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* The version of "The Spirit of Radio" in ''Guitar Hero 5'' is in a different key than the album version. Lots of luck singing it right the first time.

* ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' and ''[[Pump It Up]]'' are two [[Rhythm Game]]s which are played by stepping in arrows, but the disposition and quantity of arrows in each one for songs of seemingly similar levels can be very different. And ''[[Pump It Up]]'' introduces mines and hand plays much earlier.

** Making things even worse, sometimes a song is used on multiple games between different game series. These songs can be essentially the same but have drastically different steps. Sometimes this happens even with the same song in a series as the company "tinkers" with the song steps to make things harder or easier. Orion.78, for example, has totally different timing in later ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' games than it did in earlier versions.

* ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' in particular has multiple menu control schemes for different platforms. For examples:

* Auditory example in DS [[Rhythm Game]] ''[[Rhythm Heaven]]''. Some songs feature [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] versions of real life songs - specifically, Shoot 'Em Up is ''[[Hotel California]]'', Frog Hop is ''I Feel Good'' (more noticeable in the sax arrangement from tier 7) - which screws up people who automatically try and follow ''those'' songs, instead of the actual beat.

** Similarly, in ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'', one of the levels is the song "Rock This Town". What can catch a player off-guard is that it's [[Cover Version|based on]] the Brian Setzer Orchestra version of the song, ''not'' the original Stray Cats version. The two have similar rhythms, [[Captain Obvious|being the same song]], but the former is swing and the latter is rock, making them ''just'' different enough to wreck you if you get confused.

 

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