Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2

Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2
Also known as: Dancing Stage Universe 2 (EU) Developer: Hudson Soft Publisher: Konami Platform: Xbox 360 Released in US: December 4, 2007 Released in EU: November 18, 2008 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences.

The second of the Universe series of Dance Dance Revolution games.

Note: All of the following offsets take in consideration the files x_data_XENON_US.bin (US) / x_data_XENON_EU.bin (EU) unless specified otherwise.

Unused Graphics

What is Love?

An early background graphic for the song What is Love? can be found starting from offset 0x14823800 (US) / 0x1468A000 (EU), labeled as what_bk360.tga.

(Source: silverdragon754)

Ultramix 4 Leftover

MAKE IT BETTER SO REAL MIX's unused graphics from the Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 4 data are still here. They can be found labeled as howt_th.dds/less_th.dds (banner) and howt_bk.dds/less_bk.dds (background).

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Unused Chart

The song Breathing More has proper Single Beginner chart data in its steps file, brea_all.ssq. However, it is completely ignored; the game instead opts to use an automatically generated, trimmed down version of its Single Basic chart. It's worth noting that this unused Single Beginner chart contains 9 notes placed after the song ends (measure 53); this might be the reason why the game ignores it. The chart can be downloaded below:

Download Breathing More (unused Single Beginner chart) File: DDRuniverse2-brea.zip (1,88 KB) (info)

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Unseen Ratings

All songs' .ssq files list ratings for Beginner charts, though they are not seen by normal means. In all cases, these values are set to 1, save for the Double Beginner chart of the song Hey!, which has the value 2.

(Source: tikal.)

Unused Text

Three early songlist files can be found within the game's data; one of them, unlock_list_univ2_E3.txt, can be found in both versions of the game, while the other two can only be found in the American release of the game, and have the same names as the songlist files that would be used by the European version (songlist_univ2_EU.txt and songlist_univ2_lite_EU.txt).

songlist_univ2_EU.txt	songlist_univ2_lite_EU.txt	unlock_list_univ2_e3.txt
Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii, Inc. // NORMAL SONGS apac dors firf htgd kygs isit jung lodo roit safe sofi takm tway wlae alwa anyt dont heyy wicb lomo notm step silo tide anth ariv cont dori eter gugu hand diff wana makm movn musk oola oran ragg tsho spsh sumr syne tact unti yoru bett bret drft emis eotg high lily dmy2 ovlm rhyi sidh unbo cosm dead disa lett matj nems potp tuto spin what // UNI2 DL SONGS ( 20 song ) etos elfa brea wait lest wonc // POWER COURCE SONGS ( 5 song ) u2m1 u2m2 u2m3 u2m4 u2m5 //UNKNOWN SONGS less howt -- end file	Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii, Inc. tuto cont cosm dead disa dors eter heyy htgd lomo matj nems potp spin step -- end file	Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii, Inc. anth dmy0 oran bret what syne potp dmy2 ovlm emis disa dmy5 ragg cont tact rhyi matj spin unbo dont tide notm anyt silo tsho ariv movn diff sumr gugu hand wana musk eotg drft high lily bett sidh etos elfa brea wait roit tway

When comparing these songlist files to the ones used by the final game, one may notice eight song IDs which are never actually seen. They are, in alphabetical order: dmy0, dmy2, dmy5, etos, lest, oola, wait and wonc. Of these eight IDs, three of them would be used in the next game; etos (EtoSharu), lest (Less Than Three (Ricardo Autobahn Remix)) and wait (Waiting For You). One may also notice the presence of two base game songs being listed as downloadable content, those being brea (Breathing More) and elfa (Elfadiciell).

(Source: tikal.)

Regional Difference

As with the previous installment, each of the game's releases have its share of exclusive songs. The list goes as follows:

US	Europe
Apache Dorset Perception Fire He's The Greatest Dancer I Know You Got Soul Is It Any Wonder? Tall Paul Remix Jungle Boogie Love Don't Let Me Go Rockit Safety Dance So Fine Take Me Out The Way You Move Walk Like An Egyptian	Atlantis to Interzone Chicken Payback D.A.N.C.E. Galang Golden Dawn Heartbeats Here It Goes Again It's The Beat Noise Won't Stop Ooh La La You Gonna Want Me Young Folks