DDR The Secret Songs

Here's one for you: Did you know in the arcade data for Dance Dance Revolution arcade games you can find data and information for songs that never have been released?

For example if you were to rip the graphics from the DDR 2nd MIX arcade disc you will come across this...

That's right!  Xanadu was actually present on DDR 2nd MIX, although its not playable and was likely something that got scrapped before releases (I mean check out that banner!).

You can find this on the DDR 3rd Mix arcade disc...

The amazing Dancemania song TOTAL RECALL has data on DDR 3rd Mix PLUS.

4th Mix also had some data for unused songs...

 

Dancing Stage EuroMIX?  Oh ya, among the data you will find banners for BUMBLE BEE, CAN'T STOP FALLIN' IN LOVE, DROP OUT and GIMME GIMME GIMME, but there is one song mixed in there that isn't seen on any other release.

EuroMIX2 is also very interesting.  It has data for Burning Heat! BREAK DOWN! and TSUGARU but it also had N*SYNC in its lineup at one point!

Oh SuperNOVA.  Ya, it has data that isn't in game. Among them is also the banner for Beautiful Life, which is no longer playable on any DDR SuperNOVA kit (it was a e-amuse time exclusive).  This next one may shock you a bit though...

And finally on DDR 1st Mix there was MONEY... You can actually listen to the song if you put the arcade disc in a CD player too!  Its audio is still in the data along with its steps and banners.  I always wondered if it was possible to hack the game to make the song playable.  Same goes with every other song listed on here, but no one I believe knows if the audio data is present for any of the other songs (which would make it VERY hard... Or impossible to do).

Among those I have already listed there are also songs that were scrapped at some point in development.  They were either playable on location test or there is garbage data that references the song as being in the game at some point.  Here are the songs that we know of...

JUMP - BUS STOP (Only was in game during the location test for Dance Dance Revolution back in 1998)
Eyes On Me Featured In Final Fantasy VIII (Almighty Mix) - Faye Wong (Playable during 4th Mix location test I believe)
Ultra High Heels - Taka (Playable during the 4th Mix location test as well I believe.  Might have banner data too)
Got To Get your Love - Fargetta (showed up on 4th Mix PLUS at some point/somewhere)
Give it up - Captain Jack (The junk chart for DAM DARIRAM on Challenge actually belongs to this song.  No banners or any other instance of this song can be found, but the steps match identically to how the song goes).
Timepiece Phase II - Hirofumi Sasaki (Its in the Master Song list on DDR SuperNOVA2 but was dropped from the list on the next release.  I can't imagine a chart being that great for the song)
Ubertreffen - TAKA respect for J.S.B. (Made its way onto DDR X instead!)


And finally because I do not know ifthis song actually gets used at all on DDR X3 vs 2nd MIX there is also PARANOiA MAX ~DIRTY MIX~ (In Roulette Special) among the banners on DDR X3 vs 2nd MIX's arcade data for X3 mode.  I have no idea if it has a challenge chart or if the song is accessible at all.  It would be crazy if no one discovered how to play this song and it was accessible the whole time!

So that pretty much raps up all the missing songs on Dance Dance Revolution.  Hopefully some of you guys find this information as interesting as I do!

Oh and just for fun... This was going to be a thing...

SOLO BASS MIX was going to apparently get a wide release all around Europe in America but it never happened!

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday DDR!

Too lazy and tired from working the past few days to put effort into this post, so I'll just say this and leave a moe picture.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Kud is my waifu. <3

 Also DDR EXTREME is 10 years old today... Well... Yesterday it was.  ANYWAYS happy belated birthday DDR EXTREME.  You are still my most played game of all time and I am sure I am still going to be playing you plenty of times in the future.  Me and you are somehow inseparable.

 

Nearly 4 years of neglect and I still can't Discover

 So today I decided to go back and finally finish Infinite Undiscovery.  Ughhhh is it me, or is this game 100 times worse then I remember?  The voice acting is SO fucking awful and the characters barely express emotions through their bodies.  Its just aggravating to witness.

Difficulty on this game is just out there.  Gameplay is easy, I jumped right back into it with no issues, but WHERE ARE ALL THE DAMN SAVE POINTS?  I destroyed the second to last chain and I am now working on climbing the final tower to destroy the last and guess what?  NOT A DAMN SAVE POINT TO BE FOUND.  Boss battle after boss battle and there just never is one.  I must have tried like 5 times now and every single time I feel like I just wasted a hour.  What kind of cruel punishment is this?

I AM IN IT UNTIL THE END.

 (Review coming soon)

Another week, another Black Ops II emblem

Not many people outside of my real facebook know, but every week I make a new Black Ops II emblem.  Some of them are Bemani related, some are logo inspired but all have a connection to me I guess you could say.  This week I chose to sport a Johnny Cupcakes emblem.

For those that don't know the logo is from the Johnny Cupcakes line of designer T-shirts.
http://shop.johnnycupcakes.com/shop/

I already think I know what next week will be, but I have to make sure I can make it with the 32 layers I am given.  I also think I might start uploading the emblem making process for those that want to replicate some of my work, and see some of the tricks I use to make the emblems look as good as they do.

Hello? Is this thing on?

HOLY SHIT IT IS A BLOG

Not going to go into much detail or anything on my starting entry (ya I know, what the fuck?), I just wanted to FINALLY get around to making one of these things so I can share my life and awesome stuff with you guys.

But I guess I can throw this here in the meantime.

And that does finish off DDR 3rd Mix PLUS...

So ya!  Welcome to the blog, and look forward to a couple entries a week! :D