The 'OFFICIAL' Para Para Paradise Thread!

Zanshin · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Madison, WI

It finally came. And thanks to that Stepmania hack, I'm happier than ever.

*Hugs the new PPP controller*
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DDRandCheesecake · Trick Member Joined: 22 Jun 2005

*jealous* is it working nicely? and what do you do about sim files? I'd make some but arrow charts are impossible to come by except for the two i think JVMN mentioned, but even those might be hard to get. it's easy enough to get the ones for the routines from the videos, but freestylers(yes, both of you) are outta luck i guess....any suggestions?

i still keep lauging about that girl playing PPP with her feet

ColorOfSakura · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject:

Whoa...I've been out of it for a while. A StepMania hack for the PPP Controller? Awesome. <3

I noticed the website with the files. Which ones are needed to get Stepmania RC3 working with the PPP controller?
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JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

well last fall I made a few PPP files for SM based on their official routines for songs like Mark Farina & Ken Martin - Hey You Boy, Franz Tornado - Bazoocow, Time All Stars - 150 & JImmy Bravo - Mazinger Go!.
I guess I can now make one for Flash Man - Flash In The Night.

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

I have a question that's actually about Dance Maniax, but it's related, so I hope it's okay if I ask it here.

Now, obviously, PPP is based on real-life Para Para dancing, but is Dance Maniax also based on Para Para dancing? I'd played Dance Maniax a couple times before, and always tried to actually dance (as I do on all dancing games), but I never really made a connection to any real dance form until I was at an arcade with a Dance Maniax machine yesterday. There was this Japanese fellow there who was dancing quite skillfully & artistically with the Dance Maniax machine, and although I don't know much about Para Para dancing, that's sure what it looked like he was doing.

So, even though Dance Maniax is very different technically from Para Para Paradise, is it another game that's also based on Para Para dancing, just game-ized in a different way?
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Tomo_kun · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Location: SE-WI.

Para Para Paradise is based on para para dancing, and if you have ever seen a para para video, PPP 2nd Mix or a PPP with DVD cabinet, you would see that it is nothing like para para dancing.
Para Para has more to do with your whole arms going everywhere in that 5 or so arrow area. DMX is just going up and down sensors. Yes you can dance with it, but DMX has no routine, and is nothing like PPP.
PPP's routines are based off of velfarre, twinstar and Avex's choriography.
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JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

Avex doesn't choreograph songs and Twinstar closed in 2003... The choreography is now down by velfarre, 9LoveJ and Starfire. And DanceManiaX isn't based on any type of dance.

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject:

But the fellow I saw at the Dance Maniax machine at the arcade genuinely seemed to be Para Para dancing, and doing it very well. He also full-comboed pretty much every single song he did. Is it just a coincidence that you can full-combo everything on Dance Maniax by Para Para dancing the right way, or is it just a coincidence? It was exactly like I've seen in the couple of real Para Para videos I've seen.

JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

Yes you can do parapara on a DMX machine but the game is not based on parapara, and the record the official routines for the Happy Paradise songs on DMX dont go with the scrolling notes. So they would have to be original routines for them, Hell I mad a half routine for Meet My Friend lol

DDRandCheesecake · Trick Member Joined: 22 Jun 2005

i'm glad to see there are other dance maniax players out there!

i'd love to see someone actually freestyle to dmx cause it seems like it would be kinda hard. you should tape it

one of my problems with DMX is that i pretty much mastered it in 5 games, cause after playing ddr and ppp it was easy. and the songs don't get very difficult...

gameboyguy13 · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:52 am Post subject:

I hear what you're talking about on dmx there. I find it pretty easy; my goal now is to pass the Extra Stage, though.

Should this discussion be moved to the DMX thread?
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JayveemoÃ±. · Trick Member Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Location: Cheshire, CT

Considering this is the PPP thread I would say yes

Zanshin · Trick Member Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Madison, WI

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What is Happy Paradise
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gameboyguy13 · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:09 am Post subject:

The name of two Dancemania CDs; also, there's J-Paradise.

See http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/dancemania/disco/CP64081.htm, http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/dancemania/disco/CP64108.htm, and http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/dancemania/disco/CP64117.htm for more info.
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DDRandCheesecake · Trick Member Joined: 22 Jun 2005

V~forVampy~ · Trick Member Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Location: Oaklandhoma

Well, despite the wrong thread-edness here, I ParaPara freestyle to DMX. Its quite fun. *shrug*
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PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:54 am Post subject: