Dance With Intensity
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Dance With Intensity (DWI) is a computer game for the PC that simulates the Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) music video game series.
DWI was created by an individual called Simwolf in 2001, and has since been revised considerably to reach its current state, version 2.50. It is proprietary software but can be obtained from the author's web site at no charge.
Most of the features of older DDR games — such as the basic gameplay, difficulty modifiers and background animations — can be simulated within DWI. A notable exception is the exclusion of support of the 3D dancing models that appear in early DDR series (from 1stMIX to 5thMIX) or their derivatives (e.g. Dancing Stage EuroMIX and Dancing Stage PARTY EDiTiON). Other minor features, such as the Marvellous "step rating", which appeared in "DDR Extreme" (released 2002) are notably missing, an omission that has led many players to switch to StepMania instead.
However, most of the time only the steps (the arrows that appear), the actual recording (usually in MP3 or Vorbis format) and a background picture (in PNG format) are provided. Skilled players may not consider this a drawback, as they are too busy concentrating on the arrows to notice the background or the dancing 3D figure, possibly considering the absence of a background animation to be an advantage.
Compared to StepMania and other DDR simulators, DWI is a simple program that lacks many bells and whistles that complicate the others. Simwolf has stated on many occasions that DWI is just a DDR simulator, its only point being to get the player into the game as fast as possible.
DWI version 3 has been in the works, but SimWolf abandoned the project for personal reasons.
It should be noted that most countries' copyright laws prohibit obtaining the music of a particular track when you do not own the relevant game it came from or a CD with that music.
See also
External link
- Dance With Intensity official site