MAX 300

MAX 300

Song Information

Original Charts

MAX 300's album art.

Artist: Ω
Composition/Arrangement: NM SEQUENCE UNLIMITED
BPM: 300 (DDR), 12-300 (beatmania IIDX)
Length: 1:32
Genre: HARDCORE TECHNO
VJ: VJ GYO (overlays by GOLI)
First Music Game Appearance: DDRMAX -DanceDanceRevolution 6thMIX-
Other Music Game Appearances:

• beatmania IIDX 7th style

X-Special Charts

File:MAX 300 X-Special.png

MAX 300 (X-Special)'s album art.

Artist: Ω
Composition/Arrangement: NM SEQUENCE UNLIMITED
BPM: 300
Length: 1:32
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution X
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

• MAX 300 is part of the MAX series of songs. Other songs in the series include:
  • MAXX UNLIMITED, which can be found in DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX-.
  • The legend of MAX, which can be found in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME.
  • MAX. (period), which can be found in the Japanese release of DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS.
• A remix by Jondi & Spesh, titled MAX 300 (Super-Max-Me Mix), appears in DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2. Despite the title, this remix is more based on MAXX UNLIMITED than MAX 300.
• A remix of MAX 300 by DM Ashura, titled ΔMAX, appears in DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3.
• Another remix of MAX 300 by takamatt, titled MAX 300 takamatt MIN Remix, appears in SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH.

Trivia

• MAX 300 is the EXTRA STAGE song in both DDRMAX and beatmania IIDX 7th style.
• Retroactively, MAX 300's DanceDanceRevolution EXPERT charts are the first to have a difficulty rating of 10 on the classic difficulty scale.
• MAX 300 received a BEGINNER chart in Dancing Stage EuroMIX2.
• MAX 300 was originally supposed to be a 400 BPM song, but was too difficult.
• MAX 300 holds the record for the slowest tempo for any beatmania IIDX song at 12 BPM, ahead of 桜's 13 BPM, which happens at the middle of this song.
• MAX 300's beatmania IIDX charts begin at 50 BPM, then speed up to 300 BPM when the song itself actually starts.
• MAX 300's overlays were removed from the beatmania IIDX arcade games as of beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro due to technical issues.
• MAX 300 is nicknamed among Japanese players as "ヨロロ" (yororo).
• MAX 300's background video from DDRMAX has been added to DanceDanceRevolution (2013).

Song Production Information

NAOKI

This is a song that's wonderfully fast at 300 BPM, the kind of hardcore techno you only find in music sim games. I never thought I'd get to write such a great type of song... ... so here we have MAX 300, arrived at through lots of trial and error in the production and conceptualization phases.

"Anyone who can clear such a provacatively high speed song is like a superman to me... " Yeah, I still feel this way.

Video Production Information

GOLI

THE MAXIMUM.
Oh my, Naoki, I just can't, it's too fast.
Oh, and to you DDR players who mailed NAOKI and were all, "Make a 400 BPM song! Please!" You don't want to be human anymore, do you? You want to become a superman? How can you all do this? I just don't get it. My, my, you're all ace pilots. (Oh, I guess I shouldn't use aviation terms for music games...)

This song has a great feel to it. Naoki style, full throttle! Play this song, and destroy it. It's hot!

Well, let's try to draw someone who can play this song, dancing like someone in a fever. I guess the dance is something rock-style-ish. I did my best to reproduce an instant of that sort of really tricky movement. I think the drawings for these animations took longer than anything else in 7th style. Usually my source materials are fairly small, and I have to fool around with them to get them looking right, but for some reason I just kept cranking out bigger images that had a poster feel to them that I had to reduce in size. ... however, even when the size is fixed, I've got to make it 15 color. There's no rhyme, no reason... aaaargh! It'd be nice to be able to work in wider resolutions sometimes...

Even so, I like the way this turned out in the end.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 10 from DDRMAX2 to SuperNOVA2, and 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game	SP Difficulty				DP Difficulty
	Beginner	Normal	Hyper	Another	Normal	Hyper	Another
Notecounts	219	571	982	-	566	982	-
beatmania IIDX 7th style→9th style	-	6	7+	-	6	7+	-
beatmania IIDX 10th style	-	6	↑8	-	6	↑8	-
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED	-	6	↑8+	-	6	↑8+	-
beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY	-	↑7	↑10	-	6	↑10	-
beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD→Present	-	↑8	10	-	6	10	-
beatmania IIDX 7th style CS	-	6	7+	-	6	7+	-
beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS	3	6	8+	-	6	8+	-

DanceDanceRevolution

Original Charts

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	85 / 0	264 / 2	373 / 35	555 / 2	- / - / -	263 / 8	347 / 5	485 / 2	- / - / -
DDRMAX	—	N/A	N/A	N/A	—	N/A	N/A	N/A	—
DDRMAX2	—	6	8	10	—	6	8	10	—
Dancing Stage EuroMIX2	2	6	8	10	—	6	8	10	—
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME→SuperNOVA2	↑3	6	8	10	—	6	8	10	—
DanceDanceRevolution X→Present	5	9	12	15	—	9	12	15	—
DDRMAX CS JP/US	—	N/A	N/A	N/A	—	N/A	N/A	N/A	—
Dancing Stage MegaMix	—	6	8	10	—	6	8	10	—
DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS JP	3	6	8	10	—	6	8	10	—
DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX / Dancing Stage Unleashed	3	6	8	10	—	6	8	10	—
DanceDanceRevolution S+	5	9	12	15	—	—	—	—	—
DanceDanceRevolution (PS3)	3	6	8	10	—	—	—	—	—

X-Special Charts

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	- / -	- / -	- / -	- / -	523 / 30 / 0	- / -	- / -	- / -	514 / 28 / 0
DanceDanceRevolution X	—	—	—	—	17	—	—	—	17
DanceDanceRevolution X2→Present	—	—	—	—	17	—	—	—	↑18