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Beatmania 4thMIX: ~the beat goes on~

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Beatmania 4thMIX:~the beat goes on~ The fourth in Konami's beatmania series of rhythm games. With it, came a complete rework of the game's interface and songlist.

Unused Graphic#

There are 24 graphics for song abbreviations meant to be displayed in the ranking screen, although only 23 songs are playable in this game.
The odd one out is for a song labeled "FC", and it is unknown what could it stand for.

(Source: tikal.)

Game ID#

At the beginning of the game's HDD data, the following string is found. This string is also found in the program ROMs, at offsets 0x1E812 in the Japanese version and 0x1E802 in the Korean one.

 GQ847  beatmania 4th MIX  ver1.00[EOF]

Codename#

In the program ROMs, at offsets 0x1E7F1 in the Japanese version and 0x1E7E1 in the Korean version, is some sort of "codename" for the game:

Japan

Korea

BGM    YES -KEYS TO ASCENSION - 

BGM_KA YES -KEYS TO ASCENSION - 

Like the codenames found in the American and Korean releases of beatmania completeMIX, it refers to the British progressive rock band Yes, as well as their 1996 album Keys to Ascension.

References#

  1. コナミ年鑑'99↩︎
  2. beatmania 4thMIX - KANI KANI CRAB↩︎
  3. Konami official website (archived)↩︎
  4. 파워 나침반 - Game Power, October 1999↩︎

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The beatmania series

Arcade

beatmania • 2ndMIX • 3rdMIX • completeMIX
4thMIX • 5thMIX • completeMIX 2
ClubMIX • Dreams Come True • CORE REMIX
6thMIX • 7thMIX • THE FINAL

PlayStation

APPEND 3rdMIX (Demo) • APPEND GOTTAMIX
APPEND 4thMIX • APPEND 5thMIX • European Edit (Prototype)
Dreams Come True • beatmania Best Hits • APPEND GOTTAMIX2
APPEND ClubMIX • The Sound of Tokyo! • 6thMIX + CORE REMIX

Game Boy (Color)

beatmania GB • beatmania GB2: Gotcha Mix • beatmania GB: Gotcha Mix 2

WonderSwan

beatmania for WonderSwan

Windows/Mac OS Classic

beatmania DA!! • beatmania BEST DA!!

PlayStation 2

beatmania DaDaDa!! • beatmania

beatmania III

Arcade

beatmania III • APPEND CORE REMIX • APPEND 6thMIX • APPEND 7thMIX • THE FINAL

See also

beatmania IIDX • Dance Dance Revolution • DrumMania • GuitarFreaks • KeyboardMania • ParaParaParadise • pop'n music