DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix (Arcade)

DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix
Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami System 573) Released in JP: October 19, 2001 This game has unused modes / minigames. This game has unused graphics.

Remember when Konami thought removing the difficulty scales and all songs prior to this release was a good idea?

Unused Mode

The Solo mode, which was a feature in some versions of Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix and 4thMix PLUS, is still in the game's coding, and can be enabled with the following MAME cheat:

    <cheat desc="Enable 6 Panel/Solo Mode">
        <script state="run">
            <action>maincpu.pd@8001f600=34020001</action>
        </script>
        <script state="off">
            <action>maincpu.pd@8001f600=00001021</action>
        </script>
    </cheat>

(Source: 987123879113)

Unused Graphics

How To Play

These assets are part of Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix's how to play sequence, and are never displayed.

Song Selection Screen

This shoshinsha mark graphic might have been intended to be displayed in songs with a rating of 2 or lower in Basic, as is in Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix and its home port.

Two markers that could have been used to denote a highlighted song is a Long Version, despite there being none in the final game.

BPM display graphics - digits, and "bpm" - from DanceDanceRevolution 5thMIX.

Semi-garbled banner graphics for Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX songs:

Gameplay

A graphic for an unused "Freeze!" judgement, which would have likely be seen while holding a freeze arrow.

These 5thMix-styled Game Over and Danger graphics don't seem to be used.

Naoki Portrait

This portrait of composer Naoki Maeda doesn't seem to be used, even in the game's operator menu.

(Source: tikal.)