Dance Dance Revolution (Game Boy Color video games)

Dance Dance Revolution GB3
Publisher(s)	Konami
Platform(s)	Game Boy Color
Release date(s)	JP March 15, 2001

Dance Dance Revolution GB2
Publisher(s)	Konami
Platform(s)	Game Boy Color
Release date(s)	JP November 16, 2000

Dance Dance Revolution GB Disney Mix
Publisher(s)	Konami
Platform(s)	Game Boy Color
Release date(s)	JP March 29, 2001

The Dance Dance Revolution (Game Boy versions) are a series of Japanese-exclusive Dance Dance Revolution games released for the Game Boy Color. The versions made are Dance Dance Revolution GB (released August 3, 2000), Dance Dance Revolution GB2 (November 16, 2000), Dance Dance Revolution GB Oha Super Kids Station (February 8, 2001), Dance Dance Revolution GB3 (March 15, 2001), and Dance Dance Revolution GB Disney Mix (March 29, 2001).

Gameplay

See also: Gameplay of Dance Dance Revolution

Gameplay of Dance Dance Revolution GB

The Game Boy versions of Dance Dance Revolution are the first in the series to lack the traditional dance mats meant for feet. Instead, a plastic pad comes with the games and can be clipped onto the front of the player's Game Boy. All of the games immediately provide an option to play using the pad, which is designed to visually resemble a traditional DDR dance pad. This is meant to give the games a more authentic and familiar feel, allowing the player to "dance" with his or her fingers. If the pad is not available, the games can still be played by using the Game Boy's directional arrows and leaving the dance pad option off; this option simply changes the arrow controls to match the edges of the pad. For dealing with jumps (two arrows at the same time), the 'B' button functions as the up arrow, while the 'A' button works as the right arrow. This extra feature is provided since the Game Boy's directional pad does not allow pressing up+down or left+right at the same time.

The series is also well known for an arrow sync issue that makes every song a whole 8th note early, making it difficult to score well.

Limited dance pad compatibility

Since 2005, it has been possible to use the Game Boy Player together with the GCN Action Pad (bundled with Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix) or the Mad Catz Beat Pad (bundled with MC Groovz Dance Craze and licensed by Nintendo) in order to play the game as it was never intended - on a dance pad. However, due to common errors that the Game Boy Player introduces, gameplay is characterized by impaired sensitivity in the pad, double-strike errors, and time sync issues. These errors are a result of the fact that several of the GameCube's peripherals have been made after the release of the Game Boy Player and they could not have been anticipated at the time of its release.

It should also be noted that these issues could be inherent to the game software, as using the Action Pad and a GBC emulator (as opposed to using the Game Boy Player) on the Game Cube yields the same timing/sensitivity errors.

Music

The Game Boy versions of Dance Dance Revolution include various lower-quality synthesized renditions of songs appearing in previous mixes. These mixes are noteworthy in that they contain no original musical content.

Dance Dance Revolution GB	Dance Dance Revolution GB2	Dance Dance Revolution GB3	Dance Dance Revolution GB Disney Mix	Dance Dance Revolution GB Oha Super Kids Station
AM-3P	Afronova	1,2,3,4,007	Chim Chim Cher-ee	Candy
Bad Girls	Can't Stop Fallin' In Love	1,2,3,4,007 (hard)	D-D-D!	Happy Go Lucky
Boom Boom Dollar	Club Tropicana	Celebrate Nite	Electrical Parade	Oha Oha Sutaataa
Brilliant 2U	Dam Dariram	Don't Stop	I Want You Back	Oha Ska!
Butterfly	High Energy	Dream A Dream	It's A Small World	O-HA! Mambo
Butterfly (hard)	If You Can Say Goodbye	Eat You Up	Let's Groove	Sayonara No Kawari Ni
Dam Dariram	I'm Alive	Eat You Up (hard)	Let's Twist Again	Why!
Dub I Dub	In The Navy '99	Get Me In Your Sight	Macarena	Zonapara (WHY! Parapara Remix)
El Ritmo Tropical	La Senorita	Higher	Macho Duck
Have You Never Been Mellow	Love Machine	Holiday	Mickey Mouse March (Eurobeat)
I Believe In Miracles	Mr. Wonderful	Hypnotic Crisis	Mickey Mouse March (Summertime)
If You Were Here	Operator	I Don't Want To Miss A Thing	Mr. Bassman
La Senorita	PARANOiA Rebirth	In The Heat Of The Night	Night Of Fire
Love	Silent Hill	Kiss Me	Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
PARANOiA	Sky High	Love Again Tonight	Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
PARANOiA MAX	So Many Men	Luv To Me
SP-Trip Machine	Together & Forever	Luv To Me (hard)
	Turn Me On Vol.4	My Summer Love
	Typical Tropical	Never Gonna Make
	Vol. 4	Pink Dinosaur
		Trip Machine Climax
		Upside Down
		Walkie Talkie

References

External links

• Review of Dance Dance Revolution GB at Netjak
• Unlock method for hidden songs in Dance Dance Revolution GB Disney Mix
• Unlock method for hidden songs in Dance Dance Revolution GB3