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Oh hi DarkKobold. This is the "secret projekt" I was talking about. This is not Shantae, so NrgSpoon, that Back button on your browser, you can click it.
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TAS objectives

  • Playaround
  • Aims for maximum score
  • Uses hardest difficulty
  • Picks 3 songs, like in the arcade game
  • Single play
  • Aims for in-game perfection
  • Genre: Action
  • Emulator used: PSXjin 2.0.1

About the series

Dance Dance Revolution, abbreviated DDR, and previously known as Dancing Stage in Europe and Australasia, is a music video game series produced by Konami. Introduced in Japan in 1998 as part of the Bemani series, and released in North America and Europe in 1999, Dance Dance Revolution is the pioneering series of the rhythm and dance genre in video games. Players stand on a "dance platform" or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues. Players are judged by how well they time their dance to the patterns presented to them and are allowed to choose more music to play to if they receive a passing score. Dance Dance Revolution has been given much critical acclaim for its originality and stamina in the video game market. There have been dozens of arcade-based releases across several countries and hundreds of home video game console releases. The series has promoted a music library of original songs produced by Konami's in-house artists and an eclectic set of licensed music from many different genres. The series has also inspired many clones of its gameplay and a global fan base of millions that have created simulators of the game to which they contribute original music and "simfiles", collections of dance patterns to a specific song. DDR is generally considered the first "machine dance" game, followed by games such as Pump It Up by Andamiro and In the Groove by Roxor. DDR celebrated its 10th anniversary on November 21, 2008.

About the game

Game cover
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.
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.

About the TAS

I play three of the hardest songs in the game. I hit all of the arrows perfectly and I always get AAA grades. In other words, I win, I pwn and I own.

Stage-by-stage summary

Stage 1 - Can't Stop Fallin' In Love (Speed Mix)

TASing this song was boring as hell, since there are a lot of arrows.

Stage 2 - Afronova Primeval

MMmmmmmmm.... still boring to TAS.

Stage 3 - Paranoia Eternal

I thought it would be the most complex tune in this game, but it's not! WTF!? It's waaaaaaay harder in DDR Extreme! I mean, it's the most badass tune in the three I picked, and it's stupidly easy (for experts, of course, lol). Again, this was boring to TAS.
END OF TAS
So yeah, that's pretty much about it.

Why will this TAS be accepted?

There are numerous reasons why this run should ABSOLUTELY be accepted.
  • Everybody loves DDR.
  • I played perfectly.
  • The three songs I picked are cool.
  • Nostalgia factor.
  • I picked a GOOD DDR game, not one of these bad games Konami are making since Extreme 2/Strike.
  • The announcer says "WOW! RAPE!" a couple times.
  • The dancer I picked has an afro, and you know that an afro is a symbol of superiority.
  • Because DarkKobold will judge it (?), and he's awesome.
  • Because it's definately NOT an April Fool's joke.
  • Because I'm Mister Epic. And Epic = Epic Win.
So yeah, this submission must absolutely be accepted. If you don't accept it, the end of the world will happen in 2012.
Enjoy!

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DarkKobold: OMG I'M SUPPOSED TO JUDGE THIS SEKRET PROJEKT!!!!!
DarkKobold: I'm seriously considering accepting this. However, I can't do so until you explain why you didn't use this trick, GabCM. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
DarkKobold: Guess I am going to give you up.

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Posted: 4/1/2011 8:10 AM
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Mister Epic wrote:
Jungon wrote:
Hey ... you didn't perfected the positions, I can see sometimes that you did use some TAS skills, like pressing the button in the first frame possible, or the last O_o
I didn't put much effort into this. The reason is obvious.
Well, it's a good thing that only entertainment matters, and not effort.
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Posted: 4/1/2011 8:31 AM
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OmegaWatcher
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oh god, I hate DDR. Holy cow, I hate with all my energy voting yes
My first language is not English, so please excuse myself if I write something wrong. I'll do my best do write as cleary as I can, so cope with me here =) (ﾉಥ益ಥ）ﾉ
Posted: 4/1/2011 11:08 AM
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Patashu
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Unfortunately pretty much every rhythm game you can play on an emulated console can't be done better in a TAS than someone irl somewhere can. Even in ITG pretty much everything is 100% now and even Vertex^2 Expert has been 99%'d.
My Chiptune music, made in Famitracker: http://soundcloud.com/patashu My twitch. I stream mostly shmups & rhythm games http://twitch.tv/patashu My youtube, again shmups and rhythm games and misc stuff: http://youtube.com/user/patashu
Posted: 4/1/2011 12:50 PM
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GabCM
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Sir VG wrote:
Voting MEH. The music in DDRMAX2 was much better.
I agree. Voting MEH... damnit! Why did I vote No!!!
Posted: 4/1/2011 3:55 PM
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Kles
Joined: 7/28/2005
Posts: 339
theenglishman wrote:
Voted no because this game is a shitty Guitar Hero ripoff >:(
Ahaha. Best post of the day.
Posted: 4/1/2011 4:49 PM
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mklip2001
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I love you, Mister Epic, for having done this. I was going to do something like this for last April Fool's, but I never took enough time to learn how to do TASing with PCSX. Also, rhythm games are awesome, but the rhythm games that don't make you tired are for wimps. Props to you, Brandon, if you can AAA all of these on foot. I got close to doing that, but I never really cared to do that well on Afronova Primeval. I'm voting No, though, because a playaround should use the modifiers to make the game harder (like playing on Reverse... it's a shame DDR didn't have many cool modifiers). Well, also because DDR is trivial to TAS. ;-)
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
Posted: 4/1/2011 5:00 PM
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GabCM
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mklip2001 wrote:
I'm voting No, though, because a playaround should use the modifiers to make the game harder (like playing on Reverse... it's a shame DDR didn't have many cool modifiers). Well, also because DDR is trivial to TAS. ;-)
How about I take the hardest tunes in the last DDR PSX game, set Dark, Stealth and Shuffle modifiers, so I don't even know a damn about where are the arrows, and then still win 100% perfectly?
Posted: 4/1/2011 5:02 PM
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Joined: 11/16/2009
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Patashu wrote:
Unfortunately pretty much every rhythm game you can play on an emulated console can't be done better in a TAS than someone irl somewhere can. Even in ITG pretty much everything is 100% now and even Vertex^2 Expert has been 99%'d.
Also, the tool-assistance for rhythm games is easy enough to be done in real time.
Posted: 4/1/2011 6:12 PM
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mklip2001
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Mister Epic wrote:
mklip2001 wrote:
I'm voting No, though, because a playaround should use the modifiers to make the game harder (like playing on Reverse... it's a shame DDR didn't have many cool modifiers). Well, also because DDR is trivial to TAS. ;-)
How about I take the hardest tunes in the last DDR PSX game, set Dark, Stealth and Shuffle modifiers, so I don't even know a damn about where are the arrows, and then still win 100% perfectly?
If you did that for one song, that might be pretty funny! I was actually thinking of modifiers that still make the arrows readable with difficulty, though. For instance, it would be awesome if you had ITG modifiers like Split, Boomerang, Beat, etc.
Used to be a frequent submissions commenter. My new computer has had some issues running emulators, so I've been here more sporadically. Still haven't gotten around to actually TASing yet... I was going to improve Kid Dracula for GB. It seems I was beaten to it, though, with a recent awesome run by Hetfield90 and StarvinStruthers. (http://tasvideos.org/2928M.html.) Thanks to goofydylan8 for running Gargoyle's Quest 2 because I mentioned the game! (http://tasvideos.org/2001M.html) Thanks to feos and MESHUGGAH for taking up runs of Duck Tales 2 because of my old signature! Thanks also to Samsara for finishing a Treasure Master run. From the submission comments:
Shoutouts and thanks to mklip2001 for arguably being the nicest and most supportive person on the forums.
Posted: 4/1/2011 11:35 PM
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GabCM
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RadioKJ wrote:
Having seen the WIP...
You mean the full encode I've uploaded to your server weeks ago. Right?
Posted: 4/2/2011 12:03 AM
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FerretFaucet
Joined: 1/27/2011
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I love it, but you should have used the (U) version. I'm afraid I'm forced to vote no.
Posted: 4/2/2011 1:00 AM
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GabCM
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FerretFaucet wrote:
I love it, but you should have used the (U) version. I'm afraid I'm forced to vote no.
But there's no (U) version of DDR 5th Mix!!! :'( (Unless it's Konamix) And lol it's the 2nd most viewed April Fool's submission.
Posted: 4/2/2011 9:19 PM
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voting no because I love PIU.
Posted: 4/3/2011 5:32 PM
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Voting no, as it did not play "It's Raining Men" and "Opps! I did it again"
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Posted: 4/3/2011 5:45 PM
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I think its about time that the April Fools runs get taken off the bench. Theyre slowing my computer down. >_>
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Posted: 4/3/2011 11:29 PM
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GabCM
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DarkKobold wrote:
I'm seriously considering accepting this. However, I can't do so until you explain why you didn't use this trick, MisterEpic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Because I'm a better dancer than Rick Astley.
Posted: 4/4/2011 12:33 AM
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