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Thursday, January 18, 2018

The End of an Era: Taiko no Tatsujin Portable 1/2's DLC Discontinuation

Freely-downloadable tracks for the PSP's first two Taiko no Tatsujin Portable titles have been openly shared with its players for a cumulative period of time that surpasses the decade, although it looks like this situation isn't going to last any longer.

The two notices above, available in the two games' respective websites, promptly inform that the DLC tracks will be removed from the official websites after January 31st. If you want to add the 40-or-so songs to your games before they're gone for good, you can check out one of our earliest guides on this blog, by following this link.

Credits to the Taiko no Tatsujin Discord user unknowwiiplayer for the find!

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Twitter Snippets (September 16 2015) - Calling the End for PSP DX [Updated Sept 17]

【重要なお知らせ】「太鼓の達人ぽ～たぶるDX」について、全ての追加コンテンツの配信を9月30日に終了させて頂きます。以後、再ダウンロードを含めた楽曲の取得ができなくなりますので、9月30日までにダウンロードを完了して頂けますようお願い致します。 #taiko765
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) September 16, 2015

A whopping four years after its first release and three other handheld console games in between, Taiko no Tatsujin Portable DX is finally called to a full end, as all downloadable content, including re-downloads of already purchased elements, will stop being available after September 30, 2015. This is a genuine last call to grab whatever you want from the game before that date.

Update (September 17 2015): Taiko Portable and Portable 2 are NOT closing DLC together with DX for now, but if and when it does in the future there will be due notice before-hand.

【補足】なお、「太鼓の達人ぽ～たぶる」と「太鼓の達人ぽ～たぶる２」のダウンロードサービスについては、継続して行っております。今後、配信を終了する際には事前にお知らせさせていただきます。
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) September 17, 2015

Sunday, April 3, 2011

How to download songs (Taiko PSP games)

The Playstation Portable Taiko games allow players to expand their tracklists with a fine selection of songs from the Namco servers via Internet!

Taiko no Tatsujin Portable Song List

Taiko no Tatsujin Portable was released on August 2005 alongside Tobikkiri! Anime Special. It is the first handheld Taiko, and the first console Taiko to be released outside of PS2. As the PSP has the exact same button setup as the Dual Shock, Taiko games can easily be made for PSP. The downside is that no simulated drum-style controller can be connected to it, unlike the Tatacon for PS2 and Wii and the touch-screen for DS.

Portable makes up for it by having a large, expansive song list consisting of many popular songs and Namco Originals and is also the only platform that supports downloading extra songs online, which are stored as .don and .kat files on the PSP's memory stick (which changed to the usage of .edat files for PSP DX). Support for Portable 1's downloadable songs stopped as soon as its successor, Portable 2, was released, but you can still download the existing songs to this day. To give a comparison of the average size of one song, you can store a maximum of 19 songs in an empty 32MB memory stick. (source)

The PSP Taiko games are also the only ones to have the Bell note, which makes use of the analog stick below the PSP's D-Pad. Two PSPs can play together in competitive multiplayer, and if you only have one, you and your partner can share the PSP too! D-Pad and L button for 1P, and ○△×□ and R button for 2P! Imagine all the trembling and laughing that ought to cause.