Dance Dance Revolution Konamix is the series's third foray into the North American and European markets. The title for the North American release is due to all of the songs in it being composed by Konami employees. The European release replaced some of these with licensed music, though.
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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.
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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.
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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 North 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 North 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.
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Title Screen/Main Menu#
The title screen has quite the most obvious change: it was completely redesigned between the North American and European releases. The menu screen also has some differences, such as the warning text below the mode selections using a different font, and the sparkly circles on the side of the selected choice being in a different color.
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Warning Screens#
The text in the warning screens use a different font and also refer to the dance pad as the Dance Mat Controller.
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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.
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