Interesting Little Things in DDR

Yeah I recall playing on a locked Extreme machine and Trip Machine Survivor shows up for Final Stage with good enough grades. AAing this showed Paranoia Survivor and TLoM as Extra Stages, otherwise TLoM shows up for ES exclusively,

or PSM Heavy if you at least AAed Paranoia Evolution and Paranoia Rebirth in that order. (if I recall correctly)

Also, Roulette put LOM in a random place on the songwheel. I thought Trip Survivor appeared on second stage?

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Honestly, I'm not 100% sure of the requirements but I do remember unlocking the boss songs during a game.

I can attest to that. My only recently unlocked machine had the boss songs appear (minus PSM and TLOM) on the 3rd stage after getting decent grades, including standard paranoia and the trip machines that i've never bothered playing.

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Wasn't there the whole mongo mongo thing too? I can't remember what it was about though...

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The Captain Jack song was once a 9 too. These pics come from the sideart for Max 2 arcade. Found some full size scans of these a while back. And Maximum Overdrive didn't have it's remix subtitle on the song wheel as well during that test location Aaron posted pics of too. Yet some other songs did have theirs. Also I think some of the beta courses had 0.5x or something on some of the songs too. I think Dead End was one? I think Stay - Tess had a bit different song banner too?

DDR Extreme having Marvelous in normal gameplay, Sakura as the encore extra stage instead of DDR. I think there was even what became Fascination Maxx in supernova on this too at test? But I'm pretty sure that was just a rumor. How the Dam Dairim oni steps where for Give It Up by Captain Jack too in Extreme arcade. Just trying to remember some stuff here. I'm sure some of this is just a rumor. But just posting it all just in case. Also I don't know of a song in DDR Max 2 arcade that has this heavy groove radar. I think I heard one time someone said it belonged to Flash In The Night?

At the 55% version of the Extreme Location test, PARANOiA survivor and The Legend of MAX were the extra stage songs. MAX to the XXXimum was just a joke amongst japanese players who used to make up fake songs when the location tests were about to start for the games.

When this would happen it was often pretty irritating figuring out which songs were legit or made up. Tyma can attest to this, he, Malcolm (from bemanistyle) and I used to get together online when LTs started and try to get all of the songlists together for the new games.

I still have a whole bunch of images from the DDR EXTREME location test and Give Me Up wasn't present on the machine either. Both that and "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" from Dancemania SPORTS were rumors to be included before the test started.

also, just because it hasn't been mentioned yet:


This is from the press kit I was sent for DDR SN before E3 when the title started testing. I played it at the Irvine Boomers! location test as well.

Wasn't Paranoia Survivor supposed to be on DDR Max 2 at first? I remember hearing something about that too a -long- time ago. And on the official playstation demo for DDR MAX USA (the red one with the Sly Cooper logo I think) had samplestart data for Aint It Good from beatmania,Kakumei, and I think Nemesis - DJ Setup too. Note that this data was only on this version of the DDR MAX USA demo too I think. Also the song banner for Take It To The Morning Light was found in the ultramix series too. Along with a lot of other song banners found through the old ultramix sites I think. Crazy In Love - Beyonce and at least a few others.

Edit: Wasn't that version of Kind Lady rumored to be on DDR MAX 2 USA as well? I think it could have been like the DDR Extreme Memories code thing too.

That Kind Lady is actually on Max2. Not a rumor.

Nevermind. Looks like it is on the usa version.

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Yes, the five banners found were for:

g.m.d. / DJ Mazinger feat. Muhammad
Crazy In Love / Beyonce
Scandalous / Mis-Teeq
Get This Party Started / Pink
In My Dreams / Noemi

As we know, Crazy In Love was put in, but as a cover by wavegroup. g.m.d. is from the CLUB versions, but the other songs were never put in any game.

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Does anyone else notice that the BPM for the song in the screenshot.... IS WRONG?
KLI definitely isn't 178 BPM

Kind Lady(interlude)(true style)

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I'd happily play Kind Lady Interlude at 178bpm if there were a load of 16th runs thrown in to go with the lead synth. On a Difficult "5-foot" chart of course

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The point of that screenshot was actually Thomas Hpward.

A press screen of the SuperNOVA arcade for America on the official Konami website showed Kind Lady with every single stepchart (including Beginner) listed as a 10.

What about Happy Feet for the Wii? It has a game that looks like DDR.

Some songs got DDR X ratings on the DDR X location test. Regrettably, they were removed on the final version.

No long version exists (so far) for Turn Me On (Heavenly Mix) from 3rd Mix.

The Groove Radar was introduced to PAL DDR games on Dancing Stage Max (Extreme 2 engine). The PAL games already went ahead and called Heavy as Expert from the get go.

The logos of DDR Extreme, Extreme 2 and Strike are written/drawn with the same font.

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Can someone state some of the DDR X Location Test foot ratings?

I remember having a list I wrote up of my foot rating predictions. Lemme find it.