They're all covers of Japanese songs

-God of Romance = ロマンスの神様 by some chick I forget	Small | Large

-Petit Love = ちょこっとLOVE by プッチモ二	Small | Large

, and was my cell phone ringtone when I was 16, and the chick in the pink was my celebrity crush for a long time.  I was in official and unofficial fanclubs and everything.  In fact, my screen name "godai" comes from one of those fan site BBSs, it's my first internet name lol

-Dancing Pompokolin = おどるポンポコリン by B.B.Queens	Small | Large

-17 Sai = １７才 by 森高千里	Small | Large

-Hot Limit = Hot Limit by TM Revolution	Small | Large

I guess me answering this question is kind of cheating seeing as how four of those songs I grew up with (not hot limit, though it probably came out when I lived in Japan as well)
If that's not the answer though, *shrug* haha

It's nothing that vague or un-defined (also, I don't think Dancing Pompokolin has anything about love in the lyrics, though I could be wrong!)

Love theme? Love in the lyrics?

I totally want to do something like "Name all of the Korean songs" but that's way too easy. So instead, how about a different kind of question?

What do the following DDR songs all have in common, besides being playable on a 5th Mix machine:

-God of Romance
-Petit Love
-Dancing Pompokolin
-17 Sai
-Hot Limit

(There is a "right" answer that I'm looking for, although there are many similarities in the general styles of music and whatnot.)

Bingo. Go nuts Laura.

"Cata," short for "catastrophic," which was what 9s were called in-game.

This is an easy one.

What was the nickname given to the hardest songs before DDR Max introduced Max 300?

Hahahahaha.

I can't wait for it in X2 though. Play Insertion on x4.5 to the stop... run up and crank it to x5.5 for the slowdown... back to x4.5 then when I have time run back and change it to x3 for the ending and the WINNNN

yeah it won't work idk how the hell anyone will do it

DDR Solo 2000 let you activate reverse during a song, but I didn't think it let you modify the speed. I can't think of any that let you change the speed during a song.

Edit: I looked it up just to be sure:
http://www.ddrfreak.com/versions/faqs-arcade.php?version=30

I'm guessing it's some home version. Though this is really cool if people don't decide to "help me read the notes better" like they do with GF/DM. :<

Wooow I have no idea. I know X2 is gonna have that feature but if there's an old one I'm stumped.

Ok, here's a good one that I think people might not know about.

What is the only DDR mix in which you can intentionally change scroll speed and/or direction during gameplay (intentional i.e; not battle mode)?  This is really fun to do when someone else is playing, by the way.

...shouldn't the original be the "mother" song?

If you say so :p

Also in looking these up (I really tried hard to find another one haha) I noticed that every song and its remix (aka mother) is in popn music

The point wasn't to be super hard, just to make people think about non-DDR games. You've gotten more than three by my standards anyway, so you can have it!

(If you're curious, I came up with Shiritori - GF, DM, KBM, PnM, Massara - (same,) and Himawari - GF, DM, Pop'n, IIDX just off the top of my head)

Yeah I think it's just in potpourri something or another.

Uh GF/DM counting as two makes life incredibly easy, because then there's a few that are in IIDX (tizona d'el cid and children's sketchbook, for example) , Popn, and GF/DM.  I want to just say they're one game because they share the songlist anyway.

hmmm....
afronova primeval - dance maniax, popn, beatmania
heaven is a '57 - dance maniax, popn, gf/dm
gamelan de couple - mambo a go go, popn, beatmania
twinbee - dance maniax, popn, IIDX


yeah fuck i dunno

GF and DM are two different games. BM and BMIIDX are, as far as I'm concerned, different games, but I came up with several examples where this differentiation doesn't matter.

The only problem is #2 - I can't find any reference to Mobo/Moga being in GF/DM though, and I didn't recall it being there... unless you count potpourri d'orange/potpourri d'marmalade (I can't remember which has it) - but those are huge medley arrangements that I didn't specify rules for. I'd like to see if you can come up with another.

Is DM/GF two games or one?
Is BM/BMIIDX two different games?

Regardless, The Least 100 Seconds is in GF/DM, BM/BMIIDX, Popn Music, AND KBM.
Uh, I think Mobo Moga is in BMIIDX, Popn Music, GF/DM, and Dance Maniax
I think Broken My Heart is in BMIIDX, Dance Maniax, Para Para Paradise, and Popn (in DDR Megamix)

If BM/BMIIDX is different, then

Implantation is in BM/BMIIDX, GF/DM, and Popn Music

I can come up with a few more easily in the BM/BMIIDX/GFDM/Popn category but since that's shady (BM~=BMIIDX) I'm going to try to think of one that's in four other ones without it having to be in DDR Megamix...

edit: god dammit this is hard.  I don't know the songs on the "fourth" game too well! 

All right, this thread IS the "Bemani" trivia game, so I'm going to test your non-DDR Bemani knowledge.

Name three songs that are in at least four Bemani games that aren't DDR. (This means that they can be in DDR, or they can not be in DDR - I don't care, as long as they're in at least four other Bemani games.) Different cuts of the same song is okay, a totally different version is not (as an example, if one game had Dragostea Din Tei and one had the English version, these would be different songs.)

Edit: Also, since you might come up with answers I didn't please tell me WHAT games so I can confirm your correctness.

Just would like to say that yes, there is in fact an ITG2 machine in Japan. A hacked one at that. I think it's an upgraded cabinet too. I saw a youtube video one time. It's in a SUPER small arcade.

Hahahaha, THANK YOU LAURA, please take the next question. Good job.

Oh shit James, I totally forgot about all the new shit on double. Maybe some good charts? The only one I've played was A Geisha's Dream and it suuucked.

Ethan, I'll settle for SN2 at acme for now :>
Maybe if I go to GW on time card night I'll play some X and get some AAAs.  I really, REALLY want to play the paranoia/max song X-edit double charts...

I guess it's "U Can't Touch This." I have been doing it wrong for years!

Okay. A few things. The song is on X, and yes it uses the stop gimmick. James you should really just come to Japan and destroy the game entirely. Also there's a Baby Got Back sim that's really weird but I can link you to it if you want. And there IS ITG in Tokyo!

Lastly, just a trifle but NO ONE HAS GOTTEN THE NAME RIGHT YET. COME ON PEOPLE.