According to Woolala from the Taiko HD campaign group, Namco received the petition to release Taiko Momoiro outside Japan in May last year, and began the project to export in winter. So they HAVE heard us! The campaign ended a success!
Though there's still a lot to iron out, Namco are continuing work on the Taiwanese release of Momoiro to make sure they have as many songs as possible. Takemoto is Namco's representative in Taiwan and he has delivered many, many tweets and replies to eager donders outside Japan who also want a chance at playing the latest Taiko.
ちなみに、稼働報告のリプで、台湾以外の国への設置要望もたくさんいただきました。
香港、シンガポール、韓国、中国、、、色々な国に設置されて、ゆくゆくは「ドンだー!アジア一決定戦」とか開催できれば良いですね。
言葉の壁はあるかもですが、一緒にセッションしたらかなり埋まるのではと(タケ
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) January 27, 2014
They acknowledge that they have received tons of requests to release Taiko Momoiro outside Japan. From Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, China (and others), and that it would be a grand ambition to have a Donder Asia Tournament, instead of just in Japan. Though there's an obvious language barrier, it doesn't really matter when we're all playing together!
また、収録曲についても、日本国内版に対して一部異なる部分がございます。(タケモト)
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) January 27, 2014
They also acknowledge that the international songlist will be somewhat different from that in Japan.
それから、現在、「ドンだーひろば」は国内版のみを対象としており、台湾稼働バージョンに対しては、ドンだーひろばがありません。
したがって、現在国内版で「ドンだーひろば」で提供しているサービス、お買いものや称号組み合わせ等は、利用できない状況となっております。(タケモト)
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) January 27, 2014
The Donder Hiroba service is still unavailable for those outside Japan, which means unlockables that require the site to unlock aren't available yet (Don Point songs and standard unlockables such as Soroban 2000 are available). They should be working on it soon.
ただし日本国内でのプレイデータは、そのまま台湾で使うことができません。
台湾の筐体でカードをかざすと、新規カードとして認識されます。
逆もまた然りです。(タケモト)
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) January 27, 2014
The international Momoiro is a different machine, and requires new card data to be created. Don't worry if you have Japanese data on it; these two do not overlap and can coexist on one card!
ちなみに、難易度構成比率は88%が「おに」でした。
この偏りもあるためか、ナムコオリジナルやボーカロイド曲に人気が集中していますが、、、人気曲は日本とあまり変わらない印象を受けました。(タケモト)
— 太鼓チーム (@taiko_team) January 28, 2014
Namco Originals and Vocaloid were the most popular songs, with 88% of all plays being on Oni difficulty. Taiko has lots of skilled players overseas as well!And that's a wrap! For other miscellaneous tweets about Takemoto being in Taiwan, just head over to their Twitter page, which is abuzz with activity right now.
As for us, we will be making a separate page for the international Taiko Momoiro songlist seeing as it's going to be developed differently from the Japanese one. Stay tuned!
