beatmania (USA)

This page is for the North American release titled beatmania. For other games titled beatmania, please see beatmania (disambiguation).

beatmania (USA)

Release Information

• Release Date: March 28, 2006 (North America)

General Information

• Contains songs from both the beatmania and the beatmania IIDX game series, along with new licenses.
• First beatmania IIDX game released outside Japan, and the only one released outside Asia.
• Final CS entry in the beatmania series, 4 years after the release of beatmania 6thMIX + CORE REMIX.
• Interface is based on beatmania IIDX 9th style CS, but reskinned and recolored.
• First CS beatmania IIDX game to individually rate Another charts.
  • It's also the only game to rate songs on an 1 to 10 scale.
• ESRB Rating: E10+, for "mild lyrics" and "suggestive themes".
• Total songs: 58 (30 exclusive to beatmania IIDX, 17 exclusive to beatmania, and 11 in both)

Staff Information

beatmania credits

• Supervising Executive: Michihiro Ishizuka
• Executive Producer: Motoyuki Yoshioka
• Chief Producer: Hirotaka Ishikawa
• Producer: Shingo Mukaitoga
• Sound Producer: Masaki Yoneyama
• Sound Director: Hiroyuki Togo
• Sound Programmers: Atsushi Kondo, Eiichi Kitsukawa
• Sound Data Analyzers: Atsushi Kondo, Eiichi Kitsukawa, Tomoyuki Uchida, Toshiyuki Kakuta
• Programmers: Tomikazu Nakazawa, Hitoshi Ban
• Graphic Designers: Hideki Yano, TED
• Music Clip Artists: Kenichiro Akimoto, A-T, HiWA, LIZ, Takeru Nakabayashi, TED, Toshihiro Umekita, Hideki Yano, IMAGICA DC21, PolyAssets United Inc.
• Music Clip Coordinators: Kazuhiko Tsukada (PolyAssets United Inc.), Kazuya Takahashi (IMAGICA DC21)
• Product Designer: Sakiko Tanaka

Song List

beatmania-only songs

• 20,November (radio edit) / DJ nagureo
• 20,November (single mix) / DJ nagureo
• 321 STARS / DJ SIMON
• Attack the music / DJ FX
• BATTLE BREAKS / DJ TAKAWO
• Do you love me? / reo-nagumo
• HUNTING FOR YOU / Togo Project featuring Megu & Scotty D.
• jam jam reggae / jam master'73
• La Bossanova de Fabienne / staccato two-F
• LOVE SO GROOVY / LOVEMINTS
• Manmachine plays Jazz ～MIO2～ / Mikio Endo
• METAL GEAR SOLID Main Theme / ESPACIO BROTHERS
• OVERBLAST!! / L.E.D.
• s.d.z. / DJ mazinger featuring Muhammad
• SKA a go go / The Bald Heads
• Stop Violence! / Herbie Hammock & His Band
• tribe groove / nite system
• u gotta groove / DJ nagureo

beatmania IIDX-only songs

• 5.1.1. / dj nagureo
• Attitude / Y&Co.
• BAD BOY BASS!! (dj Remo-con MIX) / Y&Co.
• Colors (radio edit) / dj TAKA
• Dancin' Into The Night / good-cool
• Digital MinD (A/T Libra mix) / TaQ
• era (nostalmix) / TaQ
• fly through the night / Mr. T
• g.m.d. / DJ Mazinger feat. Muhammad
• Hitch Hiker / good-cool
• Holic / TaQ
• I Was The One / good-cool
• in my eyes / ric
• jelly kiss / Togo project feat.Sana
• LOVE IS DREAMINESS / L.E.D.-G VS GUHROOVY fw/asuka
• M-02stp.ver1.01 / Shoichiro Hirata
• Mobo★Moga / Orange Lounge
• Mr.T. (take me higher) / Risky Men feat.Asuka-M
• MUSIC TO YOUR HEAD / SLAKE
• NEMESIS / D.J.SETUP
• Nothing Ain't Stoppin' Us / Shoichiro Hirata
• OUTER LIMITS / L.E.D.-G
• Presto / Osamu Kubota
• SNOW / RAM
• Spin the disc / good-cool
• Summer Vacation (CU mix) / OutPhase
• THE CUBE / DJ SUWAMI
• THE SHINING POLARIS / L.E.D. feat. Sana
• V / TAKA
• Voltage (feat. Hidemaru) / TaQ

Songs in both games

• Celebration / WaveGroup/DJ TK-ST
• First Day / Timo Maas
• Funkytown / Lipps Inc.
• e-motion / e.o.s.
• GENOM SCREAMS / L.E.D.
• Lift Me Up / Moby
• PARANOiA MAX～DIRTY MIX～ / 190
• The Way You Move / Paul Grogan Featuring Natalie Martin
• Toxic / WaveGroup/Shoichiro Hirata
• Virtual Insanity / WaveGroup/DJ TK-ST
• You Really Got Me / WaveGroup/Shoichiro Hirata

Expert Mode Courses

Courses have three difficulties: Light/Standard/Heavy. Unlike the rest of the game, this keeps track of EX scores. Courses beginning with IIDX are the IIDX mode Internet Ranking courses, and courses beginning with beatmania are the 5key mode Internet Ranking courses. Internet ranking is offline at time of publish.

IIDX01

Heavy: 32

• Digital MinD (A/T Libra mix) / TaQ
• GENOM SCREAMS / L.E.D. Light
• MUSIC TO YOUR HEAD / SLAKE
• Holic / TaQ
• NEMESIS / D.J.SETUP

IIDX02

Heavy: 23

• Toxic / WaveGroup / Shoichiro Hirata
• Nothing Ain't Stoppin' Us / Shoichiro Hirata
• I Was The One / good-cool
• M-02stp.ver1.01 / Shoichiro Hirata
• Spin the disc / good-cool

IIDX03

Heavy: 33

• Fly through the night / Mr. T
• THE SHINING POLARIS / L.E.D. feat. Sana
• in my eyes / ric
• Attitude / Y&Co.
• Colors (radio edit) / dj TAKA

IIDX04

Heavy: 24

• Hitch Hiker / good-cool
• The Way You Move / Paul Grogan Featuring Natalie Martin
• You Really Got Me / WaveGroup / Shoichiro Hirata
• Mobo★Moga / Orange Lounge
• BAD BOY BASS!! (dj Remo-con MIX) / Y&Co.

IIDX05

Heavy: 29

• PARANOiA MAX～DIRTY MIX～ / 190
• OUTER LIMITS / L.E.D.-G
• SNOW / RAM
• LOVE IS DREAMINESS / L.E.D.-G VS GUHROOVY fw/asuka
• era (nostalmix) / TaQ

IIDX06

• Digital MinD (A/T Libra mix) / TaQ
• Mr.T. (take me higher) / Risky Men feat. Asuka.M
• OUTER LIMITS / L.E.D.-G
• Mobo★Moga / Orange Lounge
• in my eyes / ric

IIDX07

• jelly kiss / Togo project feat. Sana
• THE CUBE / DJ SUWAMI
• LOVE IS DREAMINESS / L.E.D.-G VS GUHROOVY fw/asuka
• M-02stp.ver1.01 / Shoichiro Hirata
• Fly through the night / Mr. T

IIDX08

• GENOM SCREAMS / L.E.D. Light
• SNOW / RAM
• BAD BOY BASS!! (dj Remo-con MIX) / Y&Co.
• THE SHINING POLARIS / L.E.D. feat. Sana
• Voltage (feat. Hidemaru) / TaQ

IIDX09

• Attitude / Y&Co.
• Spin the disc / good-cool
• Presto / Osamu Kubota
• MUSIC TO YOUR HEAD / SLAKE
• era (nostalmix) / TaQ

IIDX10

• Summer Vacation (CU mix) / OutPhase (dj TAKA & TaQ)
• NEMESIS / D.J.SETUP
• Holic / TaQ
• V / TAKA
• Colors (radio edit) / dj TAKA

What's Different About USA

• Game modes include Game Mode (AKA "Arcade Mode" in the Japanese versions), Free Mode, Expert Mode, Practice Mode (not similar to Beginner Mode, but looks more like Lesson Mode in CS DDR games), and Training Mode.
• Another difficulties and additional IIDX Expert courses are available, but they must be unlocked by completing the song list in Free Mode by playing every song in the game, excluding default Free Mode songs.
• Songs in beatmania mode have only one difficulty chart.
  • Additionally, no US exclusives in the beatmania IIDX mode have Another charts.
• Regarding song charts, nothing has been "toned down", but "very minor changes have been made to some of the 'annoying' measures within songs in Hyper mode. Another charts haven't been touched."
• "Just Great" is now called "Perfect."
• Difficulties are listed as "Beginner", "Normal", and "Hyper". Another remains unchanged.
• Difficulties are now on a 1-10 scale, using stars. Another charts are individually rated, too.
• Hard has been renamed to "Challenge", or "CHA" for short.
• In beatmania mode, Free Scratch Zones have returned. Free Scratch Zones are areas in songs where you can scratch as much or as little as you want. Scratching here will only increase your money score - it has no effect on your EX score or grade.
• There is a replay mode to save replays of your songs.
• The records screen has note counts, money score, playcount, and max combo organized in a DDR-style grid.
• Songs must be played in Game Mode before they appear in Free Mode, similar to beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS through 6th style CS.
• Grade requirements have been reduced. You now only need 7/9 possible EX points for a AAA rank, 6/9 for AA, etc.
• All beatmania songs received new videos.
• Near all of the overlays have been removed from the beatmania IIDX videos. Songs with unique videos remain untouched for the most part, though.
  • The one exception is PARANOiA MAX～DIRTY MIX～.

Related Links

• beatmania USA CS Official Site (archived)
• IGN Interview with Shingo Mukaitoge