Pop'n music 8 (PlayStation 2)

pop'n music 8 (PlayStation 2) A home port of Konami's pop'n music 8 arcade rhythm game. It is known to be the first installment in the series to have some involvement by Konami's Shanghai branch, which contributed with some of the new character designs.

Unused Graphics#

NOTE: None of the graphics listed below have proper filenames; the names are given based on the order in which they are present in IMAGE.DAT.

Title Screen#

File 4 contains the assets seen in the game's title screen. Within it, are also some leftover graphics from the game's original arcade release, including those for the coin counter, the stage number indicator, and even for the shop number ID seen in the top right corner of the screen.

There also exists graphics for a "Debug" button, but the function itself does not seem to exist anymore. Using the following codes can make it appear in the title screen:

0019321c 28a20010
00193244 28620009
0019324c 24630009
00193258 2463fff7
00193228 28a10008
00193230 28a1000f
001932d4 28620009
001932dc 24630009
001932e8 2463fff7
00193080 24020008
0019308c 28420009

Unused Character Icons#

File 6 contains the character icons seen in both the mode selection screen and during gameplay when using the "Character Pop-kun" ojama. Many of these never actually seem to appear due to its respective characters not being in the game.

Artist Graphics#

File 34 contains the artist graphics seen when selecting a song. Much like the unused icons, there's a lot of unused graphics; many of them are arcade leftovers.

Graphic	Song
	Sazae-san ikka (pop'n music 6)
	Candy Candy (pop'n music 6)
	Yatterman no uta (pop'n music 6)
	Tobe! Gundam (pop'n music 6)
	Taiyou ni hoero no theme (pop'n music 6)
	Suimin bousouku (pop'n music 6)
	Yoake no michi (pop'n music 6)
	Uchuu senkan Yamato (pop'n music 7)
	Bara wa utsukushiku chiru (pop'n music 7)
	Lum no love song (pop'n music 7)
	Hajimete no chuu (pop'n music 7)
	SA-DA-ME (pop'n music 7)
	Betty Boo (pop'n music 7)
	GET THE CHANCE! (pop'n music 7)
	Free pass (pop'n music 7)
	Ringo to hachimitsu (pop'n music 7)
	Sweets (pop'n music 7)
	Denki ningyou (pop'n music 7)
	CHICKEN CHASER (pop'n music 7)
	Passacaglia (pop'n music 7)
	Tropical Palette (pop'n music 7)
	Dimanche (pop'n music 7)
	Camomile bathroom (pop'n music 7)
	S-S-L ~Super Special Love~ (pop'n music 7)
	platonic love (pop'n music 7)
	Jiayou! Genkizaru! (pop'n music 7)
	Disco typhoon (pop'n music 7)
	Kantan na koto dakedo taisetsu na mono (pop'n music 7)
	Junai surrender (pop'n music 7)
	HAPPY MUSIC (pop'n music 7)
	GLORIA (pop'n music 7)
	EXCALIBUR (pop'n music 7)
	Minashigo Hutch (pop'n music 8)

Unused (New) Character Sprites#

The character Elle [CS8], whose files are contained in Files 511 for the 1P palette and 510 for 2P, contain an unused sprite. Do note that the iteration of this character seen in pop'n music 4 has a similar sprite seen in the song selection screen, as well as before the song starts in the PlayStation and Dreamcast ports of the game, and that, considering this new variation seems to be a redrawn version of that, this sprite could have simply been redrawn without knowing it was no longer used.

Unused Characters#

There's also three unused characters within the game's data; the Nyami variants for the songs Minashigo Hutch and THUNDER BIRDS, which are the two new licenses from the original arcade release that are absent from this home port, and the MZD variant from Oedo hanafubuki TEYAN-day MIX. This latter character can also be found unused in the arcade version, as that song is not present in there either.

Nyami [TV&ANIME-THUNDER BIRDS]#

File 195

File 994

Nyami [TV&ANIME-8]#

File 79

File 997

MZD [5-ENKA]#

File 138

File 1000

References#