The latest edition to the line-up, DJMAX Portable 3, is the first Portable game since Fever to be released outside Korea (and on the same release date, too). DJMAX Fever was released in late January 2009 as the first DJMAX Portable title to be released outside of South Korea, and its songlist is a mix of the first two Portable titles. DJMAX Black Square was released about a month and a half later, and is targeted at more experienced players. DJMAX Clazziquai Edition was released in 2008 as a somewhat Licensed Game with songs from the Korean band Clazziquai, and is geared towards newer players. DJMAX Portable 2 was released in 2007 and held up its ever-growing fanbase.

Portable eventually spawned several sequels. Originally released on ( as its title implies) the PSP in 2006, it saw success not only in Korea, but non-Korean countries as well, leading to an 'International' release with English text (albeit with poorly-censored songs and the replacement of a song whose background animations mocked former U.S. The latter two versions shut down some time ago.ĭJMAX Online got a brief revival through DJMAX Trilogy, a recent PC games with music from DJMAX Online and early DJMAX Portable games, but due to some Executive Meddling (namely, its producer, Forte Escape, leaving Pentavision), updates to it have been put on hold indefinitely, and the inclusion of certain features and bugs further drove it into the ground.ĭJMAX Portable - By far the most popular DJMAX series, partly for being one of the first-if not the first-successful portable Rhythm Game series. in Japanese, with mostly Japanese players (which means good luck communicating to other players if you don't speak nihongo), and the Chinese version ran on a rather slow server. Suffers from a partial case of No Export for You you couldn't play the Korean version since you need a Korean residence number (which is a crime to falsify) you could play the Japanese and Chinese versions, but the Japanese version. The game plays suspiciously like Beatmania, though this is due to be being a clone of Ez2DJ, which was even more like beatmania (complete with turntable) to the point where Konami stepped in and sued. DJMAX is a Rhythm Game franchise by Pentavision spanning three different series:ĭJMAX Online - The original game, released as a freeware game on PC with additional pay-to-play content.

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