Just giving a quick update -- for whatever reason, Taito hasn't released the big-character-memory-bus-performance-fix version today, it's the same version as the location test. They're saying that the version with the fixes will go out on Nov 10th. I'm out of the loop on this since I'm just the programmer, but apparently that's what's happened, and I was only told a few hours ago. Anyway, this version of the game should still be playable, but it'll probably drop frames when two Big Bands are performing actions. Same as the online location test.
Nov 10th version will have the performance fixes and a minor character select bug fix (just a small cosmetic oddity). Next update a few weeks later will probably have training mode and a couple more things (no promises, though).