DDR Graphics Variation & For Non-256x80 conversions

I noticed B' in his Ultramix 4 outfit in the Diamond Jealousy BGA.

I noticed B' in his Ultramix 4 outfit in the Diamond Jealousy BGA.

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God, the UNIVERSE backgrounds look very detailed. Kinda wish they'd keep that in future DDR games.

I take it we can replace the graphics on the old UNIVERSE simfiles?

Hi again "pm41224", thank you, but I want to inform you that you missed "VANITY ANGEL" banner from "DDR UNIVERSE" (XB360 USA).
Because of these I already updated my previous postings with some additions also with these nasty 256x80 conversions from ULTRAMIX series:



"DDR 3rdMIX PLUS" and "DDR ULTRAMIX" (XB USA) comparison:

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"Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX"
Variations from "DDRMAX2 (Dance Dance Revolution 7thMIX)"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution X2"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution A"

Home Versions
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX" (PS JAPAN)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX" (PS JAPAN) Website



".59"
From "DDR 7thMIX" (256x80 Principle #2):


From "DDR SuperNOVA":


From "DDR A" to BG conversion:

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Oops! Here's VANITY ANGEL!

Banner without text:


Banner with text:


Background:


BUMP:


I ripped the same images shown above but from their original .TGA files to .PNG. I think the ones in this post were sourced from the .DDS files (significantly lower quality than .TGA) that were also included in the ULTRAMIX .bin data file.

"MAXIMIZER" banner from "DDR UNIVERSE" (XB360 USA) was down scaled in the simfiles, can you show its native resolution "pm41224"?

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"Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX"
Variations from "Dance Maniax 2ndMIX append J-PARADISE"
Variations from "DDRMAX2 (Dance Dance Revolution 7thMIX)"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA2"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution X2"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution A"

Home Versions
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX" (PS JAPAN)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX" (PS JAPAN) Website
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution GB3" (GB JAPAN)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution DisneyMIX" (PS USA)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution Disney CHANNEL EDITION" (PS2 USA)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution S+" (iOS USA)

CD Titles



"1, 2, 3, 4, 007"
Undistorted 256x80 conversion by Principle #1:






"B4U"
From "DDR 7thMIX" (256x80 Principle #1):


From "DDR Disney CHANNEL EDITION" (PS2 USA):


From "DDR SuperNOVA2":


From "DDR A" to BG conversion:

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All righty, MAXIMIZER coming right up!

surprised you managed to save the 128x128 CDs from the 4thmix cs website
i could only save the few of them that managed to be avaiable on archive.org
you're doing really good work

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Speaking of improper UNIVERSE banners (and a little off topic). I surprise nobody has yet corrected the looks of the power courses banners. The dimensions are correct but the text's font (I think) and size needs work.

Example:

I got you covered, man. Also worth noting that the Arial Black I have has a different apostrophe than what is presented in-game, but that will suffice.

Power 1 (acid-tech mix)



Power 2 (Shuffle Mix)



Power 3 (south beach mix)



Power 4 (subTranced mix)



Power 5 (On the Floor Mix)



BGs also included for completion's sake.

To pm41224:
I'm aware that they don't exactly match the banners in-game (both in game mode and in training mode). However, your banners are good enough for Stepmania. May you make the banners for each of the Power Courses in UNIVERSE 2 (the empty banner, the banner to replicate the in-game banner, and a banner with the Power Course number and its title in its subtitle (just like in Universe 1))?


To dancervic:
Back on topic, I hate to be rude but in the DDR GB DisneyMIX - GB JAPAN, you are missing the following banners:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Mr. Bassman
Mickey Mouse March (SUMMERTIME EXTENDED Version)

May you please upload them to GitHub?

To SDB13:
Sure. They're all right here!

Power 1 (Funky House Mix)





If the white border on Power 1's banner seems off-center, here's why...


The raw image has it at least 4 pixels wider than the rest, so the right side is cut-off ingame. Anyways...

Power 2 (Progressive Mix)





Power 3 (Faster Harder Mix)





Power 4 (Global Mix)





And finally, Power 5 (Aggro Mix)





Like before, backgrounds included for completion's sake.

You're doing god's work, good job man.

I don't suppose you can rip out the BGA's from the Universe Series?

Already been asked for and done - here's a link to the thread

https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/thread?threadid=9092&page=2#p421568

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Oh, forgot about that thread. Thanks.

Oh wow, thanks for your help pm41224 and everyone who contribute to this project

You're welcome anytime, man.

We are just very far ahead to "DDR UNIVERSE" (XB360 USA) & "DDR UNIVERSE2" (XB360 USA) song variations but the POWER courses banners made by "pm41224" are more closely official in game's select music interface. These must be recommend in the simfiles and these will be posted again when we reached "DDR UNIVERSE" etc.

In UNIVERSE2 POWER courses, I don't understand why they didn't follow the song format appearances in their respective backgrounds instead of displaying only their subtitles in their respective banners. Although these are only customized, I will edit the stepfile title and display as "POWER 1 [Funky House Mix]" rather than "Funky House Mix" only.

Not rude to me but thank you very much for pointing these out and I really like for someone to report of what will I missed :D. These will also benefit me. Ok, here they are..


Thank you, these were saved in my compilation so many years ago and fortunately I recovered these from my corrupted external HD Storage. I'm glad that I got the High Resolution song CD's for "DDR 4thMIX" (PS JAPAN). I was kinda expecting that KONAMI will do these again for "DDR EXTRA MIX" (PS JAPAN) website but unfortunately they didn't.

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"Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution Solo 2000" system
Variations from "Para Para Paradise (1.0)"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX"
Variations from "Dance Maniax 2ndMIX"
Variations from "Dance Maniax 2ndMIX append J-PARADISE"
Variations from "DDRMAX2 (Dance Dance Revolution 7thMIX)"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA2"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution X2"
Variations from "Dance Evolution ARCADE"
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution A"

Home Versions
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution GB2" (GB JAPAN)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX" (PS JAPAN)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX" (PS JAPAN) Website
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution GB3" (GB JAPAN)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution EXTRA MIX" (PS JAPAN)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution EXTRA MIX" (PS JAPAN) Training Mode
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution DisneyMIX" (PS USA)
Variations from "DDRMAX" (PS2 USA)
Variations from "DDR ULTRAMIX" (XB USA) DLC
Variations from "DDR ULTRAMIX3" (XB USA) DLC
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution Disney CHANNEL EDITION" (PS2 USA)
Variations from "Dance Dance Revolution S+" (iOS USA)

CD Titles
Variations from "Dance Maniax (1.0)"
Variations from "Dance Maniax 2ndMIX"



"BABY BABY GIMME YOUR LOVE"
From "DDR EXTREME" (256x80 Principle #2):


From "DDRMAX" (PS2 USA):


From "DDR A" to BG conversion:





"BOYS [EURO MIX]"
Undistorted 256x80 conversion by Principle #1:


"DDR 4thMIX"
"DMX 2ndMIX"

Undistorted conversions and nice to see they are now proportion to each other:





"BURNIN' THE FLOOR"
From "DDR 7thMIX" (256x80 Principle #2):


From "DDR ULTRAMIX" (XB USA) DLC:


From "DDR A" to BG conversion:





"CAN'T STOP FALLIN' IN LOVE"
From "DDR EXTRA MIX" (PS JAPAN) Training Mode:


From "DDR 7thMIX" (256x80 Principle #2):


Because of "NAOKI feat. PAULA TERRY" Challenge Course from "DDR 7thMIX" I added custom artist line "feat. PAULA TERRY":


From "DDR A" to BG conversion:





"DAM DARIRAM [KCP MIX]"
"DDR 4thMIX"
"DMX 1.0"

==256x80 conversions==
In relation to "DAM DARIRAM" banner from "DDR EXTREME" which was converted by Principle #3:

will apply the same principle:


But in undistorted conversion by Principle #2:

which was previously converted for "DAM DARIRAM" banner from "DDR 3rdMIX":


Which do you prefer, distorted or not?

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Not sure where I got this from... but I found it in an old external drive...

It seems like this version of banner used the same font for the artist name as well...
Also, the artist name is in traditional chinese... the one that is used is simplified....





Edit: fix broken link

Since nobody posted an answer to this question, I posted my opinion. Generally I prefer the undistorted, but in this case, I prefer the distorted banner because the undistorted doesn’t leave enough side boundaries when viewed in Stepmaina.

undistorted but slightly differently (filling the top/bottom corners instead of cropping the sides)

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