Overview
The 13th Taiko no Tatsujin, released on December 2009 just five months after the wildly successful Taiko 12.5. Taiko 13 takes the game to new heights, being the first version to be used in a nationwide (Japan, of course) official Taiko no Tatsujin tournament in April 2010. In terms of new features, again it doesn't introduce many new things, except a slight change in the Children/Folk genre name from Kanji to hiragana.
Being the first arcade to introduce alternate methods of unlocking secret songs other than entering secret codes, a few of them were leaked to players long before the official secret code was given out. Even Namco played along by offering players hints along the way. There was a lot of deduction on the exact method to unlock songs without secret codes, but all of them required an expert hand in FCing a song on triple speed or something or other.
