beatmania IIDX
Arcade Releases
1st - substream - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th - 7th
8th - 9th - 10th - 11 IIDX RED - 12 HAPPY SKY
13 DistorteD - 14 GOLD - 15 DJ TROOPERS
16 EMPRESS - 17 SIRIUS - 18 Resort Anthem
19 Lincle - 20 tricoro - 21 SPADA - 22 PENDUAL
23 copula - 24 SINOBUZ - 25 CANNON BALLERS
26 Rootage - 27 HEROIC VERSE
28 BISTROVER - 29 CastHour - 30 RESIDENT
31 EPOLIS - 32 Pinky Crush
Foreign Arcade Releases
beatmania IIDX (China) - tricoro (China)
Home Releases
Sony PlayStation 2
3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th - 7th - 8th - 9th - 10th
beatmania (2006) - 11 IIDX RED - 12 HAPPY SKY
13 DistorteD - 14 GOLD - 15 DJ TROOPERS
16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST
PC Releases
INFINITAS - INFINITAS (2020)
Mobile Releases
i-αppli - IIDX i-αppli - ULTIMATE MOBILE


beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL

Release Information

 

  • Location test dates: June 13th, 2014 - June 15th, 2014
  • Release date: September 17th, 2014
  • Slogan: 時、行き交わう。弐つの振音

General Information / Changes

  • The subtitle "PENDUAL" is a portmanteau of "pendulum" (hence the time theme) and "dual".
  • The Space-Time system is introduced, which cycles the theme appearance between a "PRESENT Phase" (gray skin) and a "FUTURE Phase" (purple skin), with changes on the interface, background music and with their own exclusive songs.
    • The game alternates between PRESENT and FUTURE according to the schedule shown in the official website's calendar.
    • On the song selection screen, PRESENT Phase songs sit on a white background frame, while FUTURE Phase songs sit on a purple background frame.
    • The PRESENT Phase BGM of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL is made by 猫叉Masterβ2, while the FUTURE Phase BGM is made by L.E.D..
    • On the in-game clock, the year displayed is 2014 in the PRESENT Phase, and 2222 in the FUTURE Phase.
    • During the FUTURE Phase, Dan'inintei courses have the MIRROR modifier active.
    • The PRESENT Phase announcer is named Chronos, the FUTURE Phase announcer is named Kairos.
      • The two characters are the girls appearing in the Chrono Seeker event.
  • EX-COMBO option is introduced. Instead of the combo count, it shows the EX-SCORE next to the judgment rank during gameplay.
  • R-RANDOM (Rotation RANDOM) option is introduced, which lets the player offset patterns by a set (from +1 to +6) amount of lanes. It may also be used with the MIRROR option.
  • EXPAND-JUDGE option is introduced. Increases the PERFECT GREAT and GREAT timing windows by four times, but score and clear lamps with this option are not saved.
  • The old RANK font in the result screen returns.
  • Titles of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL songs are written with a pink font.
  • The Charge Notes icons are removed in the song selection screen.
    • However, the ALL CHARGE NOTES folder is still available.
  • The DJ Name is not shown anymore in the song selection screen.
  • Dellars have been renamed as Fricos. It has a new icon, showing a potion.
  • The feature showing judgment results for each chart lane in Double Player's result screen has been removed.
  • With the removal of song genres in pop'n music ラピストリア, beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL is the only BEMANI game as of late 2014 to continue having music genres for its new songs.
  • VANESSA's background video, which was removed in beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro, is restored.
  • F's unique song title card has returned.
  • RISE's charts and audio have been fixed.
  • Songs from the QprogueDX, SUPER STAR -MITSURU- Perfect Revival (SUPER STAR 満 -MITSURU- 完全復活祭) and GUMI 5th Anniversary party Presented by BEMANI events of beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA are unlocked by default.
    • Songs from beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro events (except LEGEND CROSS) can be still unlocked throughout the Hakken! Yomigaetta BEMANI iseki (発見!よみがえったBEMANI遺跡) event.
  • Songs from the Spada†leggendaria event of beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA can be accessed throughout the LEGGENDARIA folder, which is, once again, exclusively available to PASELI users only.
  • First beatmania IIDX arcade game since beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD with no song by GUHROOVY on the default songlist.
  • First beatmania IIDX arcade game since Dirty Androids' debut where he has no songs on the default songlist.
  • First beatmania IIDX game since beatmania IIDX substream to feature dj TAKA and not have a new song by him on the default songlist.
  • First beatmania IIDX arcade game since beatmania IIDX 9th style to feature kors k and not have a new song by him on the default songlist.
  • Theme: Time.

Staff Information

Full Song List

beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL Full Songlist

New Songs

Regular Songs

PRESENT Phase Songs

The following songs have a white background frame on the music selection screen, and are only available on the PRESENT Phase of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL.

FUTURE Phase Songs

The following songs have a purple background frame on the music selection screen, and are only available on the FUTURE Phase of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL.

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK VOL.2 Pre-order Songs

By purchasing the beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK VOL.2 album, you'll receive a code which allows you to unlock these two songs since October 1st, 2014, both from the beatnation RHYZE vs HARDCORE TANO*C album:

†LEGGENDARIA Charts

The following songs are from beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA.

Chrono Seeker Songs

Challenge Chance

The Challenge Chance event (name is currently not confirmed) is a secret unlock system of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL, started on September 24th, 2014. Much like the LIMIT BURST and the Spada†leggendaria events, you need to be able to access the EXTRA STAGE.

Unlock conditions are the same between Single Player and Double Player modes.

The objective of Challenge Chance is to satisfy secret requirements in order to open a door, which appears in the result screen. Once the door is open, it's possible to play the secret song.

To begin the event, you have to first trigger the appearance of the door itself. To do this on PRESENT Phase, you must obtain a Full Combo and an AAA rank grade together on any difficulty of chrono diver -fragment- without using RANDOM. The same thing can be done with CHRONO DIVER -NORNIR-, on the FUTURE Phase. If done correctly, the door will appear in the result screen.

Afterwards, you have to fulfill hidden requirements that will cause the door to open. So far, none of these requirements have been discovered yet. The door comes with three "challenge chance" coins. If one coin disappear, you have to try figuring out the conditions only in a different day, when the Space-Time Phase of the game is changed.

If all "challenge chance" coins are gone, the door will fade away. It will be automatically re-triggered in the next play session, after the FINAL STAGE.

Chrono Seeker

Official event page.

The Chrono Seeker is the first unlock system of beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL, introduced on October 1st, 2014.

The event only shows up in STANDARD mode, with only one player. Its songs are located in the Chrono Seeker folder; this folder appears in FINAL STAGE on coin play and in EXTRA STAGE on PASELI play (in the rest of Asia, the folder appears in EXTRA STAGE on coin play). Chrono Seeker is automatically activated after the first play session since the event started.

Chrono Seeker is divided in two sections, one for each Space-Time Phase. Chronos' songs can be only unlocked on PRESENT Phase, while Kairos' songs can only be unlocked on FUTURE Phase. Unlike Chronos' songs, Kairos' ones are revivals and beatmania IIDX CS transplants.

The main objective is to unlock songs' charts by collecting Crystal shards. When a Crystal is fully materialized in the special event screen (which appears at the end of each play session), a special announcement appears and the respective chart is unlocked. To gain crystal shards you need to play specific songs in the first three stages; it doesn't matter if you clear the songs or not. Each colored Crystal corresponds to the respective difficulty: blue for NORMAL, yellow for HYPER and red for ANOTHER.

The four Crystal rows, with each one containing a PRESENT song (left side) and a FUTURE song (right side), must be unlocked in order, from the top one to the bottom one. Before you can proceed, you must play the newly unlocked song and then you can fulfill requirements for the song of the successive row. Progression on Crystal rows is, though, shared between both Space-Time Phases; for example, if you have unlocked the third row on PRESENT Phase, on FUTURE Phase you can unlock any of its first three Chrono Seeker songs as you wish. You still have to play the song of the third row before working on the fourth one.

You can play a Chrono Seeker song in the special event folder, after one of its respective charts has been at least unlocked. To unlock their charts for regular play instead, you need to collect two Crystals of same color in the same row (example: collect the red Crystal for COLOSSEUM and for in motion, and the ANOTHER chart for both songs appears in regular play permanently).

NOTE: None of the Chrono Seeker songs are Phase exclusive ones.

Chrono Seeker PRESENT Phase Songs

The following list shows the requirements to obtain Crystal shards, used to unlock the songs:

COLOSSEUM (Jack hans)

  • NORMAL chart: play any default PRESENT Phase exclusive song once on NORMAL difficulty.
  • HYPER chart: play any default PRESENT Phase exclusive song three times on HYPER difficulty.
  • ANOTHER chart: play any default PRESENT Phase exclusive song five times on ANOTHER difficulty.

とろぴかる倶楽部 (Jens)

  • NORMAL chart: play 10 songs on NORMAL difficulty, with the MIRROR modifier activated.
  • HYPER chart: play 13 songs on HYPER difficulty, with the MIRROR modifier activated.
  • ANOTHER chart: play 16 songs on ANOTHER difficulty, with the MIRROR modifier activated.

Light My Fire (Jizaru)

  • NORMAL chart: play 5 songs with charts that have Charge Notes, on NORMAL difficulty.
  • HYPER chart: play a certain amount of songs with charts that have Charge Notes, on HYPER difficulty.
  • ANOTHER chart: play a certain amount of songs with charts that have Charge Notes, on ANOTHER difficulty.

時空トラベローグ (Jack tea)

Chrono Seeker FUTURE Phase Songs

The following list shows the requirements to obtain Crystal shards, used to unlock the songs:

in motion (Jack hans)

  • The beatmania IIDX game version folder and the amount of seconds remaining (in the song selection menu) for the song you have to play must be the same as the current hour shown in the in-game clock. Example: from 21:00 to 21:59, you have to play a beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA song with 21 seconds remaining. The Crystal shard color depends on which difficulty you played the chosen song.

tripping contact (Jens)

  • For the NORMAL and HYPER charts, play any song from a style that matches the current date TWICE (i.e. play any song from IIDX RED on the 12th of October). For the ANOTHER chart, play any song which begins with the same letter as the current day THRICE (i.e. play MENDES on Monday).

IXION (Jizaru)

  • Play 16 songs with the last decimal place of Floating HI-SPEED set to the current day as displayed in the in-game menu (for example xx.02 for the 2nd of October). Whether or not using SUDDEN+ is necessary isn't confirmed yet.

Beyond The Earth (Jack tea)

  • Finish any song with an EX-Score that exactly matches the clock time you started the song at (i.e. finish with an EX-Score of 1345 if you started the song at 13:45).

今日のイチオシ (Today's Featured Songs)

Every day, on all PENDUAL machines, three songs are marked as "featured". You can see which ones are marked in the Data Entry window or in the songwheel menu. Playing all three of them in a session will grant you 300 bonus Fricos.

For the list of featured songs, please check the beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL Today's Featured Songs List page.

New Charts

The following songs have received new charts since their last arcade or console appearance:

Song Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
Beginner Normal Hyper Another Normal Hyper Another
Elemental Creation beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro 1 - - - - - -
VALLIS-NERIA beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro 1 - - - - - -
†渚の小悪魔ラヴリィ~レイディオ† (IIDX EDIT) beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro 1 - - - - - -
beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro 1 - - - - - -
バンブーソード・ガール beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA 1 - - - - - -

Difficulty Changes

The following songs have received difficulty changes since their last arcade or console appearance:

Song Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
Beginner Normal Hyper Another Normal Hyper Another
Illegal Function Call beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro - - - - - 9→10 -
Ancient Scapes beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - - - - - 9→10 -
Devilz Sacrifice -贖罪の羊- beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - 4→5 - - - - -
Element of SPADA beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - - - - - 5→6 -
Insane Techniques beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - - - 10→11 - - -
ra'am beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - 7→8 - - - - -
refractive index beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - - - - - - 10→11
Valgus beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - - - - - - 10→11
WOBBLE IMPACT beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA - - - - - 7→8 -

Removed Songs

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