beatmania 2ndMIX

beatmania 2ndMIX

Release Information

• Release date: March 18th, 1998

General Information / Changes

• HIDDEN modifier is introduced, which makes notes disappear in the middle of the screen.
• Difficulty levels are now on a scale of 1 to 6.
• Hiroshi Watanabe makes his BEMANI debut.
• 20,novemver and e~emotion had their typos from the previous game fixed, and are now 20,november and e-motion.
• Some of the mechanics of FREE ZONE were changed:
  • Some scratch notes can appear during FREE ZONE.
    • To obtain a GREAT, players must play perfectly during every scratch note of the FREE ZONE. It is counted as one GREAT, which is why notecounts are not different between the original beatmania and 2ndMIX.
  • By playing perfectly, 100,000 points can now be obtained.

Staff Information

• Game credits: beatmania 2ndMIX credits
• Soundtrack credits: beatmania 2ndMIX complete Booklet Credits

Full Song List

• beatmania 2ndMIX full song list

New Songs

Genre	Song	Artist	BPM	SP Difficulty	DP Difficulty
Default Songs
-	PRACTICE STAGE		100	N/A	N/A
AMBIENT	Beginning of Life	QUADRA	110	2	2
REGGAE FUNKY MIX	jam jam reggae (Funky Jam Cookie mix)	Crunky Boy	90	2	2
BALLAD (JAZZ-SOUL)	Do you love me?	reo-nagumo	100	2	2
HIP-HOP STREET MIX	u gotta groove (Triple Mazin Dub)	DJ Mazinger	94	3	3
JAPANESE HIP-HOP	tokai	perfomed by co-key DJ Mazinger	97	4	4
KONAMIX	Salamander Beat Crush mix	NITE SYSTEM	134	4	4
HOUSE SPILITUAL MIX	LOVE SO GROOVY (Nite's After Luv mix)	NITE SYSTEM	131	4	4
MINIMAL TECHNO MIX	OVERDOSER (Driving Dub mix)	QUADRA	133	5	5
SKA	SKA a go go	THE BALD HEADS	144-160	6	6
DRUM'N BASS MIX	Deep Clear Eyes	QUADRA	155	6	6
HARD TEKNO	Acid Bomb	DJ FX	140	6	6
RAVE	e-motion (2nd MIX)	e.o.s	140-145	N/A	N/A

EXPERT Courses

If the courses are played with two players, the alternate songs or versions are used instead of the original.
Furthermore, if DIP switches 3-3 and 3-6 are set to ON, the following songs are used instead in their corresponding EXPERT course:

• e-motion (2nd MIX): Will be played on the fifth stage, instead of e-motion, in CLASSIC.
• Acid Bomb: Will be played on the third stage, instead of Salamander Beat Crush mix, in TECHNO.

No.	Song	No.	Song
CLASSIC		VOCAL
1.	2 gorgeous 4 U / greed eater	1.	tokai
2.	OVERDOSER (romo mix) / OVERDOSER (ambient mix)	2.	jam jam reggae (Funky Jam Cookie mix)
3.	LOVE SO GROOVY / LOVE SO GROOVY (12inch version)	3.	20,november (single mix) / 20,november (radio edit)
4.	20,november (single mix) / 20,november (radio edit)	4.	SKA a go go
5.	e-motion / e-motion (2nd MIX)	5.	Do you love me?
TECHNO
1.	OVERDOSER (romo mix) / OVERDOSER (ambient mix)	1.
2.	OVERDOSER (Driving Dub mix)	2.
3.	Salamander Beat Crush mix / Acid Bomb	3.
4.	Beginning of Life	4.
5.	Deep Clear Eyes	5.

Codes

All codes are entered on the title screen

Play Styles

• DOUBLE
  • 1 Coin Play: Hold 1, 3 and 5, press 1P Start, then immediately let go and hold 2 and 4. This mode functions identically to FREE mode in later games, where you have two guaranteed stages, and can pick any song in the game.
  • 2 Coin Play: Hold 6, 8 and 10, press 2P Start, then immediately let go and hold 7 and 9. This lets you play the game as normal, with all modes available.
• HIDDEN: Hold 2 and 4, press 1P or 2P Start, then immediately let go and hold 1 and 5.

Related Link

• beatmania 2ndMIX official site (archived)