During the early months of 1999, DDR is the game craze in Japan and IIDX is beginning to make a scene simultaneously with it's older sister beatmania. In order to add marketing to there BEMANI line of games (I think?), they decided to link both games similar to the current session link of GITADORA (GuitarFreaks & DrumMania).
Click here for the Youtube link on how DDR and IIDX link. DDR CLUB VERSION introduced the 9 foot difficulty, also known as "Catastrophic", the highest foot rating in that time.
Also, Konami released a PlayStation version of the CLUB VERSION for DDR However, IIDX link is impossible due to limitations of the CD and IIDX console version are released for Playstation 2. These CLUB VERSION's were released in 2 Volumes and released on the same year (1999). These CLUB VERSION's are APPEND DISC, which you need to have a DDR 2ndReMIX or DDR 3rdMIX game in order to play the game. A Sega Dreamcast version of CLUB VERSION is also released but the game is standalone disc. When the first console version of IIDX released, all license songs from 1st to 2nd style are not included, making the CLUB VERSION the only console game that has the license songs from IIDX.
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DDR 2ndReMIX and DDR CLUB VERSION APPEND DISC Vol. 1 and 2 |
When I was young, playing these append discs' at home is annoying, because the copy that we used to have is fake one and fake copies for these games are off sync and most songs donˇt play. The interface of the PS CLUB VERSION is different from the Arcade, it uses the 2ndMIX interface with a few changes. Years after, I finally managed to buy an original copy of the 2 volumes of CLUB VERSION and played all over again. Catching-up to those years that I havent played it properly.
I realized that if the link of both games still exist right now, will it have the same success as the session link of GITADORA?
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