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Ports

  • Four PS Move controller icons were found in the files of the demo, possibly indicating that there were plans for a PS3 port of the game, but the ideas were scrapped for unknown reasons.[1]

Graphics and Scoring

  • Scores had different effects.
  • The Gold Move effect was designed differently.
    • The Gold Move feedback icon was different, too.
      • In some videos, the yellow X was replaced by the red X.
  • The OK feedback icon was red instead of purple, as seen in the teaser for Moving on Up.
  • As seen in promotional images of DLC maps and Just Dance: Summer Party, the "On Fire!" effect was originally much bigger.
  • The effect that removes the "On Fire!" on the score tracker was different as well: it had a blink at the end of the On Fire phase, which has been removed.
  • The "cloud" (the graphic that contains the player’s score and name) was smaller.
  • The Sweat gauge was different: it was circular and gray with a sweat drop instead of cloudy and blue.
  • The Just Sweat meter had a yellow color palette instead of a light blue one.
  • The scoring seemed to work the same way as in Just Dance, as one could reach up to 20000+ points.
  • The pictogram model was originally more similar to the one seen in the previous game. Leftovers of this unused model can be seen in the preview gameplay of When I Grow Up and in the Just Dance Now files of Soul Bossa Nova and The Power.
    • In several promotional images, pictograms also had a glowing outline.
  • Lyrics were originally smaller.[2]
  • In the trailer for Just Dance 2, the coach for Let’s Get It Started is seen with a ghost shadow effect behind him like the one in the first Just Dance game.
  • Coaches originally had more visible facial features, as seen in promotional content for A-Punk, Crazy in Love, Holiday, Hot Stuff, I Got You (I Feel Good), Jump, Hot Stuff, and Sway (Quien Sera).
    • The menu icon for Alright also displayed facial features more clearly.

Songs and Routines

In Just Dance 2, there is a lot of known content that was unused or changed. Most of these elements are known because of videos like the official trailer video as seen below and individual trailers for songs that have been featured in the game.[3]

A-Punk

  • In the trailer of Just Dance 2 when P1 from A-Punk was seen alone (to make the new Duet feature a surprise) his suit was orange but he was later seen again with P1 in the final cut with the regular color scheme.
  • The coaches were mirrored: P1 was going to be P2 and vice-versa.
  • The choreography had a different intro: the coaches were not frozen, and they looked at each other before starting.[4]

Alright

  • According to a promotional picture, the following differences could be noticed between the early version of the routine and the final one:
    • The piano tiles in the background were white and had a brighter frame.
      • This Beta element can still be seen in the menu icons of Just Dance 2, Just Dance 3 and Just Dance: Greatest Hits/Best Of.
    • The green element on the bottom right corner was bigger.
    • Christie had a slightly different color scheme, as the green parts of her outfit were sky blue and the orange parts were green.
    • The pictograms were light blue for Christie and purple for Terrence.
      • Additionally, the early pictogram model was used instead of the final one.

American Boy

  • In the Just Dance Now files, there are several Beta pictograms for both coaches.

Baby Girl

  • A beta pictogram can be found in the old files of Just Dance Now.

Barbie Girl

  • A Solo routine was originally created for the song, but it was changed to a Duet for unknown reasons.[5]
    • A preview of this routine can be found in the Wii Shop servers.
    • Pictograms for the Solo routine can be seen in promotional images for the final version.
    • A silhouette of the Beta coach can be seen in the medley icon, suggesting that the song was planned to be released in the base game.

Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

  • Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) had a different hairstyle and some minor changes in the color scheme. A silhouette of this Beta version can be seen in the Medley menu icon.
  • Some beta pictograms are seen in Just Dance Now files. One is a placeholder.

Born To Be Wild

  • The fur for the dancer’s werewolf costume was originally going to be purple. This can be seen in the menu icon and some screenshots. However, the fur is blue in the final version.

Call Me

  • Call Me has two Beta pictograms.
  • The coach appears on the NTSC cover of the game with a different color scheme (purple instead of green).

Chicken Payback

  • In a promotional image, the coach’s glove is yellow rather than magenta.
  • A Beta pictogram can be found in the old Just Dance Now server.

Come On Eileen

  • As seen in a promotional picture, the background was in a higher resolution and the scenery was more zoomed out.
    • The more zoomed-out scenery is reused in the remake.

Crazy Christmas

  • The Beta version had a background in a shade of light blue instead of a shade of red.
  • A Beta pictogram can be found in the Just Dance Now files.

Crazy in Love

  • Based on an early screenshot, Crazy in Love’s coach had a different color scheme, slightly longer hair, and no sunglasses.
    • This Beta design makes a cameo in D.A.N.C.E.’s background.
  • Five beta pictograms (including a non-golden version of the Gold Move pictogram) can be found in the Just Dance Now files.

Cosmic Girl

  • The Just Dance Now files contain several unused pictograms that are yellow instead of pink, and some of them are surrounded by a white space.

Crying Blood

  • The beta gameplay displayed "INVALID TEXT" on both folders for the red line that is supposed to display the song title and artist at the beginning.
  • The routine was planned to have 8 Gold Moves instead of 4, as seen in the beta gameplay. The routine would later have 8 Gold Moves in the remake.
  • A beta pictogram appears in the Just Dance Now files.

D.A.N.C.E.

  • In the Just Dance Now files, D.A.N.C.E. has two Beta pictograms. One of them is a different representation of the Gold Move pictogram, where all the arms movements performed during the line "Do the dance, do the dance" are shown at the same time instead of being separated into three different pictograms.
    • Another Beta pictogram, which is a non-golden version of the Gold Move pictogram, is seen in some Mashups and Puppet/Party Master Modes of Just Dance 2014.

Dagomba

  • The coach’s skin color was a bit more greenish-blue.
  • The song was originally titled Electro Tribal. Despite it being changed, "ElectroTribal" is still used as the code name for Dagomba in the game files.

Down By The Riverside

  • In the preview gameplay, the artists are credited as "Extreme Music".
  • Down By The Riverside has a Beta pictogram that appears in the Just Dance Now files. It is light blue instead of ultramarine blue.
    • Two other Beta pictograms, which are recolored, can be found as well.

Funkytown

  • An unused pictogram can be found in the Just Dance Now files.

Futebol Crazy

  • The coach’s color scheme was originally light blue and purple instead of green and yellow, as shown in preview gameplay.[6]
    • On the Xbox 360 version of Just Dance 3, the coach appears with this unused color scheme in Are You Gonna Go My Way’s Sweat Mashup, and the pictograms also use these Beta colors.
      • On every other console, however, only the pictograms are purple.
  • An unused pictogram can be seen in the Just Dance Now files.
  • The "1" on the back of the coach’s jersey was initially reversed; this mistake was fixed in the final version.
    • However, the "1" is reversed again in the Just Dance Now remake.

Infernal Galop

  • Infernal Galop by Jacques Offenbach can be found in the game files, meaning that it was planned to be featured in it.[7] It also appeared in the game Raving Rabbids: Travel In Time

Girlfriend

  • P1 had a different color scheme.
    • She still appears with that color scheme in the menu icon, where P2 has a different color scheme as well. The dancers have also switched positions.

Hey Ya

  • In the Just Dance Now files, there are two unfinished pictograms with their arrows drawn roughly.

Holiday

  • The dancer for Holiday had a different color scheme (which can be seen on the back of the game's cover) and the pictograms were pink instead of orange.
  • In a promotional picture that showed the Just Sweat mode, "Let’s Sweat!" was part of the background.
  • A placeholder pictogram can be seen in the Just Dance Now files.
  • In a gameplay picture the coach had a different hair color, a mint green bow, hot pink pants, red socks, and mint green shoes.

Hot Stuff

  • Hot Stuff had a lot of changes to the final cut.
    • The choreography was different, displaying the male as P1 and the female as P2 and having several changes in the dance moves.
    • The dancers’ color schemes were different (it can be seen also in the back of the cover) as well as both dancers' pictograms as they were magenta.

Idealistic

  • Idealistic had different color pictograms and different bars before. As was the case with TiK ToK, a higher scoring can be shown in an official video. This suggests that all songs were like this at one point.[8]
  • The Gold Moves were not counted at all, as seen in a preview.[9]
  • There are floating triangles in the Beta background.
  • In the Comic Con 2010 build the coach did not have an overlapping silhouettes weren't featured implying that whenever coaches preform moves not counted, they wouldn't have overlapping silhouettes.

I Feel Love

  • I Feel Love was originally planned to be released in-game as a downloadable track, but the routine was never released and was eventually postponed to Just Dance 3. The song's name and artist can be found in the game's DLC localization files.[10][11]

I Got You (I Feel Good)

  • Based on the Just Dance 2 (James Brown) trailer, the color scheme of the coach was different.
    • In the E3 version of the game, the coach did not enter the screen and disappear from the screen after the end of the song, and there were marginal differences in the lyrics (for example, "My love won’t do you no harm" was displayed fully instead of being split into two lines).

I Gotta Feeling

  • I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas was planned to be featured in the game, but the song was ultimately removed for unknown reasons.[12]
    • Despite this, the coach was used in promotional material for the game.
      • It was later featured in Just Dance 2016 with a completely different coach, choreography, and background.
  • A preview of the routine can be found in the Wii Shop servers, suggesting that the song was planned to be released as DLC.[13]

Iko Iko

I Want You Back

  • I Want You Back has an unused Gold Move that can be found in the Just Dance Now files.[14]
    • There is also an incorrectly colored pictogram whose props are ochre instead of light blue.

It's Not Unusual

  • Three Beta pictograms can be found in the Just Dance Now files, and another one can be seen in a promotional picture.

Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)

  • Two Beta pictograms are included in the Just Dance Now files.

Jump

  • The dancers’ positions were flipped.
  • In another Beta picture, Gold Moves 1 and 3 are seen consecutively and not counted as Gold Moves.
  • An unused pictogram can be found in the Just Dance Now files.

Jump in the Line

  • In the menu icon, the coaches appear to have faintly different color schemes, showing the dark blue parts changed to green.

Jungle Boogie

  • A Beta pictogram is seen in the Just Dance Now files.

Just Dance

  • Just Dance by Lady Gaga ft. Colby O'Donis was planned to be featured in the game but was ultimately removed for unknown reasons.[15]
    • Despite this, the coach was used in promotional material for the game.
      • It was later featured in Just Dance 2014 with a completely different coach, choreography, and background.
  • A preview of the routine can be found in the Wii Shop servers, suggesting that the song was planned to be released as DLC.[16]

Let’s Get It Started

  • Let’s Get It Started by The Black Eyed Peas was planned to be featured in the game, but it was ultimately removed for unknown reasons.[17] The coach can be seen in the front cover of the PAL edition of Just Dance 2, as well as many promotional content for the game.

Monster Mash

  • Monster Mash has two Beta pictograms.

Move Your Feet

  • Based on an early teaser, the background originally had "Everybody" and "Move your feet" popping up every time they were sung.
    • Also, the lyrics were misspelled and said "Got the dance energy" instead of "We’re going downtown".
  • The Just Dance Now pictograms sprite contains three unused pictograms, and the preview video contains one too.

Moving on Up

  • In the trailer, the pictograms are red instead of purple, and the OK icon is red instead of purple.

Mugsy Baloney

  • Mugsy Baloney has some beta single pictograms, found in Just Dance Now files.
  • In the menu icon, the dancers' clothes have heavily different color schemes: P1 has a magenta feather on her hair and a red dress, while P2 wears an orange hat, a dark pink shirt, darker suspenders, darker pants, and a lighter orange tie; the background is also lighter and their positions are also mirrored.

Nine In The Afternoon

  • The beta version of this song features the dancers standing in reversed positions (male as P1 and female as P2) and a much brighter sun.

Perfume

  • Perfume by an unknown artist was planned to be featured in the game, but the song was ultimately removed for unknown reasons.[18]

Pon de Replay

  • The coach's skin was initially meant to be white, but it has been changed to black. In another screenshot, she has black skin but the pictograms are a darker blue. The white skin version appears on the back of the Just Dance: Summer Party cover. There are also errors in the pictograms.
  • A Beta pictogram can be seen in the Just Dance Now files.
  • In the trailer, the line "All de gyal pon de dancefloor" was written correctly; in the final release, however, it is misspelled as "All the gals on the dancefloor".

Professor Pumplestickle

  • The coaches had slightly different color schemes.
  • In another picture, both pictograms had the same color.
  • They can be seen in Maniac’s background.

Proud Mary

  • This song has a Beta pictogram.
  • In a beta picture for this song, one of the pictograms only has one arrow, this implies that the pictograms weren't going to have double sided arrows.
  • The menu icon shows the dancer with a green glove.

Pump Up The Volume

  • A beta pictogram is in the Just Dance Now files.

Rasputin

  • Rasputin has a Beta pictogram.
  • Rasputin was going to have different colored boots (green instead of dark-green).

Rockafeller Skank

  • The routine has three unused pictograms, one of which shows that the Gold Move was not supposed to be a Gold Move.
  • According to a promotional gameplay picture, the background initially had brighter lights.

Satisfaction (Isak Original Extended)

  • On the menu icon, the coach’s color scheme is more green-gray than blue-purple, and the button on his chest is yellow instead of green.
  • Eight beta pictograms can be found in the Just Dance Now files.

Should I Stay or Should I Go

  • The song may have been intended to be a downloadable track for non-Best Buy copies, as seen in the DLC files.
  • The menu icon shows the dancer with light blue hair.

Smooth Criminal

  • Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson can be found in the game files, suggesting that it was planned to be featured in the game.[19]

S.O.S

  • In the beta version of S.O.S., the pictograms were purple instead of lime green and some were incorrect (there were also pictograms replaced with white squares).
    • Also, the part during "La la la la la la la la la oh" does not give points and as a consequence, there are no Gold Moves.
      • Also, the coach was originally going to have a flashing, fiery glow around her.
  • In the preview, "You got me stressin’"/"Incessantly pressing"/"The issue" was spelled as "You got me stressin’,"/"incessantly"/"pressing the issue".
  • In the Just Dance Now files, some dark purple pictograms can be found in the release/20150115_1722/songs/SOS/assets/web/pictos-sprite.png pictogram sprite. Also, they show some completely different moves that are not featured in the actual routine (including a beta Gold Move), suggesting that the choreography was different in the early development of Just Dance 2.
  • The Song had a different choreography and dancer but it was changed during development, some of the aforementioned pictograms were used for that choreography

Spice Up Your Life

  • In a promotional picture, the pictograms are in completely different colors (sky blue with a green glove emblem for P1 and bright magenta with a blue-violet glove emblem for P2).

Soul Bossa Nova

  • In the preview, the background was slightly more animated, there were no stage lights, and the coaches had slightly different outfit colours.
    • P1 had no gradient on the orange parts of her dress, her boots were darker, and her headband was red instead of yellow. P2 had a dark orange jacket, similarly with no gradient. He also had orange hair, a darker undercoat and darker trousers.
      • The video also features remarkably different scoring counters and a score tracking, featuring a "GREAT" scoring and no Gold Moves (like in Just Dance).
      • There are also more three-dimensional pictograms that display completely different moves to the one performed by the coaches.
        • Similar pictograms can be found in the Just Dance Now files, along with three non-transparent pictograms.
          • In the same files, some pictograms for P2 are ochre yellow instead of orange.
  • In the menu icon, the background has four fuchsia spotlights, which are not seen in the final routine.

Take Me Out

  • The Beta background for Take Me Out was much lighter in color and featured differently colored umbrellas; it also lacked the kites and the crabs.
    • Quinn's outfit was different as well, as it was pointed to a red tone and the green parts were more saturated.

That’s Not My Name

  • The dancer was originally going to wear a hot pink mask and a red undershirt. This can be seen in the menu icon.
  • The amount of Gold Moves was likely going to be 3 instead of 6, as a Beta pictogram in the Just Dance Now files shows.

The Power

  • A pictogram made with the Beta model can be found in the Just Dance Now files.
  • In the preview, when "I’ve got the power" is sung, the coach’s glow did not get bigger.
  • The coach's glove was on his left hand instead of his right hand.

The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

  • This routine has some unused pictograms.

TiK ToK

  • In an early version of TiK ToK, the scoring system was different from the final game. The video shows that with a score of 20000+, 5 stars would be achieved (instead of 10000 like in later games).
    • Also, "1,2,3,4" appeared on the pictogram bar before starting the song, with the drumsticks sound, like in Just Dance.[20]
  • The pictograms were different and Gold Moves 2 and 3 were not counted as Gold Moves.

Toxic

  • On the beta version of Toxic, the door opens with a different animation, and the dancer has a fuchsia glow instead of black outfit.
  • 2 beta pictograms are found in Just Dance Now files.
  • On the menu icon, the big hazard sign has two little hazard signs inside of it, even though they are not present in-game.

Video Killed the Radio Star

  • Video Killed the Radio Star was originally planned to be released in-game as a downloadable track, but the routine was never released and was eventually postponed to Just Dance 3. The song title and the artist’s name can be found in the DLC localization files.[21][22]

Viva Las Vegas

  • Two unused pictogram can be found in the files of Just Dance Now

Walk Like an Egyptian

  • Walk Like an Egyptian had a completely different color scheme and a choreography with unseen dance moves.
    • A part of this routine can be seen in Just Dance 2’s trailer.
    • There are two pictograms from this choreography

When I Grow Up

  • Based on an early screenshot, When I Grow Up had a different choreography (not including the contest winners) and a different color scheme.
    • The Beta color scheme also appears in the menu icon and the preview gameplay, which also shows Beta pictograms similar to those in the previous game.
    • The Beta color scheme was also used at E3 2010.

Y.M.C.A.

  • Y.M.C.A by Village People can be found in the game files, meaning that it was planned to be featured in it.[23]

References

  1. ↑ File:Jd2 demo psmove files.png
  2. ↑ https://youtu.be/widVH_ne7K8
  3. ↑ http://youtu.be/S6FgI2CR9I4
  4. ↑ https://youtu.be/xefEj8JNgyk
  5. ↑ https://youtu.be/ACax6t_YM3o
  6. ↑ https://youtu.be/Uzw9D76qxt0
  7. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZlxNK0djhWc?t=113 (better source needed)
  8. ↑ http://youtu.be/VCsD2FftAT0
  9. ↑ https://youtu.be/Eq108wyE6uM
  10. ↑ File:IFeelLove jd2 files 2.jpeg
  11. ↑ File:IFeelLove jd2 files 1.jpeg
  12. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZlxNK0djhWc?t=95 (better source needed)
  13. ↑ https://youtu.be/txskBfG7iOc
  14. ↑ http://jdnowweb-s.cdn.ubi.com/uat/global_release/20141001_1330/songs/IWantYouBack/assets/web/pictos-sprite.png
  15. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZlxNK0djhWc?t=102 (better source needed)
  16. ↑ https://youtu.be/os8LtswfbLE
  17. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZlxNK0djhWc?t=86 (better source needed)
  18. ↑ File:Perfume proof.png
  19. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZlxNK0djhWc?t=113 (better source needed)
  20. ↑ http://youtu.be/IOMuuvAKPvM
  21. ↑ File:VideoKilled jd2 files 1.png
  22. ↑ File:VideoKilled jd2 files 2.png
  23. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZlxNK0djhWc?t=113 (better source needed)
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