Rolling Christmas

Released in Pump It Up Perfect Collection, Rolling Christmas was the first carol BanYa contributed to the series, arriving the same day as All I Want For X-mas. The track stitches two familiar holiday standards, Jingle Bells and Joy to the World, into an upbeat rock remix running at 142 BPM. While Perfect Collection is its official home, it also appeared in the PC edition The Collection as part of a Christmas event. Before launch, a preview of the audio circulated on the official Pump It Up website, and that early cut differs slightly from the final one: a passage that lacked a drum beat in the preview gained one in the in-game version.

Its cheerful arrangement, the familiarity of the melodies, and a set of beginner-friendly steps made it a hit with both casual and maniac players, rivaling Beethoven Virus among BanYa's new tracks that year. A decade on, its song and chart quality still held up against Fiesta-era material, and the community regards it as a classic. Curiously, unlike Another Truth, Turkey March, and Beethoven Virus, it was not included in Basic mode in Pump It Up XX. The cute BGA was praised too; it was one of the few songs whose eyecatch credited the visual creator, and it features the heroine alongside the protagonist of Mr. Larpus dressed up as Santa. The animation was absent from the Extra version through Perfect Collection 2, then returned in Premiere 3 after persistent fan requests.

Zero added a Nightmare chart, and the XX 2.05 update introduced the S17 and D22. On Single, the S12 (a 13 in Prime 2, lowered to 12 in XX) features 16-beat bursts and a two-note segment followed by a quick twist; the S17 catches you off guard with drill patterns on a first read and sits at a comfortable mid-17. The S20 arrived in PHOENIX 2.00.0 as a folded-down portion of the D22; it began life as a Junare UCS chart and was made official when he joined as a charter. On Double, the D16 dropped from 17 to 16 in XX, while the D22 plays smoothly at first but its calling card is off-angle twists: the wall of horizontal siderun twists in the back half makes a break-on clear surprisingly tough despite the festive mood.