ParaParaParadise 2ndMIX

The final installment of the ParaParaParadise series, 2ndMIX is known for removing several difficulty levels, having an accompaining DVD, being the only one of Konami's rhythm games to run on Viper hardware, and for featuring a cameo from KeyboardMania mascot Usao-kun.

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 which belong to removed songs:

Unused Charts#

2ndMIX did a major change in the series' difficulty system, removing the Expert difficulty and moving its charts to Hard. However, the old Hard charts for the songs up to 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.

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