My personal opinion on Kyle's new pads is wait and see. I'm not one who like to be an early adopter. I realize he has done "thorough testing" and I am honestly optimistic that these things will work great. However, I think waiting 6 months to a year to see how they hold up may be prudent.

Hi friends. Getting back into dance rhythm games after quite a few years. I've been playing over at round one on the DDRA machine frequently. But I want to be able to play my own beatmaps or at least more than the ones offered on DDRA. Is there a way to bring in songs on a USB or some method to play my own on the ITG2 machine?

On some ITG2 machines this is possible, but most of the modified/hacked cabinets no longer have this function for a variety of reasons. From what I recall, the ACME machine's USB ports don't work. You can try to get a hold of Tony, who does a lot of the maintenance on the machine and he might add custom charts to the machine. Try PM'ing him. He goes by Ansick on this forum, but I'm having a heck of a time locating his profile. Perhaps someone else can help?

He's still got the sticky topic in this particular forum, which should be enough, unless I'm missing something.

Yep, here's his profile. When a name is so odd, it's always hard to find it, especially when a single typo will return zero useful results.

http://www.pnwbemani.net/profile/?u=23

F,Y,I,  Acme has had it's bars welded.  Hopefully not so sloppy now.  :-)  Bar raping once again possible. 

FYI, I was at ACME last night and the machine was frozen.  Never seen it like that before, the screen wasn't off, but just stuck, and it ate one of my quarters.

I talked to one of the staff at ACME and they refunded my quarter and said they'd reach out to the owner about it (Bill I assume that would be you?).  Could someone confirm if/when it gets fixed?  I don't want to waste another trip down there if it's still going to be broken.

Actually, the machine just left Acme today.  It's on it's way to Sakuracon for the weekend.  It will be back next week Tuesday.

What happened to the couples packs? We've been enjoying them for a couple of years now, but it seems like sometime last week they were deleted?

Me and a couple friends of mine are also interested in finding out what happened to the Only One Couples packs. Those packs are one of the only reasons we play on the ACME machine.

...and now the animusic packs have disappeared too. Are we back to the dark times again?

Ask Tony Chick, he should know what is going on as he maintains his system in that cabinet.

@D0SBoots, and Cxxxx, message ancsik on the PNWBemani.net discord channel. Or chat in the #acme-itg-support channel.

I see that BluesS just deleted the ITG cabinet from Acme on the ZIV Arcade Tracker. Is this true? Did the ITG machine disappear from Acme?

Everything has gone away at Acme.  New ownership, and a lot has changed.  Mostly all ticket games now. 
The cabinet is safe, in it's masters hands that built it.  :-)

Thanks for all you've done for the community over the years. I know this was a big hit for a lot of people, and probably not enough people really realized what they had until it was gone. Rip Acme.

That's sad to hear. I remember when that was the place to play. I'm thankful for all you've done for us players. Thanks a bunch Bill.

Thanks everyone for the kind words.  It really means a lot.  I have enjoyed the Dance Game community, will miss catering to you all.

A bit late but wow, can't believe it's gone. Thanks mvco for actually caring about the condition of your machines and for the years of fun.

It's the end of an era.