DJMax Portable

DJMax Portable
Developer: Pentavision Publisher: Pentavision Platform: PlayStation Portable Released in KR: January 14, 2006, October 27, 2006 (International) This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has revisional differences.

DJMax Portable is a rhythm action game, first of the series to be sold on the PSP platform.
This page covers both the original and the International "DMPi" revision. The way to tell if the game is the original or International is that the International Version has a small letter "i" in the upper right corner of the logo. It allows the ability to play in one of three languages (including English) and a few changes.

Unused Graphics

There's no Demo Mode in the game.

Unused Text

Japanese Poem

Like in DJMax Online, there's a japanese "poem" in unicode, used just to xor the headers of files in the xip2/.pak format.

……耕一さん……あなたを殺します
私はあなたを、愛してはいませんから…
生きて…ラカン…
百年…貴方を待っていたの…千年…貴方に恋していたわ
私…世界より貴方がほしい……
夜空に星が輝くように溶けた心は離れない
たとえこの手が離れてもふたりがそれを忘れぬ限り

Debug Text

References to the .vce animation format.

BrVisual.cpp
m_aniClip.cLayer <= KAC_MAXLAYER
VC: Exceed Layer Ani Tex Frame
!"VC: Exceed Layer Ani Tex Frame"
pLayer->cTex <= KAC_MAXANITEXFRAME
.gim
Bm_aniClip.cLayer <= 128
7CVisual
BrVisualPlayer.cpp
layer_n < KAC_MAXLAYER
13CVisualPlayer
InterfaceSystem.cpp

Revisional Differences

Music video portraying George W. Bush and other real people

In the international version, the song Dreadnought, portraying real famous people, was removed, and replaced with River Flow. As such, all courses featuring the song were modified appropriately.

Weird Censoring

In the International version, some lyrics were censored with the use of a beep sound.
A more prominent example happens in the song Wonder Love, in which not only one of the lines is censored ("I feel like getting high" at 0:57), but an entire rap section (at 1:35) is also cut off.
Other small censoring examples occur in rapping parts of Temptation and Out Law.

Developer Oversight

Playing With Mono Audio

Like games from the series for the PSP, the keysounds are played in a weird stereo configuration, with one channel having the inverse polarity than the other. This can make the keysounds stand out from the background tracks on headphones, but it comes with a big problem when you use a device with only one speaker (example, by plugging a mono cable or mono headphones), as the keysounds will be almost completely muted because the two (mostly identical) audio channels will cancel each other out.