Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix, known as Dancing Stage featuring Disney's Rave in Japan on the arcade and as Dance Dance Revolution Disney's Rave on the PlayStation, and Dancing Stage Disney Mix in Europe, is a music video game developed and published by Konami, as a Disney-focused version of their Dance Dance Revolution series.
This installment features animated Disney characters and features mostly Eurobeat remixes of popular Disney songs. It also includes a few non-Disney songs that were popular at the time of the game's releases.
Gameplay[]
Gameplay is typical to other 4th Mix generation DDR games. The game also features Dance Magic mode, an item battle mode using a tug of war style life bar, where combos increase a gauge which sends modifiers to the other player. The mode was not seen on any future DDR game until it was revived as Battle mode on SuperNOVA.
Console versions[]
Versions for the original PlayStation gaming system were released in North America, Japan, and Europe. European and US versions had slightly different song lists than the Japanese version, and included an unlockable "Maniac" difficulty level that could be reached once "Basic" and "Trick" difficulties were completed for each song. A Game Boy version of the game was also released in Japan.
Arcade version[]
An arcade version, Dancing Stage featuring Disney's Rave (one of the few non-European releases using the Dancing Stage name, normally used for DDR games in Europe), was also released in Japan. It is considered one of the rarest arcade versions of DDR.
Music[]
The game features 25 songs. A majority of them are sourced from the Japan-exclusive Eurobeat Disney albums. Others are licensed covers of Non-Disney songs that had previously appeared in the Club Disney Super Dancin' Mania show at Tokyo Disneyland.
The North American and European versions contain 20 songs. While almost every Eurobeat Disney song is retained, most of the licensed covers were entirely removed and replaced with six Konami Original Songs, mainly taken from Dance Dance Revolution 4thMIX and its PlayStation port.
A Mickey Mouse and Friends character appears as the DJ for each respective song.
Disney Licenses[]
- Domino - "Mickey Mouse March" (Eurobeat Version) (Mickey Mouse)
- AbeatC All Stars - "It's a Small World" (Chip and Dale)
- Domino - "Macho Duck" (Donald Duck)
- Domino - "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" (Pluto)
- Domino - "Mickey Mouse March" (SUMMERTIME EXTENDED Version) (Mickey Mouse)
- Domino - "Chim Chim Cher-ee" (Huey, Dewey, and Louie)
- The Alfee feat. Donald Duck - "D.D.D!" - (Happy 65th Anniversary for Donald Duck) (Donald Duck)
- Tomosuke/U1-Asami - "It's a Small World" (Ducking Hardcore MIX) (Donald Duck)
- Go Go Girls - "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"(Chip and Dale)
- Club Disney (sampling the 1963 Johnny Cymbal song "Mr. Bass Man") - Mr. Bassman (Donald Duck)
- Club Disney - "Are You Ready Do the Bus Stop" (Goofy)
- Niko - "Night Of Fire" (Huey, Dewey, and Louie)
- Combined - "Fire" (Huey, Dewey, and Louie)
- Chubby Checker - "Let's Twist Again" (Goofy)
Only available in Japanese releases[]
- TOMOSUKE - "ELECTRICAL PARADE (Retro Future MIX)" (Goofy)
- "Surfin' U.S.A." (Mickey Mouse)
- "Twilight Zone" (Goofy)
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Chip and Dale)
- "Superstition" (Donald Duck)
- "Vacation" (Pluto)
- "I Want You Back" (Pluto)
- "The Bump" (Goofy)
- "Macarena" (Chip and Dale)
- "Disco Inferno" (Huey, Dewey, and Louie)
- "Let's Groove" (Mickey Mouse)
Konami Originals (only available in non-Japanese releases)[]
- NAOKI - "B4U" (Mickey Mouse)
- NM feat. SUNNY - "HIGHER" (Pluto)
- Stone Bros. - "Let the beat hit em!" (Goofy)
- U1 Jewel Style - "Midnite Blaze" (Mickey Mouse)
- MITSU-O! with GEILA - "MY SUMMER LOVE" (Pluto)
- Julie Frost - "Share My Love" (Chip and Dale)