Band Brothers/Jam with the Band sequel

[Da Robot]

First off, this is no idea or rumor thread, it's a real game.

It was announced this week by Famitsu and Barbera the bat is back.

Here's the games features and magazine scan.

Band Brothers DX(DS/Nintendo/6-26)
* Over 30 tracks chosen from classical and J-pop
* Over 50 different instruments usable
* NES is a usable instrument (A Famicom can be seen near the middle of the magazine scan at the bottom of the page).
* Play guitar by strumming with the pen
* Up to 6-player local jam sessions
* Singing mode with karaoke for both base game and DLC
* Over 100 tracks through DLC

Magazine scan.

What should be noted in the magazine scan is the picture of karaoke is that the lyrics are in Japanese and English. Now that's gotta mean something for localization.


Also anyone/Fry interested in the idea of just making a single "new game announcements" thread. It's starting to get annoying having to create a new thread when a new game appears. Especially with the Nintendo Media Summit on April 10th, hopefully something gets announced there.

[Fryguy64]

I saw that. It's a shame that the first Band Brothers wasn't released outside of Japan, as that would have greatly improved the chances of this being released worldwide.

And Edge magazine gave the original massively glowing reviews too.

[nocturnal YL]

Well.... Hope that Brawl is effective enough to bring this thing out from Japan...

Although if that's done, I'll probably stick with the Japanese version if I ever buy it.

[wanderingshadow]

I hope it makes it to America. Band Brothers looks cool; I remember see videos of people playing it on YouTube and wishing that I could play it too.

[Flip]

But what would the music be like? It's not like DDR where it's all techno/house stuff that mostly nobody enjoys It's J-Pop. Donkey Konga and Ouendan went under severe changes when they came out of Japan and we all know NOA is not good at picking music. They'll go for the most public domain and generic schlock they can find! So as awesome as it would be, I'd imagine NOA would NEVER be up to task on replacing the music library.

[Da Robot]

Here's another scan that show some sort of Wii Channel for the game as well. Could the word "GB music" on the top of the page be refering to GBA Band Brothers original name, Game Boy Music?

forums.n-sider.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2219&stc=1&d=1207834581

[Fryguy64]

Yes. They kept the name "GB Music" as the name of Barbara's record shop in the first Band Brothers as well.

[Dasher Misire]

I'd love to see Band Brothers come over here. Great bet it won't happen, and if it does, we'll be jamming to Sk8er Boi.

[Wildcat]

Why'd things have to get so complicated? XD

*cough* Anyway, I do hope it arrives stateside, and that it comes uncut. I doubt it, but I can hope. More Jamiroquai wouldn't be bad, I guess. Liked them in my youthful days.

[Da Robot]

Here's another magazine scan and some info on the speaker channel for the Wii.

- download a “Speaker Channel” to your Wii, via the Wii Shop channel
- Speaker Channel allows you to play your music through the TV
- no confirmation on price of channel, may be free
- upload compositions to a server in order to share your work with others

Source.

[Da Robot]

This game just keeps sounding better and better.

Here's some info from Siliconera on the user created features.

Daigasso! Band Brothers DX is the first Nintendo title to dive into user created content. Players can create their own songs with the composer mode and store up to 100 songs on the cartridge. The tool looks pretty robust since serious composers can alter the wave of the tone with a visual effecter. Once a masterpiece is made it can be uploaded to an online database through Nintendo Wi-Fi where the world (well, the world of Japan) can download it and play it.



Essentially, core players will make a library full of music to play. Inevitably some of songs will delve into the gray area of copyright law. What happens when someone uploads a Band Brothers DX cover of “Viva La Vida” or more locally, “Kiss or Kiss”? Will Nintendo step in and remove them? Probably not, but if, and this is a big if, Daigasso! Band Brothers DX gets localized this is an issue Nintendo has to think about. On a more positive note online music sharing will be another outlet for the indie/otokei dojin music scene and the growing number of arranged video game songs.



In addition to user created songs, Nintendo will release a number of legally licensed songs as free downloads. Sixty-three of them are listed including: One Night Carnival (this was in Ouendan), Real Life Real Heart (Ouendan 2), Love Story wa Totsuzen ni, CHA-LA HEAD-CHA-LA, and Doremon's Dream. Not as much video game music is listed as downloadable content yet, but Nintendo is likely to add more songs than Song of Ashley from Sawaru Made in Wario.



Oh, and Daigasso! Band Brothers DX has more instruments to play besides the DS face buttons. You can strum a touch screen guitar and practice your karaoke skills on the JR line.

[Smashchu]

Apr 11, 2008 5:36:58 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

Yes. They kept the name "GB Music" as the name of Barbara's record shop in the first Band Brothers as well.

Explained in the Brawl trophy actually. It stands for "Great Barbara".

Also, I'd love to see this stateside. The original was suppose to come here, but never did. If it does, I'm hoping for some Duran Duran

[TV Eye]

Jun 4, 2008 21:06:57 GMT -5 Smashchu said:

Apr 11, 2008 5:36:58 GMT -5 Fryguy64 said:

If it does, I'm hoping for some Duran Duran

An 80's fan, huh? ;D

[Da Robot]

Forgot to mention this before but the website for Band Bros DX is up as well.

Also there appears to be a track named "Song of Ashley" which I think could be the Ashley's Song from WarioWare, it also has a mention in the karoke section of the game as well.

[Da Robot]

A commercial has appeared for the game on Nintendo of Japan's website as well as a few others but they have a really annoying load time anyone know how to put them in YouTube?

Commercial website.