Dance Dance Revolution Simulation

Performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers
dance-single: 3', 5', 7' by DJ Tepples
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This entry placed 6th in its bracket and 26th place out of 175 DWIs in Tournamix 4.

View README part 1 and README part 2

(No, this doesn't mean you should go out and see Disney's Around The World in 80 Days. Here's why.)

Performed by DJ Tepples
ReMix of a song by H. Tanaka from Nintendo's Balloon Fight to sound a bit like "Maximizer" by Cli-max S. from Konami's DDR Extreme (for PS2 NTSC U/C)
dance-single: 5', 8', 10', 12' by DJ Tepples
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View README for DDR OSC 3+ version

The steps have been changed slightly to address issues found during the judging of Bemanistyle's DDR OSC 3+

Performed by Koji Kondo
dance-single: 4', 6', 9' by DJ Tepples
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If Super Step Bros. were an actual game from Nintendo, this song from Nintendo's Super Mario World would be the Extra Stage. Some people have called the Maxes "boss stages". This is a boss stage from a 16-bit game whose music is as fast as a Max, even faster than "Legend" in parts.

Performed by System of a Down
Steps version 1.10:
dance-single: 2', 4', 6', 8' by DJ Tepples
dance-double: 4', 6', 8' by DJ Tepples
dance-solo: 2', 4', 6', 8' by DJ Tepples
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(Apparently, somebody had put the 1.01 steps, not the 1.10 steps, in the zip file. The problem has been corrected as of April 25, 2004.)

What a splendid pie
Pizza pizza pie
Every minute, every second
STEAL THIS DWI!

[are you ready for mosh mosh revolution?]

Version 1.10: Added single beginner, three double, and four solo step charts.

Performed by Farbrausch
dance-single: 3', 5', 8' by DJ Tepples
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The music and video are from Farbrausch's "fr018: aGb" demo which runs in realtime on a 16.78 MHz GBA. You'll need a recent DivX codec to play the video. Background and banner based on a screen grab from the demo using the VisualBoyAdvance emulator, and retouched with GIMP.

Tip: If you have writer's block when making steps, try super-shuffle to give you some ideas.

Performed by Pseudo Echo
dance-single: 3', 5', 7' by DJ Tepples
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No, this is not the original recording by Lipps Inc. Instead, it's an 80s cover with a more synth-rock feel.

Performed by Sakura
dance-single: 2', 4', 6' by DJ Tepples
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"Stop DWIing Sakura." -- DJ Omni, "The Bemanisims Song" (from Bemanisims 4.0)

Pfft.

This song is a hidden extra from Capcom's Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo for the PlayStation game console. I tried to make the steps for this song resemble what Konami would have done with them in one of the early DDR mixes:

• No, Heavy does not mean automatic cata.
• Yes, it's possible to create interesting step patterns without gratuitous freeze arrows.
• Yes, there are opportunities for crossovers and spins, but they are rarely if ever forced.
• Yes, it's possible to make steps follow the phrasing of the lyrics without just just slapping an arrow down for each syllable as if this were Parappa the Rapper <cough>DDRMAX</cough>.

Performed by NW260 vs. ZZ
Remix by DJ Tepples
dance-single: 6', 8', 10' by DJ Tepples
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Making a medley of the "Max" songs from Konami's Dance Dance Revolution video games is complicated by the fact that "The legend of Max" from DDR Extreme is not in the same key as "Max 300" or "Maxx Unlimited". "Max" and "Maxx" are in F minor; most of "LOM" is in G-sharp minor. Now what other fast DDR song is in G-sharp minor? That's right, "Drop Out" from 4th Mix. (An aside: Have you noticed how much the character from the "Drop Out" background resembles the AOL Instant Messenger mascot?)

Performed by DJ Tepples
dance-single: 4', 7', 10' by DJ Tepples
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Like air? This simfile gives you all the air you ever wanted and then some. This is an ETUDE designed to prepare the player for the rapid jump sequences in songs such as "Dynamite Rave", "Drop Out", and "Maxx Unlimited". The first half consists of easy jumping exercises (think "Cha Cha Slide Part 2" by Casper); the second half is all-out fast jumping, up to four jumps per second on heavy.

(April 5, 2004) Wow. Somebody managed to black-flag this.

Remix by DJ Tepples
Performed by Nine Inch Nails and Omega
dance-single: 4', 7', 9' by DJ Tepples
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Yes, it's yet another Max remix.

I picked "Max 300" by Omega out of curiosity, just to hear what the heck a "300 BPM" song was. The rhythms reminded me of "wish" by nine inch nails. "Oh, so *that's* what a 300 BPM song is," I thought. People dispute whether calling "wish" a 270 BPM song would be considered BPM doubling, but after hearing "Max 300", I found it clear how the DDR and DWI communities defined it. So I did a "mash-up" of the two recordings, and though the result is probably not any better than "B4U Maxx", it's a heck of a lot better than "Max Oops", "1234 Max 300", and the other Max(x) mash-ups that don't even bother to key-match the two recordings.

Heavy steps are almost exactly the same as "Max 300" official steps (for muscle memory's sake), but a bit slower; after you pass them, you should come very close to passing "Max 300" on 0.9xmusic. Standard steps can best be described as a blend of "Max 300" official light and standard steps. Light steps are thinned-out standard steps, much in the style of "The legend of Max" beginner steps.

It's a bit long. I plan to eventually redo this remix to incorporate the one part of "Max 300" I left out to keep it under 2 minutes.

Includes background animation for StepMania.

Performed by Billy Joel
dance-single: 2', 4', 7' by DJ Tepples
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Yup, another etude. This one's a 3:09 stamina builder. You can walk, jog, or run to half, quarter, or eighth notes. The steps aren't tricky (a bit less than "Hot Limit"), just tiring after running for three minutes straight.

Performed by Garbage
dance-single: 3', 5', 7' by DJ Tepples
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Performed by DJ Tepples
after a song popularized by TM Revolution and then John Desire
dance-single: 2', 5', 8' by DJ Tepples
dance-solo: 2', 5', 8' by DJ Tepples
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"You Chase Solo" is an etude designed to train players in reading and responding to arrows at various rates, on both 4 and 6 panel configurations, to give players what Sam Pinansky calls "pad presence" in his article "How to Play Double" on ddrfreak.com.

This song is based on parts of "Hot Limit". Like my other etudes, it's a chiptune, that is, it uses samples whose mathematical formulas are simple to describe. It gradually speeds up from 150 BPM to 300 BPM. The dance-single and dance-solo stepcharts are made of random arrows. I suggest making a nonstop course of all three difficulties in a row and super shuffling them if you get too good.