Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
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| Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix | |
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 Cover art for the PlayStation port of Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix. |
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| Developer(s) | Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo |
| Publisher(s) | KCET |
| Distributor(s) | KCET |
| Designer(s) | KCET |
| License | Proprietary |
| Series | Dance Dance Revolution & Bemani |
| Engine | 5thMix & 5thMix PlayStation |
| Aspect ratio | NTSC-J, horizontal |
| Platform(s) | Arcade & Sony PlayStation |
| Release date | Arcade: |
| Genre(s) | Music & Exercise |
| Mode(s) | Single-player & Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | CERO: A (PlayStation) |
| Media | CD-ROM |
| Input methods | Pressure sensitive panels & Buttons (arcade) Dance pad & PlayStation controller (console) |
| Cabinet | Custom |
| Arcade system | Bemani System 573 Digital |
| CPU | R3000A 32 bit RISC processor |
| Sound | PlayStation SPU |
| Display | 29" CRT (Raster, 256x224 & 740x480) |
Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX, or DDR 5th Mix, is the 5th game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released to the arcades by Konami on March 27, 2001. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide. DDR 5th Mix contains a total of 122 songs, nine of which are hidden and unlockable. Of those songs, 40 of them (including all nine unlockable songs) are brand new to Dance Dance Revolution.
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[edit] Gameplay
- See also: Gameplay of Dance Dance Revolution
The core gameplay of DDR 5thMIX is the same as the previous Dance Dance Revolution games.
The scoring formula is different from previous versions. The top score for a song is 5,000,000 + (f * 5,000,000), where f is the foot rating of the song. The top score for a one-foot song is 10 million, and the top score for a 9-foot song is 50 million. Bonus points are then added based on performance; the bonus added is calculated in the same way as scores in DDR 4th Mix, but with Perfects being worth a base of 55 points (instead of 777) and Greats a base of 33 points (instead of 555), and a flat amount of points based on the letter grade received is then added, ranging from 100 points for a D to 10,000,000 points for an AAA.[1]
[edit] Interface & graphics
DDR 5th Mix introduced the song wheel interface used when selecting songs. This is also the first arcade version to display the game with a 60 frame per second refresh rate for smoother gameplay. Previous versions played at 30 frame/s.
The Song Wheel has become so symbolic of modern DDR that attempts by Konami to move away from the interface (US DDR Extreme, DDR Festival and Dancing Stage Fusion) have been rejected by DDR fans.
[edit] Dancing characters
5th Mix was the last arcade mix before SuperNOVA to feature dancing characters. Twelve characters are selectable, six male characters for the left-side player (Afro, Rage, Johnny, Robo 2001, Spike and Baby-Lon) and six female characters for the right-side player (Janet, Emi, Charmy, Princess-Zukin, Maho and Alice). Legendary Konami and DDR Music Producer Naoki Maeda was inserted as one of two hidden dancing characters.
[edit] Nonstop Mode
Unlike DDR 3rd Mix and DDR 4th Mix before it, Nonstop Mode, which allowed the player to play one of several set courses without stopping, is not available in DDR 5th Mix.
[edit] Long version
Four songs--B4U glorious style, DYNAMITE RAVE Long ver., HOT LIMIT and Oops, I Did It again (Fired Up Mix)--are long version songs, songs that run twice as long as a standard DDR song. Whereas the standard DDR dance routine is around 90 seconds, a long version runs for around three minutes. Such songs took up the play of two songs, and are only selectable as the second-to-last song in the round. Songs of this length exist only in DDR 5th Mix, and the concept was discarded for further machines.
[edit] Link data
Some machines have the ports to insert PlayStation memory cards. Such memory cards have to be PlayStation 1 memory cards with Link Data from the home version of DDR 5th Mix or earlier. It can exchange data with DDR 5thMIX, as well as any earlier version that has songs that are in 5th Mix. It can also use Edit Data, custom steps made on the home version.
[edit] Home version
The home version of DDR 5th Mix was released in Japan on September 22, 2001, for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It contains 47 songs, 9 unlockables, plus seven extra hidden songs that appear as a preview to the next arcade version, DDRMAX, for a total of 16 unlockable songs. The mix also contained song edits contributed by players.
During the summer of 2004, a number of members of the DDR fan site Aaron In Japan made an effort to export the thousands of edits from the game into a format recognizable by popular DDR simulators. The results are available on and through links from Super Wailing Bonus
[edit] Soundtrack
The Original Soundtrack for DDR 5th Mix is a two-disc album produced by Toshiba-EMI under their Dancemania dance music brand. It is only available on compact disc The first disc contains all 31 readily-available new tracks from the arcade version, the 12 new songs introduced in DDR 4th Mix Plus. It also has a second disc that has a Nonstop Megamix of all the songs on the first disc, and two bonus tracks from DDRMAX. It was released on September 19, 2001.
[edit] Notable music
- B4U (glorious style) : A Long Version remix of B4U, a popular song by Naoki which debuted on Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix)
- God of Romance ("Romance no Kamisama" in romaji): One of the few true Eurobeat songs that were presented on this mix. Another song by the same artist, Nori Nori Nori, was on the home version, part of the preview for DDRMAX.
- MOONLIGHT SHADOW (new vocal version): The only Missing Heart song that has appeared in any Dance Dance Revolution game, although others appear on In The Groove. It is known as 'New Vocal Version' because it features Jeanette Christensen, also known for the songs she recorded with E-Rotic (including Test My Best, which also appears on 5th Mix, Cat's Eye from 4th Mix Plus, Gimme Gimme Gimme and In The Heat Of The Night from 4th Mix. All other songs featured Lyane Leigh on vocals). The original 'old' version of this song is a track by Mike Oldfield featuring Maggie Reilly as the vocalist.
- Hot Limit: A cover of the T.M. Revolution song by John Desire. The song has become somewhat of an inside joke due to its incomprehensible vocals, which produced such mondegreens as "We Drink Ritalin" (which was immortalized by an animutation of the same name). Due to DDRMAX's removal of Long Versions, the song never made it on any additional arcade DDR games, although it later appeared on the US home version Dance Dance Revolution Universe, shortened to standard DDR length.
- DIVE: The debut single from Konami-produced pop group BeForU, featuring vocals from Riyu Kosaka.
[edit] Promotions
A contest in Japan, the DDR 5th Mix Musicmanship Trial Contest, was held in 2000 with the grand prize being the winner's song appearing in DDR 5th Mix. The winning song was PARANOiA ETERNAL, produced by an artist named Matsumoto, who uses the pseudonym STM200. Strangely enough, the soundtrack booklet refers to the composer of "PARANOiA ETERNAL" as either Takeshi Matsumoto or Mitsugu Matsumoto.
Naoki Maeda also held a talent search to create a new all-girl J-Pop band. He selected Shiyuna Maehara, Noria Shiraishi, Riyu Kosaka and Yoma Komatsu. The band they formed was named BeForU, and their first single, DIVE, is featured on DDR 5thMIX.
[edit] External links
- Konami (US Home Page), makers of DDR.
- Konami (Japanese Home Page)
- DDR 5th Mix Production Report, with information on Matsumoto (STM200) and BeForU. (In Japanese)
- Official DDR 5th Mix website, from Konami. (In Japanese)
- Dancemania (In Japanese)
[edit] References
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- ^ Aaron in Japan - DDR Scoring System Page (5th Mix). Retrieved on 2006-08-09.
