pop'n music Japanese CS releases
Sony PlayStation & PlayStation 2
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11
12 Iroha - 13 Carnival - 14 FEVER! - Best Hits!
Animation Melody - Puzzle Dama - DISNEY TUNES
Sony PlayStation Portable
pop'n portable - pop'n portable 2
Sega Dreamcast
1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Nintendo GameBoy Color
GB pop'n - GB Animation Melody - GB DISNEY TUNES
PC
pop'n Da!! - pop'n Be-Mouse - pop'n Lively
Other
BEMANI MIX - i-αppli - pop'n Wii - Utacchi - pop'n rhythmin
pop'n music foreign CS releases
Beat'n Groovy - pop'n music - pop'n rhythm
pop'n mobile - pop'n mobile 2

General Information

  • Released: March 2, 2006
  • First home appearance of Taisen Mode.
  • First appearance of Pop'n Request mode.
  • Spin-off games notwithstanding, this is the first console Pop'n Music game without a new Classic.
  • The Detective Conan song is absent from the songlist.
  • First version of Pop'n Music CS game with preview music for songs.
  • Total songs: 102

Song List

Initial Songlist

CS songs

AC Songs

Licenses

Returning Songs

Pop'n Music 11 AC

Pop' n Music 11 CS

Secret Songs

Hidden Ninja Scroll Unlocks

Iroha AC

Iroha CS

Hidden Expert Course Songs

ee'MALL

  • SWING KAYO / 花見で一杯 / 亜熱帯マジ-SKA爆弾 feat.MAKI (Murasaki) - 19 / 33 / 37 EE'mall song
  • SHONBORI / 純勉夏 / ションボリくらぶ feat.ジェットさん (リュータ) - 16 / 33 / 38 EE'mall song
  • SWEET POP / Sweet Illusion / vivi(from iyiyim) (Candy) - 17 / 28 / - EE'mall song
  • INSTRUMENTAL / airflow / Mr.T (Poet) - 15 / 24 / 32 EE'mall song

Mini Game Unlocks

FRESH and CONTEMPORARY NATION are unlocked through mini-games. They cannot be unlocked through time release or through Arcade mode.

Unlocks Through Other Games

HARD CONTRY and SKA are permanantely unlocked if you have Guitar Freaks V / drummania V data on your Playstation2 memory card; if you don't, you have to enter a code to play them. Same applies to PUNKISH GIRL; you must have Dance Dance Revolution STRIKE! data on your memory card to be permanately unlocked. If you are looking for a save for those games, look over at gamefaqs.

Pop'n Request

All of these songs must be played in Pop'n Request Mode before playing in Arcade or Free Mode.

Mini Games

In Pop'n Music 12 Iroha CS, two of the songs must be unlocked through mini-games, both of which use the controller to play.

Yima Mini-game

You, the Yima at the bottom, have a limited time-frame to match the pose of the Yima above you. Yima will pose in one of five poses: you must press the color at the bottom of the screen that represents this pose. If you screw up or fail to hit it in time, you lose and have to restart all over again. If you choose to play this in 2-player mode, the red button will not be used. Complete this game 100% to unlock CONTEMPORARY NATION.

Bike Mini-game

Shishamo the cat (from the Pop'n Music 8 song Fresh) and his owner notice a sale on cat food, and race to the store to get it across 3 different levels: a road, a jungle, and outer space. Press the blue buttons to speed up, the red button to jump over obstacles, and either yellow button to break.

You start out with three lives. If you hit an obstacle, whether from above or on the ground, the cat will fly out of the basket. Right before he touches the ground he will be saved by one of three Pop'n Music characters: Ninja Hero Shinobian, Yoshio, and Ninja Heroine Shinobian-ko, in that order. If you use up all three lives and you hit another obstacle, you lose automatically. You also lose if you fail to complete any of the three levels in time. In either case, you have to restart from the first level all over again. However, if you manage to break successfully and catch your cat in the bicycle's basket, you will not lose a life. Complete all three levels to unlock FRESH.

Unlocking Information

Pop'n Music 12's unlocking systems involves Ninja Hero Shinobian, first seen in Pop'n Music 8 (the song Ninja Hero even plays in the background). The unlock system is very simple: play through any mode in the arcade, and you will rank up Ninja Points. Shinobian will try to throw his shriuken on one of several scrolls under a small time limit. All you have to do is simply press the Red button at the time one of the 4 scrolls passes by in the center of the screen, each representing a different season: spring, summer, fall, and winter. Once you hit a scroll, you'll see a picture slowly unroll from the scroll. If it unrolls all the way, you unlock that song. Be careful not to hit a brown scroll: you get absolutely nothing if you do.

About halfway through Ninja Hero Shinobian will be replaced by Shinobian-ko, the female ninja from Ninja Heroine via a scroll. The music will also change to that of her theme. The unlocking system doesn't change when you get her.

Once you fully complete the spring, summer, fall, and winter scrolls, one final, black scroll will pop up: hit that and fully unravel it to unlock HELL 12. You'll also unlock all the EXs for the songs new to Iroha.

Another alternative to unlock all the songs is to turn off the unlock system through arcade mode. Note that time passes by ONLY in arcade mode and only when playing songs: menus, credits, result screens, etc. do not to your time.

5 hours

  • Hidden AC songs

6 hours

  • Hidden CS songs

6.5 hours

  • Expert courses

7 hours

  • ee'MALL songs

Note that HARD COUNTRY, SKA, and PUNKISH GIRL CANNOT be unlocked over time.

Temporary Unlock Codes

Codes can be entered on the Press Start screen and have to be entered everytime you play. Played songs will not be saved. The buttons correspond to the buttons on the Pop'n Controller from left to right.

Hidden AC songs and characters: 12348876
Hidden CS songs and characters: 78987179
Hidden expert courses and songs: 82347699
Hidden ee'mall songs and characters: 38877966
PUNKISH GIRL: 97976868
HARD COUNTRY, SKA: 38271619

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