SABER WING
SABER WING
Song Information
Artist: TAG
Composition/Arrangement: TAG
BPM: 37-444
Length: 1:47
Genre: SHOOTING WALTZ
VJ: F-FLY (18 Resort Anthem→19 Lincle), Unknown (20 tricoro→Present, DDR)
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution X
Other Music Game Appearances:
Lyrics
None.
Song Connections / Remixes
- A remix of SABER WING by Akira Ishihara, titled SABER WING (Akira Ishihara Headshot mix), can also be found in DanceDanceRevolution X.
- Another remix of SABER WING, titled SABER WING (satellite silhouette remix), was included in a line of EMI USB drives as a special bonus MP3. It was later added to DanceDanceRevolution (2013).
Trivia
- SABER WING, along with the STARTER MODE exclusive song HOW TO PLAY, marks TAG's debut on the DanceDanceRevolution series.
- It's also TAG's first EXTRA/ENCORE STAGE song on the DanceDanceRevolution series.
- On the DanceDanceRevolution X location tests, SABER WING was a FINAL STAGE exclusive song. On the final release of the game, SABER WING is the default EXTRA STAGE song.
- On the console versions of DanceDanceRevolution X, SABER WING is a default song instead of an EXTRA STAGE song.
- As of 5/21/2009, SABER WING was unlocked for normal play.
- Despite having its own video in DanceDanceRevolution, SABER WING did not use this video in beatmania IIDX until beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro.
Song Production Information
beatmania IIDX
Hello all beatmania IIDX fans! TAG here
I thank you all for the popularity of SABER WING and its inclusion into the game!!!
The song was originally made for DanceDanceRevolution X, and for this song, we incorporated some unique rhythms and a changing BPM gimmick.
I added the BPM gimmick because I felt that the song should coordinate with the moves a person made, and the DDR team also requested me to make a song with some tricks in it.
This is based of a story from Macross, in which the space fighter "Saber Wing" travels through space, encountering many scenarios. (?) It's a bit of a complicated story, and I tend to linger on about too much on it.
Video Production Information
None.
Difficulty & Notecounts
beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd and Textage.cc.)
beatmania IIDX
| Game | SP Difficulty | DP Difficulty | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Normal | Hyper | Another | Normal | Hyper | Another | |
| Notecounts | - | 282 | 952 | 1438 | 372 | 928 | 1549 |
| beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem→Present | - | 5 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 12 |
DanceDanceRevolution
| Game | Single | Double | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginner | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | Basic | Difficult | Expert | Challenge | |
| Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows | 162 / 0 | 258 / 24 | 346 / 33 | 442 / 24 | 389 / 18 / 59 | 271 / 9 | 330 / 17 | 433 / 13 | 389 / 13 / 48 |
| DanceDanceRevolution X | 5 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 13 |
| DanceDanceRevolution X2→Present | 5 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 8 | ↑12 | 13 | 13 |
| DanceDanceRevolution X CS JP/US | 5 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 13 | 13 |
| DanceDanceRevolution S | 5 | 8 | 10 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — |
| DanceDanceRevolution S+ | 5 | 8 | 10 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — |