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The year 2000 might have been KONAMI's biggest year ever with BEMANI. In addition to all their previous series of the following years receiving brand-new games, which all had several new installments this year, KONAMI released '''three''' new BEMANI series: '''Dance Maniax''', [[KEYBOARDMANIA Information|KEYBOARDMANIA]], and | The year 2000 might have been KONAMI's biggest year ever with BEMANI. In addition to all their previous series of the following years receiving brand-new games, which all had several new installments this year, KONAMI released '''three''' new BEMANI series: '''Dance Maniax''', [[KEYBOARDMANIA Information|KEYBOARDMANIA]], and [[ParaParaParadise Information|ParaParaParadise]]. They also released ''another'' spinoff of beatmania; [[AC bm III|beatmania III]]. | ||
2000 also saw the year of KONAMI slowly transitioning to more powerful consoles for their BEMANI series. With the exception of Dance Maniax, all of the year's new BEMANI series ran on the more powerful BEMANI FIREBEAT HARDWARE, which allowed for more space and better graphics. pop'n music even began using it this year, beginning with [[AC pnm 4|pop'n music 4]]. Curiously, KONAMI continued to run the original beatmania series on BEMANI DJ-MAIN HARDWARE, and beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, and GUITARFREAKS/drummania would continue to run on PlayStation-based hardware for a few more years. (Dance Maniax ran on KONAMI BEMANI SYSTEM 573 DIGITAL, the same hardware used for [[AC DDR 3rd|DanceDanceRevolution]] through [[AC DDR EXTREME|EXTREME]], as well as [[AC GF3|GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX]] & [[AC DM2|drummania 2ndMIX]] through [[AC GF11DM10|GUITARFREAKS 11thMIX & drummania 10thMIX]].) | 2000 also saw the year of KONAMI slowly transitioning to more powerful consoles for their BEMANI series. With the exception of Dance Maniax, all of the year's new BEMANI series ran on the more powerful BEMANI FIREBEAT HARDWARE, which allowed for more space and better graphics. pop'n music even began using it this year, beginning with [[AC pnm 4|pop'n music 4]]. Curiously, KONAMI continued to run the original beatmania series on BEMANI DJ-MAIN HARDWARE, and beatmania IIDX, DanceDanceRevolution, and GUITARFREAKS/drummania would continue to run on PlayStation-based hardware for a few more years. (Dance Maniax ran on KONAMI BEMANI SYSTEM 573 DIGITAL, the same hardware used for [[AC DDR 3rd|DanceDanceRevolution]] through [[AC DDR EXTREME|EXTREME]], as well as [[AC GF3|GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX]] & [[AC DM2|drummania 2ndMIX]] through [[AC GF11DM10|GUITARFREAKS 11thMIX & drummania 10thMIX]].) | ||
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* September 7th: [[CS bm GOTTA 2|beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX2 ~Going Global~]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation. | * September 7th: [[CS bm GOTTA 2|beatmania APPEND GOTTAMIX2 ~Going Global~]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation. | ||
* September 7th: [[CS pnm GB Animelo|pop'n music GB アニメーションメロディ]] is released in Japan for Nintendo's Game Boy Color. | * September 7th: [[CS pnm GB Animelo|pop'n music GB アニメーションメロディ]] is released in Japan for Nintendo's Game Boy Color. | ||
* September 12th: | * September 12th: [[AC PPP|ParaParaParadise]] is released to Japanese arcades. | ||
* September 13th: [[AC GF4DM3|GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX]] is released to Japanese arcades. | * September 13th: [[AC GF4DM3|GUITARFREAKS 4thMIX & drummania 3rdMIX]] is released to Japanese arcades. | ||
* September 14th: [[CS DDR Oha Suta|おはスタ DanceDanceRevolution]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation. | * September 14th: [[CS DDR Oha Suta|おはスタ DanceDanceRevolution]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation. | ||
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* October 12th: [[CS pnm 4|pop'n music 4 CS APPEND DISC]] is released in Japan for both the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast. It is the last BEMANI game released on the Sega Dreamcast. | * October 12th: [[CS pnm 4|pop'n music 4 CS APPEND DISC]] is released in Japan for both the Sony PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast. It is the last BEMANI game released on the Sega Dreamcast. | ||
* October 18th: ''beatmania Club MIX Original Soundtrack'' released. This soundtrack was published by SMEJ Associated Records as opposed to KONAMI, due to its licenses. | * October 18th: ''beatmania Club MIX Original Soundtrack'' released. This soundtrack was published by SMEJ Associated Records as opposed to KONAMI, due to its licenses. | ||
* October 24th: | * October 24th: [[AC PPP V1.1|ParaParaParadise V1.1]], a tweaked version of ParaParaParadise with more songs, is released to Japanese arcades. | ||
* October 25th: ''beatmania IIDX 3rd style Original Soundtracks'' album released. It also contains the missing KONAMI originals from 2nd style that weren't in beatmania maniac-tracks. | * October 25th: ''beatmania IIDX 3rd style Original Soundtracks'' album released. It also contains the missing KONAMI originals from 2nd style that weren't in beatmania maniac-tracks. | ||
* Unknown day: [[Reo Nagumo]] leaves KONAMI to work at Sony Computer Entertainment. He would still occasionally contribute to BEMANI up until 2008, though. | * Unknown day: [[Reo Nagumo]] leaves KONAMI to work at Sony Computer Entertainment. He would still occasionally contribute to BEMANI up until 2008, though. | ||
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* December 21st: [[CS DDR BEST HITS|DanceDanceRevolution BEST HITS]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation. | * December 21st: [[CS DDR BEST HITS|DanceDanceRevolution BEST HITS]] is released in Japan for the Sony PlayStation. | ||
* December 21st: ''pop'n music 5 arcade originals'' album released. | * December 21st: ''pop'n music 5 arcade originals'' album released. | ||
* December 26th: | * December 26th: [[AC PPP 1st MIX Plus|ParaParaParadise 1st MIX Plus]], another enhancement of ParaParaParadise, is released to Japanese arcades. | ||
* December 28th: [[AC DDR 4th PLUS|DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX PLUS]] is released in Japan to Japanese arcades. | * December 28th: [[AC DDR 4th PLUS|DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX PLUS]] is released in Japan to Japanese arcades. | ||
* December 31st: [[AC bm III CORE REMIX|beatmania III APPEND CORE REMIX]] is released to Japanese arcades. | * December 31st: [[AC bm III CORE REMIX|beatmania III APPEND CORE REMIX]] is released to Japanese arcades. | ||
* Unknown date: [[AC DDR KIDS|DanceDanceRevolution KIDS]] is released to Japanese arcades. | * Unknown date: | ||
** [[AC DDR KIDS|DanceDanceRevolution KIDS]] is released to Japanese arcades. | |||
** [[AC PPD|ParaParaDancing]] is released to Korean arcades. | |||
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