General Information / Changes

• A MINUTE (Extended Mix), IT'S RAINING MEN (Almighty Mix), MORE THAN I NEEDED TO KNOW, and THERE YOU'LL BE are missing from the songlist.
  • As a result, BABY LOVE ME is now the default song.
    • Songs are now sorted in ABC order on the songwheel, unlike the arcade version.
• First Japanese CS DanceDanceRevolution title in the main series in which the arcade beatmania IIDX crossovers don't have to be unlocked.
• Can unlock everything in DDRMAX CS through System Data Support.

Unlock Information

DDRMAX2 CS' unlock system unlocks songs based on what level you reach. As you play songs, you'll unlock a certain amount of points depending on how well you do in a song. Here's a rundown of how many points you get from a song depending on the difficulty level you play and clear a song with:

• AAA: 10
• AA: 8
• A: 6
• B: 4
• C: 2
• Fail: 1
• EDIT charts give you no points.

After you obtain a certain amount of points, you'll unlock a song/course. What you unlock depends on what level you're at. Here's a rundown of all 30 levels, how many points you need to unlock the respective secret, and what you get:

• Level 1: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 4: FROM II DX
• Level 2: 80 points, unlocks PARANOiA survivor
• Level 3: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 5: LOVE SONG COLLECTION
• Level 4: 80 points, unlocks THE SHINING POLARIS
• Level 5: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 6: DJ SOTA
• Level 6: 80 points, unlocks AM-3P (303 BASS MIX)
• Level 7: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 7: Middle tempo
• Level 8: 80 points, unlocks Jam & Marmalade
• Level 9: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 8: RAP MANIA
• Level 10: 80 points, unlocks Look To The Sky (True Color Mix)
• Level 11: 80 points, unlocks DROP OUT, ONI COURSE 9: MIDNIGHT BLUE
• Level 12: 80 points, unlocks PEACE-OUT
• Level 13: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 10: BPM140
• Level 14: 80 points, unlocks Do It Right (Harmonized 2Step Mix)
• Level 15: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 11: TRICKY
• Level 16: 80 points, unlocks OVERBLAST!!
• Level 17: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 12: Random
• Level 18: 80 points, unlocks DROP THE BOMB -System S.F. MIX-
• Level 19: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 13: NAOKI PLATINUM
• Level 20: 80 points, unlocks I'm For Real
• Level 21: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 14: OTOME ROAD
• Level 22: 80 points, unlocks DYNAMITE RAVE -Down Bird SOTA Mix-
• Level 23: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 15: UP AND DOWN
• Level 24: 80 points, unlocks LOGICAL DASH
• Level 25: 80 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 16: GHOST ROAD
• Level 26: 120 points, unlocks MAXX UNLIMITED
• Level 27: 100 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 17: ONI ROAD
• Level 28: 120 points, unlocks Kakumei
• Level 29: 100 points, unlocks ONI COURSE 18: ULTRA12
• Level 30: 80 points, unlocks ENDLESS MODE

CHALLENGE-only songs unlocking

To unlock the CHALLENGE-only charts, you must play (and clear) them in each of their respective courses. Here are the following courses you can play to unlock these songs.

• AFRONOVA (FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX): ULTRA12
• AM-3P (AM EAST mix): MIDNIGHT BLUE or BPM140
• B4U (B4 ZA BEAT MIX): RAP MANIA
• BRILLIANT 2U (K.O.G. G3 MIX): NAOKI PLATINUM or ULTRA12
• BURNIN' THE FLOOR (BLUE FIRE mix): RAP MANIA or NAOKI PLATINUM
• CELEBRATE NITE (EURO TRANCE STYLE): NAOKI PLATINUM
• Do It Right (80's Electro Mix): DJ SOTA
• DROP OUT (FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX): UP AND DOWN, ONI ROAD, or ULTRA12
• DYNAMITE RAVE (B4 ZA BEAT MIX): NAOKI PLATINUM or UP AND DOWN
• ECSTASY (midnight blue mix): MIDNIGHT BLUE or TRICKY
• HIGHER (next morning mix): NEARLY=130 or Middle tempo
• HYSTERIA 2001: RAP MANIA, TRICK, or ULTRA12
• Kind Lady (interlude): DJ SOTA
• Look To The Sky (Trance Mix): DJ SOTA
• MY SUMMER LOVE (TOMMY'S SMILE MIX): LOVE SONG COLLECTION or UP AND DOWN
• Silent Hill (3rd christmas mix): LOVE SONG COLLECTION
• SEXY PLANET (FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX): MIDNIGHT BLUE or ONI ROAD
• STILL IN MY HEART (MOMO MIX): ULTRA12
• SUPER STAR (FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX): RAP MANIA
• TSUGARU (APPLE MIX): TRICKY or ONI ROAD
• WILD RUSH (from NONSTOP MEGAMIX): TRICKY
• MATSURI JAPAN (from NONSTOP MEGAMIX): ULTRA12

Faster Unlocking

You can also unlock the CHALLENGE-only charts faster by doing the following:

• Create a Course with ORDER 1-2-3
• Put any number of songs in the course, all on ROULETTE
• Press Circle to customize the ROULETTE songs, put them all on ONI, and apply the LITTLE mod.

Now you will play the ONI songs with much simpler steps, removing all but the quarter steps. Repeat until all 22 of them are unlocked.

Unused Music

There are several pieces of unused music found in DATA/SOUND/SD.BIN.

Within the list of audio in SD.BIN, there are four blank tracks, these tracks are in the correct position for the four songs which were cut from the home port of the game as the list of tracks are in alphabetical order.

The tracks that are blank would have been:

• A MINUTE (Extended Mix) (Track 7, just before AFRONOVA (FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX))
• IT'S RAINING MEN (Almighty Mix) (Track 36, just after I'm For Real)
• MORE THAN I NEEDED TO KNOW (Track 49, just after MAXX UNLIMITED)
• THERE YOU'LL BE (Track 67, just after THE WHISTLE SONG (Blow My Whistle Bitch))

The really interesting thing about this is that in DDR Extreme these songs that had been removed in DDRMAX2 retained the audio for their sample tracks in DDR Extreme's SD.BIN - even though, again, they weren't featured in the game.

There are also several full version tracks in this file too! All of them are Sota Fujimori tracks. The following is a list of all the extra tracks:

• Do It Right (Harmonized 2 Step Mix) (Track 79, with a runtime of 4:47)
• Do It Right (80's Electro Mix) (Track 80, with a runtime of 5:25)
• Credit Music (Short Version) this was used for Dancing Stage MegaMix and possibly DDRMAX2 US (have to check) (Track 87, with a runtime of 1:38)
• Credit Music (Long Version) same as above but long version that wasn't used in any games (Track 88, with a runtime of 5:42)
• Kind Lady (Full Version) (Track 89, with a runtime of 7:26) - This track WAS infact used in DDRMAX2 in the Information screen.
• Look To The Sky (True Color Mix) (Full Version) (Track 90, with a runtime of 5:56) - This track was also used in DDRMAX2 in the Endless game mode setup screen.

Unused Graphics

Song Selection Screen

An icon denoting that a song was "long", or took up two stages instead of one.

An unused banner used in a preview version of the game as a placeholder for the proper song banner graphic.

An unused banner dummy graphic, whose purpose is unknown.

An unused songwheel label that was used in a preview version of the game as a placeholder for the proper song label graphic.

Gameplay

An unused step judgment graphic relating to freeze arrows.

Misc. Leftover Graphics

DDRMAX Lesson Mode screen header graphic

DDRMAX Lesson Mode lesson text

MAX2 FILEDATA.BIN Contents

• Extract file: <Drive:> \ DATA \ FILEDATA.BIN
• Interleave: 2000 (16 in)
• Frequency: 44100Hz
• Software Used: MFAudio/Cube Media Player 2
• Red rows indicate music that is not used in DDRMAX2 but do appear on the disc