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beatmania III

Release Information

• Release date: March 8th, 2000

General Information / Changes

• First title of the beatmania III series.
• The last game with the Dancemania licenses from beatmania 5thMIX.
• Though it retains the same 5-key gameplay of beatmania, beatmania III differs in the following ways:
  • beatmania III runs on BEMANI FIREBEAT HARDWARE, the same hardware used in pop'n music 4 through 8 and ee'MALL, as opposed to the more primitive BEMANI DJ-MAIN HARDWARE. As a result, songs have more fluid, full-screen videos and animations, and the interface is much more colorful.
    • Unfortunately, memory limitations leave songs with only having 5-10 seconds of unique animations repeated throughout a song.
  • A much more expanded effector table.
  • beatmania III has music previews; beatmania does not.
  • beatmania III features a foot pedal, used on a few select songs as a seventh button to press. It can also be used as a substitute for one of the five keys.
  • A 3.5 inch floppy disk drive, which one can use to save scores with, as well as unlock songs and game modes.
  • A headphone jack is included.
  • Each cleared song is graded red or blue. It is used to unlock secrets.
    • In tsunagi(expert) mode: Clearing with 95% or more GOOD, GREAT and JUST GREAT is graded red.
    • The other mode: Clearing with 95,000 points or more score is graded red.
  • Unlike beatmania, beatmania III very rarely removed songs from the original beatmania series.
  • beatmania III's max points possible for a song is 100,000 points (beatmania had switched to 200,000 max points a year earlier), which continued through the entire series.
• Only title in the beatmania III series with brand-new songs. Subsequent games were released as "APPEND" titles with the same new songs as their original beatmania counterpart (along with new LONG versions in the case of 6thMIX and 7thMIX.)
• 4 songs have charts that change depending on the player's performance. If the player gets a high number of BADs and POORs, the chart changes to a more simple version of itself.

Staff Information

beatmania III credits
beatmania III Original Soundtrack Booklet Credits

• Producer: Fumiaki Tanaka
• Executive Director: Seiji Higurashi
  
• Director & Planner: Yuichiro "Y.S" Sagawa
  
• Sound Director: DJ nagureo, Youhei Shimizu
  
• Sound Programmer: Youhei Shimizu
  
• Main Programmer: Hideki "Hx2" Hashimoto
  
• Programmer: Kazuyasu "ガソン・ワホ" Kawamura, Naoya "Natsumi" Kihara
  
• CG Designer: MZD-FIRE FLY, MORO
  
• Graphic Designer: Noriyuki "bedlam" Yokoki
  

Full Song List

• beatmania III full song list

New Songs

Genre	Song	Artist	BPM	SP Difficulty			DP Difficulty
				NORMAL	HARD	ANOTHER	NORMAL	HARD	ANOTHER
KONAMI originals
JUNGLE	2tone	RAM	184	3	3	-	3	3	-
TEKNO	12.4	RAM	152	5	5	5	5	5	-
DRUM'N'BASS	All is vanity	good-cool	157	3	4	4	3	4	-
RAVE	ASK	RAM	152	4	4	4	4	4	-
HIPHOP	Badboy flygirl	U.M.E.D.Y	105	4	5	-	4	5	-
RAVE	Cyber Girl	good-cool	133	5	5	5	5	5	5
80'S SOUL	Devoted To You	DJ nagureo feat. Robbie Danzie	108	3	4	-	3	4	-
TRANCE	EAST MEETS WEST	RAM	155	3	4	4	3	4	-
HOUSE	feeling of love	youhei shimizu	136	3	5	-	3	5	-
HIPHOP (PRACTICE)	Instant Love	DJ KONAMI	115	N/A	-	-	N/A	-	-
WARP HOUSE	Jam & Marmalade	FinalOffset	145	4	5	5	4	5	-
JAZZ HIPHOP	Keep On Liftin'	dj nagureo	100	3	3	3	3	3	-
HOUSE	Live together	good-cool	125	3	5	-	3	5	-
JAZZ HOUSE	mnemoniq	youhei shimizu	111	4	5	-	4	5	-
LOVER'S REGGAE	my cherie amour (licensed cover)	DJ nagureo feat. Sana	90	1	3	3	1	3	-
EUROBEAT	Overwhelming	good-cool	122	3	4	-	3	4	-
SPIRITUAL	qingdao	DJ nagureo	130	3	4	4	3	4	-
HIPHOP	Rest my mind	dj nagureo feat. Doublecheese	94	4	4	-	4	4	-
J-POP	Shake it down	good-cool	125	3	5	-	3	5	-
GARAGE HOUSE	Stay with me	DJ nagureo feat. Robbie Danzie	126	3	4	4	3	4	-
SKA	Tondemo paradise	thelonious monkees	145	2	3	-	2	3	-
ACID JAZZ	Trust no one	thelonious monkees	170	2	3	-	2	3	-
EUROBEAT	Twin Bee ～Generation X～	FinalOffset	168-177	5	5	5	5	5	-

EXPERT Courses

No. Song DJ nagureo 1. COME AND GET IT 2. peace-out 3. Stay with me 4. 20,november (single mix) / 20,november (radio edit)

No. Song CLIMAX 1. All is vanity 2. Overwhelming 3. feeling of love 4. mnemoniq

No. Song RAVE 1. e-motion (2ndMIX) 2. ASK 3. R3 4. Cyber Girl

No. Song Selection 1. Keep On Liftin' (ANOTHER) 2. EAST MEETS WEST (ANOTHER) 3. qingdao (ANOTHER) 5. Jam & Marmalade (ANOTHER)

No. Song KONAMIX 1. quick master 2. METALGEAR SOLID -Main Theme- 3. Salamander Beat Crush mix 4. Twin Bee ～Generation X～

No. Song HIPHOP 1. s.d.z 2. tokai 3. ALL PRO 4. Badboy flygirl

Codes & Unlock Information

Codes

These three modifiers are not available in tsunagi (expert) mode.

Foot play

• On the song select screen, while choosing a song (except foot ver. songs), hold Start and pedal, then press any key to assign that key to pedal.
  • Note that even if Battle play is used, only one key is assigned.

Frame select

• On the song select screen, repeatedly press and release Start. The gameplay frame will change depending on how many times Start was released.
  • 0: AUTO, 1: CLOUD, 2: TECHNO, 3: STREET, 4: METAL, 5: JAPAN, 6: SPE-ANA, 7: same as 0.

Fast/Slow play

• On the song select screen,
  • Hold keys 2 and 4, then press 1 to start: FAST PLAY 1 (1.25X).
  • Hold keys 2 and 4, then press 3 to start: FAST PLAY 2 (1.6X).
  • Hold keys 2 and 4, then press 5 to start: FAST PLAY 3 (2.0X).
  • Hold keys 1, 3 and 5, then press 4 to start: SLOW PLAY (0.8X).
    • Note that some songs do not allow these modifiers.

Song Unlocks

ANOTHER charts

• Start with a FD. Play a HARD chart with an ANOTHER chart. Clear it graded red or play five times. When next play with the FD, the ANOTHER chart is added.

Related Links

• beatmania III mirrored site

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