DJ Max catches fever, gets delayed

by Majed Athab { Nov 4th 2008 at 5:20PM }

According to IGN, the K-Pop rhythm game that was supposed to come out this November will be delayed. DJ Max Fever is now slated for first quarter 2009. It's not an entire lost, however. The extra months, says PM Studios, will give developers time to add in new gear, upgrade items, and hidden content.

They're also working on making the title "fully compatible with the PSP-3000" and "perfecting a brand new game engine that is tentatively titled 'BS'." With all "BS" jokes about the delay aside, we're interested in finding out exactly what this change is all about and see if it was worth the extra wait. After all, the wait for a DJ Max game in North America has been long enough.

Tags: dj-max-fever, pentavision, pm-studios

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Gurbinder @ Nov 4th 2008 5:55PM

haha , how ironic that dj max fever catches a fever lol

WhiteShield @ Nov 4th 2008 7:34PM

haha ya i wasn't going to comment but the title was just pretty funny

Erik Stroud @ Nov 4th 2008 6:51PM

Yay, somrthing I sent in got posted. Now I feel special.

djratchet @ Nov 4th 2008 7:30PM

3000 compatible? Whaa??

Conda @ Nov 4th 2008 7:48PM

I would guess altering some things to deal with the changing of order of the subpixels. a lot of anti-aliasing methods rely on knowledge of a certain order of the 3 colors of an LCD pixel. the "scanline" issue is mainly a result of that, the changing of the subpixel direction screwing up all the antialiasing. ultimately, what that unfortunately leads to is needing to have two separate sets of graphics, one optimized for left-right RGB, and one optimized for top-bottom RGB

Jeremy @ Nov 4th 2008 8:28PM

I actually wonder if it's not piracy related. The most recent Korean release of the game apparently had a bunch of anti-piracy stuff in it, but still got pirated almost immediately much to the dismay of the developers.

More likely though, they simply couldn't get it into retail. That's hard to do for a small publisher, and this time of year there is a ton of competition (well, not on the PSP, but videogames in general)

Erik Stroud @ Nov 4th 2008 8:50PM

That is a good point. Well, that's one less thing I will be getting for my B-day. Or I could import DJ Max 2. I don't know.

1337stra @ Nov 12th 2008 3:08AM

good lord I hope not, I don't want MY sing voice SINGING karaoke

cafecito @ Nov 4th 2008 8:52PM

Let them take their time. I'd rather have a polished product later, than a rushed product now.

(Pleez make it easier, for the average player)

1337stra @ Nov 4th 2008 9:14PM

I can tell you right now that their new game is called black square, It is a different version of their most recent game "Clazziquai Edition" except while CE is aimed towards casual, Black Square is aimed for a more hardcore crowd. I hope they add downloadable content, and have an option to keep Korean difficulty.

Blac square has a gamefaqs page.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/data/954449.html