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GUITARFREAKS & drummania still struggled with the space restrictions with the PlayStation-based KONAMI BEMANI SYSTEM 573 DIGITAL hardware. [[AC GF7DM6|GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX]] only had 98 songs versus the [[AC GF6DM5|previous game]]'s 138, though the new songlist spawned quite a few popular BEMANI crossovers choices for the future, including [[Concertino in Blue]], considered one of the better songs from the classic era of the franchise and was even popular enough to be transplanted into beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, jubeat, and pop'n music many years later. [[AC GF8DM7|GUITARFREAKS 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX]] was the first game to revive older songs, and was the first ever BEMANI game to support [[e-AMUSEMENT]] for exclusive content; in this case, the ability to play songs from the '''power-up version''' of the game that came a few months later, which added six new songs and saw re-ratings for near every chart in the game.

GUITARFREAKS & drummania, beatmania IIDX found itself struggling with the limitations of the Twinkle arcade hardware - new songs in 8th style didn't even have overlays, and a lot of originals in both 8th and the preceding 7th were removed due to space. KONAMI seemed to be aware of this, though, as the following year saw a big change in store for the series, one that would turn it into the future cornerstone of all of BEMANI altogether.

With the end of beatmania and hibernation beginning for the arcade version of DanceDanceRevolution, [[2003]] would see KONAMI make a big change for beatmania IIDX, and the start of a new DanceDanceRevolution series internationally, the first home console games made outside of Japan.

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