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. It also doesn't list songs that were going to be transferred to another BEMANI game when they originally were already in one (i.e. FLOWER being scheduled for beatmania IIDX 19 Lincle after its premiere in REFLEC BEAT and jubeat knit APPEND).

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 / The Ebisu Singers
  • Originally written for beatmania IIDX, but was moved to pop'n music 2 by beatmania IIDX sound director dj nagureo.

beatmania IIDX 10th style

• sakura storm / Ryu☆
  • Ryu☆ mentioned on the Resort Anthem website's page for the song that he considered porting sakura storm, a song he wrote around 1997, into beatmania IIDX 10th style. It instead premiered four years later in DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE3 touched up, though it did eventually appear in beatmania IIDX in beatmania IIDX 18 Resort Anthem.

beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS

• 月風魔伝 / コナミ矩形波動剣
  • 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 / kors k
  • 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 / TOMOSUKE
  • 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 / SMiLE.dk
  • 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 / THE OLIVIA PROJECT
  • A different set of graphics can be found 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 / dj TAKA feat.Angel
  • 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.

DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution-

• MUSIC(BOSTIK REMIX) / Darude
• Funk Boogie / Funk Kid feat.KOOL BOYS.
  • These songs later appeared in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (America).
• Feelings Won't Fade / SySF.
  • This song later appeared in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (America), as a new arrangement titled Feelings Won't Fade (Extend Trance Mix).
• Saturday Night Love / Sota feat. Brenda V.
  • This song later appeared in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2.

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (America)

• Enjoy The Silence / Depeche Mode
  • This song was eventually added into DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY 3.
• One More Time / Daft Punk
  • This song later appeared in REFLEC BEAT.

DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX4

• Indian Summer / Canton
  • This song later appeared in DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE.

DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (America)

• Run It! / Chris Brown
• I KNOW YOU GOT SOUL / Jason Nevins vs. Eric B. & Rakim
  • These songs later appeared in DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE and DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE2, respectively.

DanceDanceRevolution (2013)

• Din Don Dan / Ryu☆ feat.Mayumi Morinaga
• Elysium / nc ft. NRG Factory
• IMANOGUILTS / Mystic Moon
• ちゅ～いん☆バニー / 阿部靖広 feat. Strawberry Wink
• ヤマトなでなで♡かぐや姫 / ロマンチック♡Prim姫
  • These five songs have unused data in DanceDanceRevolution (2013), but they were made playable in the next year's update. Of them, Din Don Dan was the last song to be added to the hard drive.

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX

• Lover's High / APHs
  • TOMOSUKE confirmed that Lover's High was originally written for drummania 4thMIX. It instead debuted several months later in the short-lived MAMBO A GO GO. Lover's High would eventually appear in the GuitarFreaks & DrumMania series via ee'MALL 2nd avenue.

GUITARFREAKS 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX

• Save A Little Something / Thomas Howard Lichtenstein
  • 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 / Naomi "fut" Ryo Asakawa
  • SECRET-S mentions on full moon's page on the official pop'n stage website that it was originally planned to be in pop'n music 3, but was later 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 / Lab Pop Orange
  • 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! / heap
  • 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 / 常盤ゆう
  • 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 / DJ Yoshitaka feat. RINA
  • 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 REFLEC 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

• Pure Evil / kors k
  • Data of Pure Evil was available in the SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH game data. It was made finally playable on March 20th, 2014 in SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-.

SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-

• 木彫り鯰と右肩ゾンビ / 赤飯
  • Data of 木彫り鯰と右肩ゾンビ was available in the SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection- game data. It was made finally playable on November 20th, 2014 in SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS.