Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix
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Dance Dance Revolution 5thMIX, or DDR 5th Mix, is the 5th game in the Dance Dance Revolution
series of music video game
s. 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 124 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 scoring formula is different from previous versions. The top score for a song is 5,000,000 + (f * 5,000,000), where f is the foot rating of the song. The top score for a one-foot song is 10 million, and the top score for a 9-foot song is 50 million. Bonus points are then added based on performance; the bonus added is calculated in the same way as scores in DDR 4th Mix
, but with Perfects being worth a base of 55 points (instead of 777) and Greats a base of 33 points (instead of 555), and a flat amount of points based on the letter grade received is then added, ranging from 100 points for a D to 10,000,000 points for an AAA.
to feature dancing characters. Twelve characters are selectable, six male characters for the left-side player (Afro, Rage, Johnny, Robo 2001, Spike and Baby-Lon) and six female characters for the right-side player (Janet, Emi, Charmy, Princess-Zukin, Maho and Alice). Legendary Konami and DDR Music Producer Naoki Maeda was inserted as one of two hidden dancing characters including Naoki (on the left-side player) and N.M.R. (on the right-side player), making them fourteen playable characters (both hidden dancers are highlighted in Yellow and the icon for the hidden ones are brighter).
and DDR 4th Mix
before it, Nonstop Mode, which allowed the player to play one of several set courses without stopping, is not available in DDR 5th Mix.
brings back songs longer than typical length, these songs are however only themed mixes of several songs.
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.
During the summer of 2004, a number of members of the DDR fan site Aaron In Japan made an effort to export the thousands of edits from the game into a format recognizable by popular DDR simulators. The results are available on and through links from Super Wailing Bonus
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under their Dancemania
dance music brand. It is only available on compact disc
The first disc contains all 31 readily-available new tracks from the arcade version, the 12 new songs introduced in DDR 4th Mix Plus
. It also has a second disc that has a Nonstop Megamix of all the songs on the first disc, and two bonus tracks from DDRMAX. It was released on September 19, 2001.
Naoki Maeda also held a talent search to create a new all-girl J-Pop
band. He selected Shiyuna Maehara, Noria Shiraishi, Riyu Kosaka and Yoma Komatsu
. The band they formed was named BeForU
, and their first single, DIVE, is featured on DDR 5thMIX.
Dance Dance Revolution
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...
series of music video game
Music video game
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...
s. It was released to the arcades by Konami
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
on March 27, 2001. Although only officially released in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, units exist worldwide. DDR 5th Mix contains a total of 124 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.
Gameplay
The core gameplay of DDR 5thMIX is the same as the previous Dance Dance Revolution games.The scoring formula is different from previous versions. The top score for a song is 5,000,000 + (f * 5,000,000), where f is the foot rating of the song. The top score for a one-foot song is 10 million, and the top score for a 9-foot song is 50 million. Bonus points are then added based on performance; the bonus added is calculated in the same way as scores in DDR 4th Mix
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix, or 4thMix, is the 4th game in the main Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released as an arcade game by Konami on August 24, 2000. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide. 4thMix features 136 songs, 42 of which are new...
, but with Perfects being worth a base of 55 points (instead of 777) and Greats a base of 33 points (instead of 555), and a flat amount of points based on the letter grade received is then added, ranging from 100 points for a D to 10,000,000 points for an AAA.
Interface & graphics
DDR 5th Mix introduced the song wheel interface used when selecting songs. This is also the first arcade version to display the game with a 60 frame per second refresh rate for smoother gameplay. Previous versions played at 30 frame/s.Dancing characters
5th Mix was the last arcade mix before SuperNOVADance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova is an arcade game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was produced by Konami and released through Betson Enterprises. The game was released in Europe on April 28, 2006, followed shortly by the North American release on May 15...
to feature dancing characters. Twelve characters are selectable, six male characters for the left-side player (Afro, Rage, Johnny, Robo 2001, Spike and Baby-Lon) and six female characters for the right-side player (Janet, Emi, Charmy, Princess-Zukin, Maho and Alice). Legendary Konami and DDR Music Producer Naoki Maeda was inserted as one of two hidden dancing characters including Naoki (on the left-side player) and N.M.R. (on the right-side player), making them fourteen playable characters (both hidden dancers are highlighted in Yellow and the icon for the hidden ones are brighter).
Nonstop Mode
Unlike DDR 3rd MixDance Dance Revolution 3rdMIX
Dance Dance Revolution 3rdMix, or 3rdMix, is the 3rd game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released in the arcades by Konami on October 30, 1999. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide...
and DDR 4th Mix
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix, or 4thMix, is the 4th game in the main Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released as an arcade game by Konami on August 24, 2000. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide. 4thMix features 136 songs, 42 of which are new...
before it, Nonstop Mode, which allowed the player to play one of several set courses without stopping, is not available in DDR 5th Mix.
Long version
Four songs--B4U glorious style, DYNAMITE RAVE Long ver., HOT LIMIT and Oops, I Did It again (Fired Up Mix)--are long version songs, songs that run twice as long as a standard DDR song. Whereas the standard DDR dance routine is around 90 seconds, a long version runs for around three minutes. Such songs took up the play of two songs, and are only selectable as the second-to-last song in the round. In order to play long songs is to have both stages available. Songs of this length first appear in DDR 5th Mix, and the concept was discarded for further releases. While Dance Dance Revolution XDance Dance Revolution X
Dance Dance Revolution X, abbreviated DDR X or simply X, is a music video game, and a part of the Dance Dance Revolution series. DDR X was originally announced by Konami on May 15, 2008 for the North American PlayStation 2. The arcade version was announced on July 7, 2008, July 9, 2008 in Europe,...
brings back songs longer than typical length, these songs are however only themed mixes of several songs.
Link data
Some machines have the ports to insert PlayStation memory cards. Such memory cards have to be PlayStation 1 memory cards with Link Data from the home version of DDR 5th Mix or earlier. It can exchange data with DDR 5thMIX, as well as any earlier version that has songs that are in 5th Mix. It can also use Edit Data, custom steps made on the home version.Home version
The home version of DDR 5th Mix was released in Japan on September 22, 2001, for the SonySony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
PlayStation
PlayStation
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000...
video game console
Video game console
A video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or customized computer system that produces a video display signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game...
. 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.
During the summer of 2004, a number of members of the DDR fan site Aaron In Japan made an effort to export the thousands of edits from the game into a format recognizable by popular DDR simulators. The results are available on and through links from Super Wailing Bonus
Music
Yellow songs means they are hidden. Green songs means songs are current. Blue songs means songs available from previous gamesNo. | Song | Artist | |
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1 | "Abyss" | DJ Taka | |
2 | "サナ・モレッテ・ネ・エンテ" (Sana・Mollete・Ne・Ente) | Togo Project feat. Sana | |
3 | "I Was the One" | Good-Cool | |
4 | "Mr.T.(Take Me Higher)" | Risky Men feat. Asuka. M | |
5 | "Absolute" | DJ Taka | |
6 | "The Cube" | DJ Suwami | |
7 | "DXY!" | Taq | |
8 | "Radical Faith" | Taq | |
9 | "Electro Tuned (The SubS Mix)" | Taq | |
10 | "Remember You" | NM feat Julie | |
11 | "おどるポンポコリン" (Odoru Ponpokorin) | Captain Jack | |
12 | "17才" (17 Sai) | Bambee | |
13 | "Dancing All Alone" | Smile.dk | |
14 | "Oops!... I Did it Again" Long Version | Rochelle | |
15 | "Swing It" | Bus Stop | |
16 | "Test My Best" | E-Rotic | |
17 | "Right Now" | Atomic Kitten | |
18 | "Against All Odds (Definitive Mix)" | Dejavu featuring Tasmin | |
19 | "Be Together" | Ni-Ni | |
20 | "The Twist (Double Pump Mix)" | Liberty All Staz | |
21 | "Movin On (Extended Moon Mix)" | Ellen Gee | |
22 | "ロマンスの神様" (Romansu no Kamisama) | Judy Crystal | |
23 | "Never Ending Story" | DJ-AC-DC | |
24 | "Healing Vision" | De-Sire | |
25 | "Hot Limit" Long Version | John Desire | |
26 | "Moonlight Shadow (New Vocal Version)" | Missing Heart | |
27 | "My Generation (Fat Beat Mix)" | Captain Jack | |
28 | "Dive" | Be For U | |
29 | "Dynamite Rave (Long ver.)" Long Version | Naoki | |
30 | "Broken My Heart" | Naoki feat.Paula Terry | |
31 | "祭 Japan" (Matsuri Japan) | Re-Venge | |
32 | "Ecstasy" | D-Complex | |
33 | "Still In My Heart" | Naoki | |
34 | "Tribal Dance (Almighty Mix)" | 2 Unlimited | |
35 | "Afronova Primeval" | 8-Bit | |
36 | "B4U Glorious Style" Long Version | Naoki | |
37 | "Can't Stop Fallin' In Love (Speed Mix)" | Naoki | |
38 | "Insertion" | Naoki Underground | |
39 | "No Limit (RM Remix)" | 2 Unlimited | |
40 | "Paranoia Eternal" | STM 200 | |
41 | "1,2,3,4,007" | Ni-Ni | |
42 | "Baby Baby Gimme Your Love" | Divas | |
43 | "Xanadu" | Olivia Project | |
44 | "The 7 Jump" | Ken D | |
45 | "Only You" | Captain Jack | |
46 | "Eat You Up" | Angie Gold | |
47 | "Let's Talk It Over" | Shin Murayama feat. Argie Phine | |
48 | "Gotcha (The Theme from Starsky & Hutch)" | Andy G's Magic Disco Machine | |
49 | "Butterfly" | Smile.dk | |
50 | "Gimme Gimme Gimme" | E-Rotic | |
51 | "Hero (KCP Discotique Mix)" | Papaya | |
52 | "Shake Your Booty" | KC & The Sunshine Band | |
53 | "Higher" | NM feat. Sunny | |
54 | "It Only Takes a Minute (Extended Mix)" | Tavares | |
55 | "Bumble Bee" | Bambee | |
56 | "Cafe" | D.D.Sound | |
57 | "Have You Never Been Mellow (MM Groovin' Mix)" | The Olivia Project | |
58 | "In the Heat of the Night" | E-Rotic | |
59 | "Never Gonna Make (Factory Dance Team Mix)" | Morgana | |
60 | "Never Let You Down" | Good-Cool feat. JP Miles | |
61 | "Walkie Talkie" | King Kong & D.Jungle Girls | |
65 | "Young Forever" | Rebecca | |
66 | "Can't Stop Fallin' In Love" | Naoki | |
67 | "Cat's Eye(Ventura Mix)" | E-Rotic | |
68 | "Conga Feeling" | Vivian | |
69 | "Na-Na" | Bus Stop | |
70 | "Orion.78(AMEuro-Mix)" | Re-Venge | |
71 | "Kick the Can" | Bus Stop | |
72 | "Let the Beat Hit Em!" | Stone Bros. | |
73 | "Night in Motion" | Cubic22 | |
74 | "Petit Love" | Smile.dk | |
75 | "Era (NostalMix)" | Taq | |
76 | "Get Me in Your Sight (AMD Cancun Mix)" | Symphonic Defoggers with 1479 | |
77 | "Do Me (H.I.G.E.O. Mix)" | Mustache Men | |
78 | "Lupin the 3rd '78" | Ventura | |
79 | "My Summer Love" | Mitsu-O! with Geila | |
80 | "Wild Rush" | Factor-X | |
81 | "Brilliant 2U" | Naoki | |
82 | "Don't Stop!(AMD 2nd Mix)" | Dr. Vibe feat. JP Miles | |
83 | "Pink Dinosaur" | Papaya | |
84 | "Shooting Star" | Bang | |
85 | "B4U" | Naoki | |
86 | "Synchronized Love (Red Monster Hyper Mix)" | Joe Rinoie | |
87 | "Burnin' the Floor" | Naoki | |
88 | "Celebrate Nite" | N.M.R | |
89 | "Dam Dariram(KCP Mix)" | Joga | |
90 | "Dream a Dream" | Captain Jack | |
91 | "Hero(Happy Grandale Mix)" | Papaya | |
92 | "La Senorita" | Captain.T | |
93 | "Love Again Tonight (For Melissa Mix)" | Naoki feat. Paula Terry | |
94 | "Make Your Move" | Good-Cool feat. JP Miles | |
95 | "Music" | Habegale | |
96 | "One Two(Little Bitch)" | Bus Stop | |
97 | "Boys(Euro Mix)" | Smile.dk | |
98 | "Dam Dariram" | Joga | |
99 | "Dub-I-Dub" | Me & My | |
100 | "Holic" | Taq | |
101 | "Hysteria" | Naoki 190 | |
102 | "If You Were Here (B4 Za Beat Mix)" | Jennifer | |
103 | "Sky High" | Lucyfer | |
104 | "Theme from Enter the Dragon (Revival 2001 Mix)" | B3-Project | |
105 | "Rhythm and Police (K.O.G G3 Mix)" | CJ Crew feat. Christian D | |
106 | "Wonda(Speed K Mix)" | MM | |
107 | "End of the Century" | No.9 | |
108 | "Luv to Me(AMD Mix)" | DJ Kazu feat.Tiger Yamato | |
109 | "Captain Jack (Grandale Remix)" | Captain Jack | |
110 | "Furuhata's Theme" | C.J.Crew feat.Sedge | |
111 | "If You Were Here" | Jennifer | |
112 | "Sexy Planet" | Crystal Aliens | |
113 | "I Believe in Miracles" | Hi-Rise | |
114 | "Stomp to My Beat" | JS16 | |
115 | "Super Star" | DJ.Rich feat. Tail Bros. | |
116 | "Hypnotic Crisis" | Blue Destroyers | |
117 | "Boom Boom Dollar (K.O.G G3 Mix)" | King Kong & D.Jungle Girls | |
118 | "Drop Out" | NW260 | |
119 | "Dead End" | N & S | |
120 | "Dynamite Rave" | Naoki | |
121 | "Leading Cyber" | DJ Taka | |
122 | "Trip Machine Climax" | De-Sire | |
123 | "Paranoia Evolution" | 200 | |
124 | "Paranoia Max (Dirty Mix)" | 190 |
No. | Song | Artist | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | "Abyss" | DJ Taka | |
2 | "サナ・モレッテ・ネ・エンテ" (Sana・Mollete・Ne・Ente) | Togo Project feat. Sana | |
3 | "Mr.T.(Take Me Higher)" | Risky Men feat. Asuka. M | |
4 | "I Was the One" | Good-Cool | |
5 | "Absolute" | DJ Taka | |
6 | "The Cube" | DJ Suwami | |
7 | "DXY!" | Taq | |
8 | "Radical Faith" | Taq | |
9 | "Electro Tuned (The SubS Mix)" | Taq | |
10 | "Remember You" | NM feat Julie | |
11 | "おどるポンポコリン" (Odoru Ponpokorin) | Captain Jack | |
12 | "17才" (17 Sai) | Bambee | |
13 | "Dancing All Alone" | Smile.dk | |
14 | "Oops!... I Did it Again" Long Version | Rochelle | |
15 | "Swing It" | Bus Stop | |
16 | "Test My Best" | E-Rotic | |
17 | "Right Now" | Atomic Kitten | |
18 | "The Twist (Double Pump Mix)" | Liberty All Staz | |
19 | "Be Together" | Ni-Ni | |
20 | "Against All Odds (Definitive Mix)" | Dejavu featuring Tasmin | |
21 | "Movin On (Extended Moon Mix)" | Ellen Gee | |
22 | "ロマンスの神様" (Romansu no Kamisama) | Judy Crystal | |
23 | "Never Ending Story" | DJ-AC-DC | |
24 | "Healing Vision" | De-Sire | |
25 | "Hot Limit" Long Version | John Desire | |
26 | "My Generation (Fat Beat Mix)" | Captain Jack | |
27 | "Moonlight Shadow (New Vocal Version)" | Missing Heart | |
28 | "Dynamite Rave (Long ver.)" Long Version | Naoki | |
29 | "Dive" | Be For U | |
30 | "Broken My Heart" | Naoki feat.Paula Terry | |
31 | "祭 Japan" (Matsuri Japan) | Re-Venge | |
32 | "Still In My Heart" | Naoki | |
33 | "Ecstasy" | D-Complex | |
34 | "Tribal Dance (Almighty Mix)" | 2 Unlimited | |
35 | "B4U Glorious Style" Long Version | Naoki | |
36 | "No Limit (RM Remix)" | 2 Unlimited | |
37 | "Afronova Primeval" | 8-Bit | |
38 | "Insertion" | Naoki Underground | |
39 | "Can't Stop Fallin' In Love (Speed Mix)" | Naoki | |
40 | "Paranoia Eternal" | STM 200 | |
41 | "The Centre of the Heart (Stonebridge ClubMix)" | Roxette | |
42 | "On the Jazz" | Jonny Dynamite! | |
43 | "Nori Nori Nori" | Judy Crystal | |
44 | "Look to the Sky" | System S.F. feat. Anna | |
45 | "Dive -More Deep & Deeper Style-" | Be For U | |
46 | "Do It Right" | Sota feat. Ebony Fay | |
47 | "Healing Vision ~Angelic Mix~" | 2MB |
Against All Odds (Definitive Mix)
"Against All Odds (Definitive Mix)" is a song by Dejavu featuring Tasmin. It is a cover of the famous Phil CollinsPhil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
song.
Can't Stop Fallin' In Love (Speed Mix)
"Can't Stop Fallin' In Love (Speed Mix)" is a song by Naoki.Moonlight Shadow (New Vocal Version)
"Moonlight Shadow (New Vocal Version)" is a song by Missing HeartMissing Heart
Missing Heart was a eurodance group managed by German producers David Brandes, Felix Gauder, Gary Jones and others.The project was started in 1994 with a single "Wild Angels". Project continued in 1996. with single "Charlene". The third single was released in 1997. It was a cover of "Moonlight...
.
My Generation (Fat Beat Mix)
"My Generation (Fat Beat Mix)" is a song by Captain JackCaptain Jack (band)
Captain Jack is a musical duo, specializing in Eurodance music, originating from Germany.- History :Its members were Francisco Alejandro Gutierrez , and Sunny...
.
Tribal Dance (Almighty Mix)
"Tribal Dance (Almighty Mix)Tribal Dance
"Tribal Dance" was the second single to be released by the band 2 Unlimited from their second album No Limits.The song was released in the UK in May 1993 and peaked at #4 for 2 weeks and spent a total of 11 weeks in the UK Singles Chart....
" is a song by 2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited
2 Unlimited is a Dutch Eurodance/Hi-NRG act formed in 1991. The project was the brainchild of Belgian producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde, and was fronted by a Dutch duo, rapper Ray Slijngaard and singer Anita Doth. During five years of enormous worldwide popularity, the act scored 16 chart...
.
Soundtrack
The Original Soundtrack for DDR 5th Mix is a two-disc album produced by Toshiba-EMIToshiba-EMI
(formerly , is one of Japan's leading music companies. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of British music company EMI Group Ltd. in June 30, 2007 after Toshiba sold off its previous 45% stake. The current CEO and president is San-e Ichii. When EMI Music Japan was trading as Toshiba-EMI, it was...
under their Dancemania
Dancemania
Dancemania is a series of remix compilation albums by i-DANCE. The series deals primarily with dance music, especially eurodance. Despite its tracks have been made by various musicians from all over the world mainly from the European continent, the albums have been released exclusively in Japan.The...
dance music brand. It is only available on compact disc
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
The first disc contains all 31 readily-available new tracks from the arcade version, the 12 new songs introduced in DDR 4th Mix Plus
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX
Dance Dance Revolution 4thMix, or 4thMix, is the 4th game in the main Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was released as an arcade game by Konami on August 24, 2000. Although only officially released in Japan, units exist worldwide. 4thMix features 136 songs, 42 of which are new...
. It also has a second disc that has a Nonstop Megamix of all the songs on the first disc, and two bonus tracks from DDRMAX. It was released on September 19, 2001.
Promotions
A contest in Japan, the DDR 5th Mix Musicmanship Trial Contest, was held in 2000 with the grand prize being the winner's song appearing in DDR 5th Mix. The winning song was PARANOiA ETERNAL, produced by an artist named Matsumoto, who uses the pseudonym STM 200. Strangely enough, the soundtrack booklet refers to the composer of "PARANOiA ETERNAL" as either Takeshi Matsumoto or Mitsugu Matsumoto.Naoki Maeda also held a talent search to create a new all-girl J-Pop
J-pop
, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...
band. He selected Shiyuna Maehara, Noria Shiraishi, Riyu Kosaka and Yoma Komatsu
Yoma Komatsu
Yoma Komatsu is the eldest member of the Konami-produced J-Pop group BeForU. Komatsu was born in Tokyo, Japan on December 30, 1975...
. The band they formed was named BeForU
BeForU
BeForU was an all female Japanese teen pop group who performed music primarily for the Bemani series of rhythm games. BeForU debuted in 2000 with their song "Dive", which was notable as being the first Japanese pop song in the Dance Dance Revolution series. BeForU was produced by Naoki Maeda, one...
, and their first single, DIVE, is featured on DDR 5thMIX.
External links
- DDR 5th Mix Production Report, with information on Matsumoto (STM200) and BeForU.
- Dance Dance Revolution 5thMix official website
- Dancemania