ParaParaParadise 2ndMIX

ParaParaParadise 2ndMIX
Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami Viper) Released in JP: March 15, 2001 Released in AS: 2001 This game has unused areas. This game has unused text.

Getting rid of entire difficulty levels was such a wonderful idea that it killed off the ParaParaParadise series. At least Usao-kun came to dance in this final installment.

Unused Text

Starting from offset 0x5EAA0 in game\prog.zin is a listing of the artist names displayed in the splash screen before a song's gameplay starts. Curiously, there are several artist names that went unused, all of them belonging to removed songs:

Offset	Text	Song(s)
0x5EC18	NAOKI	CAN'T STOP FALLIN' IN LOVE DYNAMITE RAVE
0x5EC88	N.M.R.	CELEBRATE NITE
0x5EC9C	tiger YAMATO	LUV TO ME disco mix

Unused Charts

2ndMIX did a major change in the series' difficulty system, removing the Expert mode and moving its charts to the Hard difficulty. However, the old Hard charts for the songs from 1stMIX PLUS (or at least, for the songs of these games that had them prior to this game's release) can be found intact in the game's data, labeled as [ID]_2.bin in hdimage\sound\playdata.