Arcade DDRMAX was a reboot of the series, with a new announcer, a mod menu that finally gave DDR speed mods, a new difficulty rating system involving reading a complicated chart which was helpful but not a good replacement for the foot rating system, and a songlist that only had new-to-the-arcade songs and nothing else. Oh, and MAX 300.

I only played arcade DDRMAX a few times, but I did play the US PS2 release a lot. It is just as much of a leap from Konamix as Konamix was from the 1st US release, with some good license choices (especially Dark Black Forest!), some new Bemani crossovers, and just a overall great song selection in general. It also makes some improvements on the arcade release, including adding back that foot rating system, and adding the Oni mode from DDRMAX2. Good!