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

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

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 DanceDanceRevolution, despite it not appearing in any game in the series.

DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution-

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (America)

DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX4

DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (America)

DanceDanceRevolution (2013)

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

GuitarFreaks XG & DrumMania XG

jubeat

pop'n music

pop'n music 3

pop'n music 7

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 17 THE MOVIE

  • パラボラ / パーキッツ
    • According to wac's song comments on the pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝 page for パラボラ, he mentioned it was originally going to appear in pop'n music 17 THE MOVIE, but it was decided at the last minute to put in ピンク instead to avoid putting in the title track of パラボラ so close to the single's release. パラボラ appeared the following year in pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝.

pop'n music 18 せんごく列伝

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

SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-