
Introduced a number of features that would be commonplace on later versions, including new difficulty names (Light, Standard, and Heavy), Freeze Arrows (holds), the player options menu accessible before a song, the Groove Radar (a difficulty graph based on aspects of a song's chart), the Extra Stage (a secret boss song with a harsher lifebar, accessed by clearing a song on Heavy difficulty with a AA grade or better on the final stage), and animated full-motion video clips for background animations in-game.

Notable for having four different versions: The Japanese version, a Korean version that introduces some K-Pop songs but strips out some songs from the Japanese version, a second Korean version that adds more Korean songs, and an Asia-region version that lacks both the songs exclusive to the Japanese version and the Korean songs.

DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX AND beatmania IIDX substream CLUB VERSiON 2 (1999)Īn update to the above, which raises the maximum difficulty rating from 8 to 9.įirst mainline DDR game to introduce course mode.

DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON (1999)Ī spinoff of 2ndMIX that features beatmania IIDX crossovers, and the ability to link the game with the corresponding beatmania IIDX Substream release.Received an update that adds Internet Ranking and introduces the Maniac difficulty.
