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 song list, 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 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 two tweets from Tomosuke's twitter account back in February 2011, Macuilxochitl was originally made for beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS. It was later remixed and became Almagest, while the original version of the song was used in jubeat ripples instead. 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 20 tricoro

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.

beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage

  • 27th style / 三代目 "dj TAKA & DAYBREAKERS"
    • According to dj TAKA, 27th style was originally planned for Rootage, as 26th style, but it was postponed for undisclosed reasons until beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE.
  • Horizons of Promise / BEMANI Sound Team "SPIRITUAL RIDE"
    • According to Horizons of Promise's sound comments, the song was supposed to debut in Rootage, but time constrains resulted in it not making it in. It instead appeared in beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE.

beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE

  • BEMANI PRO LEAGUE Theme / BEMANI Sound Team "Sota F."
    • As its title implies, BEMANI PRO LEAGUE Theme is the main theme of the BEMANI PRO LEAGUE event, originally scheduled to start in 2020. As the event was delayed to May 2021, the song was moved to 28 BISTROVER. Full chart and audio data for this song can be found in HEROIC VERSE, alongside an early version of its unique video.
  • バッド・スイーツ、バッド・ドリーム / かめりあ feat. ななひら
    • Dummied out data for this song can be found within the HEROIC VERSE files. It was meant to appear as the sixth song of the SHADOW REBELLION event, under the title of イリィガル・ベイス・メディスン. More details can be found here.

beatmania IIDX 28 BISTROVER

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 concept for 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 heavily 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 charts, but the song is not playable. It later became playable in DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX.
    • Its charts are a copy of BUTTERFLY's charts, except for the Single BASIC chart (which is a 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, as well as banner and charts, can be found in the Dancing Stage featuring Disney's RAVE data. The song later appeared in Dancing Stage EuroMIX2.

DanceDanceRevolution 4thMIX PLUS

DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX-

  • YOU LEAVE ME ALONE / Venus
    • Two entries for this song can be found in the DDRMAX -DanceDanceRevolution- master song list, one being grouped with the DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- licenses. This entry was later removed from future master song lists.

DDRMAX2 - DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX- CS

Dancing Stage MegaMiX

DDRMAX2 -DanceDanceRevolution-

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (Japan)

Dancing Stage Fever (PlayStation) / Dancing Stage Fever (PlayStation 2)

DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (North America)

DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME2

DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX4

DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA CS (North America)

DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE2

DanceDanceRevolution HOTTEST PARTY3 / DanceDanceRevolution X2 CS

All of the following songs are listed in the master song list alongside other HOTTEST PARTY3 / X2 CS songs.

DanceDanceRevolution II

DanceDanceRevolution (2013)

DanceDanceRevolution ULTIMATE MOBILE

  • 令和 / ゴールデンボンバー
    • This song first appeared on the Tokyo Game Show 2019 location test of DanceDanceRevolution ULTIMATE MOBILE, alongside five other songs. While it was later added to DanceDanceRevolution A20, the other songs were ultimately scrapped upon the game's cancellation.

DanceDanceRevolution A20 PLUS

GuitarFreaks & DrumMania

drummania 2ndMIX

GUITARFREAKS 3rdMIX

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 and unused charts for this license can be found in the GUITARFREAKS 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX data, suggesting that it was supposed to debut one game earlier. The charts are also longer than their final counterparts, meaning that a different cut of the song was meant to be used.

GUITARFREAKS 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX power-up ver.

GITADORA Tri-Boost Re:EVOLVE

GITADORA Matixx

jubeat

jubeat saucer

jubeat prop

  • Just a Game / Y&Co.
    • Just a Game is registered in the JASRAC database as a jubeat prop song, suggesting that it was supposed to debut in prop instead of jubeat Qubell.

pop'n music

pop'n music 3

  • full moon / Naomi "fut" Ryo Asakawa
    • SECRET-S mentions on full moon's page on the official pop'n stage website that it was originally planned to be in pop'n music 3, but was later moved to pop'n stage.

pop'n music 4 APPEND DISC

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

  • Colors (radio edit) / dj TAKA
    • According to wac on the BEMANI生放送(仮) (BEMANI Namahousou (kari)) stream [3] and Simonman on his staff comments for Foundation of our love, Colors (radio edit) was originally made for pop'n music 6. However, wac thought it sounded too cool for pop'n music, and it ended up in beatmania IIDX 6th style instead. Foundation of our love was hastily included in its place. (It did eventually appear in pop'n music via ee'MALL, though.)

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 (Wii)

pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢

pop'n music 解明リドルズ

NEW pop'n music Welcome to Wonderland!

  • Phantom Joke / UNISON SQUARE GARDEN
  • 少年よ我に帰れ / やくしまるえつこメトロオーケストラ
    • These two songs originally appeared in the location test of NEW pop'n music Welcome to Wonderland! before being added six months later to pop'n music peace.

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 song list. It eventually appeared in REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA.

SOUND VOLTEX

SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH

SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-

SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS

SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN

SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE

ノスタルジア

ノスタルジア

  • インベンション第1番 / J.S.バッハ
    • Data for this classical song can be found in the ノスタルジア game data. It would not be playable until ノスタルジア Op.2.
  • Summer / (久石譲)
    • This song's number ID is grouped alongside the default songs from the original ノスタルジア, suggesting it was planned to appear in that game first. It would later appear in ノスタルジア Op.2.

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: