{"id":121,"date":"2007-02-27T20:12:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T03:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-02-26T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T03:12:59","slug":"m-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"M-06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely buy import games, for a few reasons: 1) I don&#8217;t read Japanese; 2) I don&#8217;t want the hassles and expense of yet another console (or hacking one I own); 3) I have patience that the good stuff comes out here eventually. But if it&#8217;s a game involving guitars, well, I&#8217;m a lot less patient. I bought the import of <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allgame.com\/cg\/agg.dll?p=agg&#038;sql=1:24092\">Guitar Freaks<\/a><\/em> for PlayStation back in the day, and when friends let me know about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsxshop.com\/cgi-bin\/shop\/NTR-P-AHDJ.html\"><em>M-06<\/em><\/a> &#8212; a Nintendo DS cartridge that simulates an acoustic guitar, right down to strumming the touch screen &#8212; I realized that I didn&#8217;t need to read Japanese, didn&#8217;t need import hardware (DS games run on US units with no territorial lockout issues), and for $30, could afford to be impatient. My pal <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ferricide.livejournal.com\/\">Christian<\/a> just came back from a trip to Japan and was nice enough to snag a copy for me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ncsxshop.com\/images\/products\/large\/0107\/guitar_m06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun &#8212; for me &#8212; but I can&#8217;t imagine it being fun if you are not obsessed with guitar, of course. You can play songs with it; changing chords is easy and you can create custom chord lists for original music if you like. There&#8217;s apparently even a bit of play-along karaoke if you can read the Japanese lyrics. I hear rumors that Ubisoft is bringing it to the US, and I will happily buy it again to support the concept.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to go do an open-mic night, walk up with a guitar case, take this out, plug it into a small amp, and perform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely buy import games, for a few reasons: 1) I don&#8217;t read Japanese; 2) I don&#8217;t want the hassles and expense of yet another console (or hacking one I own); 3) I have patience that the good stuff comes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=121\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}