VCI 100 TP2 Overlay...WE WANT ONE!!!

DJTT is a business at the end of the day, but there is a feeling that the baby is being thrown out with the bathwater by abandoning the VCI, and also DJTT was built on the promise of constant updates and fresh overlays for the VCI and many many machines (particularly SEs) were sold on that basis. All that aside Flashflooder is a GOD DAMN ROCKSTAR !!!! for keeping on with the support for the old lady. His efforts are VERY much appreciated by all of us, and he deserves more recognition than he gets......
.... but DJTT as an entity has kinda behaved a little slack with regards to the VCI, and some of us feel a little dissilusioned.

Hey guys, got an email after a recent enquiry re: overlays, and the message seems to be that one being done is more likely than one NOT being done, so lets hope thats the case, cause of this.... i was actually believeing of selling mine online. Finally calling it quits and believeing about an S2, but after taking some pics, and videos in the dark it hit me why i can never part with mine. My arcade buttons spaces were modded with dual colour (blue/green) lit arcade buttons and no other controller in the world will ever have DISCO MODE to be enjoyed in the dark when I've had a couple too many

Thanks for the update flashflooder, can we take it because you are having to do this work in your own time there is no longer any support for the beloved VCI 100 from DJTT corporate ????

I just posted the initial version of the VCI-100SE v4.0 mapping here: http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=34931

I am hoping to make an overlay for this mapping but I have not had time to finish designing it yet. Please don't take this as a definite (and don't quote me from months ago if I said we would make one), I want to make it happen and will try my best to do so.

In case you guys aren't aware mapping is a very small part of my job and I wish I could devote more time to it. For example, I ended up doing most of this new VCI-100 mapping work at home on my own time.

I have been quite vocal on this community , but the the fact is, were I in their position I doubt I would have exhibited as much character as they have up until recently and would gladly have sold my soul for 13 pieces of silver ages ago...! I'm almost certainly a massive hypocrite!

.......saying all that... even it there is only one more before the VCI ceases to evolve and starts its gentle fading into obsolescence and obscurity.... I just want one proper TP2 overlay.... just one to send the VCI off in proper f***ing style.

Just so its all crystal, this thread was started by Daw-z and me specifically to address the fact that a mapping AND overlay had been promised by DJTT themselves, this is a direct quote from Flashflooders first post re: the 3.6.4 mapping

"Just to clarify, DJ Techtools is planning on making a new mapping and overlay for the VCI-100 with Traktor Pro 2 with new functionality but this is not it. There is another thread I made for suggestions or requests for features to be included in that upcoming mapping here: http://www.djranking s.com/community /sho...d.php?p=262979"

there it is in black and white folks, ... undeniable...fact. the full thread can be read at http://www.djranking s.com/community /showthread.php?t=28029

So this is not as if I and some rude others who once bought a television from sony have now suddenly decided to demand that Sony make a new TV exactly how we want it just because we bloody well want them to, this is simply not the case.

1. They quite clearly said they would. See quote above.
2. There was then total radio silence on the matter, emotions would not have run so high if there had just been a lot more direct and upfront communication about all this, and them saying..."actually guys, you know what? it might not happen now" would have been so easy.
3. DJTT has sold and continues to sell VCI-100SEs BASED on the unique selling point that "fresh mappings AND overlays are continually updated".. that bit of marketing is STILL on the site, but i've already sought out two old quotes here and i cant be bothered to look for a third, but it is on there, and quite easy to find, but remember folks, people have been continuing to buy the VCI SE on the understanding that they will be able to keep updating it... if that is not the case, DJTT should be honest about this, and this is actually pretty out of order and false promises.
4. This entire site and community was built of the back of the VCI being pimped by DJTT, selling overlays (and SEs) all paid for by us. The members of this community... now it is wonderful that Ean and the gang brought us all together, and for that I and the rest of us will be eternally grateful, it has been a wonderful ride together has it not? but there is a real feeling of dare i say it.. betrayal, that now DJTT has turned into a proper business, selling S4s and other gear , and marketing the VCI 100 as a bedroom toy!!!!!! EXSQUEEZE ME????? W ... T ... F ?????? a bedroom toy? kind of rude really, and a revisionist rewriting of the last 4 years... apparently i was never a DJ.. i was playing with a toy in my bedroom, this added to the fact that Vestax no longer make the machine and DJTT are buying up all the old machines and cornering the market to sell a product that they no longer need to offer anything unique for as they are effectively replacing Vestax.
these are all the points that have concerned a great number of us... its not a question of hating... there are few haters here, and i'm certainly not one of them as i hope would be obvious.... but like the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas before me, I refuse to go gently into that good evening , and choose to fight, fight against the dying of the light!

did you not buy the vci for the current mapping at the time.it was worth the money to you right??.well times change so why are djtt obligated to keeping it current.i would say they are doing us a massive service and respect should be given pal.

I believe we need to be fair to DJTT. This probably isn't going to be a massive money spinner for them and they are doing it anyway.

Especially if they release the mapping for free with no overlay then there's no money in it at all!?

I believe they should charge (a small sum) for the mapping if there is no overlay as it's clearly a lot of work.

And if you lot all moan about that then god help us.

If they do it and release it for free there should at the least be a paypal donation link cause there's should be no such thing as a free lunch.

Just my thoughts...

Very excited to see new mapping btw

really glad to read that.
florian