Dance Dance Revolution Konamix

Dance Dance Revolution Konamix
Also known as: Dancing Stage: Party Edition (EU) Based on: Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo Publisher: Konami Platform: PlayStation Released in US: April 25, 2002 Released in EU: November 15, 2002 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences. This game has a prototype article

Dance Dance Revolution's third foray into the American and European markets. The American release gets this title because all of the songs in it were composed by Konami employees. The European release replaced some of these with licensed music, though.

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Prototype Info

Unused Song

Exclusive to Dancing Stage: Party Edition, the game's European release, is partial data for an unused song: ADDICTED TO BASS by Puretone. While a CD remained, being loaded with the others in VRAM, all other graphical data has been blanked out. Its step data is complete, however, and can be found starting from 0x7E5000 in READ_DT.BIN. It has been converted to a readable format in the download below.

Download ADDICTED TO BASS (step data) File: DDRkonamix-addi.zip (1.67 KB) (info)

A text reference for the song can also be found at 0x36C0 of the executable:

ADDICTED TO BASS

(Source: tikal.)

Unused Graphics

NOTE: All of these are loaded in VRAM, but can also be found within READ_DT.BIN, compressed under Bemani-LZ.

Internet Ranking Mode

An unused graphic for an "Internet Ranking" Mode, a leftover from the console release of Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX.

Data Bank

An unused graphic for a Data Bank mode. It is also a leftover from the console release of Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX, and even there, it's unused.

Easy/Normal/Hard

Unused graphics for "Easy", "Normal" and "Hard" modes. They are present in the VRAM data of the song selection screen...

...and in the gameplay screen. Note that this variant, besides the palettes, seems to be a leftover from the arcade release of Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX.

Japanese Text

Japanese text used in the Edit Mode's interface, yet another leftover from the console release of Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX.

Unused Guide

An unused Guide menu graphic for the "Language" selection in the edit menu.

Early Guide Graphics

Somewhat "plain" graphics for some of the sections in the Guide menu. It's worth noticing that all of them have finalized versions.

Unused	Used

Unused Text

Several lines of unused text can be found in the game's files, mostly on READ_DT.BIN. The left offsets are from the American release, and the right offsets are from the European release.

Edit Use Function

Meant to be displayed in the options screen.

0x132F22C/0x12C11F4

EDIT USE

0x132F25C/0x12C1224

USE NO USE

"Language" Option References

References for the aforementioned unused "Language" option in the Edit Mode.

0x135CBB8/0x12F1BB8

A description meant to be seen in the "Guide" screen in Edit Mode.

Switches language between Japanese and English text in the EDIT MODE menu.

0x137DB44/0x13134B4

Meant to be displayed in the Options screen in the Edit Menu.

LANGUAGE    JAPANESE    ENGLISH

Other

Found in offsets 0x135DE54, 0x139C0B4, and 0x13BC638 in the American release, and 0x12F2E58, 0x13318B4, and 0x1351E74 in the European release, is some dummy text.

Mr.Dummy

Regional Differences

Message Box

The message box seen when the game initially loads saved data was completely redrawn in the European release.

US	Europe

Title Screen/Main Menu

The title screen has quite the most obvious change: it was completely redesigned between the American and European releases. The menu screen also has some differences, such as the warning below the mode selections being in a different font, and the sparkly circles on the side of the selected choice being in a different color.

US	Europe

Warning Screens

The warning screens are also written in a different font.

US	Europe

Songlist

As stated in the introduction, several songs (which, apart from DIVE, were all the returning beatmania songs from 2ndReMIX Append Club Version Vol.2) were replaced with licensed cover songs in the European release. Unusually, Salamander Beat Crush Mix is the only song that didn't get this treatment, but it is heavily implied that the aforementioned scrapped song ADDICTED TO BASS was going to be what it was replaced with.

US	Europe
DIVE diving money GENOM SCREAMS PERFECT FREE Salamander Beat Crush Mix THE EARTH LIGHT	YOU GOT THE LOVE THE BAD TOUCH Don't Stop Movin' CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD MY FAVOURITE GAME