July 26: Ten years! Ten freaking years! Most of this update's IIDX, almost half a gig of GOLD and DJ TROOPERS goodness. The 200 BPM wall for bosses is finally broken with ICARUS and STEEL NEEDLE, and there's plenty of other classics too. Pop'n and GuitarFreaks have a new game too; all three series are up to their 15th entries. We blew past 1500 songs too! The 1500th song was Hoshi wo kono te ni from GOLD. Thank you to everyone who's looked at this website and downloaded this compilation so far. You're all awesome. And there's still more on the horizon... yall excited for jubeat?
July 21: Now updated through 2006! A smaller update this time as we enter the SuperNOVA era, but we still have over 100 new songs from 3 games for you. IIDX, Pop'n and GuitarFreaks all started special Extra Stage events this year, so be prepared... Next update is 10 years!
July 15: Now updated through 2005! IIDX Happy Sky is our largest game yet, we have a new pop'n and TWO new GuitarFreaks, and a couple short-lived series with some anime OPs you might remember from back then! All that brings us up to 1350 songs, and don't forget our new megaboss. If you've ever wondered what Mei would be like if the whole chart was the ending, now you know... Is Outer Limits dethroned?
July 9: Now updated through 2004! This gets us into the "name" era with IIDX RED and pop'n iroha. We're at 1200 songs now, and it's a big IIDX year with 100 new songs from there! We even have our second X19, guaranteed to make you jump out the window. Next year's looking like a big update, so stay tuned!
June 23: Now updated through 2003! We hit four digits!!! A smaller update since BEMANI only had 3 active arcade series now, but not THAT much smaller when the songlists are getting so big for each game. GFDM and Pop'n are at 10th, IIDX at 9th. The 1000th song was in Pop'n 10, specifically Goonies R Good Enough of all songs.
June 16: Now updated through 2002! 5 years, everyone! 5key beatmania is finished (complete with a pretty scary final boss that breaks my usual low-brackets rule), songlists are getting bigger and bigger, and most games are up to their 8th version. Over 900 songs now; I wonder which game will have the 1000th song?
Side note: yes, a certain boss is properly rated. Songs this hard will always be rare and they won't get much harder than this, don't worry. We just happened to get a megaboss early. Have fuuuuuun~
June 5: Now updated through 2001! BEMANI condensed its lineup this year; Dance Maniax, Keyboardmania and ParaParaParadise are finished and Mambo a Go Go's one game was also this year. We enter the DDRMAX era with over 700 songs total, including some intense new bosses. There's even our first X-scale 19! Can you guess which song it is?
May 26: Now updated through 2000! 2000 was the year of side games and spinoffs, and this is a MASSIVE update that more than doubles the size of the series to over 500 songs. We even have the new Starmine CSP that dropped yesterday! Many other files have also been cleaned up and every group has a banner, so if you downloaded before you'll want to download again.
The goal here is a file for every BEMANI song organized by game (except DDR originals, since you can already play those). Of course, not EVERY song's been charted, so only songs with at least one playably good chart can go in.
All these files are made by other people; credit is in a file in each pack. The credits also mark all the missing songs; if you find any playable, paddable charts I missed, tell me!
Don't expect every chart to be good; I only said "playable". I try hard to get the best charts but a lot of songs have only been charted once or twice so I take what I can get. I'm more tolerant of low quality at low difficulties; a lot of people playing old-scale 7's are probably doublestepping everything anyway so I figure flow issues don't matter as much, and players used to flow can still doublestep them anyway. If people can stand the old officials they can stand these. An old-scale 10 where you have to doublestep everything or that's full of awkward stepjumps probably isn't getting in. If I do miss a really, really bad chart, tell me in the guestbook on the main page.
Songs are either rated on the old scale (marked with an O) or the X-scale (marked with an X); there's a quick conversion guide in the MEGA link. They aren't necessarily the same difficulty (compared to each other) as in their home games; part of that is, again, I don't have many choices, but also I like it because it makes things interesting. DDR is full of songs from other games that are harder or easier than back home.
Sometimes I can get an original song but not the cover from the game. I'll almost always use the original instead of marking it Not Found; it's probably the version BEMANI would have used if they could!
A small number of songs have ITG tech like footswitches, sideswitches and, rarely, brackets. These are mostly Challenge charts, and are marked both in the credits and in their step author names. If an old-scale chart seems suspiciously slow for its level, it might have tech! I didn't want to make tech a major element because a lot of players have never played it, but if you have an LTEK or another pad sensitive enough to handle it, I would check out the pack for ITL 2023. The 7 and 8 footers especially will ease you into tech. At least try footswitches; they're soooo fun!
To limit the file size there are no background videos, sorry. As of this writing we're a fifth of the way through and already at 2.5 GB, and not everyone's internet is stable enough for huge downloads.
Right now it's updated through 2007 (Year 10). There's also a timeline in the MEGA link so you can see which games came out in which eras of DDR.