beatmania (Arcade)

beatmania
Developer: Konami GMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami DJ Main Board) Released in JP: December 1997 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has a hidden level select. This game has a prerelease article

I can do it so do it with me
You are the DJ, hit the key
Do it, scratch, bend your brain
Feel the beat, let's do it again.

The DJ simulator game beatmania marked the beginning of Konami's rhythm game craze, which would spawn more games, along with sequels upon sequels upon sequels.

While it was quite a rough beginning, with only eight available songs, and a maximum of four stages during standard play, it was enough to get players hooked for more.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

Stored at offset 0x28000 of the third graphics ROMs (753jaa07.22d and 753jaa08.23d), alongside some of the gameplay HUD graphics, are squares. These were part of an audio visualizer graphic which was seen in an early mockup screenshot of the game.

Hidden Level Select

A hidden debug feature allows the player to freely select a song by holding down the Test button and pressing one of the keys at the same time in the song selection screen. It should be noted that this doesn't work while Event Mode is turned on.

Key	Song
1	u gotta groove
2	jam jam reggae
3	OVERDOSER (romo mix) (1P) OVERDOSER (ambient mix) (2P)
4	2 gorgeous 4u (1P) greed eater (2P)
5	LOVE SO GROOVY (1P) LOVE SO GROOVY (12inch version) (2P)
6	20,novemver (single mix) (1P) 20,novemver (radio edit) (2P)
7	e~emotion
8	PRACTICE STAGE
9	DJ BATTLE
10	Love's Theme of beatmania (Credits)

Game ID

At the beginning of the game's HDD data, a string containing the game's ID and version can be found. This string can also be found at offset 0x1D70A of the program data (753jab01.6a and 753jab02.8a)

 GQ753   BEAT MANIA    VER 1.00