Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX (Arcade)

Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX! Now with 22+ more ways to look ridiculous in front of strangers!

Revisional Differences#

Five different versions of the game are known to exist, labeled on MAME as follows:

• ddr2m - The game's original release.
• ddrbocd - A special build of the game, labeled as Best of Cool Dancers.
• ddr2mc - The game's CLUB VERSiON revision.
• ddr2ml - The game's LINK VERSION revision.
• ddr2mc2 - The game's CLUB VERSiON 2 revision.

Best of Cool Dancers#

Dance Dance Revolution Best of Cool Dancers was a build of the game specifically used for a KONAMI sanctioned tournament. For each round of the tournament, there was a specific song with a set difficulty and mode.

• Preliminary Stage: LET'S GET DOWN (Single Basic)
• Quarter-Final Stage: BUTTERFLY (Double Another)
• Semi-Final Stage: LITTLE BITCH (Single Basic)
• Tournament Final Stage: PARANOiA (Single Another)

CLUB VERSiON#

• Added hook-up compatibility with beatmania IIDX. With both games active, the Club Version mode can be entered, in which a list of 13 songs seen in the former game can be played. However, they only have Basic charts. The list goes as follows:
  • Licenses
    been so long / m-flo
    The rhyme brokers / m-flo
    The theme from "Flo-jack" / m-flo
    YOU MAKE ME / MONDAY MICHIRU
  • Original songs
    20,november / DJ nagureo
    celebrate / JJ COMPANY
    Do you love me? / reo-nagumo
    Dr.LOVE / baby weapon feat.Asuka.M
    Jam Jam Reggae / jam master '73
    LUV TO ME(disco mix) / tiger YAMATO
    melt in my arms / Honey P feat.Asuka.M
    R3 / tiger YAMATO
    special energy / DJ FX

LINK VERSION#

• A PlayStation Memory Card port was added, allowing gameplay of Edit Data created in the PlayStation releases of Dance Dance Revolution and Dance Dance Revolution 2ndReMIX.
• The title screen design was changed, now having a lighter backdrop.

Original	LINK VERSION

• Five new songs were added in standard gameplay:
  • Licenses
    EL RITMO TROPICAL / DIXIES GANG
    LOVE / SONIC DREAM
    TUBTHUMPING / CHUMBAWAMBA
  • From Consumer Software
    MAKE A JAM! / U1
    PARANOiA KCET ~clean mix~ / 2MB
• The sanb (SAMBA) background animation set is no longer unused, now being used by EL RITMO TROPICAL and TUBTHUMPING.
• The licensed song BAD GIRLS is now labeled under the ZIPmania II album, rather than using a generic Dancemania label. As such, the latter graphic became unused in this and all subsequent revisions.

Dancemania	ZIPmania II

• The All Music mode was added, in which all 38 songs in the game are playable, without unlock-based restrictions. It is accessed via a code.
• Some of the song graphics were slightly updated, most of them being typo fixes:

Original	LINK VERSION
BRILLIANT 2U (Orchestra-Groove)
The original banner misspelled the song's subtitle as (Orchestra-Groov).
MAKE IT BETTER (So-REAL Mix)
The original banner is just slightly wider (196x55) than the common resolution (192x55).
PUT YOUR FAITH IN ME (Jazzy Groove)
The original banner misspelled the song's subtitle as (Jazz Groov).
STEP BATTLE #1 Keep On Movin'
The original graphics misspell the name of the song as Keep on Movi'n.

CLUB VERSiON 2#

• The link compatibility was changed to with beatmania IIDX substream (can also link with beatmania IIDX 2nd style), which was released at the same day as this upgrade. As such, 29 more songs from the former game can now be played by both games.
  • License
    Chotto kiitena (ZANSHIN-NA MIX) / Laugh & Peace
  • Original Songs
    22DUNK / SLAKE
    5.1.1. / dj nagureo
    Be in my paradise / JJ COMPANY
    BEGINNING-OF-LIFE / QUADRA
    Deep clear eyes / QUADRA
    DEEP IN YOU / dj nagureo
    diving money / QUADRA
    e-motion / e.o.s
    g.m.d. / DJ mazinger featuring Muhammad
    GAMBOL / SLAKE
    GENOM SCREAMS / L.E.D.LIGHT
    gentle stress / DJ Swan
    GRADIUSIC CYBER / TAKA
    Into the world / QUADRA
    LOVE SO GROOVY / LOVEMINTS
    Macho Gang / ANAL SPYDER
    OVERDOSER / MIRAK
    patsenner / dj nagureo
    PERFECT FREE / nite system
    Prince on a star / SPIRITUAL RIDE
    Queen's Jamaica (astria mix) / Crunky boy (featuring Muhammad
    RUGGED ASH / SYMPHONIC DEFOGGERS
    Salamander Beat Crush mix / nite system
    ska a go go / THE BALD HEAD
    THE EARTH LIGHT / L.E.D. LIGHT
  • From DDR
    BRILLIANT 2U / NAOKI
    KEEP ON MOVIN' / N.M.R.
    PARANOiA MAX ~DIRTY MIX~ / 190
• All 13 songs from the previous CLUB VERSiON received new charts.
• In the Club Version mode, playing on the Another difficulty or in Double mode in the IIDX side can make alternate charts in the DDR side be played. They are as follows:
  • Contains "2P VERSION" charts
    20,november
    LOVE SO GROOVY
    OVERDOSER
  • Contains "ANOTHER" charts
    22DUNK
    Deep clear eyes
    GRADIUSIC CYBER
    R3
    ska a gogo
    special energy
• The banner of the song BOOM BOOM DOLLAR was updated. While a typo in the artist text was fixed (D.Jangle Girls), a new one was added in the title (BOON BOON DOLLAR).

Original	CLUB VERSiON 2

Unused Songs#

Original Release#

The licenses introduced in the game's LINK VERSION revision, which are EL RITMO TROPICAL, LOVE and TUBTHUMPING, already had some level of data in the game's original release:

EL RITMO TROPICAL
Essentially complete data. Both its graphics and charts had already been finalized at this point of development.

LOVE
Essentially placeholder data. Uses the banner of TUBTHUMPING, the CD of SMOKE, and the background of IF YOU WERE HERE.
Its steps consist of 147 Up arrows, followed by a Left arrow, and then an Up+Right jump across all difficulties.

TUBTHUMPING
Partially placeholder data. While its graphics were already finished, all stepcharts are placeholders, consisting of 112 Up arrows.

CLUB VERSiON 2#

Upon the filesystem extraction, there is a folder that is not referenced by any of the music database files in the directory mdb.
This folder is cpar2 and, given its name, was meant for an "Another" version of the song PARANOiA MAX(CLUB VERSION).
While such a thing would eventually appear in the PS1 and Dreamcast Club Version releases, the charts seen here are completely different from the ones in those games. In addition, there is no data for a Single Maniac chart.

Download PARANOiA MAX (unused steps) File: DDR2ndCLUB2-cpar2.zip (13.3 KB) (info)

Common#

Common to all of the game's versions is partial data for the song XANADU, by OLIVIA PROJECT, a song that would only make a proper appearance in the next game.
The stepcharts are placeholder data; Single Basic consists of 153 up arrows in a row, while Single Another and Maniac are duplicates of BUTTERFLY's Single Basic chart. The Double and Couple charts are also duplicates of BUTTERFLY's respective charts, save for Couple Maniac, which is a duplicate of Couple Another.
However, the most interesting part is the graphics, which are nearly completely different from those in the final 3rdMIX release. The banner is also noticeably a placeholder, and only contains a crudely written "XANAĐO" text.

Unused (2ndMIX)	Final (3rdMIX)

Curiously, the artwork of the character as seen in the early background was reused nearly intactly in the background of the song Last Thing On My Mind, in the European Dancing Stage Internet Ranking Version release.

Failsafe Charts#

While a Double Maniac difficulty does not properly exist in this game, a vast majority of the songs from the game's original release contain filled chart slots for them.
Most of the time, they are the same as the songs' Double Another charts, though there are some different ones, which will be noted below:

AM-3P#

Is mostly the same as the Double Another chart, though measures 12 to 20 have different patterns.

Download AM-3P (failsafe chart) File: DDR2nd-star.zip (2.89 KB) (info)

DUB-I-DUB#

Contains a practically completely unique chart, which consists entirely of jumps, a concept that would not be properly implemented until 19 years later, with the Double Challenge chart of the song Youkoso Japari Park he.

Download DUB-I-DUB (failsafe chart) File: DDR2nd-dubi.zip (2.10 KB) (info)

EL RITMO TROPICAL#

An earlier, easier version of the song's Double Another chart. Notably lacks 8th notes.

Download EL RITMO TROPICAL (failsafe chart) File: DDR2nd-elri.zip (2.31 KB) (info)

MAKE IT BETTER (So-REAL Mix)#

An earlier version of the song's Double Another chart. The only difference seems to be from measures 24 to 31 ("Verse 2"), which has patterns reminiscent of the song's Double Basic chart.

Download MAKE IT BETTER (So-REAL Mix) (failsafe chart) File: DDR2nd-make2.zip (3.18 KB) (info)

PUT YOUR FAITH IN ME#

An earlier version of the song's Double Another chart, which has easier patterns during the "Chorus" sections.

Download PUT YOUR FAITH IN ME (failsafe chart) File: DDR2nd-puty.zip (2.27 KB) (info)

PUT YOUR FAITH IN ME (Jazzy Groove)#

An earlier, much easier version of the song's Double Another chart. Notably has a lower notecount than both the Double Basic and final Double Another charts.

Download PUT YOUR FAITH IN ME (Jazzy Groove) (failsafe chart) File: DDR2nd-puty2.zip (3.96 MB) (info)

SP-TRIP MACHINE (JUNGLE MIX)#

An earlier version of the song's Double Another chart. Notably uses less 8th notes, and has a lower notecount than both the Double Basic and final Double Another charts.

Download SP-TRIP MACHINE (JUNGLE MIX) (failsafe chart) File: DDR2nd-sptr.zip (3.13 KB) (info)

Unused Graphics#

Background Animation Graphics#

Some of the game's background animation sprite sets, found within the folder back, have sprites or sprite configurations that are never called by any song, even in the game's revisions.

atta (ATTACK)
anmar_16.cmt
An unused animation of a ripple.

taqu1_16.cmt / taqu6_16.cmt
Two unused variations for a graphic showcasing multiple squares. There are five more, which can be seen in songs such as BRILLIANT 2U and GRADIUSIC CYBER.

tascl_16.cmt
A grid of dimmed out lights.

comm (Common)
dance_16.cmt
A large "Dance" graphic.

hamo5_16.cmt / hamon_25.cmt
Unused ripple textures, meant to be used as multicolored overlays on top of other graphics.

ka641_25.cmt
A gradient graphic. Could be an unused variation of kan64_25.cmt.

nmb01_mm.cmt
While this file itself is not unused, being called by both TRIP MACHINE songs, only the palettes that form the hexadecimal values 1 to 5 are ever used, leaving 0, 6 and 7 unseen.

show_mm.cmt
While this file itself is also not unused, two of its palette configurations are never seen.

danc (DANCE)
1mdan_16.cmt
While this file itself is called by several songs, it is always completely obscured by a different graphic.

takur_16.cmt
Another grid of dimmed out lights.

hiph (HIPHOP)
hit03_25.cmt
A rainbowy box.

sample
This folder mostly contains placeholder graphics.

den2_16.cmt / denki_16.cmt
Grids of lights.

mmess_mm.cmt
While this graphic itself is not unused, with some of its palette configurations being seen when an additional credit is inserted while playing alone and also during the Step Battle results screen, two go completely unused. They seem to be leftovers from the original Dance Dance Revolution.

mmozi_16.cmt
A tiny graphic with a "DANCE" text written on it three times.

Other#

Common
Found within mdb\rand are placeholder graphics for the "Random" slot in the Music Select screen.

rand_cd.cmt	rand_ta.cmt

Also, in pct256\pct256\plane\m_gauge.cmt, which contains the gameplay HUD sprites, is the dance type notations from the previous game, which go entirely unused in this release.

Another leftover from the original Dance Dance Revolution is found within all\boy.tex, the texture file used for the character KONSENTO:02. They are unused textures for a scrapped background dancer which, rather conveniently, seems to be a boy.

CLUB VERSiON/LINK VERSION
An unreferenced file at offset 0x81E000 contains an earlier version of title screen from the game's LINK VERSION upgrade.
Notable differences are the "LINK VERSION" graphic not being separate to that of the title screen, as well as a unique purple backdrop.

Unused Sound#

The folder sd\data, which can be found upon the filesystem extraction, contains the game's sound effect and announcer files.

A single unused audio file can be found in out_demo.vab, which also contains the sounds used in the game's attract sequence and mode selection menus. It seems to be a leftover from the original Dance Dance Revolution, as it was used in that game's intro sequence.

Overdump Data#

Leftover data from early versions of this game can be found as unreferenced files across three of this game's revisions, in varying states of completeness. The offsets take in consideration the following files:

• Original Release: GN895JAA.DAT
• Best of Cool Dancers: GC892JAA.DAT
• CLUB VERSiON: GE896JAA.DAT

Original Release#

Graphics
0x50C800 - early CD for PARANOiA MAX ~DIRTY MIX~
Can also be found unused in the Best of Cool Dancers data, in a more complete state.

Unused (Original)	Unused (BoCD)	Final

0x523000 - early CD for PUT YOUR FAITH IN ME
Can also be found unused in the Best of Cool Dancers data.

Unused	Final

0x525000 - early banner for PUT YOUR FAITH IN ME
Can also be found unused in the Best of Cool Dancers data, in a more complete state.

Unused (Original)	Unused (BoCD)	Final

0x550000 - early CD for Stomp to my beat
Can also be found within the Best of Cool Dancers and CLUB VERSiON data, the latter being found at offset 0x7F7800.

Unused	Final

0x567000 - early CD for TRIP MACHINE
Can also be found unused in the Best of Cool Dancers data.

Unused	Final

0x57D800 - early CD for EL RITMO TROPICAL
Can also be found within the CLUB VERSiON data, at offset 0x82B800.

Unused	Final

0x5AF000 - placeholder background for STEP BATTLE songs
This image seems to be taken from a background animation graphic in the first Dance Dance Revolution game.
It can also be found within the CLUB VERSION data, at offset 0x874000.

0x5C5800 - early background for Keep On Movin' (overwritten)
Can also be found unused in the Best of Cool Dancers data, in a more complete but still partially overwritten state.

Unused (Original)	Unused (BoCD)	Final

Best of Cool Dancers#

Graphics
0x6EA800 - early banner for BRILLIANT 2U
Notably credits the song to a different alias. A more complete version can be found unused in the CLUB VERSiON data, at offset 0x846000.

Unused (BoCD)	Unused (CLUB)	Final

0x6EC800 - early background for BRILLIANT 2U (overwritten)
A different background for this song can be found in the CLUB VERSION data, at offset 0x848000, which seems to be directly taken from the very first version of Dance Dance Revolution.

Unused (BoCD)	Unused (CLUB)	Final

0x61C800 - early banner for DUB-I-DUB (overwritten)

Unused	Final

CLUB VERSiON#

Graphics
0x7FA000 - early banner for Stomp to my beat

Unused	Final

0x830000 - early background for EL RITMO TROPICAL

Unused	Final

0x843000 - early CD for BRILLIANT 2U

Unused	Final

0x86F800 - placeholder CD for STEP BATTLE songs

0x872000 - placeholder banner for STEP BATTLE songs

Charts
0x7F3000 - Stomp to my beat
Only a Single Basic chart could be properly salvaged. Despite this, it is different from the final product.

Download Stomp to my beat (overdump chart) File: DDR2nd-stomOD.zip (2.36 KB) (info)

0x827E80 - EL RITMO TROPICAL
Contains different Single Another and Couple Another charts, as well as an unfinished Couple Basic chart.
The Double Another chart matches the failsafe slot found within the used stepchart file, and Double Basic matches final.
Note that the data itself does not contain BPM/offset headers, so those were added in for the conversion below.

Download EL RITMO TROPICAL (overdump charts) File: DDR2nd-elriOD.zip (9.60 KB) (info)

Unused Songlist Code#

Best of Cool Dancers#

Best of Cool Dancers contains three songlist code files which never end up being used:

File 1
Status: Referenced
Location: data\mdb\ddr1_mdb.bin
This file seems to be from during the development of the Internet Ranking version of the first game. The difficulties of the Single Maniac and Single Trick charts seem to have been swapped.

File 2
Status: Unreferenced
Offset: 0x4808DD of GC892JAA.DAT
In the raw data, this file is found immediately after the first one ends. It is very incomplete and lacks difficulty data for the Single Maniac charts. Possibly from very early in 2ndMIX's development.

File 3
Status: Referenced
Location: data\mdb\ddr2_mdb.bin
This file is much closer to the final 2ndMIX's. However, some songs are labeled slightly differently, and there's no entries for the three Step Battle songs. Only the relevant entries are listed below:

CLUB VERSiON#

Within the CLUB VERSiON revision's data is a file containing an early version of the game's songlist code, labeled as data\mdb\lk_mdb.bin in the filesystem.
Note that "LK" is the abbreviation used for the game's LINK VERSION revision, so it was perhaps meant for an earlier version of that. All relevant entries are listed below: