Hiphopmania completeMIX

hiphopmania completeMIX The first of two beatmania compilation games released for the arcades, featuring all songs from the first game up to 3rdMIX, alongside four new originals.

Unused Graphic#

While beatmania 3rdMIX removed Free Scratching Zones, graphics for them can still be found. However, the palette doesn't seem to be retained.

Development-Related Text#

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 in the interleaved program ROMs, at the following offsets:

• ver.JA-B - 0x213C0
• ver.JA-C - 0x21426
• ver.AA-C - 0x213F4
• ver.UA-B - 0x218AE
• ver.KA-B - 0x218F8

 GQ858  beatmania complete MIX  ver1.00[EOF]

Codename#

Found in the interleaved program ROMs of the American and Korean releases only is some sort of codename for the game, at offsets 0x2192D and 0x21977, respectively:

This string refers to the British progressive rock band Yes, as well as the rock supergroup Asia, of which several Yes members were a part of. It also refers to Asia's second and third albums, Alpha and Astra, and potentially their self-titled first album too.

Regional Differences#

Five releases of the game are known to exist, in four different regions:

• The Japanese release has two known revisions, JA-B and JA-C, which are labeled as bmcompmxb and bmcompmx on MAME, respectively.
• The Asian English release has one known revision, AA-C, which is labeled as bmcmxaac on MAME.
• The American release has one known revision, UA-B, which is labeled as hmcompmx on MAME.
• The Korean release has one known revision, KA-B, which is labeled as bscompmx on MAME.

Title Sequence#

• Prior to displaying its title screen, the Japanese release showcases a text reel of the release dates of each of the three beatmania games released at the time, along with the text "beat mania 1st Anniversary Version for all beatmania players". All other releases shorten this intro, making them slightly based on the intro for beatmania 3rdMIX, with the text "beat mania (AS)/hiphop mania (US)/beat stage (KR) ultimate version is Complete MIX" being displayed.

Japan	US

• The American release adds a glass scratch effect to the game's title screen, which also appears in the Korean release.

Japan/Asia	US	Korea

• The title screen BGM, Theme of beatmania, is missing from the American release, being replaced with the menu screens' BGM. This does not apply to the Korean release.

Songlist#

• All of the songs from the original beatmania (with the exception of jam jam reggae, e-motion and both variants of 20,november), SKA a go go, La Bossanova de Fabienne and Stop Violence! are absent from the American release.
• The songs tokai, Believe again, Believe again (HYPER MEGA MIX), find out and LUV TO ME THIRD-MIX are missing from the Korean release.
  • Due to the removal of these songs, the nouvo nude Internet Ranking course is not available in the Korean release. Furthermore, the fourth song of the dj nagureo course was changed to LUV TO ME (English Version).

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