Lost arcade dance games: Dance 86.4 Funky Radio Station! Exceptionally rare BEMANI title from 2005

This is the last video we recorded with Kris, it's around 40 videos behind in the queue, but putting it out this week in honor of his memory. We've known each other since the DDRFreak days, it was only fitting that he was with us to look over this obscure dance game. This cab has a long-ish story for us to pick up. Around 2-3 years ago, we were made aware of one in a mall in Malaysia, non-working. Our contact there, for various reasons, was unable to make contact with anyone at the mall who owned the cab, and within a few months, it disappeared. This was the only cabinet we knew existed at the time; surely there were more, but probably in a quantity that could be counted on one hand. I think there is one in Europe, maybe one working in Japan, and one non-working that Game Betty has. Fast-forward 2 years or so, I was put in contact with a distributor in Malaysia for candy cabs, as we needed a lot of them for EVO. That was a good deal for us, but not as good a deal for the Japanese distributors to import, so they passed the deal to us. I felt it'd be a good time to ask about Dance 86.4, and sure enough, they found one! This ended up being the same cab that we were looking at before! The monitor was replaced with a 16:9 LCD; most likely it was out of order due to a bad monitor. Very fortunate that it still powers and works! I mentioned in the video it's not dumped, but in reality, it's more that a preserved/cracked version isn't out there. Game Betty's cab is not working, and I'd like to be able to help them; games like this with such high level of rarity, I feel it isn't enough to know that "a dump exists", I want to know that anyone who finds one will be able to keep it running for all time. We'll be getting that done. The pads are pretty cute. The decals for each panel are actually printed in sheets, not on the acrylic itself, which is interesting. The sensors are the same type as DDR, just different sizes, familiar to how DDR Solo is done. Nothing crazy special otherwise, it's neat! The LCD mod on the monitor is pretty good, it's well-structured, and they painted the bezel black to fit the screen. Partly due to that, and due to it being a hassle, we're most likely going to leave it that way. It looks great, is more reliable, and honestly plays just fine! We are missing the marquee which is unfortunate as we'll never be able to replace it, but they're checking to see if they can find it. The cab from the mall definitely did have one. The gameplay is very basic as you'd expect, with there being 3 buttons per side. This was definitely designed more for kids, much like Toy's March, it feels a lot like the same type of game. Definitely check out our Toy's March video when it goes up! There's a couple's mode, and a few difficulties. We found it really difficult to do crossovers or spins correctly, because the panels are too narrow to put your foot sideways and trigger accurately; I think with a good cleaning/mod, it should work though. Everything is pretty easy to perfect, there doesn't appear to be any timing. Interesting that it also has "mines" lol. At the end of a couples match, there's 6 different minigames. We didn't get all of them, but looking stuff up afterwards, found out. There's also a few different hexedits that can be done to enable some extra test menu stuff, but it's not super useful for running on an actual cab rn. We may set something up when time comes around for it. I think that's all I really have to say about it, just a neat piece of history! I'm curious if anyone has even heard of it before, let us know!