What Could Have Been

A game sometimes go through a lot of changes before it emerges as a finalized product. Layouts get changed around, songs get moved around to other places, and sometimes the whole interface is scrapped! This page is for listing various concepts, ideas, and BEMANI transplants that KONAMI left out in the process of finalized BEMANI games.

In contrast with the Scrapped Songs and Cancelled Games sections, this page is more for concepts and ideas that were removed from finalized BEMANI projects, as opposed to songs (save BEMANI transplants). Examples of data include:

• BEMANI transplants that were planned for a game but either were delayed, shuffled around, or just plain never were put it at all (for an example of the latter, masquerade being planned for beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro). Note that to qualify for this page, the song must have already been in a released BEMANI game beforehand.
• Delayed releases (such as Asaki's second album 天庭, which was delayed two years due to his being sick).
• Notecharts that never made to an arcade BEMANI release, despite data for the song existing in HDD data (i.e. Line Times's EX chart).
• pop'n music games that had characters scrapped (i.e. the KING's removal from pop'n music 9.
• Various contests that never came through.

This page is under HEAVY construction. If you're going to add any songs here, please post proof on the Talk Page first.

beatmania IIDX

beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST

• Foundation of our love / dj TAKA feat.ASAKO
• Pink Rose / Kiyommy+Seiya
  • Both songs were at one point listed on the official website for the game. Neither song made it to the final version of the game.

beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro

• masquerade / TЁЯRA
  • Sound and HDD data for the song exists in tricoro, but it has no notecharts and was never made playable, being the only unused song with sound data that didn't appear in the following game, beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA, due to its composers NAOKI and jun both leaving KONAMI in early 2013.

beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA

• The Spada†leggendaria EXTRA STAGE system was originally intended to have a final boss song (most likely Broken Sword, which has references to it in the SPADA data). In addition, all of the †LEGGENDARIA charts for the Spada†leggendaria songs were intended to be added during the life cycle of SPADA. Due to the poor reception of SPADA overall, the game's life cycle was ended early and neither of these things occurred. The missing †LEGGENDARIA charts were added at release date in beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL.

pop'n music

pop'n music 9

• the KING was planned to be in the game, dressed up as either a chef or fast food employee. He never made it to the final version of the game.

pop'n music 11

• Line Times / Waldeus von dövjak
  • Line Times' EX chart, to this day, has never been playable in an arcade release of pop'n music, despite HDD data for its EX chart existing in every arcade game since its debut.

pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢

• According to the second page of this うさぎと猫と少年の夢 article, the game was originally going to have a diner theme, not unlike pop'n music 9's café one, before the staff went with a steampunk layout.

Albums / Contests / Etc.

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