TechnoMotion

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TechnoMotion is a Korean music video game. As in other games that use dance pads, such as Dance Dance Revolution, a player must press panels in response to scrolling arrows on the game's monitor.

1 Modes
2 Codes
3 Music
4 Simulation
5 Gameplay
6 Company
7 Versions
8 Reception
9 See also
10 External links

[edit] Modes

TechnoMotion has three distinct gameplay modes:

Cross mode: Uses the left, right, up, and down panels (like Dance Dance Revolution).
Diagonal mode: Uses the corner and center panels (like Pump It Up).
TechnoMotion mode: Uses all panels except the center.
Double mode (both sides), only in 4- and 5-panel modes. There is no 16-panel mode.

It is possible to change the panel mode between and during songs in the game. A player has the option to play in Single mode (one player, one pad) or Versus mode (two players, two pads). There are four difficulty levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, and Double(one player, both pads). Each difficulty has a separate songlist, and each pattern is rated with 1 to 12 small diamond icons.

[edit] Codes

Each TechnoMotion code is entered using the Diagonal arrows, denoted numerically (7 for the upper left, 9 for the upper right, 5 for the center, 1 for the lower left, and 3 for the lower right.)

2X (displays arrows at twice the regular speed)

7 9 7 9 5

4x (displays arrows at four times the regular speed)

7 9 7 9 7 9 5

8x (displays arrows at eight times the regular speed)

7 9 7 9 7 9 7 9 5

10% Rush (speeds up the beat and arrows by 10%)

1 3 1 3 5

20% Rush (speeds up the beat and arrows by 20%)

1 3 1 3 1 3 5

10% / 20% Bus (activate after using the Rush codes)

7 9 5 9 7 5

Extra (shows hidden steps)

7 9 1 3 9 9 1 1

No Arrow (removes the display of scrolling arrows completely)

7 9 1 3 7 3 7 3 5

Random (randomizes layout of stepcharts)

7 7 1 1 9 9 3 3

Lock (prevents changing of arrow format during play)

1 7 9 3 1 5

Event (shows all songs)

1 3 5 7 9 5 5

Expert (causes stepcharts to have more steps)

7 9 1 3 5

Drunk (causes arrows to swap up and down while scrolling)

7 1 9 3 5

Crazy (causes the arrow icons to spin while scrolling upward)

7 1 9 3 7 1 9 3 5

Hidden (causes arrows to vanish halfway up the screen)

7 9 1 3 7 7 3 3 5

Cancel (removes all codes entered)

5 5 5 5

[edit] Music

All but one of the TechnoMotion songs are of the K-Pop music genre. TechnoMotion's songlist is mostly comprised of new licenses, but there are a few veteran songs which were found in Pump It Up and Dance Dance Revolution's 3rd Mix Korean before appearing in TechnoMotion.

TechnoMotion has four different songlists: one for each mode of play.

The following is the songlist from the Second Dance Floor version of TechnoMotion.

The songs added to the second version were Starian, Pierrot, Cyber Lover, First Love, Trash Man, and Staring At The Sun.

Easy Mode (18 songs)

Get Up - Baby VOX

Killer - Baby VOX

Tell Me, Tell Me - S#arp (DDR version)

Heartlessness - Chae Jung Ahn

Freedom - 0-24

Remember - Turbo

Another Truth - Novasonic (exclusive mix)

Party Party - Koyotae

Wa! - Lee Hyun Jung (from Dance Dance Revolution)

Starian - Duke (from Pump It Up)

Cyber Lover - Turbo

Pierrot - Lee Hyun Do (from PIU)

Choice of Cinderella - Keoun So-young

Funky Tonight - Clon (exclusive mix)

The Disappointed Love - Koyotae

Flower - Yu Chae Young

Love Story - See U

BakkWo - Lee Hyun Jung (from DDR)

Normal Mode (16 songs)

Win Win - The Bros.

Closer - S#arp (from DDR)

Party Party - Koyotae

BakkWo - Lee Hyun Jung (from DDR)

Wa! - Lee Hyun Jung (from DDR)

Live In Hip-Hop - 0-24

Story Of The Man / A Man's Tale - Honey Family

The Disappointed Love - Koyotae

Love Story - See U

Dream - Hyeon SeungMin

Flower - Yu Chae Young

Pierrot - Lee Hyun Do (from PIU)

Emotion - Yu Chae Young

First Love (Techno Mix) - Clon (from PIU)

Heartlessness - Chae Jung Ahn

Starian - Duke (from PIU)

Hard Mode (16 songs)

Party Party - Koyotae

Trash Man - NeXT (PIU) (Level 12)

Staring At The Sun - The Offspring (Level 11) (The only tempo shifting song found in TechnoMotion, with a BPM ranging from 152 to 184.)

Pierrot - Lee Hyun Do

Bump - NRG

Shadow - NRG

Hatred - Novasonic (exclusive mix)

Another Truth - Novasonic (exclusive mix)

Cyber Lover - Turbo

Loner - TTma (from PIU)

First Love (Techno Mix) - Clon (from PIU)

The Disappointed Love - Koyotae

Win Win - The Bros.

Starian - Duke (from PIU)

Wa! - Lee Hyun Do (from DDR)

BakkWo - Lee Hyun Do (from DDR)

Double Mode (20 songs)

Party Party - Koyotae

The Disappointed Love - Koyotae

Killer - Baby VOX

Freedom - 0-24

Story Of The Man / A Man's Tale - Honey Family

Hatred - Novasonic (exclusive mix)

Another Truth - Novasonic (exclusive mix)

First Love (Techno Mix) - Clon (from PIU)

Funky Tonight - Clon (exclusive mix)

Win Win - The Bros.

Trash Man - NeXT (from PIU)

Staring At The Sun - The Offspring

Closer - S#arp (from DDR)

Wa! - Lee Hyun Do (from DDR)

BakkWo - Lee Hyun Do (from DDR)

Bump - NRG

Cyber Lover - Turbo

Starian - Duke (from PIU)

Flower - Yu Chae Young

Dream - Hyeon SeungMin

[edit] Simulation

TechnoMotion's 4-panel and 5-panel modes can be simulated by StepMania, in its Dance Dance Revolution and Pump It Up modes. An add-on has been released allowing 8-panel play. It was released as a theme with new arrow skins and metrics.

[edit] Gameplay

As with most rhythm-based games, TechnoMotion's gameplay consists of scrolling objects (in this case, arrows) that rise from the bottom of the screen to the top. When the graphics reach the top, the player must contact buttons on a metal pad with his feet. To help the player determine when to step on the pad, an area at the top of the screen has a set of target arrows identical to the scrolling arrows.

These arrows are arranged in a unique way. Starting from the left:

Down left
Left
Up left
Down
Up
Up right
Right
Down Right

The pad and the arrows are also color coordinated. The colors are:

Both diagonals down - Blue
Left and right - Green
Both diagonals up - Red
Up and Down - Yellow
Center - Purple

Technomotion is also unique among dance games in that many stepcharts have hidden, or "secret" steps, which do not show up until they are hit. However, there is a code which can make them appear as normal steps.

[edit] Company

TechnoMotion' was created by the Korean Arcade company F2 Systems. F2 Systems still exists, though production of TechnoMotion' has stopped. F2 now makes gambling style arcade games, PC MMORPG games, and standard arcade games. Many of their Gambling games center around a tropical theme, distinguishing themselves from other companies.

F2 was founded in 1995, and its first offering was a coin-op "Blank n Holdem."

Their MMO offerings are typical KMMO fare. One centers on a fantasy universe, another around creating an avatar in an online world to interact with others, and the final about space exploration.

No mention of TechnoMotion is made on F2's website, aside from an unclickable graphic on the last page of their games list.

[edit] Versions

There are only 2 editions of TechnoMotion. The first has no subtitle, while the second is called TechnoMotion The 2nd Dance Floor!

[edit] Reception

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Most seasoned dance and rhythm game players welcomed TechnoMotion as a great innovation. Most people regarded it as a needed and fresh innovation to an otherwise stale genre. Had TechnoMotion been more widely distributed in North America, it would likely have succeeded very well. 8-panel mode is something many players still long to play, and recent attempts at simulating this mode through StepMania and other dancing game simulators show this. The lack of 16-panel doubles, and paltry songlists were the few complaints TechnoMotion received.