GF and DM are two different games. BM and BMIIDX are, as far as I'm concerned, different games, but I came up with several examples where this differentiation doesn't matter.

The only problem is #2 - I can't find any reference to Mobo/Moga being in GF/DM though, and I didn't recall it being there... unless you count potpourri d'orange/potpourri d'marmalade (I can't remember which has it) - but those are huge medley arrangements that I didn't specify rules for. I'd like to see if you can come up with another.

Yeah I think it's just in potpourri something or another.

Uh GF/DM counting as two makes life incredibly easy, because then there's a few that are in IIDX (tizona d'el cid and children's sketchbook, for example) , Popn, and GF/DM.  I want to just say they're one game because they share the songlist anyway.

hmmm....
afronova primeval - dance maniax, popn, beatmania
heaven is a '57 - dance maniax, popn, gf/dm
gamelan de couple - mambo a go go, popn, beatmania
twinbee - dance maniax, popn, IIDX


yeah fuck i dunno

The point wasn't to be super hard, just to make people think about non-DDR games. You've gotten more than three by my standards anyway, so you can have it!

(If you're curious, I came up with Shiritori - GF, DM, KBM, PnM, Massara - (same,) and Himawari - GF, DM, Pop'n, IIDX just off the top of my head)

If you say so :p

Also in looking these up (I really tried hard to find another one haha) I noticed that every song and its remix (aka mother) is in popn music

...shouldn't the original be the "mother" song?

Ok, here's a good one that I think people might not know about.

What is the only DDR mix in which you can intentionally change scroll speed and/or direction during gameplay (intentional i.e; not battle mode)?  This is really fun to do when someone else is playing, by the way.

Wooow I have no idea. I know X2 is gonna have that feature but if there's an old one I'm stumped.

I'm guessing it's some home version. Though this is really cool if people don't decide to "help me read the notes better" like they do with GF/DM. :<

DDR Solo 2000 let you activate reverse during a song, but I didn't think it let you modify the speed. I can't think of any that let you change the speed during a song.

Edit: I looked it up just to be sure:
http://www.ddrfreak.com/versions/faqs-arcade.php?version=30

Hahahahaha.

I can't wait for it in X2 though. Play Insertion on x4.5 to the stop... run up and crank it to x5.5 for the slowdown... back to x4.5 then when I have time run back and change it to x3 for the ending and the WINNNN

yeah it won't work idk how the hell anyone will do it

This is an easy one.

What was the nickname given to the hardest songs before DDR Max introduced Max 300?

"Cata," short for "catastrophic," which was what 9s were called in-game.

Bingo. Go nuts Laura.

I totally want to do something like "Name all of the Korean songs" but that's way too easy. So instead, how about a different kind of question?

What do the following DDR songs all have in common, besides being playable on a 5th Mix machine:

-God of Romance
-Petit Love
-Dancing Pompokolin
-17 Sai
-Hot Limit

(There is a "right" answer that I'm looking for, although there are many similarities in the general styles of music and whatnot.)

Love theme? Love in the lyrics?

It's nothing that vague or un-defined (also, I don't think Dancing Pompokolin has anything about love in the lyrics, though I could be wrong!)

They're all covers of Japanese songs

-God of Romance = ロマンスの神様 by some chick I forget

-Petit Love = ちょこっとLOVE by プッチモ二

, and was my cell phone ringtone when I was 16, and the chick in the pink was my celebrity crush for a long time.  I was in official and unofficial fanclubs and everything.  In fact, my screen name "godai" comes from one of those fan site BBSs, it's my first internet name lol

-Dancing Pompokolin = おどるポンポコリン by B.B.Queens

-17 Sai = １７才 by 森高千里

-Hot Limit = Hot Limit by TM Revolution

I guess me answering this question is kind of cheating seeing as how four of those songs I grew up with (not hot limit, though it probably came out when I lived in Japan as well)
If that's not the answer though, *shrug* haha

That IS the answer. God of Romance was Hirose Kohmi, known for "Groovy," the first Cardcaptor Sakura ending theme. Not that I'ma nerd or anything.

You go now!

Oh trust me, any Jpop nerdiness you have pales in comparison to my morning musume fanboyisms of yore.  I once figured that I spent about $2000 in relation to that obsession in about 2 years (This does not include food and transportation related to such expenses).  I own 30 or 40 posters, 20 or 30 CDs (albums and singles combined, though most of the albums were stolen), went to 4 concerts, etc etc etc I can go on for ever.  Oh dear lord the trading cards.  

ANYWAY bemani question

Okay, this question is what random "trivia" is all about, and the answer is based on experimentation, and may not be true, but I think it is.  So on DDR Extreme (well, anything max and beyond), you can play extra stages, and when you fail, it tells you the time you lasted.  It does on max2 and extreme anyway, I don't know about the rest.  Anyway, the question.  On a DDR Extreme with default difficulty settings, what songs constitute the shortest and longest extra stages, if you missed every step?  I used to know a lot of random times for songs because of looking for the answer.  

I'm sure that question was confusing.  So if you don't hit any steps on LoM, you die in what, 8 or 9 seconds?  What song is this time the shortest for, and what song is it the longest for?  There's a song on oni that I'm sure would last longer than the "answer" I'm thinking of for longest but you can't pick oni on extra stage, right?

I'll give it to you if you can guess either or.

I'm willing to bet the song is Somewhere Over the Rainbow, but I'm not sure.

Also Laura, I'm pretty sure these days Hirose Kohmi is better known for writing and performing

the best song ever

, but I could be wrong. Every time I try singing this at karaoke I fail miserably.

Oooh...  I haven't actually tried it but I think you're wrong.  Just to try to get a feel...
Approximate time to 12 steps on SOTR is 10.75 full beats at 140bpm = 4.61 seconds
Approximate time to 12 steps on the song I'm thinking of = 4.63 seconds
Yeah, it's damn close, it depends on when time = 0.00 seconds starts and if it takes maybe 11 or 13 steps to die on either song... but for the purposes of this thread I'm going to say no.

edit: I'll tell you what, I'll test it out today at gameworks.  This is worth playing two games before a date.

My other two guesses would be TL100S and Mikeneko Rock. Maybe Max 300.

It's Mikeneko Rock for shortest.  Max300 is also really short, but TL100s isn't even close, its intro (before the first step) is 4x as long as mikeneko.  TL100s is 8 measures @ 261, mikeneko is 2 measures @ 246, SOTR is 2 measures @ 140, 300 is 4 measures @300. SOTR's intro is way longer than mikeneko but 12 notes goes by way faster (2.75 notes at 140) than mikeneko (12 note @ 246).  Max300's intro ~= SOTR, but 12 notes takes 9 at 300 (~= 4.5 @ 150)

Longest is Let's Get Down, and if oni songs were selectable, probably kakumei oni.

Like I said, I'll go test out mikeneko vs SOTR soon

Discovolante: If you come to Seattle, we totally need to go do karaoke together. Hell, karaoke party in general could be epic!