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

beatmania 5thMIX -time to get down-

  • SKIN / CHARLOTTE
    • References to this song can be found on the beatmania 5thMIX data. Instead, it was later released months later in beatmania IIDX 3rd style (it never appeared as a playable song in the original beatmania series, though).

beatmania completeMIX 2

beatmania ClubMIX

beatmania IIDX

beatmania IIDX

beatmania IIDX 3rd style

  • A / D.J.Amuro
    • According to the song comments, the concept for A was thought up for 3rd style, but its release was put off until 7th style as KONAMI was afraid it would be too hard of a song for players at the time.

beatmania IIDX 9th style

  • Love Is Eternity / kors k
    • According to the song comments, Love Is Eternity was made for 9th style, but later ended up on 10th style instead.

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 15 DJ TROOPERS CS

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. Macuilxochitl would finally appear in beatmania IIDX nine years later in beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ (albeit the jubeat ripples APPEND SOUNDTRACK album version of the song).

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA

  • Broken Sword / 金獅子 VS 麒麟
    • Broken Sword was at first going to be part of SPADA's original Qprogue event, following up Last Dance's map. Reference data for it could be found in the Qprogue's map file, precisely in the cut Map 4 section; the song itself however never had ID data in the game itself. When QprogueDX was released, the unused last map of the original Qprogue event was purged, alongside all of its references. It eventually premiered in beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL's Chrono Seeker event.

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.
  • D2R / NAOKI
    • According to NAOKI, the song was originally made around the release of DanceDanceRevolution, but was shelved. It wasn't until DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- where the idea of the song was revived, and it was reworked along with adding in vocals.

DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX

  • XANADU / THE OLIVIA PROJECT
    • A different set of graphics can be found in the 2ndMIX data along with some stepcharts, but the song is not playable. It later became playable in DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX.
    • Its stepcharts are a copy of BUTTERFLY's charts, except for the Single BASIC chart (which is repeated pattern of Up arrows) and the EXPERT charts (which are copies of its DIFFICULT ones).

Dancing Stage featuring DREAMS COME TRUE

Dancing Stage featuring Disney's RAVE

  • 5, 6, 7, 8 / STEPS
    • Text references to this song can be found in the Dancing Stage featuring Disney's RAVE data. The song later appeared in Dancing Stage EuroMIX2.

DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX PLUS

Dancing Stage MegaMiX

DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution-

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (America)

DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX4

DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (America)

DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY3

DanceDanceRevolution X2

DanceDanceRevolution (2013)

GITADORA

GITADORA Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX & drummania 2ndMIX

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.
  • THE POWER OF LOVE / (Huey Lewis and the News)
    • Text references to this license can be found in the GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX data, suggesting that it was supposed to debut one game earlier.

GUITARFREAKS 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX

GUITARFREAKS 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX power-up version

GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V

  • Spellbound / Anna Vieste
    • Data for Spellbound can be found among other GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V songs, suggesting that it was supposed to debut one game earlier.

GuitarFreaks XG & DrumMania XG

jubeat

jubeat prop

pop'n music

pop'n music 3

pop'n music アニメロ2号

  • 誰がために / 竹内 浩明
    • According to wac, 誰がために was originally supposed to be in pop'n music アニメロ2号, but they weren't able to get the rights at the time for reasons unknown. It finally debuted over two years later in pop'n music 9.

pop'n music 6

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 15 ADVENTURE

  • Butter-FLY / ♪♪♪♪♪
    • masaru noted in the song comments for Butter-FLY that it was supposed to originally appear in pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE. It instead premiered near two years later in pop'n music 17 THE MOVIE.

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 album'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

pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢

  • Sprite Digital / Serph
    • Spirte Digital is registered in the JASRAC database as a pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢 song. It later debuted in the series on the launch of pop'n music peace.
  • 時の妖花 / ゲーム実況者わくわくバンド
  • 零の位相 / kradness
    • In an unusual subversion, these songs were moved up a game. These songs are labeled as wakuwaku24 and kradness24 in the pop'n music éclale data. Neither song is listed on the official éclale website, further suggesting they were moved up ahead of the launch of うさぎと猫と少年の夢.

REFLEC BEAT

REFLEC BEAT

REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! Upper

  • SERVI / Des-ROW vibes Dr.Honda
    • Unused data for SERVI can be found in REFLEC BEAT groovin'!! Upper, where it is the very last song in the songlist. It eventually appeared in REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA.

SOUND VOLTEX

SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH

SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-

ノスタルジア

ノスタルジア

ノスタルジア FORTE

おといろは

The following songs appeared in the location tests for the cancelled game おといろは. They were later crossed over to other BEMANI games as their first appearances in released games:

Rizminance / 彩響DJアニクラゲ

The following songs appeared in the location tests for the cancelled game 彩響DJアニクラゲ (also known as Rizminance). They were later crossed over to other BEMANI games as their first appearances in released games: