drummania (Arcade)

drummania
Also known as: PercussionFreaks (EU/AS/KR) Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami System 573) Released internationally: 1999 Released in JP: July 21, 1999 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has regional differences.

It's drummania, a drumming simulation game, created as a "companion" for GuitarFreaks 2ndMIX, which was released on the same day in Japan. It involves, well, drumming to various genres, with varying levels of difficulty.

Note: This page only covers the versions JAD and B of the game, which were made after the game's initial release.

Build Date

At offset 0x824 of the game's data file is a build date.

ver.JAD	ver.B
10:21 Jul 19	14:08 Jul 21

Regional Differences

drummania was released worldwide under the name of PercussionFreaks, save for the United States, where it kept its original name. Aside from the game's UI being completely translated to English, several other differences are noticeable:

Songlist

• The songs Ultimate power and D.M."POWERFUL" MIX are absent from the Korean release.

Background Animations

Some background animation sprites for the songs Look at me and Waza were modified to better reflect the name change. These changes were applied up to PercussionFreaks 7thMIX.

Japan	World
Look at me
Japan/US	World
Waza