Starting tomorrow a location test will be held in Tokyo. Second location test will start the day after in Osaka. All the location tests will end on 1st of July. So wait for more information.

Obviously KONAMI wants the next game pink. I guess we can say that DJ Troopers was more aimed at male players and Empress might be aimed at gals. But anyway who knows what KONAMI is thinking?

HAZARD mode is available. If you get a regular poor on a note the game ends. (comes from GFDM)

Location test info (some might be fake but still you get the idea):

RECKLESS RAVE / B4U(BEMANI FOR YOU MIX) / DJ Yoshitaka feat. Michael a la mode / BPM 170 / 6-11-? ?-?-?
* HAPPY☆JIG / bridal festival!!! / S.S.D.FANTASICA feat. ななっち / BPM 160 / 4-7-? ?-?-?
* ? / dazzle / kobo feat. kr:ague / BPM ??? / ?-?-9 ?-?-?
* ? / Fly Above / Sota Fujimori / BPM 150 / 5-6-? ?-?-?
* ? / JEWELLERY STORM / L.E.D.-G / BPM ??? / 5-9-? ?-?-?
* TRANCE / MY FUTURE / PINK PONG / BPM 148 / 5-8-? ?-?-?
* ? / naughty girl@queens palace / DJ Mass MAD ism
* ? / PUNCH☆LOVE 仮面 / 上野圭一 feat. 星野かなこ / BPM 172 / ?-?-? ?-?-?
* BIG BEAT / Queens Tragedy / 猫又Master+ / BPM 152 / ?-?-? ?-?-?
* ? / secrets / good-cool feat. CHiCO / BPM 150 / ?-?-? ?-?-?
* CANDY RAVE / smooooch･∀･ / kors k / BPM 177 / 4-8-? ?-?-?
* ? / THE SHINING POLARIS -kors k mix- / kors k / BPM 172 / ?-?-? ?-?-?
* ELEMENTAL CHANT / Turill-PENTA RHEI- / Zektbach / BPM 148 / 4-9-? ?-?-?
* PROGRESSIVE / V2 / TAKA / BPM 150 / ?-?-? ?-?-?
* J-DANCE POP / まほろば / HHH+H / BPM 149 / 5-7-? ?-?-?
* DRAGON’BASS / アタック No.3 / IDEA NOTE / BPM 170 / ?-?-? ?-?-?
* ? / 鉄甲乙女-under the steel- / Seiya Murai / BPM ??? / 4-7-? 5-9-?
* まほろば / ミッドナイト堕天使 / Dr.Honda / BPM ??? / 5-7-? ?-?-?

* ALL I NEED YOUR LOVE / guhroovy fw. M-PROJECT
* B4U (BEMANI FOR YOU MIX) / よしたかマイケル (joke?)
* Turill-PENTA RHEI- / Zektbach (*looking forward to this one^_~*)

アタックno.3 / IDEA NOTE ポラリスこーすけりみ

Removed songs:
* IS THIS LOVE?
* never let you down
* Sense
* Nasty!
* JIVE INTO THE NIGHT
* Time is money
* Free Style
* Secret Tale
* 2002
* Spooky
* あと1曲（Burning Heat)

Today IIDX Gold 14 was finally and officially released in Japan. You can either get just the game or Special Edition or Special Edition Complete (15,950 Yen).

Today is also a release date for “Puzzle Maya Takamura’s pieces” and L.E.D’s album 電人. Both are part of the Special Edition Complete IIDX Gold Box.

Maya Takamura’s pieces DVD contains 19 videos (among them Xepher, Blind Justice, Zenius-I-Vanisher, Ageha…).

Yay! It’s finally released today! : D

Everyone in Japan is playing it atm so I’m collecting pics and vids which I will be posting here today.

Anyways, some early presents for you guys!

the new site is also fully launched which is here:
http://www.konami.jp/bemani/bm2dx/bm2dx15/

A video of a guy playing OMES on DJ Troopers brought to you by www.bemanitube.com, o gosh they really do anything to make the songs harder eh…
http://www.bemanitube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1e61cb8dd3612f26d5ec

More news and updates later this day so stay tuned!

Today (okay, nobody’s really sure about what day the game was released, so we’ll pretend it’s today), about 10 years ago, Konami released a game called beatmania. Nobody would have known that the game would not only be a huge hit in Japan, but start a whole division of music simulation games that still continue to this very day.

So, how about some personal anecdotes? I’ll talk about the first time I remember playing this wonderful game. With footnotes! After the break.

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Once again, Konami has announced that they are collecting scores from IIDX Gold machines across the world, and by the world, I mean Japan. They will also collect scores from the upcoming DJ Troopers once it makes its release in Japan. While they did not explicitly state the reason, judging by the other times they have collected scores, it’s probably for the next home version of IIDX: IIDX GOLD CS.

The score collecting will include every song under the GOLD category, with the exception of Inori and Regret (or リグレット, if you prefer). Since they were both already on RED CS’s tracklist, it’s no real loss. What is most important is that, so far, Ghostbusters has not been ruled out. They also state that songs in the other categories will be included, but they did not elaborate on that detail as of yet.

So far, they held a survey about collaborations, and now they’re collecting scores. All they have to do now is announce it.

The CD cover for the “BEMANI BEST for the 10th anniversary” has been revealed. It’s black with a bunch of logos. Also, they updated the tracklist to include Butterfly by SMiLE.dk (Disc 2, Track 40) and Sunshine Dance by Togo Project feat. Megu and Scotty D. (Disc 5, Track 34). The CD will be released on December 14th.

The soundtrack for Guitar Freaks and Drummania V4 has been revealed. It will be a two-disc set featuring over 60 songs, including Konami Originals and “arrange songs”. It will be released on February 22nd, 2008.

Also to be released on the same day is a concert DVD of the Gitado Live event, featuring songs from the event and backstage interviews with the artists. The concert does feature Izumi, who made such great songs as the Model DD series and Midnight Sun. Whether he played any of those live is beyond me, though. The event also features Tomosuke (Hopefully with Orange Lounge), Brad Holmes (I want to see Used To Rock ‘n’ Roll live, too), and Kozo Nakamura (mostly known for Dragon Blade and songs that sound like Dragon Blade).

Finally, according to USPTO, the main source for unannounced news and rumors about video games, among other things, in the US, Konami of America (odd, considering most Konami trademarks that aren’t slot machine names are filed by their Japanese division) has filed a trademark for “Beat’n Groovy”. The only thing the trademark gives any detail to is that it’s for a home video game. Take this part of the article with a grain of salt, as it’s about trademark drama, and it may not even be a music game, but, seriously, “Beat’n Groovy”?

Hello, I’m back.

Some insanety news has been come from Korea.

RETRO GAMES (Developer) making EZ2DJ online. (Say also, “EZ2ON”.)

But, I posted “EZ2DJ sued Konami. Konami win,EZ2DJ is end”. However, only the “arcade version” was an object in this lawsuit.

Online has been PC, It seems to be expected that it will not correspond.

Interface,system,mode is very simler “DJMAX”. (DJMAX is quited EZ2DJ staffs became a center and it made it. )

Close beta test gone “December”.

There is a possibility of sending a detailed report when I can experience.

Souce from=4gamer,Some bemani blog site,YouTube.

I firstly want to remember you can there is also a BLOG COMMUNITY here where you, as user, can start your own blog here on beatmaniaiidx.com! If you’re interrested please check http://blogs.beatmaniaiidx.com/

This article is from Kanna’s blog. Find the original article here.

That’s right, a complete review from me. Enjoy. I swear I will update more.

But for all of you people who don’t want to read it and my opinion for disc one:

tl;dr version: Kanna gives disc 1 over all 9/10.

Quickening - 7/10
I liked this track, simply because I liked the original Quickening and Taka seems to have expanded the ideas in this track very well. Though the samples were a bit… over done at times, I still found that track very enjoyable. (Though the crash cymbals and the end just kinda… uh. Yeah. xD)

Tomorrow Perfume (Vocal Version) - 7.5/10
It’s Tomorrow Perfume… I can hear it, but there’s just something different on how it was rearranged to fit AiMEE’s vocals. I loved the beginning. AiMEE vocalizing at the beginning sent shivers down my spine! It just fit very very well. Though I have to say, it was a bit drawn out - but I think it works in the sense that if it were shorter, the build up wouldn’t have worked as well. I was waiting for the vocals so it was a surprise when it seemed like Tomorrow Perfume changed into another song to accommodate the vocals! I felt like there should have been more AiMEE though.

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Yeah, this quiet unique CD set will be released very soon! 5 Compilation cd’s of Bemani music! I dont know what to add more as info because it’s allready obvious what it is lol. So I’ll spare the useless info this time :3

As you may guess each CD is a compilation for a certain Bemani game, except for the 5th cd [: Here’s a list:

CD1: beatmania & beatmaniaIIDX
CD2: Dance Dance Revolution
CD3: Pop’n Music
CD4: GuitarFreaks/Drummania (wise guys/girls who say these are 2 games, GF/DM is 1 game)
CD5: Pop’n Stage EX, Keyboardmania, Mambo a Go Go, Dance Maniax, ParaParaParadise, ee’MALL, Toy’s March, Dance86.4

And yes. I have tracklists for you :3 You’ll find it after clicking on Read More ; D
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Hello, sorry for disappearing for a bit. This is Kanna, have you forgot me already? Hopefully not. All I’ve been doing recently is playing IIDX (I can nearly pass CONTRACT [n], same with the rest of the Cardinal Gate save for Nageki no Ki), doing my school work and of course, sleep and eat.

But I come back to the main page of beatmaniaiidx.com with my first experience with a beatmania IIDX GOLD machine that I had. I actually remember it better than my first sexual experience; whether that’s good or bad I’ll leave you to decide.

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