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A really interesting video, thank you. I've always been fascinated by Jaleco's rhythm games. I remember seeing Stepping Stage and, if I remember correctly, Dream Audition in an arcade in Shibuya in November 2001. I was too fixated on DDRMAX at the time to have paid too much attention to them, which I now really regret 😅. I have the PS2 port of Stepping Selection, the music covers are... interesting 😅. My favourite song from the arcade Stepping Stage, 'Kiss Me Baby', is missing from the home version, however ☹

Nice Video, maenwhile we found and upgrade kit and shot more videos of the machine, altough i never posted them. Im the guy playing in the more recent video :)

I found weird dance cover remixes of old pop songs in the song list (like Lemon Tree) hahahahaha. There's even hidden songs, although you can listen to them in the site (you can't see their names though)

Full respect but Jaleco was pretty big and very well known as a company in the 90s. Bases Loaded, The Rushing Beat trilogy (Rival Turf, Brawl Brothers and the Peace Keepers), Earth Defense Force, Pinball Quest, Shatterhand and Whomp 'Em are pretty fondly remembered. Some of their games were a little iffy but they were a fairly solid publisher (and sometimes developer). In today's terms I'd compare them to someone like Spike-Chunsoft.

This is crazy awesome

I always like finding weird chinese rhythm games. It's like a hybrid of japanese games but also some interesting unique ideas out there. Muzibox being an example.

0:50 jonx #1, baby

I play this all the time for warmups before playing Dance Cube (another Chinese rhythm game with a deep rabbit hole)! Translating it as "e-five" isn't quite accurate, because e5 is just some wordplay/abbreviation for written Chinese. In spoken Chinese it's e舞, where 舞 means "dance", and this character and "5" have the same pronunciation (wǔ). So when you want to write it quickly it's easier to write e5, but when speaking it out loud people are intending to say "e-dance". The majority of people play freestyle, and charts are often written in a way that allow players to perform the official dance routines for songs. New songs are still being added every month. These machines are everywhere in Beijing and during weekends it's not uncommon for the queue times to be 1 hour+. There's often a giant crowd of passerbys watching and a lot of people will play it while cosplaying. There's a HUGE element of performance involved.

I live in China and arcades here almost always put E5 cabs together with maimai and set E5's volume to very loud that people have to wear headphones to play maimai lmao Nevertheless it's still fun to look at pro players playing while waiting for my turn for maimai

thanks for the lizard feature

Incredible. We had a few 3DDX cabs here in England back in the day. I've recently managed to get a working ez2dancer here in London. (The arcade is Freeplaycity). But I'd kill for an E5. There is one in my area but it's for kids only and feels super weird when you go in. Having been through the whole dancegames era since day 1, this is an amazing video that really hits my nostalgia fix haha

I played and enjoyed that many times.. 3DDX is a game in old memories 20 years ago (I am South Korean)

only 2:30 in and i already understand why no one talks about this game lol

I don't play dance games at all, but I can tell you really put a lot of effort into this! I think your channel has a lot of potential 🙌

You should make a video about Cyber Groove 2000

Great vid! Ive heard of 3ddx but i didnt know the rabbit hole went this far. Funny to see caution there, kinda a jumpscare when you started doing hand gestures. Cheers!

W video Really underrated content, would watch more, keep making content ! you will go big in TH-cam

caution don’t bother me mentioned ftw

I play this a lot when in China, it’s so hard to find info about this game though. Thank you for making the video

this is so interesting.. i have never heard of this game before

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i remembered that theres an e5 cab in vietnam

This a rare topic to see.. It seems most of the teens in Chinese arcade right now are there to play MaiMai DX though

Fun Fact: In 2011 or 2012 I was offered a 3DDX machine from a game warehouse in Illinois. I had absolutely zero clue what it was at the time. It was bizarre... It had pump it up pads and the cabinet from pump it up, but the decals referenced NGG and the marquee just said "Dance Station Stepper". Apparently this was the non-deluxe version of the game and I have no idea if it was sold as an "upgrade" kit for pump it up or if the company was buying Pump it up machines and putting their game in them. I never went forward with the purchase (I regret this to this day) and have looked for hours for the pictures of it with no luck. Unfortunately it would have stayed lost media regardless of if I got it because the CD the game ran on was destroyed. I am sure the game is in a dump somewhere now.

there's one of these cabs at a local arcade and it's one of the weirdest experiences ive had on a rhythm game

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Great video! I’ve shared some personal experiences and info regarding 3DDX D-Tech over on the both the Project Outfox and SPV discord. I think Squirrel might’ve used some of my info in the wiki… I believe they said they would. Anyway, something interesting to note about 3DDX is that it seemed to come in both single pad and dual pad configurations, but it does seem to be the same base unit. Our unit was located at a Pocket Change. We had it sometime around 2004 for about 6 months. It was replaced with a Para Para Paradise cab and then a DDR Extreme (refitted crap-o-cab, but I could be wrong on the order. Still trying to find old photos of the cab. I only have one of the pad.

- Dance Super Station is developed by Advanced Amusement Machines (AAM) rather than “ez2dancer”. You can find the company name on warranty stickers on the internal guts of the cabinet. - DSS is Stepmania based but not just plain Stepmania. From the actual disk dump, It’s like Stepmania wrapped into another program and it can’t run directly on a regular PC. What you downloaded and played is just a simulator. - E5 Dance Super Station probably doesn’t need to care about copyright issues so you can find songs from all over the place.

E舞成名是垃圾，跟我一起說。

Sick video! Great to see interest in 3ddx/e5. I was down the rabbit hole last year talking to people on bilibili and WeChat. I meant to make a video about it, I still might. It seems like people in China don’t even like e5 all that much (they call it “goose dance” lol) but they still play at a high level and have national tournaments. Very interesting scene that unfortunately we can’t learn much about sue to Chinese internet restrictions

yooo this reminds me of cybergroove 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

14:07 After taking a look at this part of the video I can read "SM" written on the top right of the screen (on the button with chinese text on it), and I think that's something about .sm files, *as we know .sm files are used from stepmania 3 to the last version (5.1 i think)* , and in my theory I can say that E5 is most likely a Stepmania 5 custom distribution (yes stepmania custom distros are actually a thing, there's lots of them on the stepmania archive website)

i actually remember seeing that at a local arcade, i even took a picture and posted it on ziv iirc lol

Played some dance super station in china and it was pretty fun

I ALMOST CLICK OUT DURING THE DREAM MASK REFERENCE /pos also OMG ACTUAL unknown rhythm game ??? banger

this has criminally low views for the effort put in

just discovered your channel, great vid! definitely keeping an eye out for future content

I played the original 3DDX once back in the day but wish I'd been able to play more. I remember it being a fun experience though. (This would have been the original Korean version)

Yo i have 2 3DDX games dumped on my PC on keyboard they're neat as 8k practice but on dancepad it's a nightmare since some notes go on the same lane i can't really play 3DDX on a genuine cab myself since it's far far away. (Nearest cab is in in germany near the ocean and im in poland)

While not in arcades, EZ2ON and DJ MAX Respect V are available on Steam, effectively Worldwide, with DJ MAX Respect V being particularly very very popular. I appreciate the nod to Technica, and the acknowledgement of EZ2DJ and this topic at all really. Damn... Technica... that was one HELL of a game. Those were the DAYS, dude!

12:09 why dose round1 have literally ALMOST every rhythm game up to date istg (also the ddr world logo reminds me of a certain brands logo)

lol just imagine having one of the Bemani games having at least 5370 names atp

Apparently when watching the first half of the video I thought it was going to be 2x more confusing than Chrono Circle but ig I kinda understand it now

1:17 Originally, Dance Station 3DDX was made in Korea, but was popularized by the Chinese. Talk about confusion on where the dance games came from!

Nice video! I know nothing about this topic, this just popped up in my recommended =3

3DDX CONTENT!?!? 2025 already starting off strong. i'm bout to send this to as many rhythm game ppl i can

The 3.9 version of DSS is not the actual thing that runs on the machine, the 3.9 build was hosted on ez2dancer website and it's built off the 3DDX theme for stepmania,

I have a funny story with DSS (Dance Super Station) went to the arcade only to play that game and the coin slot was broken, the attendance did not have the keys, I was about to give up when the operator arrived in front of the arcade, begged him to open the machine up and he agreed, he actually was suprized how much I knew about that stuff so he gave me some plays on his behalf, Unfortunately the motion sensors weren't working