DJMax Portable 3

DJMax Portable 3
Developer: Pentavision Publishers: Pentavision (KO), PM Studios (US), CyberFront (JP) Platform: PlayStation Portable Released in JP: February 17, 2011 Released in US: October 14, 2010 Released in KR: October 14, 2010 This game has unused graphics. This game has anti-piracy features.

DJMax Portable 3 is a rhythm action game, last of the series to be sold on the PSP platform. It added a new way to play using the analog stick.

As happens with most of the old DJMax games, the graphical layouts and animations, use a format nearly identical of Ragnarok Online's ".STR" animation format, renamed to ".VCE" files. In this game however, the background videos are real video files.

Unused Graphics

Suggesting by the unused image from the song selection screen, it is possible that in some point of production, the song "Just Like That" from the band "Wideband Network" was planned to be playable, or was just used as a placeholder. That same band composed "Armageddon", the song used for the ending staff roll . (Both songs are from the same album, still this is just a guess.)

There's no Network Mode in the game.

Developer Oversight

Playing With Mono Audio

Like previous PSP games from the series, 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.

Anti-Piracy Features

The game will refuse to start and shut off your PSP if it detects the PSPISO folder on your memory stick regardless of owning a real copy of DJMax Portable 3 or not.

As previous PSP games from the series did, an anti-piracy program could be triggered if the game detects it's not installed in a real UMD drive (assuming you bypassed the PSPISO check). The anti-piracy will: make the graphics list to randomly skip drawing textures; change the playback speed of the keysounds and SFX audio; and play a distorted high pitched sound. After attempting to change the song one or two times, it will lock up the game.