Two days ago Jubeat staff posted on their blog that a jubeat online update will take place during mid-december. Four new songs will be added to the game. Each song comes from a different “living” bemani game.

From IIDX - SigSig by kors k.
From DDR - TRUE♥LOVE by jun feat. Schanita
From PNM - 凛として咲く花の如く by 紅色リトマス
From GFDM - Slang by Kozo Nakamura

Starting today Japanese people can try out the new Guitar Freaks and Drummania game. It’s called GFDM Blazing V6.
The test ends started on 7th and ends on 16th of November.

KONAMI announced that they will release 17th Pop’n Music in February 2009. The game’s full title is Pop’n Music 17: The Movie. The main color of this theme is light purple.

We don’t know much yet except that the game will be aimed for both beginning players (Enjoy mode) and expert players. KONAMI also announced that they will be organizing e-amusement events regularly and that new licensed and original music will be in the game.

Finally the long awaited DJ Troopers CS is announced. The game will be released on 18th December 2008.

Also a GFDMV5 soundtrack will be released on 5th December 2008.

Today is the official day of the Dance Dance Revolution CS USA release. The game will hit the shelves of your local game scores tomorrow so get ready and go get your copy!

Well, the game’s being around for few days and people are really having fun to play this game. I wonder how popular this game will get.

Anyway more to the game play mechanics. You already know that you have to confirm the panels that light up with music but I guess everyone wondered when exactly the panels were supposed to be confirmed. People could think that it needs to be confirmed as fast as possible, but those playing BEMANI games were like “there has to be something like ‘just great’ window”. And there is actually one. The just perfect window is at the time when the panel is full lit.

Songlist:

KONAMI original

ki☆ki - Happy Happy
Mutsuhiko Izumi - Polaris
Mutsuhiko Izumi - Snow Goose
Mutsuhiko Izumi - 天国と地獄

License

AAA - BLOOD on FIRE
鈴木亜美 joins �*田ヤスタカ - FREE FREE
Mi - Good bye little girl
Chris Brown featuring T-Pain - Kiss Kiss
川嶋あい - My love
�*ードオブメジャー - PLAY THE GAME
ANNA inspi’ NANA(BLACK STONES) - rose
Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
VILLAGE PEOPLE - Y.M.C.A.
THE BOOM - 風になりたい
mihimaru GT - 気分上々↑↑
RIKI - �*�！ミッドナイト
MINMI - シャナナ☆
FUNKY MONKEY BABYS - ちっぽけな勇気
Do As Infinity - 冒険者たち

Cover

BONNIE PINK - A Perfect Sky
Ai + BAND - BELIEVE IN LOVE
浜崎あゆみ - BLUE BIRD
UVERworld - endscape
POLYSICS - I My Me Mine
Nolans - I’M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING
嵐 - love so sweet
大塚愛 - PEACH
平井�*� - POP STAR
絢香 - Real voice
Rip Slyme - SPEED KING
コブク�* - YELL ～エール～
THE BLUE HEARTS - �*スしてほしい
倖田來未 - �*ューティーハニー
レミオ�*メン - 粉雪
Crystal Kay - こんなに近くで…
ス�*マスイッチ - 全力少年
山下智久 - 抱いてセニョリータ
MISIA - 太陽の地図
BUMP OF CHICKEN - 天体観測
サンボマスター - 光の�*ック
NANA starring MIKA NAKASHIMA - 一色
YUKI - ふがいないや
ZARD - �*けないで

Hidden

Kozo Nakamura - Jumping Boogie
kors k - Special One
Jimmy Weckl - Icicles

Starting yesterday and ending on 23rd of July Japanese people have the chance to try the new DDR arcade game out. As you may know this mix is celebrating the 10 years of DDR’s existence and thus should be innovative or revolutionary.

The cabinet itself looks different. It has bigger and wider screen and more lights next to the speakers. Also the banner is bigger etc^_~. Anyway the platform has changed quite a lot. At least the looks of it (no pink/blue panels, red bar). KONAMI asks the player what they think of the panels (playing-wise) so I guess they changed more than just the look^_~ (hope it is better than the SN platform). In overall the cabinet is more western urban styled and I’m quite afraid of how the game will look like.

All songs have been rerated to 1-20 scale. So most boss songs have different difficulties now. (So max300 or TLOM are rated 15 and FELM and FAXX are 18s)

KONAMI also introduced a new type of note. It’s called a shock arrow. When you step on the arrow you will get a combo breaker, you will loose a bit energy from the lifebar and the scrolling arrows will vanish for a while.

After the first L.E.D.’s album released under the Beatnation Records we can now enjoy the first stand alone album of Sota Fujimori. The album is named Synthesized.

People enjoying PNM16 Party in the arcades can now purchase the PNM 16 Party Original Soundtrack.

If you are a registered user to KONAMISTYLE and you buy something from the shop you will earn KONAMI points. You can later exchange the points for some BEMANI related items like bags with BEMANI logo, cups, t-shirt or customized memory cards.

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…).