DJMax Portable is a music video game

Music video game

A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...

 developed by the korean game maker Pentavision

Pentavision

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 for the PlayStation Portable

PlayStation Portable

The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...

. It's a continuation of DJMax Online which was a web-based music mixing game for Windows

Microsoft Windows

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Game modes

There are 5 modes where you play through 4 courses with increasing difficulty. Rookie DJing mode uses the 4 basic buttons, Pro DJing uses 6 and Master DJing uses 8 buttons.

Club DJing plays pre-made course of different songs. The player can play through 4 songs which are related based on either musical genre or theme of the song.

Freestyle Consists of all button modes and allow unlimited combos to be done.In this mode, you can play in either of the three different button modes and play the songs without restrictions. Modifications can be made with the speed of the game and faders. Additional have a special harder mode depending on the button mode you are in.

Music

DJMax Portable largely features mixed versions from earlier game DJMax Online. Soundtrack mostly consists of experimental electronic music but songs from more mainstream genres such as drum and bass

Drum and bass

Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...

 and rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 are also featured through the course of game.

International Version

Shortly after the release of DJMax Portable, the DJMax Portable International Version (DJMAX Portable, DMPi) was released. The way to tell if the game is the original or International is that the International Version is the small letter I in the upper right corner of the logo. It allows the ability to play in one of three languages (including English) and a few changes.

• The song Dreadnought has been replaced with River Flow (even though River Flow was supposed to be an added song, the reason being the way the music video portrays George W. Bush
  George W. Bush
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  ) courses with Dreadnought have the song replaced with River Flow as well.
• Some songs have been taken out altogether.
• Some songs lyrics have been censored and some music videos have been censored as well which since it is a music game, could throw off players.
• The opening movie has been subtitled.

External links

• Official Website (Korean)