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= pop'n music 2 =
== General Information ==

* Released: March 19th, 1999
* First pop'n game with Hidden, Random, and Mirror as play options.
* First pop'n game with Party Mode.
* This is the only pop'n music arcade game where [[Sanae Shintani]] is not giving her own individual song to sing. She instead appears as a back-up singer in [[Smile The Night Away|one song]], and collaborates on [[Cherry & Raquel|another]].
* [[e-motion]] and [[Surechigau futari|すれちがう二人]] have been knocked down from Hidden Songs to Second Stage songs. The returning songs from [[PnM_AC_1|pop'n music]] are otherwise in the same stage numbers.
* Total number of songs: 33

== Staff Information ==
* Producer: Koji Okamoto
* Director: Seiji Higurashi
* Sound Director: [[Hiroshi Takeyasu]]
* Composer: [[Yasuhiko Fukuda]], [[Masakazu Takeda]], [[Tomonori Ikeda]], Hiroshi Takeyasu, [[Kiyotaka Sugimoto]]
* Sound Data Analyzer: [[Hiroki Koga]]
* Programmer: Hiroshi Naraoka
* Mechanical Engineer: Takashi Mutou
* CG Designer: [[p-cat|P-CAT]], [[Tomoko Shiono|shio]]
* Graphic Designer: SHIMA-Q
* Guest Vocalist: [[Sanae Shintani]] (KCEJ West), [[Hiroyuki Togo]] (KCEJ West), Sachiyo Ogawa
* Guitarist: Tomonori Ideka
* Special Thanks To: BeMani Departament all staffs!, MZD, [[Ryo Komatsu]]

== Game Modes ==

* Beginner
* Normal
* Excite
* Party (New)

== Non-Rival Playable Characters ==
These characters don't belong to any specific song and are all playable from the get-go.

* Nyami [2]
* Mimi [2]
* Mary [2]
* the KING [2]
* NAKAJIMA san [2-NEW CHARACTER] 

= New Songs =

''See the [[Pop'n Music 2 AC Full Song List|pop'n music 2 complete songlist]] for a complete list of songs by stage number. Information of the complete stage select provided by [http://popnfever.s21.xrea.com/popn02/popn2.html this informative pop'n music site.]''

{|class="wikitable sortable" border="1px" style="background:#ccccee; font-size:90%; text-align: center; margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
|-
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;"|Genre (English)
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;"|Genre (Japanese)
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="240px"|Song Name
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" width="150px" |Artist
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;"|Character
!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;"|Diff. Lv.
|-
!style="background:#66FF66; text-align: center;" colspan="7"|First Stage
|-
| MASARA || マサラ || [[Suteki na Tabla|すてきなタブーラ]] || [[Yasuhiko Fukuda|TABAN KING]] || KARLI [2-DEBUT] || 5
|-
| MELLOW || メロウ || [[Hikari no kisetsu|光の季節]] || [[Masakazu Takeda|ANNA]] || [[SANAE♥chan]] [2] || 9
|-
| IDOL GIRL || アイドルガール || [[LOVE FIRE]] || [[Yasuhiko Fukuda|長沢ゆりか]] || [[JUDY]] [2] || 12
|-
| NEO ACO || ネオアコ || [[(fly higher than) the stars]] || [[Sugimoto Kiyotaka|sugi]]&[[Reo Nagumo|reo]] || Sugi★kun [2-DEBUT] || 16
|-
!style="background:#FF9933; text-align: center;" colspan="11"|Second Stage
|-
| VISUAL || ヴィジュアル || [[WHITE BIRDS]] || [[Tomonori Ikeda|violent age]] || Yuli [2-DEBUT] || 13
|-
| EURO QUEEN || ユーロクィーン || [[what i want (EURO MIX)]] || [[Hiroshi Takeyasu|T.R.S]] || KoKo || 15
|-
| DIGI ROCK || デジロック || [[ROSE ~Koibito yo, barairo ni somare|ROSE~恋人よ、薔薇色に染まれ]] || [[Tomonori Ikeda|BROKE]] || Timer [2-DEBUT] || 16
|-
| ENKA || エンカ|| [[Oedo hanafubuki|お江戸花吹雪]] || [[Hiroshi Takeyasu|高田香里]] || S.8.TARO [2-DEBUT] || 18
|-
!style="background:#CC0000; text-align: center;" colspan="11"|Final Stage
|-
| ANIME HERO R || アニメヒーローＲ || [[Habatake, the Great Gambler|はばたけ、ザ・グレートギャンブラー]] || [[Yasuhiko Fukuda|さくし:RYO うた:水木一郎]] || HIROSHI JINGU || 16
|-
| POP RAP || ポップラップ || [[Smile The Night Away]] || [[Scott Dolph|Scotty D]] || KRAFT? || 20
|-
| GIRLY || ガーリィ || [[Love Is Strong To The Sky]] || [[Masakazu Takeda|SAORI]] || [[RIE♥chan]] [2] || 22
|-
| HEAVY METAL || ヘビーメタル || [[I'm on fire]] || [[Tomonori Ikeda|AD/DA]] || Dami-yan || 23
|-
!style="background:#CC66FF; text-align: center;" colspan="11"|Hidden Songs
|-
| J-R&B || Ｊ−リズム＆ブルース || [[SAYONARA]] || [[Masakazu Takeda|ANNA]] || tourmaline [2-DEBUT] || 13
|-
| LOUNGE || ラウンジ || [[Cherry & Raquel]] || [[Hiroshi Takeyasu|The Ebisu Singers]] || Reo★kun [2-DEBUT] || 14
|-
!style="background:#6699FF; text-align: center;" colspan="11"|[[PnM_CS_1|pop'n music PS]]/[[PnM_CS_1_DC|DC]] transplants
|-
| AFRICA || アフリカ || [[Con te sabi 2119]] || [[Junichiro_Kaneda|Hamba un Aa]] || pretty [1-CS] || 14
|-
| J-POP || Ｊ−ポップ  || [[Life]] || [[Yoichi_Hayashi|Haya-P]] & [[Ayako Masuda|Maru]] || pretty [1-CS] || 14
|-
| FUSION || フュージョン || [[CROSSOVER 12]] || [[Satoru_Nakata|319]] || pretty [1-CS] || 16
|-
| TECHNO'80 || テクノ'80 || [[Water Melon Woman]] || [[Satoru_Nakata|NAKATEK]] || pretty [1-CS] || 19
|-
| CLASSIC || クラシック || [[Chaos Age]] || [[Junichiro_Kaneda|Waldeus von dovjak]] || pretty [1-CS] || 22
|-
|}

= Misc. =

Due to limited space in the early pop'n music games, none of the original backgrounds or sprites from [[PnM_AC_1|pop'n music]] are re-used in this game, although all the songs from the original game are in this one. Characters returning from the previous installment have their new sprites replace their pop'n 1 character sprites, or are replaced by another pop'n music 2 character. Characters who don't have match-ups with pop'n music 2 characters (such as CHARLY from [[spicy piece]]) are replaced by MZD, who made his debut in this game. Additionally, all the [[PnM_CS_1|pop'n music PS]]/[[PnM_CS_1_DC|DC]] pop'n music songs are represented exclusively by pretty, who comes in 5 different colors - one for each CS song.

Also, none of the hidden HYPER charts for the CS songs are playable in 2 AC.

== Rejected designs ==

The pop'n music series has a long history of rejected characters. Some never saw the light of day, and some would later be used many years or mixes later. For the second game, these include

* A girl wearing a hat with dog flaps, as well as a jacket, shorts, and big boots (later retooled as White-Merry in [[PnM_AC_13|pop'n music 13 カーニバル]])
* FAT BOY, who later came into the series with [[PnS_AC_1|pop'n stage]]
* SMOKE, who was redesigned nine years later and put in [[PnM_AC_16|pop'n music 16 PARTY♪]]
* An early-looking W.B.ROSE, who later came into the series with [[PnM_AC_6|pop'n music 6]]
* A girl in blue overalls, with a multi-colored, long sleeve shirt and red shoes with white stripes. Her hair consists of brown pigtails with a rainbow hat on top, and has a giant pink bear behind her
* A human, male samurai (possibly redesigned as S.8.TARO)
* Early-looking YOSHIO, who was later put in [[PnM_AC_7|pop'n music 7]]
* A see-through Mimi (possibly used as the concept of hone nyami in [[PnM_AC_9|pop'n music 9]]), which was later used on the LOSE animation of Torte&Parfait from [[PnM AC 19|pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET]]
* A panda bear with a microphone, wearing a yellow sweater with green stripes, brown pants, and light blue shoes (Nyami would later don this wardrobe in [[PnM_AC_11|pop'n music 11]] license [[Ore wa Gian-sama da!|おれはジャイアンさまだ!]])
* A happy man with purple hair in a yellow space suit, a red star on his knees, shoulder, and shirt, and wears purple shoes / skates (early Ryusei*Honey??)
* Stereotypical Chinese girl with brown, braided hair (possibly model of LingLing in [[PnM_AC_3|pop'n music 3]])
* A woman in a long, blue dress with butterflies on it, with long blue hair that covers up one of her eyes. A flower also dons her head (possibly retooled as Honey in [[PnM_AC_8|pop'n music 8]])
* A frog with yellow gloves and looks vaguely like Kermit the Frog
* A girl in a yellow bee costume (early hina??)
* A nun in purple garb (possibly retooled as Jessica in pop'n music 6)
* A girl with blonde hair (with three flowers on top of it), star eyes, and wears a red dress and a blue t-shirt underneath it. She's also holding a wand in her hand and is accompanied by a little cat and rabbit (early SPACE MACO??)

= Related Links =
* [http://www.konami.co.jp/am/popn/music1_4/html/2chara.html pop'n music 1&2 Official Site]
* [http://www.konami.jp/bemani/popn/music1_4/html/botu2.html Rejected pop'n music 2 designs]

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