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== Song Connections / Remixes ==
== Song Connections / Remixes ==
* Plan 8's title is related to other non-BEMANI songs by Ryu☆, ''Plan A'', ''Plan B'', and ''Plan C''.
* Plan 8's title is related to other non-BEMANI songs by Ryu☆, ''Plan A'', ''Plan B'', ''Plan C'' and ''Plan E''.
* According to Ryu☆, Plan 8's second half comes from an earlier song of his called ''Theme of Plan 8'', a song he produced back in 1997 under his Plan 8 unit in school (see trivia).
* According to Ryu☆, Plan 8's second half comes from an earlier song of his called ''Theme of Plan 8'', a song he produced back in 1997 under his Plan 8 unit in school (see trivia).
* The second half of Plan 8 is of a lower key on the ''beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1'' album, compared with the game version. It is also shorter, cutting one measure of the breakdown.
* The second half of Plan 8 is of a lower key on the ''beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1'' album, compared with the game version. It is also shorter, cutting one measure of the breakdown.
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** The second half of Plan 8 (Extended Mix) samples part of the melody from [[starmine]].
** The second half of Plan 8 (Extended Mix) samples part of the melody from [[starmine]].
* A piano arrangement of Plan 8 by [[Jun Wakita|wac]], titled ''Plan 8 の主題による8つの変奏曲'', appears on the ''beatnation Records presents "We're so Happy" special remix'' album, which can be obtained by pre-ordering [[We're so Happy (album)|We're so Happy]] in KONAMISTYLE.
* A piano arrangement of Plan 8 by [[Jun Wakita|wac]], titled ''Plan 8 の主題による8つの変奏曲'', appears on the ''beatnation Records presents "We're so Happy" special remix'' album, which can be obtained by pre-ordering [[We're so Happy (album)|We're so Happy]] in KONAMISTYLE.
* A remix of Plan 8 by [[Shohei Uno|RoughSkech]], titled Plan 8 (RoughSketch Remix), can be found on Ryu☆'s compilation album, [[Ryu☆BEST -STARLiGHT-]].


== Trivia ==
== Trivia ==

Revision as of 11:24, 2 January 2016

Plan 8

Song Information

Plan 8's jacket.

Artist: Ryu☆
Composition/Arrangement: Ryu☆
BPM: 212
Length: 2:05
Genre: HAPPY GABBA
VJ: ? (overlays by GOLI)
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro
Other Music Game Appearances:

Lyrics

None, except for various soundbites.

Song Connections / Remixes

  • Plan 8's title is related to other non-BEMANI songs by Ryu☆, Plan A, Plan B, Plan C and Plan E.
  • According to Ryu☆, Plan 8's second half comes from an earlier song of his called Theme of Plan 8, a song he produced back in 1997 under his Plan 8 unit in school (see trivia).
  • The second half of Plan 8 is of a lower key on the beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1 album, compared with the game version. It is also shorter, cutting one measure of the breakdown.
    • The OST version of Plan 8 is used in the DanceDanceRevolution and jubeat series.
  • A long version of Plan 8, titled Plan 8 (Extended Mix), appears on Ryu☆'s fifth album of the same name. It is based on the beatmania IIDX version of the song.
    • The second half of Plan 8 (Extended Mix) samples part of the melody from starmine.
  • A piano arrangement of Plan 8 by wac, titled Plan 8 の主題による8つの変奏曲, appears on the beatnation Records presents "We're so Happy" special remix album, which can be obtained by pre-ordering We're so Happy in KONAMISTYLE.
  • A remix of Plan 8 by RoughSkech, titled Plan 8 (RoughSketch Remix), can be found on Ryu☆'s compilation album, Ryu☆BEST -STARLiGHT-.

Trivia

  • Plan 8 is the ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song of the LEGEND CROSS event in beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro. To unlock it, you must EX-HARD Clear Thor's Hammer with a AAA rank to access this song.
    • When Plan 8 is played as a boss stage in LEGEND CROSS, the arcade LED ticker displays "RED BOSS 12".
    • As of November 7th, 2012, Plan 8 is accessed by clearing Thor's Hammer with any type of gauge, under specific rank conditions depending on the difficulty chosen. All the charts are accessible.
  • Plan 8 is Ryu☆'s first ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song since 3y3s in beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS.
  • The boss in Plan 8's overlays is Red Ripika, one of the joker villains in the story of beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro.
    • In the first half of the song, the boss appears as a chibi character like in the LEGEND CROSS cutscenes. Only in this form, its animations are played regardless of the player's performance.
    • In the second half of the song, the boss evolves to its second, "magic blade" form. It appears as a huge, red mech which is based on the chibi version. The red Boss Crystals float around it. If the boss is not attacking or not being damaged, the bright shield that envolopes it becomes temporarily visible.
      • When you miss a note, the real form of Red Ripika comes out from the mech and attacks the Q-pro avatar with the Boss Crystals.
    • In the last cutscene of LEGEND CROSS, Red Ripika retreats.
  • The name Plan 8 was used by Ryu☆'s unit with a friend back when he was a student in high school in 1997. (1997 is also the year he started to write music.)
    • He notes in the song production information for Plan 8 that the name itself comes from the infamous Ed Wood movie Plan 9 from Outer Space.
  • Plan 8 was added to jubeat saucer as part of the Café de Tran unlock system. It is the 6th unlockable song for that game.
  • In the U.S./EU iTunes version of the beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.1 album, the star on the artist is omitted.
  • Plan 8 could be unlocked in DanceDanceRevolution (2014) from January 22nd, 2015 as part of the BOSS ON PARADE event.
    • To access Plan 8, play any song in the beatmania IIDX folder (when sorting songs under BEMANI Series (BEMANIシリーズから選ぶ)) whose genre features the word "HAPPY" in it. For a complete list of supported songs, please see this page.
    • Plan 8 has been automatically unlocked for all players on December 24th, 2015.

Song Production Information

Untranslated.

Video Production Information

Untranslated.

Difficulty & Notecounts

beatmania IIDX difficulty rated from 1 to 12.
DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
jubeat difficulty rated from 1 to 10. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

beatmania IIDX

Game SP Difficulty DP Difficulty
BEGINNER NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA NORMAL HYPER ANOTHER LEGGENDARIA
Notecounts - 600 1145 1690 627 1077 1577 {{{8}}} {{{9}}}
beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro→Present - 6 10 12 6 10 12 {{{9}}} {{{10}}}

DanceDanceRevolution

Game Single Double
Beginner Basic Difficult Expert Challenge Basic Difficult Expert Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows 174 / 17 298 / 28 416 / 23 533 / 23 - / - / - 296 / 27 409 / 21 516 / 22 - / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution (2014)→Present 4 8 11 14 - 8 11 14 -

jubeat

Game Level
Basic Advanced Extreme
Notecounts 444 666 888
jubeat saucer→Present 5 8 10
jubeat plus 5 8 10
jubeat plus (Android) 5 8 10
LEGEND CROSS
CS Crossovers Time to Empress - mnemoniq
Boss Songs SYNC-ANTHEM - ΕΛΠΙΣ - S!ck - rumrum triplets - CONCEPTUAL - Thor's Hammer
ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE Plan 8
Café de Tran
Both games Rainbow after snow - Confiserie
beatmania IIDX unlocks Beastie Starter - アストライアの双皿 - †渚の小悪魔ラヴリィ~レイディオ† (IIDX EDIT) - Holy Snow - True Blue
jubeat unlocks Sol Cosine Job 2 - トリカゴノ鳳凰 - Proof of the existence - Thor's Hammer - Plan 8
BOSS ON PARADE
BEMANI Crossovers クリムゾンゲイト - 海神 - FUNKY SUMMER BEACH - Plan 8 - Remain
Final Song Truare!