Later Appearing Songs

It is known that KONAMI has a habit of having songs that appear in earlier BEMANI games, such as data that contains graphics, charts, and even song cuts of unused licensed and KONAMI original songs, before their proper debuts. This page will list every known song that appeared earlier in some way (HDD data, location test, master songlist, etc.) before its proper debut.

Note that unlike the Scrapped Songs page, this lists songs that only actually appeared in a final BEMANI game.

Songs are listed by the game they were going to debut on, not the game they finally appeared in.

This page is under HEAVY construction. For songs whose movements aren't covered by official KONAMI sources, please use the Talk Page.

beatmania IIDX

beatmania IIDX

• Cherry & Raquel
  • Originally written for beatmania IIDX, but was moved to pop'n music 2 by beatmania IIDX sound director dj nagureo.

beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS

• 月風魔伝
  • According to Eiichi Kitsukawa, 月風魔伝 was originally composed for beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS. However, data for the song was lost during development of IIDX RED CS and the song ended up not being in the game. It was later retooled years later with additional arrangement and debuted in pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝.

beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD

• evergreen
  • According to kors k's song comments on the DJ TROOPERS page for the song, evergreen was originally written for GOLD, but was submitted late and instead debuted in DJ TROOPERS.

beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS

• Macuilxochitl
  • According to TOMOSUKE'S twitter, Macuilxochitl was originally a beatmania IIDX song. But the jubeat staff wanted a jazzy classic piano song, so it went there instead. The early version of Macuilxochitl, which was faster and used four pianos, was later retooled into Almagest, which appeared in SIRIUS after it was remixed by Galdeira.

DanceDanceRevolution

DanceDanceRevolution

• BOYS
  • Appeared in the location test of DanceDanceRevolution, but did not appear in the final release. It instead debuted in DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX a few months later.

DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX

• XANADU
  • Graphics can be fond in the 2ndMIX data, but there are no charts for the song and it's not playable. It later became playable in DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX.

DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX

• ウルトラハイヒール〜I JUST WANNA TELL YOU
  • According to [OMG KON!'s blog], ウルトラハイヒール〜I JUST WANNA TELL YOU was playable during the DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX location test, and banner data apparently exists in the game. It later appeared in pop'n music 5.
    • This would also explain Seiya Murai's comment on the official pop'n music 5 site for ウルトラハイヒール〜I JUST WANNA TELL YOU mentioning "Ms. Angel O'Brien" and how active she is in DDR, despite her not having any original songs in that series.

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX

• Save A Little Something
  • Data for Save A Little Something appeared on the GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX location test. However, the song would not become playable for three more games.

pop'n music

pop'n music 3

• full moon
  • SECRET-S mentions on full moon's page on the official pop'n stage website that it was made for pop'n music 3, but was moved to pop'n stage.

pop'n music 7

• 世にも奇妙な物語メインタイトル
  • wac mentions on 世にも奇妙な物語メインタイトル's page on the official pop'n music 12 いろは website that it was originally composed for pop'n music 7. He mentions that dummy data can be found for the song in the HDD data of the game.

pop'n music 8

• GOODBYE CHOCOLATE KISS
  • wac mentions in GOODBYE CHOCOLATE KISS' song comments on the official pop'n music 9 website that GOODBYE CHOCOLATE KISS was made for pop'n music 8, but time constraints resulted in it not being in the game and moved to the following one.

pop'n music 10

• Just you wait!
  • According to wac's song comments on the pop'n music 12 いろは page for the song, Just you wait! was made in late 2002/early 2003 for pop'n music 10, but did not appear in the game and instead appeared in pop'n music 12. He doesn't give a specific reason for its absence.

pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝

• 少年リップルズ
  • According to wac's song comments on the pop'n music 19 TUNE STREET page for the song, 少年リップルズ was originally written for pop'n music 18. However, both time constraints and vocalist Yu Tokiwa's limited ability resulted in the song being delayed. It finally debuted in jubeat ripples APPEND.

REFLEC BEAT

REFLEC BEAT

• Stay my side
  • Stay my side originally debuted in the location test of REFLEC BEAT, but made its first appearance in beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem, nearly two months before the game's debut. Still, Stay my side appeared on the REFLECT BEAT OST alongside all the other original songs for the game, as well as the game's unlock systems. However, it was later debunked as a REFLEC BEAT original in beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro, when it was the only REFLEC BEAT song in IIDX that couldn't be used to access Hollywood Galaxy via the game's LIMIT BURST system.

SOUND VOLTEX

SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH

• HYENA
  • HYENA's album jacket shows at the top "from FROM:SOUND VOLTEX", suggesting it was originally a SOUND VOLTEX song, though whether it was for the original game or the sequel SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection- is unknown. HYENA was later made playable in the Nettou! BEMANI Stadium (熱闘！BEMANIスタジアム) event.

• Pure Evil
  • Data of Pure Evil was available in the SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH game data until a certain point. The data was eventually moved in SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection- and the song was finally made playable on March 20th, 2014.