#ddr naoki

[djrobokat]

To those that haven't played DDR 5thMIX in the PS1 yet, there's this great feature that you unlock after around 200+ songs where it shows you in the Information screen how many times you played as each character.

And obviously being the Konsento fan I am, I happened to play as Robo-2001 194 F-ING TIMES (as of the time this was taken which was last week), thrice as much as the second most played character with Princess-Zukin.

[thatimageoftomscott]

whatever. tom scott pirate ddr footage.

[killerinstinctgold]

Various DDR Backgrounds ☆

[pixel-andy]

i just realized i barely ever post my music on this site so uh

here's an arrangement of naoki maeda's "l'amour et la liberté" from iidx and ddr

[remicilline]

Mess With My Emotions Latenighter (NAOKI MAEDA, DJ Silver, Malaya, Andy Littlewood) DanceDanceRevolution Ultimate Dance Collection — Mania — (Compilation album, 2010)

[kowaindar0u]

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argh i think that's all i got in me for now askfdkjsl also its 5am so i oughta lay down !! i'll be around later/tomorrow tho :3

[superkalifragilisticoespialidoso]

ESTO ES UN GRAN LOGRO EN MI VIDA!!! 😭😭😭

EL PUTISIMO RECORD MUNDIAL!!! 🙀🙀🙀

#1 DEL MUNDO 🗣‼️‼️

GRACIAS A QUIENES ME APOYARON Y CREYERON EN MI DURANTE MI MEJORA EN ESTE JUEGO!!! 😺😺😺

ESTE RECORD MUNDIAL SE LO DEDICO A MI HERMOSA NOVIA @weirdsillycreature ♥️♥️♥️

(NAOKI - DYNAMITE RAVE EDP) (DDR)

[2dkapsddr]

April 18th, 2025 - ProSeka, DDR A3, GITADORA GALAXY WAVE, SDVX EG, IIDX 32

riding off the high of my proseka movie experience, i played my favorite of the movie's songs and closed out a PM on it -- Fire Dance [Master Lv.29] as Master AP #111!!!

but no matter, the treat of today was actually the arcade gaming session i had later tonight (instead of going to my classes like a normal upstanding citizen)!!! i'd say this was almost a mandatory session however, as they'd recently revived the MYSTICAL Re:UNION event between DDR and SDVX for players who didn't get the chance to unlock the songs during its original run! i was one such player, only unlocking Bloody Concerto before going on semi-hiatus, and so i took this opportunity of skipping my class to grind out the event and see if i can unlock perhaps my favorite bemani song of 2024... REINCARNATION!!!

starting strong with DDR (saving the voltex gaming for later), i pulled off some really sick PFCs on Surrender (PureFocus remix) (ESP-15, 39p), HyperTwist (ESP-15, 46p), Qwerty (ESP-14, 42p), LOVE EAST (ESP-15, 31p), Racing with Time (NAOKI's 999 remix) (ESP-15, 28p), and even running back Take A Step Forward (CSP-15, 29p) to close out 15 PFCs #21, #22, #23, #24, and #25, plus 14 PFC #28 !!! what an insane run!!! (also some doubles gaming with Four Leaves [EDP-13], first time in a while :])

ohyeah, and i also sabotaged an abandoned drummania credit to play a few new charts, including Ego rock [EXT 5.70] and innocent world [EXT 4.40]!!! nawt bad at all :]

but alas... now it was time to retire myself to the Great Evil. as you might already know, this is a collaboration/cooperation event between DDR and SDVX, and so all the time & credits i put into DDR had to be echoed almost twofold with SDVX . i was hype about it at first, actually! my timing had never felt better, so i was looking forward to what cool SDVX scores i could set...

what i failed to realize, however, was that accuracy only really got you anywhere if you knew how to control and read the game . and unfortunately for me, i didn't! i was flying blind! all i wanted was to rack up points for the event and finish playing as soon as i could! and yet, as much i love the occasional sdvx set -- i can't lie, playing this shit without any goals, reccs, or prior chart knowledge makes me want to gouge my eyes out i'm sorry LMFAO

(omitted a few irrelevant scores as i was running out of image space, but in short? played a ton of 17s, then a ton of 18s, and slowly gained rating from a few songs (but only the AAAs) to achieve 17.500 VF earlier in the session!)

but finally, after hours and hours of aimless and depressing voltex grind, i'd finally racked up enough points in the SDVX gauge (and the DDR gauge by extension) to unlock the beautiful, coveted, legendary... REINCARNATION. i IMMEDIATELY played it in DDR and had a ball of a time with this beautiful song and chart that i'd only managed to play by proxy before, leading to an AAA on the DSP-15!! not only that, but an AAA on roppongi EVOLVED ver.D [ESP-15] and a Flare II clear on PARANOIA EVOLUTION [CSP-18] all in the same set!!! and all to close out the extra points required to unlock the last event song -- Re:RHYZE. the journey had finally come to an end, i was free to return home after all my grinding, and i could enjoy these songs without being mocked by my friend for not owning them :]

but before i left, IIDX!!! just a sightread AAA- on Kyukurarin [SPA-10], a chart i've really been wanting to play since its inclusion in a recent license update, but i also recorded a video that i'll add to this post once i cut it up and optimize it for tumblr's sake . but until then, i'll see you all in hopefully more fired-up and passionate posts in the future! sorry for all the doom and gloom with SDVX here, but that is genuinely how i felt and how i wanted to express the session www

[chewingood]

[shiyonasan]

Man, some of the DDR songs were complete fire

[a-wild-gel-appears]

We got stepmania and a metal dancing pad so here is me trying to get back to how good I use to be at DDR lol

[dancemaniamania]

NAOKI and Takeshi Matsumoto (STM 200) at the KONAMI studio during the recording of PARANOiA ETERNAL. Takeshi was only 18 when he won the REMiX division of the DDR Artist Audition 2001 contest.

He would enter another KONAMI contest 11 years later, making an original song for the pop'n music 20 fantasia event Boku mo watashi mo★pop'n artist! , but he did not win this time.

Trivia by RemyWiki.

[killerinstinctgold]

Various DDR Backgrounds ��

[darkemperor92-blog]

One of my favorites memes and done by myself, needs posted here on Tumblr.

The original meme that was lying around on Music Game Hell, DanceDanceRevolution LatinoAmerican Group and DDR Players is here.

[itsfantasticac]

We have a new interview translation! From 2003, Arcadia discusses Naoki Maeda's history with the DDR series, as well as the difficulties of songwriting amidst growing expectations. How's a game composer supposed to stand up to the dance music greats?

[tempestpaige]

Banana, pomegranate, papaya?

banana: favorite horror movies?

The Scream franchise, 1408, Heteditary, The Lighthouse, Us, Get Out, Midsommar, Train to Busan, Bride of Chucky, Ready or Not, Cabin in the Woods

pomegranate: when do you feel the most confident?

When my friends tell me something I said was funny/laugh at my jokes. When I’m wearing my big circle lenses. When my hair is freshly dyed. During Halloween when I can wear fun spooky outfits.

papaya: what song describes your aesthetic?

This is hard, I’m not really a music person. It’s hard not to think of music videos that fit my aesthetic and not just songs. I think I aspire to look like how a Naoki song from DDR sounds.