2018

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2018

KONAMI celebrated the 20th anniversaries of DanceDanceRevolution and pop'n music in September with little events and new songs, even making anniversary pages for both games. On September 28th, KONAMI also started location testing a new BEMANI game, Rizminance.

In addition, KONAMI announced a new spin-off project of HinaBitter♪, titled BandMeshi♪ (バンめし♪).

Unfortunately, 2018 saw KONAMI continuing their practices at the end of 2017 well into 2018 as well. Including:

• The 10th anniversary event of jubeat in jubeat clan, clan kakumichi original characters & songs (clan各街オリジナルキャラクター＆楽曲), exclusively involved commission artists, and all of the jackets for the event were commissioned as well.
  • The commissioned jacket trend has continued into jubeat festo.
• The ENCORE/PREMIUM ENCORE STAGE songs in GITADORA EXCHAIN don't have unique videos, the first ones that don't since the first two ENCORE STAGE songs in GITADORA.
• pop'n music peace's official website doesn't have a page for music and characters, the first one in the arcade series' history.
• On October 1st, 2018, KONAMI removed virtually all arcade BEMANI pages from their website. They now link to their Japanese game page instead. The following game sites were removed (not including old BEMANI pages previously removed):
  • All beatmania pages.
  • All beatmania IIDX arcade pages prior to beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle.
    • The CS beatmania IIDX pages after 6th style CS (3rd style through 5th style CS' pages were previously taken down a few years ago).
  • All mainline DanceDanceRevolution arcade pages prior to DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX, and the Solo games' pages as well.
    • All CS DanceDanceRevolution pages.
  • All GuitarFreaks & DrumMania pages prior to GITADORA Tri-Boost.
    • All CS GuitarFreaks & DrumMania pages.
  • All jubeat arcade pages prior to jubeat saucer fulfill, as well as the jubeat plus page.
  • All pop'n music arcade pages prior to pop'n music ラピストリア.
    • All CS pop'n music pages.
    • The pop'n stage page was also removed.
  • All REFLEC BEAT arcade pages prior to REFLEC BEAT colette, as well as the REFLEC BEAT plus page.
    • • Curiously, the beatnation records website was not taken down.
• In the place of the above removed pages, KONAMI has instead placed little one-page websites for their older BEMANI games instead with very basic information and a few screenshots, which can be viewed here. All references to any in-house BEMANI staff have been removed from these little pages.
  • KONAMI later announced that the website removals were due to a restructure of their gaming portal websites, as noted on their twitter here. However, none of the removed BEMANI game pages have yet to be restored.

February

• February 10th: The 7th KONAMI Arcade Championship and 天下一音ゲ祭 全国一斉認定大会 2017 are held at JAEPO 2018.
• February 11th: After months of rumors, KONAMI officially announces the endings of REFLEC BEAT and MÚSECA via BEMANI Pia, a 20th anniversary BEMANI book sold at JAEPO 2018.
• February 12th: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS is released to Korean arcades.
• February 14th:
  • jubeat clan ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
  • GITADORA Tri-Boost Original Soundtrack Volume.03 released.
  • GITADORA Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE Original Soundtrack released.

March

• March 7th: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
• March 23rd: DANCERUSH STARDOM is released to Japanese arcades.

May

• May 9th: 日向美ビタースイーツ♪ BEST, a 2-CD best hits collection of various HinaBitter♪ songs, was released.

June

• June 26th: Offline kits for MÚSECA 1+1/2 were released, as well as conversion kits to change MÚSECA to Bishi Bashi CHANNEL (ビシバシCHANNEL) are available from this date as well.

July

• July 24th, 2018: SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN gets heavily censored in the South Korean version of the game. Due to interference from South Korea's video games board, Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC), all songs added after November 16th, 2017 were temporarily removed from the game (except for BLASTER GATE charts for older songs).
  • Song updates were paused as well until August 23rd, 2018, when all missing songs were restored. However, the censorship of the jackets remained.
    • On August 2nd, 2018, a similar censorship happened with DanceDanceRevolution A, with EXTRA SAVIOR song ALGORITHM temporarily absent from the Korean release of the game.
    • The BEMANI SUMMER GREETINGS event, which started on August 10th, cannot be accessed in the Korean version of GITADORA Matixx, unfortunately suggesting the censorship issues with GRAC have not yet been fully resolved.
• July 31st:
  • eAMUSEMENT support for MÚSECA 1+1/2 ended, marking the end of the series.
  • Patent no. 2922509, which mainly covered elements of the original beatmania series such as keysounded notes and vertical note scrolling, reaches the end of its term.

September

• September 5th: jubeat festo is released to Japanese arcades.
• September 7th: DANCERUSH STARDOM is released to Korean arcades.
• September 10th: jubeat festo is released to Korean arcades.
• September 12th:
  • GITADORA EXCHAIN is released to arcades.
  • ひなビタ♪ライブSSP～待っててね東京さんっ！～ released.
• September 26th: ノスタルジア Op.2 is released to Japanese arcades.

October

• October 10th: pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Original Soundtrack and pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition released.
• October 11th: ノスタルジア Op.2 is released to Korean arcades.
• October 17th: pop'n music peace is released to Japanese arcades.
• October 25th: Amusement IC service is implemented for a selection of arcade games released by KONAMI, SEGA, and BANDAI NAMCO.

November

• November 7th:
  • beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage is released to Japanese arcades.
  • EDP presents ここなつワンマンライブ2018 ミライコウシン is released.
• November 8th: pop'n music peace is released to Korean arcades.
• November 12th: beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage is released to Korean arcades.
• November 15th: KONAMI announces on their official Tokimeki Idol (ときめきアイドル) twitter that the game will be taken offline on January 15th, 2019, and will include an offline patch.

December

• December 5th: BandMeshi♪ single, ビター・エスケープ, will be released.

Upcoming date

• SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE will be released to arcades.

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