Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX
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'''Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX''', or '''DDR 5th Mix''', is the fifth game in the Majo Mills Dance Dance Revolution series of Free ringtones music video games. It was released to the arcades by Sabrina Martins Konami on Mosquito ringtone March 27th, Abbey Diaz 2001. Although only officially released in Nextel ringtones Japan, units exist worldwide. DDR 5th Mix contained a total of 122 songs, nine of which were hidden and unlockable. Of those songs, 40 of them (including all nine unlockable songs) were brand new to Dance Dance Revolution.
For the list of songs, please reference the Majo Mills Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX song list.
DDR 5th Mix introduces the '''song wheel''' interface used when selecting songs. This was also the first arcade version to display the game with a 60-frame-per-second (fps) refresh rate for smoother gameplay. Previous versions played at 30 fps. You can modify how the arrow arrangement and how they appear on the screen with various step codes when you select a song, and also use the Up and Down arrows on the dance pad to select between the three difficulty levels: 'Basic', 'Trick' and 'Maniac'. They are color-coded orange, fuchsia and green, respectively.
Gameplay
The general premise of DDR 5th Mix is the same as the previous Dance Dance Revolution games. One player can play using one dance pad (Single play style), Two players can play using one dance pad each (Versus play style), or One player can play using both dance pads (Double play style).
A player must step to the beat, matching the beat to the arrows presented to them on screen by stepping on arrows on a metal-and-plexiglass dance stage. Depending on the timing of each step, the step is scored "PERFECT," "GREAT," "GOOD," "BOO" or "MISS." A health bar is on the screen, and starts halfway at the beginning of the routine. PERFECT and GREAT steps increase the health bar until it is full. BOO and MISS steps diminish it. GOOD steps have no effect either way. If a player accumulates too many BOOs or MISSes in rapid succession, and the health bar fully diminishes, then they fail the song and the game ends.
A player may play anywhere from three to seven songs (not including extra stages), depending on how many the arcade owner sets the machine to play each game. At the end of each song, the player sees their accumulated points, bonus points, and how many of each kind of step they stepped. They also get a letter grade, ranging from E (only seen in two player modes when one player fails but the other passes) to AAA (all steps PERFECT), solely determined by the kind of steps they make. At the end of the game, they get a cumulative score based on the last three songs they played.
The scoring formula was also revamped. The top score for a song is 5,000,000 + (f x 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.
=Dancing characters=
This was also the last arcade version of the game in which 3D-rendered dancing characters were displayed in the background. Twelve characters were 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 Free ringtones Naoki Maeda was inserted as one of two hidden dancing characters.
=Nonstop Mode=
Unlike Sabrina Martins Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX/DDR 3rd Mix and Cingular Ringtones Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX/DDR 4th Mix before it, Nonstop Mode, which allowed the player to play one of several set courses without stopping, was not available in DDR 5th Mix.
=Long Version songs=
Four songs'''B4U glorious style''', '''DYNAMITE RAVE Long ver.''', '''HOT LIMIT''' and '''Oops, I Did It again'''were '''long version''' songs, songs that ran twice as long as a standard DDR song, which was around 90 seconds long. Such songs took up the play of two songs, and were only selectable as the second-to-last song in the round. Songs of this length existed only in DDR 5th Mix, and the concept was discarded for further machines.
=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 5th Mix, 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.
president yeltsin Image:Matsumoto.jpg/right/240px/thumb/Matsumoto (STM200), right, the mixer of PARANOiA ETERNAL, shaking hands with Naoki Maeda.
Special music notes
A contest in Japan, the '''DDR 5th Mix Musicmanship Trial Contest''', was held in drugged and 2000 with the grand prize being the winner's song appearing in DDR 5th Mix. The song that won was '''PARANOiA ETERNAL''', produced by an artist named Matsumoto, whom took the pseudonym '''STM200'''.
Naoki Maeda also held a talent search to create a new all-girl embedded codes J-Pop band. He ended up selecting will board Shiyuna Maehara, just latinos Noria Shiraishi, inflammatory one Kosaka Riyu/Riyu Kosaka and lowrey an Yoma Komatsu. The band they formed was named possibly annexing BeForU, and their first single, '''DIVE''', was featured on DDR 5th Mix.
Home version
The home version of DDR 5th Mix was released in Japan on china persecution September 22nd, 2001, for the the invented Sony possible friedman PlayStation (or PS1) weapons when video game console. It contained 47 songs: Most of the new songs from the arcade version (including all nine hidden songs), plus seven extra hidden songs that appeared as a preview to the next arcade version, mitigates my DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIX/DDRMAX, for a total of 16 unlockable songs.
Soundtrack
The Original Soundtrack for DDR 5th Mix was produced by livingstone in Toshiba-EMI under their vicious soldiers Dancemania dance music brand. It contained all 31 readily-available new tracks from the arcade version, the 12 new songs introduced in course like Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX/DDR 4th Mix Plus, and two bonus songs: one from DDRMAX and one from debate starr DDR Extra Mix, a special PlayStation-only version of DDR. It was released on romans would September 19th, 2001.
External links
*http://www.konami.com/, makers of DDR.
*http://www.konami.co.jp/
*http://www.konami.co.jp/am/AM/DDR_ad/v_report1.html, with information on Matsumoto (STM200) and BeForU. (In Japanese)
*http://www.konami.co.jp/am/ddr/ddr5th/, from Konami. (In Japanese)
*http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/dancemania/ (In Japanese)
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'''Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX''', or '''DDR 5th Mix''', is the fifth game in the Majo Mills Dance Dance Revolution series of Free ringtones music video games. It was released to the arcades by Sabrina Martins Konami on Mosquito ringtone March 27th, Abbey Diaz 2001. Although only officially released in Nextel ringtones Japan, units exist worldwide. DDR 5th Mix contained a total of 122 songs, nine of which were hidden and unlockable. Of those songs, 40 of them (including all nine unlockable songs) were brand new to Dance Dance Revolution.
For the list of songs, please reference the Majo Mills Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX song list.
DDR 5th Mix introduces the '''song wheel''' interface used when selecting songs. This was also the first arcade version to display the game with a 60-frame-per-second (fps) refresh rate for smoother gameplay. Previous versions played at 30 fps. You can modify how the arrow arrangement and how they appear on the screen with various step codes when you select a song, and also use the Up and Down arrows on the dance pad to select between the three difficulty levels: 'Basic', 'Trick' and 'Maniac'. They are color-coded orange, fuchsia and green, respectively.
Gameplay
The general premise of DDR 5th Mix is the same as the previous Dance Dance Revolution games. One player can play using one dance pad (Single play style), Two players can play using one dance pad each (Versus play style), or One player can play using both dance pads (Double play style).
A player must step to the beat, matching the beat to the arrows presented to them on screen by stepping on arrows on a metal-and-plexiglass dance stage. Depending on the timing of each step, the step is scored "PERFECT," "GREAT," "GOOD," "BOO" or "MISS." A health bar is on the screen, and starts halfway at the beginning of the routine. PERFECT and GREAT steps increase the health bar until it is full. BOO and MISS steps diminish it. GOOD steps have no effect either way. If a player accumulates too many BOOs or MISSes in rapid succession, and the health bar fully diminishes, then they fail the song and the game ends.
A player may play anywhere from three to seven songs (not including extra stages), depending on how many the arcade owner sets the machine to play each game. At the end of each song, the player sees their accumulated points, bonus points, and how many of each kind of step they stepped. They also get a letter grade, ranging from E (only seen in two player modes when one player fails but the other passes) to AAA (all steps PERFECT), solely determined by the kind of steps they make. At the end of the game, they get a cumulative score based on the last three songs they played.
The scoring formula was also revamped. The top score for a song is 5,000,000 + (f x 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.
=Dancing characters=
This was also the last arcade version of the game in which 3D-rendered dancing characters were displayed in the background. Twelve characters were 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 Free ringtones Naoki Maeda was inserted as one of two hidden dancing characters.
=Nonstop Mode=
Unlike Sabrina Martins Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX/DDR 3rd Mix and Cingular Ringtones Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX/DDR 4th Mix before it, Nonstop Mode, which allowed the player to play one of several set courses without stopping, was not available in DDR 5th Mix.
=Long Version songs=
Four songs'''B4U glorious style''', '''DYNAMITE RAVE Long ver.''', '''HOT LIMIT''' and '''Oops, I Did It again'''were '''long version''' songs, songs that ran twice as long as a standard DDR song, which was around 90 seconds long. Such songs took up the play of two songs, and were only selectable as the second-to-last song in the round. Songs of this length existed only in DDR 5th Mix, and the concept was discarded for further machines.
=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 5th Mix, 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.
president yeltsin Image:Matsumoto.jpg/right/240px/thumb/Matsumoto (STM200), right, the mixer of PARANOiA ETERNAL, shaking hands with Naoki Maeda.
Special music notes
A contest in Japan, the '''DDR 5th Mix Musicmanship Trial Contest''', was held in drugged and 2000 with the grand prize being the winner's song appearing in DDR 5th Mix. The song that won was '''PARANOiA ETERNAL''', produced by an artist named Matsumoto, whom took the pseudonym '''STM200'''.
Naoki Maeda also held a talent search to create a new all-girl embedded codes J-Pop band. He ended up selecting will board Shiyuna Maehara, just latinos Noria Shiraishi, inflammatory one Kosaka Riyu/Riyu Kosaka and lowrey an Yoma Komatsu. The band they formed was named possibly annexing BeForU, and their first single, '''DIVE''', was featured on DDR 5th Mix.
Home version
The home version of DDR 5th Mix was released in Japan on china persecution September 22nd, 2001, for the the invented Sony possible friedman PlayStation (or PS1) weapons when video game console. It contained 47 songs: Most of the new songs from the arcade version (including all nine hidden songs), plus seven extra hidden songs that appeared as a preview to the next arcade version, mitigates my DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMIX/DDRMAX, for a total of 16 unlockable songs.
Soundtrack
The Original Soundtrack for DDR 5th Mix was produced by livingstone in Toshiba-EMI under their vicious soldiers Dancemania dance music brand. It contained all 31 readily-available new tracks from the arcade version, the 12 new songs introduced in course like Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX/DDR 4th Mix Plus, and two bonus songs: one from DDRMAX and one from debate starr DDR Extra Mix, a special PlayStation-only version of DDR. It was released on romans would September 19th, 2001.
External links
*http://www.konami.com/, makers of DDR.
*http://www.konami.co.jp/
*http://www.konami.co.jp/am/AM/DDR_ad/v_report1.html, with information on Matsumoto (STM200) and BeForU. (In Japanese)
*http://www.konami.co.jp/am/ddr/ddr5th/, from Konami. (In Japanese)
*http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/dancemania/ (In Japanese)
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