Finally, the game itself's digital version will also get removed disabling new purchases later this month, from May 30th; after said date, only the still-available additional contents will be up to download.

Erratum (24/05/2017): All four items allows for re-downloading after the respective deadlines, if you already made the purchase before they're de-shelved. Wording above has been fixed to clarify.

Source (DLC removal)
Source (digital game removal)

Taiko no Tatsujin 3DS 2 (work-in-progress) fan-translation patch!

Those in the know on the 3DS scene will know that the console has been recently um...blown wide open. Questionable things aside, it allows for patches to be applied to games, creating things like this!

A huge fan of Taiko no Tatsujin, tiduscrying, recently emailed me with a little scoop on what his fan-translation patch looks like; which is, as of right now, a simple case of swapping menu graphical assets and text from Japanese to English. Obviously, getting to the graphics files in games are hard. In the progress video above you'll see some menus in JP and some in English. Worth noting that all this works even with legitimate DLC in the game!

A few clipping issues aside, this all looks pretty darn interesting and authentic. tiduscrying also wants to try his hand at translating the RPG mode; that's going to be quite the effort! Though, even just with the menu translation, I can already see it helping a lot of international Taiko players enjoy the game better!

You can follow the project on its page at GBAtemp.

Namco Taiko Blog (October 15 2015) - There Is No News: Autumn Reitaisai and 3DS2 DLC

By that we mean we have covered both of the topics of today's two blog posts. Check back on when we report on that 3DS2 Popular Song Pack 4 will stop being available October 23 23:59 and that Murasaki ver. and V Version attending Hakurei Shrine Autumn Reitaisai.

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Link to original post (Autumn Reitaisai)

3DS2 Popular Pack 4 Ends Distribution on October 23 2015

While we have a boom of new additions today, we will have to end with a rather sad removal. As we wrote in the title, the fourth DLC pack for Taiko 3DS2 have only one more month to be purchased/downloaded, after which it will not be available anymore. To speculate, it is probably because the Puzzle & Dragons tie-up concluding that Namco has to take the pack down the shelves.

Here are the contents if you forgot, and if you like any of these, grasp your chance to get them now.

•  やわらか戦車 Yawaraka Sensha (+Ura)
•  練習曲Op.10-4 Etude Op. 10-4 (+Ura)
•  決戦!! Kessen!! 
•  太鼓乱舞 皆伝 Taiko Ranbu Kaiden
•  時空庁時空1課 Jikuuchou Jikuuichika
• Extra Quest: Chaos! Omikoshi Dojo (大混乱！ おみこし道場)
• Costume: Pazudora Tamadra (パズドラ たまドラ)

Source (3DS2 main site)

Don to Katsu no Jikuu Daibouken's Korean Version website

From Nintendo of Korea, a sub-website for the second Taiko 3DS game's Koreran localization has been issued in a really simplistic form, only consisting of the 'How To Play' section and the Song List, complete with both default and unlockable tracks.

Aside from the fact that the songs' names have been localized in either English or Korean, we can already spot two worrying factors: there are some tunes missing from the Japanese version (more specifically, Geragerapo no Uta for Anime and the couple Senbonzakura/Matryoshka for Vocaloid) and there's no mention of the game's DLC content. The game's boxart featured in the website still has the Korean icon for the Nintendo Network services, so our best guess is that something will still manage to barge in as extra content.

Once again, thanks to chatbox user stex for the find!

Taiko 3DS 2 website (Korean Version)

UPDATE: Errata corrige from our side about the Korean version's features. Upon further research, we have found out that the bottom-left icon that appears in the Korean boxart of the game isn't the region exclusive icon indicating Nintendo Network functionalities, unlike previously noted here and a few weeks back. This means that the Korean version of Don to Katsu no Jikuu Daibouken won't have any downloadable contents of sorts.

We humbly apologize for the mistake.

Korean Taiko 3DS 2's Launch Date

Thanks to chatbox user stex, we know that Nintendo of Korea has officially announced the release date of Don and Katsu's Space/Time Adventure earlier this morning. Said date is August 27th, and will see the release of the game with (at least some) DLC support, as the Korean logo for the Nintendo Network is appearing on the game's boxart, as pictured in the official announcement.

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First Video: TRUTH and Kirame Kirari's new Oni charts

It's Midnight in the land of the Rising Sun, which means it's time for the penultimate round of DLC songs for Don and Katsu's Space/Time Adventure, featuring new Oni modes for two older Taiko songs. The first of which is TRUTH, which checks in with a 7* Oni mode featuring many clusters and a restless Go-Go Time section.

The other song of the couple is the fan-favorite Kirame Kirari, coming back with a brand new Oni mode consisting of 691 notes and lots of the modern Im@s charting tropes we have seen plenty of in the last 30 days (Call notecharts, GGT bursts, scrolling speed-ups for single giant notes,...).

For those who are nostalgic of the older Oni mode, keep in mind that this piece of DLC comes with the original Oni mode as the new Ura Oni, as the Taiko Team explained a few weeks ago in one of their blog entries (link).

Synchro no Tatsujin (12/06/15)

Despite all the (sometimes questionable) gaming hype around the yearly, American Electronic Entertainment Expo, the flow of fresh Taiko news from Japan not only runs uninterrupted, but in double portions as well!

Last Friday we had the first of June's scheduled Taiko Team livestreams, which bundles very exotic guests for the introduction of both series-affiliated songs and newborne arcade rhythm games alike.

Taiko 3DS 2 Korean Localization Announced!

While the latest of the Taiko portable games on Nintendo platforms is coming to an end of its DLC distribution, it turns out that its legacy is not going to be concluded so easily! In one of the most recent Press Release online issues, Nintendo of Korea has announced that Don and Katsu's Space/Time Adventure will be fully localized in Korean by NoK themselves, stealing the Ps Vita thunder for the first Japan-born Taiko game getting released outside of its homelands! The document hints at a 2015 release, but no word about its DLC content has been spread so far.

Thanks to chatbox user stex for the find!

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Namco Taiko Blog (June 4 2015) - Finale de la 3DS2 DLC, and What's the Deal with Idolm@ster Notechart Revamp

Double blog posts today! We check out the (sadly) final 3DS2 DLC, and Etou giving a full account on why and how Idolm@ster has and will be (re)-introduced as of the recent antics.

3DS2 DLC Mahou no Kakete now available!

Quick news that June 4th's DLC for 3DS2 is the new notechart for  Mahou no Kakete! (魔法をかけて！), which is already available now as UTC+9 that Japan runs on just passed midnight.

And as to what this Read More is for...?

First Video: GO MY WAY!! Going A Different Way, and shiny smile

Along with Honey Heartbeat ~10 Stars Mix~ (and its sadistic Ura Oni), GO MY WAY!! joins the songlist in Taiko 3DS2. I bet many of us were expecting something really familiar, right? I downloaded it 15 minutes ago and had one go at it expecting to blur through with my eyes half-closed, seeing as I had already memorized the ch-...hey...this isn't...WHAT.

Yes, the nostalgic IM@S song, much like its counterparts THE IDOLM@STER and Mahou o Kakete! on the Taiko Murasaki arcade, has received a full revamp in its charts, from Kantan to Oni, everything is different.

You'll spot bits of the old GO MY WAY!! Oni chart in the above video, but the patterns in this modern 8* (one star up from the old chart's 7*) are more varied and slightly tougher. Add in troll notes scrolling at x3 speed and you have something the Taiko Team would definitely do in recent times!

It has 555 notes, slightly less than the old chart's 569 on Master route.

 Onto the arcade, where shiny smile also gets the im@s notechart revamp treatment, and even more peculiarly it is also a 8* Oni with 555 notes! Last seen around DS2 and AC11, the new shiny smile adds the fewest gimmicky Call Notechart elements, and feels more like a "normal" update for an old 8* (475 notes) to more modern 8* standards.

First Video: Anataboshi (Ura Oni) and Mahou o Kakete!

It's already past Midnight in the Land of the Rising Sun, casting Japan into a new Thursday and with that, another song release from the second Taiko 3DS game.

 アナタボシ Anataboshi (3/4/4/5/8; 483 notes in Ura Oni)
Being one of the opening themes for Kirarin Revolution, Anataboshi comes back with a brand new 8* Ura Oni mode, bringing some of the modern charting tropes to the previously-exclusive Anime theme.

 魔法をかけて！ Mahou o Kakete! (3/3/4/7; 444 notes on Oni)
Well at least someone got some modern love. As the Murasaki ver. opens 7:00am today, Donders are greeted with this new notechart set to Mahou o Kakete! that could potentially make one doubt if it is worth the rating up. Compared with its old 527-note 6★ Oni notechart (in AC9 standards), this new chart has significantly less notes but some more mixed triples. The shifted challenge focus may prove harder for some of our intermediate Donders, but it is very much up to personal feelings.

Namco Taiko Blog (1 May 2015) - Yet Another Taiko 3DS2 DLC Schedule Change

Once again, the next lot of DLC songs planned for this month has been slightly changed from the original lineup, and Sasaoka from the Taiko Team is here for a surprise blog entry in order to let us know about the changes.

This time around, the issue is about the delivery date of Im@s song GO MY WAY!!, which now will be released on May 21st, together with Honey Heartbeat ～10 Stars Mix～.

Here's the correct schedule for May's Taiko 3DS 2 DLC:

May 7th - Dragon Night
May 14th - Anataboshi (+ Ura)
May 21st - GO MY WAY!! and Honey Heartbeat ～10 Stars Mix～ (+ Ura)
May 28th - Happy★Material

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THE COLL@BM@STER (17/04/2015)

It's time for another of these! Collaboration was the word for last week's Taiko Team streaming session, as our drumming series reaches once again both close and distant worlds. Credit to nigelliusnitrox, crystalsuicune and the Taiko Team's Twitter page for the pictures!

This feature will be a little slimmer than usual in the image side due to some viewing issues from us, but we hope you'll enjoy the read.

Namco Taiko Blog 2 (April 2 2015) - Taiko 3DS2 April DLC

Kept you waiting, 3DS2 fans! In the previous livestream, Sasaoka, the game director for Taiko 3DS2, could not attend the event and only had Daifuku restate the March DLC. My goodness, though. Is the April DLC a surprise!

Don't pretend you didn't anticipate this. Oh will you guys not believe what today's song is. Right, so are you ready to check it out? It's...

[RUMOR] - New Taiko 3DS 2 DLC songs!

One month of Taiko DLC has just been revealed, but -once again- some wikihouse users went one step beyond by decrypting data from Taiko 3DS 2's DLC servers and thus unveiling some new songs, possibly slated as April's future downloadable content.

Nintendo 3DS's Taiko DLC on March 2015

Don and Katsu's monthly DLC adventure goes on for yet another month, as the second Taiko 3DS video-game's website has been updated with the new themes and songs.

Namco Taiko Blog (February 5 2015) - Murasaki ver., Livestream and 3DS2 DLC

This is two blog posts mashed into one. Click here to skip to the second.

Still recovering from the massive hype of Murasaki ver.? Let's get slightly down-to-earth with some of the usual across-version administrative stuff. But first...