Hi, I have wanted to give some comments on the new public realease for the game mode Taiko which is dedicated to the black-bar.

I checked it right now, and actually it is better as I thought before. The bar fits well and we are able to variate with the font depending on what skin we have.
But I want to mention some other stuff as well, which can hopfully help somehow making it more user friendly.

Before that, I want to recall that it was said before, that Taiko_BG's are unrankable from now on because, they wouldn't work well with the current system(+ some more reasons). But actually it works pretty well as you can see here: http://puu.sh/1ViWi (Map: https://osu.ppy.sh/s/70738)
This BG has been made before the new updated got released and it has the widescreen resolution. It stil works perfectly fine, as expected.
(Though, I don't know if you planed some more features for Taiko bgs, but it would be great to enlighten us, if so.)

So to come back to my suggestion: How about connecting the feature with the BGs together? Like this: http://puu.sh/1Vj4Q (BG: http://puu.sh/1Vj5Y)
The reason for suggesting this is, if we would use normal osu BGs for the Taiko difficulties this would happen often:
http://puu.sh/1Vj81
http://puu.sh/1Vj8Q
http://puu.sh/1Vjaw

For some people this might be no problem, for others it is like a thorn in eye. - The head is cut of or the picture is placed in general bad. My poor eyes.
(actually I say this can have an effect on taiko players as well -> how the BG itself is. But that's just my opinion.)
Another thing is to give us please the possibilty back, to design the BGs as we want. :/
To me and some other mappers, choosing a BG is like the cherry on a cake. Threating this as unrankable is sad.
So it would be great if we could at least move the BG as we want, to fit it to the current Taiko BG system.

(I think this is the right place to post it? It's not a feature request, since we can do these things by our own. If still wrong, I apologize.)
Edit: Wups, I noticed right now that the BG I used as example is 1024x600. Anyway, with 1024x768 it's also no problem.

have my support ;www; i got all of my maps with cutted head in Taiko mode and I don't like it

I think that should it be for now. Thank you for response.

So this means there's no need to create custom Taiko BGs on your own now?
I'm not too fond of this change really, since I kinda prefer the custom ones made by the mappers themselves for Taiko maps, gives them a sense of individuality and creativity.

... ah well, I guess it's for the best for everyone (maybe). At least the Taiko no Tatsujin purists finally get one of their wishes come true :3
I do support this feature for the non-Taiko-specific maps being played in Taiko mode, just wanna make it clear.

At least there's a solution for this now. Pretty funny to see broken BGs everywhere lol

Ehh I do like making my own taiko BGs,so I'm not too fond about this change either...
(it's fun to make them y'know!Besides,it's easier to offset the pic yourself instead of letting osu! do it as each background pic's different)

Come to think about it,why did peppy decide on this in the first place?Just curious