Someone else has mentioned this in a comment but Vib-Ribbon used similar tech to map out music from any CD you put into it. Said tech was... not great, and barely ever actually synced to the song, but it was a fun novelty that probably at least helped the game sell a little bit.
@@problemsfan4132I feel like half the reason it's so out there is specifically to play to the generator's strengths. Because yes, the game is in fact using the generator even for the base soundtrack.
Those creature names are legit giving me flashbacks to watching my sister when she was really little play Sims 2 on PS2, and they all had names like "Bnep X" or "Aaaaab" because she just mashed buttons on the naming screen since she didn't know how to read or spell well.
programs trying to generate games from songs are always so interesting to me. they're never really any good, but they're interesting! absolutely love the video, it has the quality of someone with hundreds of thousands of subscribers
@@buster9877 There were also one or two flash games back in the day that did it pretty well, though I don't remember their names. Also Meloday's Escape (think it got a sequel, though I haven't played it) did a decent job, too. Audiosurf was better, but it's worth checking out. Audiosurf also got a sequel, but I can't speak much on it, since the rest of the thing is such a terrible train wreck that I never really play it. I'm hoping that games making use of any song you plug in (or software for generating button maps for games like Clone Hero or Stepmania) can improve with the use of AI, though. Getting to toss in any song and have it play well sounds great.
The loading screen patent probably specifies loading, but as you mention up front since the whole game is already loaded I suspect that's how they get around the patent.
Thanks for posting this so I can hear the nostalgic menu music again. As someone who was never bold enough to spend my precious tokens on something that wouldn't give me tickets back, this was the perfect way to get our rhythm game fix.
@@felder415 The song that plays at 4:46 To explain my previous comment better (coming back to it, I realize it makes very little sense), I was never able to play rhythm games like DDR in the arcade because I wasn't skilled enough and viewed them as a ripoff, since you got no prize tickets in return. So this game was what I enjoyed playing instead.
What's that opening song at 0:06?! It sounds sooo good EDIT: Its called "Hunting for You!" hopefully i can help another weary traveler find insanely fire, niche DDR songs
8:09 i played a lot of nsmbwii when i was like 6 and i never knew how to quit to the home menu to safely remove the disc. so when i was done playing the game i would yoink the disc out and immediately power off the wii because the error screen scared me shitless (literally any black screen scared me because of an older friend of mine (9 i think) showed me a fake mcdonald’s commercial of ronalald mcdonald i think being in some kids home????? yeah so i was afraid he would jump out of the screen and get me.). later my sister saw me doing it and she showed me how to do it safely by going to the home menu and then i promptly forgot because i was 6. anyways thank you for that new unlocked core memory that i didn’t want :).
I'd just like to say thank you for making this video. It must have taken you a helluva long time, and it really was well put together. Thanks for making me appreciate the time when DDR really put a smile on my face. =]
This reminds me of a game I found on Steam called "Melody's Escape" with a similar gimmick where you feed the game any MP3 or OGG file and it will turn it into a chart, it has character customization options too and a pretty decent scene on the Steam Workshop (there's a lot of Touhou and Vocaloid characters) There's a second game in a early access state that's more like Beatsaber and there's no character customization :(
i think you should check out nekodancer, it has the same premise as this game but it's a multiplayer flash game that automatically charted from youtube links, its servers are still up but it doesn't chart new songs anymore but there's a lot of weird things already charted
This was such a fun watch, I had DDR Super Nova on the PS2 as a kid. And being a kid I just played my favorite few songs over and over again... my poor parents.
man this is my first video of yours. But the fucking whiplash i got from seeing Streetlight Manifesto at 21:05 hahaha heck yeah. love them! nice to see them in the wild
2:33 - 2:45 so basically, what you're telling me, is that Dance Factory is literally just what would happen if you put DDR, Vib-Ribbon, EyeToy Play, Wii Fit, and Monster Rancher into a blender
I found this game randomly in CeX one day during my big Dancing Stage obsession and my GOD it's so much fun. I have burned discs I keep in the box. It's funny watching you dance on the A3 machine; everyone looks a bit weird on them but it feels like you're doing a full extreme show when playing :')
You understand that people look virtually the same on all DDR machines since its inception (what's weird-looking about dancing on them?) since the designs haven't changed much. Is dancing on a flat plastic mat at home any less weird? It all depends on your definition of "weird". The aesthetics of these games are highly subjective but that's not the word I would use to describe players. Rhythm-match dancing in any form makes a spectacle for onlookers. You can get a good workout, especially if you're good at any of these games. Nothing weird about that!
@@notsyzagts7967 It's not really "dancing" it's stepping on arrows. That's why it looks a bit weird haha. Especially using a bar and only moving your legs. It doesn't stop me playing I love it.
This makes me wish I could play DDR in my apartment (it’s so rickitiy the floors feel like they’ll give out if you want too fast). I used to play DDR Extreme 2 for hours a day as a teen in my parents basement.
What an interesting and obscure game! Nice job with covering it too, I liked the scene-setting with talking about DDR and slowly transitioning into the desire of wishing that certain songs could be played in DDR, and some of the jokes throughout the video were pretty funny! ;u;
10:55 one of these days im gonna play the entirety of Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by MCR in endurance mode to see how it goes. the song tempos on that album are pretty fast and it's 13 tracks long so it would DEFINITELY be an endurance test, that's for sure LMAO
Simply getting through that garbage album from front to back is enough of an extreme endurance challenge on its own lol. You really don't need to make it any harder. 🤷
@@caifabe8050 Yes, I have. And calling My Chemical Romance "cultured" is literally one of the funniest things I've ever heard. 🤣 Shit emo pop-rock is shit.
Didn't expect to see a fun in-depth video on this! This was always a very weird game to me, and while I did play it a bit, I didn't really remember much besides trying to make a chart and my siblings hitting arrows while I'm doing it and making a nightmare of a chart lol. My oldest brother though played it a lot, and he even got a PS2 for himself years later after moving out JUST to play this game as a workout regimen. Except it didn't read burned CD-Rs, so he ended up giving the PS2 to me instead, which I'm still using with a hard drive. Even had that same Yellow Nyko memory card lol
Released near to Audiosurf for PC/Steam which did it to MP3s. There's a sequel released in 2016 or so it has steam workshop for custom game modes and skins
It’s stuff like this, and Monster Rancher, that makes me want to always have the option of physical discs! I know lasers burn out, motors die and so on, but stuff like that means we need new, high quality replacement parts! No, I will NOT accept Xstation or whatever as a replacement!
i remember back in 2020 playing a game on roblox that charted any song if you put a song id in (back when user-uploaded song ids were still a thing before they got removed) and it played like guitar hero
It's funny, I've traded Dance Factory for DS:Super Nova with my cousins and never actually regretted it, because there was just no way of getting any stepfiles and I certainly wasn't in the mood to create my own. But my cousins were such Dancing Stage/DDR tryhards that they already completed all songs so they had nothing to lose either.
This reminds me of Vib-Ribbon on the PS1! Much similar to this game, you can insert music cds to make custom levels. The game is also small enough that you can take out the disc while its running and scan the cds!
am i misremembering or did guitar hero iii for the PS2 have a feature like this? i never used it but i vaguely remember something similar. this was when i was a kid so i might be remembering it wrong.
Try turning up the laser strength on the GameCube. The main fault that happens to a GameCubes overtime is that the laser loses strength or goes completely out and needs to be replaced. Try turning up the laser strength first before replacing it to see if that fixes the problem of it not reading discs.
You said you were having problems with the I toy camera not registering that hold I have a very similar issue with my toy but my eye twice also really working and what you have to do is curl your hand like your dream on Disney channel thing that Hannah Montana would do
Try Entertain Me by Tigran Hamasyan. Also try Vital Transformation by Mahivishnu Orchestra. You should also someother songs with wack-ass time signatures.
Reading off the names of these creatures is literally just going through a Star Wars wiki and reading the characters from the Prequel trilogy.
I thought he was reading names at a graduation ceremony...
hello Kamille Bidan
it sounded like simlish to me..
11:18 tfw you miss one note and the game starts fatshaming you
Someone else has mentioned this in a comment but Vib-Ribbon used similar tech to map out music from any CD you put into it.
Said tech was... not great, and barely ever actually synced to the song, but it was a fun novelty that probably at least helped the game sell a little bit.
I was thinking of vib-ribbon when this got recommended to me! Luckily the soundtrack it comes with is still such a banger lol
Walking by the river
dog is by my side.
@@problemsfan4132I feel like half the reason it's so out there is specifically to play to the generator's strengths. Because yes, the game is in fact using the generator even for the base soundtrack.
@@MizunoKetsuban oh dang i didnt know that?! that’s awesome
Those creature names are legit giving me flashbacks to watching my sister when she was really little play Sims 2 on PS2, and they all had names like "Bnep X" or "Aaaaab" because she just mashed buttons on the naming screen since she didn't know how to read or spell well.
This reminds me of my childhood
Anyone remember Spore?
Bnep X goes hard ngl
@@BinglesP I specifically remember that one because I remember thinking it sounded like an industrial metal band from the nu-metal era.
@@BinglesP yep
i owned that game and it's true: you can dance to any song, so i danced hotel california on it
you can check out anytime you like, but you'll never fc
Can't wait to play 'Through the Fire and Flames' on this.
Or master of puppets
Jordan
programs trying to generate games from songs are always so interesting to me. they're never really any good, but they're interesting! absolutely love the video, it has the quality of someone with hundreds of thousands of subscribers
Monster Rancher was neat because you could use CDs to create monsters
Groovecoaster
audiosurf actually works i’m not sure of any others that worked
@@buster9877 Crypt of the Necrodancer is another.
@@buster9877 There were also one or two flash games back in the day that did it pretty well, though I don't remember their names.
Also Meloday's Escape (think it got a sequel, though I haven't played it) did a decent job, too. Audiosurf was better, but it's worth checking out.
Audiosurf also got a sequel, but I can't speak much on it, since the rest of the thing is such a terrible train wreck that I never really play it.
I'm hoping that games making use of any song you plug in (or software for generating button maps for games like Clone Hero or Stepmania) can improve with the use of AI, though. Getting to toss in any song and have it play well sounds great.
Well, as a quick update. KONAMI will release DDR World during this week. Have fun if you want to try.
The loading screen patent probably specifies loading, but as you mention up front since the whole game is already loaded I suspect that's how they get around the patent.
dude your personal collection goes hard as hell, you have no idea how psyched i was to see let the butterflies spread until the dawn
Bro accidentally summoned world ending demon horde reading all those monster names.
as soon as i saw yellow magic orchestra, i knew you had good taste, but seeing butter dog confirms that your taste is not just good but exceptional
That was me but with Masayoshi Takanaka; I was surprised when he came on and then blown away at YMO!
He didn't feed it Death Grips?
Disgraceful **throws cd case in trash**
@@radanju3coward😔
@@ifthesewallscouldtalktheyp7692 lol
Venetian Snares
@@dwaterson21 Aaron Funk
Thanks for posting this so I can hear the nostalgic menu music again. As someone who was never bold enough to spend my precious tokens on something that wouldn't give me tickets back, this was the perfect way to get our rhythm game fix.
Is the song you're talking about is the one playing as the video starts?
@@felder415 The song that plays at 4:46
To explain my previous comment better (coming back to it, I realize it makes very little sense), I was never able to play rhythm games like DDR in the arcade because I wasn't skilled enough and viewed them as a ripoff, since you got no prize tickets in return. So this game was what I enjoyed playing instead.
What's that opening song at 0:06?! It sounds sooo good
EDIT: Its called "Hunting for You!" hopefully i can help another weary traveler find insanely fire, niche DDR songs
THANK YOU 🙏🙏
Do you know what the ending song is?
@@moh__shuvuuHappy Wedding by Aska at 25:07
THANK YOU
Listen to “Im gonna get you” by Kelly Cosmo! Another great niche DDR song
8:09 i played a lot of nsmbwii when i was like 6 and i never knew how to quit to the home menu to safely remove the disc. so when i was done playing the game i would yoink the disc out and immediately power off the wii because the error screen scared me shitless (literally any black screen scared me because of an older friend of mine (9 i think) showed me a fake mcdonald’s commercial of ronalald mcdonald i think being in some kids home????? yeah so i was afraid he would jump out of the screen and get me.). later my sister saw me doing it and she showed me how to do it safely by going to the home menu and then i promptly forgot because i was 6. anyways thank you for that new unlocked core memory that i didn’t want :).
I'd just like to say thank you for making this video. It must have taken you a helluva long time, and it really was well put together. Thanks for making me appreciate the time when DDR really put a smile on my face. =]
This reminds me of a game I found on Steam called "Melody's Escape" with a similar gimmick where you feed the game any MP3 or OGG file and it will turn it into a chart, it has character customization options too and a pretty decent scene on the Steam Workshop (there's a lot of Touhou and Vocaloid characters)
There's a second game in a early access state that's more like Beatsaber and there's no character customization :(
Long before that there was Audiosurf, the first i know.
The sequel is better it has Steam Workshop for custom gamemodes and skins
i think you should check out nekodancer, it has the same premise as this game but it's a multiplayer flash game that automatically charted from youtube links, its servers are still up but it doesn't chart new songs anymore but there's a lot of weird things already charted
nekodancer used to be my shit man im glad someone else mentioned it
@@elliesmellies yeah i still play it and hope i catch someone online
@@kiszonapizza2051 i didnt realize you could even still play 🧐
@@elliesmellies hell yeah you can you just have to have a browser that supports flash
@@kiszonapizza2051 isint flash dead?
top tier taste with the streetlight manifesto insert
This was such a fun watch, I had DDR Super Nova on the PS2 as a kid.
And being a kid I just played my favorite few songs over and over again... my poor parents.
I love you-I mean your taste in music! 😬💕 very similar wavelengths!
I want to see this with extremely high bpm songs on them (like camellia)
same
man this is my first video of yours. But the fucking whiplash i got from seeing Streetlight Manifesto at 21:05 hahaha
heck yeah. love them! nice to see them in the wild
Not even a quarter through but omg great video already this is so weird and intriguing
First time viewer here, really enjoyed this! A lot of good bits I caught and laughed at, for sure sticking around.
2:33 - 2:45 so basically, what you're telling me, is that Dance Factory is literally just what would happen if you put DDR, Vib-Ribbon, EyeToy Play, Wii Fit, and Monster Rancher into a blender
hit me up with that DDR content, baby
Naoki's 1999 is my jam ❤❤❤
I found this game randomly in CeX one day during my big Dancing Stage obsession and my GOD it's so much fun. I have burned discs I keep in the box.
It's funny watching you dance on the A3 machine; everyone looks a bit weird on them but it feels like you're doing a full extreme show when playing :')
You understand that people look virtually the same on all DDR machines since its inception (what's weird-looking about dancing on them?) since the designs haven't changed much.
Is dancing on a flat plastic mat at home any less weird? It all depends on your definition of "weird". The aesthetics of these games are highly subjective but that's not the word I would use to describe players.
Rhythm-match dancing in any form makes a spectacle for onlookers. You can get a good workout, especially if you're good at any of these games. Nothing weird about that!
@@notsyzagts7967 It's not really "dancing" it's stepping on arrows. That's why it looks a bit weird haha. Especially using a bar and only moving your legs.
It doesn't stop me playing I love it.
12:52 "Aivomme" means "our brains" in Finnish.
The Specials and Streetlight? You've got great taste
This makes me wish I could play DDR in my apartment (it’s so rickitiy the floors feel like they’ll give out if you want too fast). I used to play DDR Extreme 2 for hours a day as a teen in my parents basement.
Finally someone talking about this game. Fellow DDR exercise enjoyer
What an interesting and obscure game! Nice job with covering it too, I liked the scene-setting with talking about DDR and slowly transitioning into the desire of wishing that certain songs could be played in DDR, and some of the jokes throughout the video were pretty funny! ;u;
10:55 one of these days im gonna play the entirety of Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by MCR in endurance mode to see how it goes. the song tempos on that album are pretty fast and it's 13 tracks long so it would DEFINITELY be an endurance test, that's for sure LMAO
Simply getting through that garbage album from front to back is enough of an extreme endurance challenge on its own lol. You really don't need to make it any harder. 🤷
@@Cooe. you've never even listened to it, have you?
one of the best rock albums of the 2000s
it's okay to admit you're uncultured
@@caifabe8050 Yes, I have. And calling My Chemical Romance "cultured" is literally one of the funniest things I've ever heard. 🤣 Shit emo pop-rock is shit.
@@Cooe. y'know i'd accept your opinion if you weren't such an insufferable douche about it
Great content as usual from Jargungis
Didn't expect to see a fun in-depth video on this! This was always a very weird game to me, and while I did play it a bit, I didn't really remember much besides trying to make a chart and my siblings hitting arrows while I'm doing it and making a nightmare of a chart lol. My oldest brother though played it a lot, and he even got a PS2 for himself years later after moving out JUST to play this game as a workout regimen. Except it didn't read burned CD-Rs, so he ended up giving the PS2 to me instead, which I'm still using with a hard drive. Even had that same Yellow Nyko memory card lol
THE KING HAS POSTED 🙏🏻
15:52 might wanna censor your location mate
the coordinates lead to area 51 i just checked lol
@@jacobeiihe’s an ayylmao from planet Qloo’f
Why
Released near to Audiosurf for PC/Steam which did it to MP3s. There's a sequel released in 2016 or so it has steam workshop for custom game modes and skins
"Ripoff" is too harsh a word. It is the SUPERIOR version.
I'm a simple person. I see a fellow Takanaka appreciator and I hit the subscribe button.
It’s stuff like this, and Monster Rancher, that makes me want to always have the option of physical discs! I know lasers burn out, motors die and so on, but stuff like that means we need new, high quality replacement parts! No, I will NOT accept Xstation or whatever as a replacement!
Would like to see this game try to map out some old Prog Rock tracks from Pink Floyd or Rush
i remember back in 2020 playing a game on roblox that charted any song if you put a song id in (back when user-uploaded song ids were still a thing before they got removed) and it played like guitar hero
I played that too! It was fun while it lasted. 🫡
BRO SAME
Finally, the best way to experience Pet Sounds
STREETLIGHT MENTIONED
this is such a good vid!! subbed :>
What’s the name of the song from the intro? it’s such a vibe
It's funny, I've traded Dance Factory for DS:Super Nova with my cousins and never actually regretted it, because there was just no way of getting any stepfiles and I certainly wasn't in the mood to create my own.
But my cousins were such Dancing Stage/DDR tryhards that they already completed all songs so they had nothing to lose either.
I’m curious what it would do with a recording of a metronome.
Oh yeah, here we go, Jargungis time 😎
ddr vib ribbon
im sorry this is so horribly off topic but CRASHBOX PFP?????????
@@Absolute_LUNA-C Indeed.
Exactly what I was thinking
This reminds me of Vib-Ribbon on the PS1! Much similar to this game, you can insert music cds to make custom levels. The game is also small enough that you can take out the disc while its running and scan the cds!
Randomly found ur video …I was like that arcade looks familiar. Oh yah that’s ground kontrol
1:27 wait if thats the case... Then how did the japanese get away with showing gameplay footage? Is it a west side thing only?
I think it's a joke
This game truly needed an edit mode!
DDR konamix will forever be the best in the series to me
When he was reading the aliens names it sounded like he was speaking simlish lol
24:10 you could say it's the most... In sync
why does the case at 1:57 just disappear why is it so satisfying
am i misremembering or did guitar hero iii for the PS2 have a feature like this? i never used it but i vaguely remember something similar. this was when i was a kid so i might be remembering it wrong.
1998 From Naoki: [Has a robot feline as its mascot]
Me: Zoids reference?
Airport Lady is a godlike pick.
Who up Jarging they Gungus?
I have this in my collection but haven't played it beyond making sure it boots. Now i need to try it, and with some spoken word cds i have.
Holy crap soul calibur arcade? How old is that video lol
MODERN BASEBALL MENTIONNNNNNNNN
great video!!!
Your room looked dark af for your EyeToy to work.
What is that first song omg i love it
Did you find it?
Try turning up the laser strength on the GameCube. The main fault that happens to a GameCubes overtime is that the laser loses strength or goes completely out and needs to be replaced. Try turning up the laser strength first before replacing it to see if that fixes the problem of it not reading discs.
great video fr
The spacing of the arrow columns bothers me so much.
I dont know anything about ddr lore but wheres that Mecha looking background video is from at 5:16? Is it for a song stage?
It belongs to DoLL by TЁЯRA
@@WilliamImmendorfcool! Thanks!
I actually had Dance Factory. I like it a bit. All those hip hop music from 2000s
funny as hell and great taste lol nice soundtrack
don't think i didn't see 'saravah' by yukihiro takahashi and that shizuka kudo best of in your cd collection
What's the beginning song in this video?
Been searching for a while now have you figured the intro song out?
(Dances to "On The X-Play Boards")
Try it with a spoken word album or a CD audiobook
ddr extreme 2 is ddr strike in japan and its home version only
Codemasters is still around today, but now is owned by EA. They are responsible for the yearly Formula 1 video games now
Streetlight Manifesto, nice
I'm going to see them next month hell yeah
6:12 Good god it's somebody's OC
Momo did so good 🥹💓
You said you were having problems with the I toy camera not registering that hold I have a very similar issue with my toy but my eye twice also really working and what you have to do is curl your hand like your dream on Disney channel thing that Hannah Montana would do
Very cool 😎
Good video. Make more please
The ending song is soooo good what is it?
Didn't Vib Ribbon do something similar with CDs?
whoop di di scoop
Try Entertain Me by Tigran Hamasyan. Also try Vital Transformation by Mahivishnu Orchestra. You should also someother songs with wack-ass time signatures.
I love the band ween too!
tatsuro yamashita.. the way i sat up! really great video, enjoyed seeing all the city pop music you used too 🤍
i gotta check this game out!
Hell yes, FM 84!
We have DDR at home
You should've thrown Octabarium at it.
2:11 yuhi jumpscare