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BEMANI Timeline
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2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024

2018

To be updated.

February

March

  • March 7th: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
  • March 23rd: DANCERUSH STARDOM was released to Japanese arcades.

May

June

  • June 26th: Offline kits for MÚSECA 1+1/2 were released, as well as conversion kits to change MÚSECA to Bishi Bashi CHANNEL (ビシバシCHANNEL) are available from this date as well.

July

  • July 24th, 2018: SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN gets heavily censored in the South Korean version of the game. Due to interference from South Korea's video games board, Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC), all songs added after November 16th, 2017 have been removed from the game (except for BLASTER GATE charts for older songs). It is currently unknown when they will be added back.
    • Song updates have stopped for the time being as well.
    • Prior to this, certain songs' jackets were removed from HEAVENLY HAVEN songs.
      • On August 2nd, 2018, a similar censorship began with DanceDanceRevolution A, with EXTRA SAVIOR song ALGORITHM being absent from the Korean release of the game, making it so far the only song in A not added to the Korean release. Whether or not all future arcade BEMANI titles will face similar censorship is currently unknown.
      • The BEMANI SUMMER GREETINGS event, which started on August 10th, also does not appear in the Korean versions of BEMANI games, further suggesting that all BEMANI titles in the foreseeable future will not be updated in Korea.
  • July 31st:
    • eAMUSEMENT support for MÚSECA 1+1/2 ended, marking the end of the series.
    • Patent no. 2922509, which mainly covered elements of the original beatmania series such as keysounded notes and vertical note scrolling, reaches the end of its term.

September

  • September 12th: ひなビタ♪ライブSSP~待っててね東京さんっ!~ will be released.

October

  • October 10th: pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition will be released.

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