DDR Extreme (Japan) Scores and Commentary
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This page is a bit unusual, in that it discusses the Japanese version of DDR Extreme rather than the US version of the same title. This mix is almost certainly the best DDR home mix of all time, however, regardless of what language it might be in!
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First of all, just to avoid any confusion: as I said above, everything that follows relates to the JAPANESE version of DDR Extreme. Anyone who is looking for the version with "YMCA" and "Like a Virgin" is in the wrong place. Now this is not the time or place to discuss all of the relative merits of the different versions, but in short, there were some rather serious changes made in the American version of DDR Extreme that in my opinion were not for the better. That is not to say that the US Extreme is a bad game, just that I find it inferior to the monster 111-song Japanese version that contains no fewer than 10 different sets of 10-footer steps (compared to 1 in the US version). For a very intelligent discussion of the two games, I will direct the reader to yyr's Gamefaqs review. For me, it was worth the money to import the Japanese version. With no further ado, here's the song table:
DDR Extreme (Japan) Scores
| Name |
Score Points |
Grade |
Dance Points |
Max Points |
Percentage |
Missing DP |
Comments |
| 1998 (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
658 |
658 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #44!!!  |
| 321 Stars (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
658 |
658 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #183!!! |
A (Challenge) |
88,972,875 |
AA |
662 |
670 |
98.8% |
8 |
SDG (8) Surprised myself |
A (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
676 |
676 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #184!!! |
| A Stupid Barber (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
692 |
692 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #8!!! |
| Across the Nightmare (Challenge) |
88,967,355 |
AA |
721 |
744 |
96.9% |
23 |
Quick feet needed |
| Across the Nightmare (Heavy) |
76,953,760 |
AA |
655 |
682 |
96.0% |
27 |
- |
Afronova (Heavy) |
89,988,865 |
AA |
739 |
740 |
99.86% |
1 |
SDG (1) |
| After the Game of Love (Heavy) |
50,000,000 |
AAA |
414 |
414 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #54!!! |
| air (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
498 |
498 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #97!!! |
| Aoi Shoudou (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
594 |
594 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #56!!! |
| Baby Baby Gimme Your Love (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
326 |
326 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #92!!! |
| Bad Routine (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
594 |
594 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #23!!! |
| Be Lovin' (Heavy) |
87,246,270 |
AA |
605 |
632 |
95.7% |
27 |
- |
| Burnin' the Floor Momo Mix (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
764 |
764 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #5!!! |
| Brilliant 2U (Challenge) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
528 |
528 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #59!!! |
| Brilliant 2U (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
450 |
450 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #55!!! |
| Brilliant 2U Orchestra (Challenge) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
618 |
618 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #174!!! |
| Brilliant 2U Orchestra (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
452 |
452 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #57!!! |
| Can't Stop Fallin In Love (Speed Mix) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
886 |
886 |
100% |
0 |
 "AAA" Number FIFTY!!! |
| Cartoon Heroes (Heavy) |
89,383,410 |
AA |
870 |
876 |
99.32% |
6 |
I "AA"ed the most difficult 9-footer!!! |
| Colors (Challenge) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
900 |
902 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #175!!! |
| Colors (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
674 |
674 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #53!!! |
| Crash! (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
844 |
844 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #166!!! |
| Daikenkai (Challenge) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
962 |
962 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #189!!! |
| Daikenkai (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
946 |
946 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #188!!! |
| Dance Dance Revolution (Challenge) |
87,245,725 |
AA |
729 |
738 |
98.8% |
9 |
SDG (9) |
| Dance Dance Revolution (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
704 |
704 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #197!!! |
| Destiny Lovers (Heavy) |
89,219,550 |
AA |
794 |
800 |
99.25% |
6 |
SDG (6) |
| Drop the Bomb (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
608 |
608 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #172!!! |
| Dynamite Rave (Challenge) |
89,864,340 |
AA |
759 |
760 |
99.87% |
1 |
SDG (1) Black Flag |
| Dynamite Rave (Heavy) |
89,697,160 |
AA |
791 |
796 |
99.37% |
5 |
SDG (5) |
| Ecstasy (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
552 |
552 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #91!!! Love this song |
Feeling of Love (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
698 |
698 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #89!!! |
| Forever Sunshine (Heavy) |
50,000,000 |
AAA |
500 |
500 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #3!!! |
| Frozen Ray (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
808 |
808 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #180!!! |
| Gamelan de Couple (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
596 |
596 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #159!!! |
| Graduation (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
554 |
554 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #43!!! |
| Happy Wedding (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
564 |
564 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #39!!! |
| Healing Vision (Heavy) |
79,190,400 |
AA |
701 |
706 |
99.3% |
5 |
SDG (5) |
| Healing Vision Angelic Mix (Heavy) |
49,907,765 |
AA |
957 |
958 |
99.90% |
1 |
SDG (1) Wanted It SO MUCH!!! |
| Heaven Is A '57 Metallic Gray (Heavy) |
79,551,765 |
AA |
709 |
712 |
99.58% |
3 |
SDG (3) Love this song |
| Higher (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
492 |
492 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #94!!! |
| Hold On Me (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
594 |
594 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #37!!! |
| Hyper Eurobeat (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
682 |
682 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #162!!! |
| I Do I Do I Do (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
584 |
584 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #52!!! |
| I'm Gonna Get You (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
662 |
662 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #161!!! |
| I Need You (Heavy) |
50,000,000 |
AAA |
504 |
504 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #58!!! |
| Irresistiblement (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
728 |
728 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #60!!! |
| JaneJana (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
606 |
606 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #42!!! |
| Jet World (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
716 |
716 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #101!!! |
| Kakumei (Challenge) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
676 |
676 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #186!!! |
| Kakumei (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
784 |
784 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #187!!! |
| Keep On Liftin' (Heavy) |
50,000,000 |
AAA |
534 |
534 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #62!!! |
| Keep On Movin' (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
366 |
366 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #65!!! |
| Kiss Kiss Kiss (Heavy) |
79,038,655 |
AA |
837 |
850 |
98.5% |
13 |
Detest this song |
| Kiss Me All Night Long (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
692 |
692 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #88!!! |
| L'amour et la Liberte (Heavy) |
76,763,525 |
AA |
606 |
628 |
96.5% |
22 |
- |
| La Bamba (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
670 |
670 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #6!!! |
| La Copa De La Vida (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
474 |
474 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #10!!! |
| La Senorita (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
588 |
588 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #177!!! |
| La Senorita Virtual (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
718 |
718 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #178!!! |
| Last Message (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
730 |
730 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #61!!! |
| Love Shine (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
750 |
750 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #7!!! |
| Love Sugar (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
504 |
504 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #9!!! |
| Love This Feelin' (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
484 |
484 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #182!!! |
| Luv to Me (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
716 |
716 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #173!!! |
| Mahou no Tobira (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
592 |
592 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #66!!! |
| Make It Better (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
424 |
424 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #179!!! |
| Max 300 (Standard) |
76,122,100 |
AA |
929 |
956 |
97.2% |
27 |
- |
| Maxx Unlimited (Standard) |
77,635,130 |
AA |
998 |
1038 |
96.1% |
40 |
Hardest Standard song out there |
| Memories (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
616 |
616 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #163!!! |
| Mikeneko Rock (Heavy) |
79,004,840 |
AA |
678 |
682 |
99.4% |
4 |
SDG (4) |
| Miracle Moon (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
580 |
580 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #164!!! |
| Mobo Moga (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
562 |
562 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #41!!! |
| more deep ver.2.1 (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
624 |
624 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #63!!! |
| My Summer Love (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
520 |
520 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #40!!! First 9-footer "AAA" |
| Orion Civilization Mix (Heavy) |
88,328,730 |
AA |
781 |
796 |
98.1% |
15 |
This used to be hard. |
| Paranoia (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
638 |
638 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" ONE HUNDRED!!! |
| Paranoia Evolution (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
750 |
750 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #192!!! |
| Paranoia Eternal (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
792 |
792 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #194!!! |
| Paranoia KCET (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
702 |
702 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #191!!! |
| Paranoia Max Dirty Mix (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
680 |
680 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #190!!! |
| Paranoia Rebirth (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
866 |
866 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #193!!! |
| Pink Rose (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
636 |
636 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #47!!! |
| Put Your Faith In Me (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
406 |
406 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #93!!! |
| R3 (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
538 |
538 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #181!!! |
| Sakura (Challenge) |
83,494,200 |
AA |
670 |
718 |
93.3% |
48 |
- |
| Scorching Moon (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
550 |
550 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #64!!! |
| Sexy Planet (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
524 |
524 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #169!!! |
| Silent Hill (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
530 |
530 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #95!!! |
| SP Trip Machine Jungle (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
490 |
490 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #98!!! |
Speed Over Beethoven (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
750 |
750 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #165!!! |
| Stay (Organic Home) (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
448 |
448 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #48!!! |
| Stoic (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
702 |
702 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #199!!! |
| Super Star (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
578 |
578 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #168!!! |
| Sync (Challenge) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
704 |
704 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #198!!! |
| Sync (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
650 |
650 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #167!!! |
| Tears (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
756 |
756 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #170!!! |
| The Least 100 Seconds (Heavy) |
76,153,325 |
AA |
827 |
870 |
95.1% |
43 |
Weird |
| The Legend of Max (Standard) |
87,616,800 |
AA |
871 |
888 |
98.1% |
17 |
Full combo; Easier than Maxx Standard |
| Think Ya Better D (Heavy) |
50,000,000 |
AAA |
474 |
474 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #171!!! |
| Tomorrow Perfume (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
714 |
714 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #21!!! |
| Trip Machine (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
460 |
460 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #90!!! |
| Trip Machine Climax (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
684 |
684 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #195!!! |
| Trip Machine Luv Mix (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
586 |
586 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #99!!! |
| Trip Machine Survivor (Heavy) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
706 |
706 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #196!!! |
| Try 2 Luv U (Heavy) |
50,000,000 |
AAA |
480 |
480 |
100% |
0 |
First Heavy "AAA" |
| TwinBee (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
574 |
574 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #49!!! |
| un deux trois (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
600 |
600 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #51!!! |
| V (Challenge) |
90,000,000 |
AAA |
920 |
920 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #185!!! |
| V (Heavy) |
80,000,000 |
AAA |
802 |
802 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #96!!! |
Vanity Angel (Heavy) |
78,883,440 |
AA |
745 |
752 |
99.07% |
7 |
SDG (7) |
| We Are the Champions (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
480 |
480 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #45!!! |
| We Will Rock You (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
382 |
382 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #46!!! |
| White Lovers (Heavy) |
70,000,000 |
AAA |
630 |
630 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #38!!! |
| Wild Rush (Heavy) |
60,000,000 |
AAA |
494 |
494 |
100% |
0 |
"AAA" #176!!! |
| Xenon (Heavy) |
87,710,400 |
AA |
796 |
816 |
97.5% |
20 |
Weird but Fun |
10-Footer Scores
| Name |
Score Points |
Grade |
Dance Points |
Max Points |
Percentage |
Missing DP |
Comments |
| bag 5x (Heavy) |
97,269,800 |
AA |
741 |
764 |
97.0% |
23 |
Not fair to do this on 5x, but I hate bag |
| Max 300 (Heavy) Invisible Text Here!! |
46,972,480 |
AA |
1064 |
1122 |
94.8% |
58 |
OMG! "AA" on Max 300! |
| Maxx Unlimited (Heavy) |
86,435,845 |
A |
1180 |
1446 |
81.6% |
266 |
An "A" on Maxx! DDRMax2 Japan |
| Paranoia Survivor (Heavy) |
96,743,500 |
AA |
988 |
1042 |
94.8% |
54 |
A true ten-footer "AA"!!! |
| Paranoia Survivor Max (Heavy) |
82,442,065 |
B |
905 |
1164 |
77.7% |
259 |
Close to an "A" |
| Sakura (Heavy) |
94,742,605 |
AA |
845 |
898 |
94.1% |
53 |
Finally got the "AA", can still improve |
| The Legend of Max (Heavy) |
82,706,620 |
B |
720 |
1018 |
70.7% |
298 |
Getting better, respectable range |
Not attempted/completed: Max Period (Heavy/Challenge), Paranoia Survivor Max Oni
Heavy/Challenge Totals (Non-Ten Footers): 94 "AAA"s, 106 SDGs, 21 "AA"s
Highest Song Score: bag 5x (Heavy) - 97,269,800
A couple notes about the table... Most of the songs are Heavy, except as in DDRMax2, there are a number of songs with an additional Challenge difficulty. I also stuck a couple of Standard songs from the 10-footers in there as well for fun. The point scoring is the same as in DDRMax2, a maximum of 10,000,000 times the foot rating for the song. As before, "SDG" stands for "single-digit greats" and I have used "Almost/Miss" to avoid confusion surrounding the word "Boo". Finally, the Perfect window is a little more generous in this mix compared to previous ones, which is why so many of my best scores come from DDR Extreme. The "AAA"s say that I'm not complaining.
Songs
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Unusual song here. A starts out very slowly (90bpm) and goes through some relatively simple patterns at the beginning. Lots of double-steps though. Then halfway through the song, the music stops for a second and resumes by speeding up to 190bpm. That's when the fun begins. Lots of eighth note runs comprise the rest of the piece, and the Challenge steps throw in some nasty step-jump patterns. This remains a very popular DDR song today.
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Now this is one of my all-time favorite songs. Fast (170bpm), straightforward, and fun. It also has this crazy freeze note where the tempo accelerates to a really fast speed and then drops back to the original pace again. Fun stuff, and it looks much harder than it reall is. This is one of my favorite songs to play as the Extra Stage. "AAA"ing the song only made me like it that much more. 
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Oho, I definitely had to mention this one. Definitely the best song from 5th Mix, Can't Stop Fallin' In Love is a fantastic 9-footer that basically embodies the concept of "eighth note runs." Flying along at a speedy 170bpm, the song puts you through long run after long run of notes and never really gives you any kind of a break whatsoever. It also likes to have you hit the same arrow over and over again for some reason (this is harder than it sounds!) Just a great, great song - and pretty challenging too!
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Cartoon Heroes is widely considered to be the most difficult 9-footer in all of the DDR games, and I'd have to agree with that sentiment. It's another fast (170bpm again) song like the ones above, but Cartoon Heroes has some almost ridiculously complex step patterns that require extremely intricate foot movement. This song forces the player to do a little of everything - crossovers, gallops, step-jumps, chaos galore - and do it at a very quick tempo. Try downloading the file below and see for yourself. It's HARD.
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This song isn't the most difficult in DDR Extreme, but it is one of my favorites. Heaven is a '57 Metallic Grey (strange name) is actually a SWING song; to do the steps properly, they have to be stepped with a swing beat. This gives most people all kinds of fits, but I don't seem to have much of a problem with it. This is one of the few songs where the steps actually resemble dancing in some ways (shocking!). Very entertaining to play.
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Another neat song. Speed Over Beethoven is a remixed verion of Beethoven's Fur Elise - done to a techno beat with Japanese lyrics. Errm, yeah, you need to hear this one. Steps aren't exactly easy, but they're pretty reasonable. Not every song I talk about here has to be impossibly difficult, after all. One of my favorites.
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Sixteenth notes. Lots and lots of sixteenth notes. V is another classical remix, this time of "Winter" from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons composition. The Heavy steps aren't that bad, but the Challenge steps to this song have bunches and bunches of sixteenths packed together. Don't take on this song unless you're proficient in crossovers (or are as stubborn as a mule like me). It's a fun song, but don't look for "easy" here.
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Legend of Max - not for the faint of heart! This worthy successor to the other Max songs flies along at an even faster tempo - a ridiculous 333bpm. The steps start out fairly simple, but then continue to get more and more complicated, still at that outrageously fast speed. Then the double-steps start appearing, and the player is in trouble. There is a long freeze note in the middle of the song, after which the tempo slows down for a couple of measures - only to leap back up to 333bpm and hurl itself back into frenzied eighth note runs. Towards the end, there is one run of 34 notes which is virtually impossible for anyone but the best DDR players in the world to string together. Proceed with extreme caution on this one.
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The Paranoia Survivors... This is actually a group of three different step patterns. All of these songs feature fairly chaotic steps patterns and long runs at the end of the song that involve a great deal of turning. Paranoia Survivor is the "easiest", running along at only 270bpm. The music slows down at several different points in the song, and the rhythmic patterns are quite complex, but aside from the long runs at the end it is quite doable. Paranoia Survivor Max is the same thing as Paranoia Survivor - only faster (290 versus 270bpm), backwards (the steps are the Mirrored version of the other song), and with an additional, harder ending section. Then beyond that there are the Challenge steps to what is most commonly called Paranoia Survivor Max Oni (PSMO). These are flat-out absurdly difficult, bordering on the impossible; aside from some user-created song you might find on the Internet, DDR songs do not come any harder than this. And yet - there are a fair number of DDR players out there who have conquered this monstrosity. Let that be your inspiration if you decide to pursue this beast. I'll get it someday. Someday...
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The next page goes into my results on some of Oni Mode's difficult courses.
