beatmania complete MIX 2 (ver JA-A) - MAME machine

Arcade Video game published 24 years ago:

beatmania complete MIX 2 © 2000 Konami Company, Limited.

TECHNICAL
Konami Bemani DJ-Main Hardware
Game ID: GX988

CPU: MC68EC020FG25 @ 25MHz
Custom Chips: 058143, 056832, 055555, 056766, 058141, and KS10101
Sound: Custom Konami Sound Chips for Multiple Sound Channels
Res: 24kHz 512x384
Drives: Pop'N Music use 3.5inch IDE-HDD, all other games use 2.5inch.
Roms: Program and graphics on EEPROM.

Players: 2
Control: dial
Buttons: 5

TRIVIA
Released in January 2000.

This game is known in US as "hiphopmania Complete MIX 2".

TIPS AND TRICKS

• All Songs Mode: At the title screen, press the leftmost white key on the player 2 side exactly 9 times. Then press the middle white key 9 times. Finally, press the last white key 8 times. The screen should flash white. Now when you press the Effector button, 'All Music Mode' should be among the list of options. Use your side's turntable to turn on All Music Mode. You will now be able to select every song in the game on any stage.
• Get High Speed, Mirror, Random, etc.: When you are in the screen where you pick your songs, highlight the song you are going to play, then press the effector button 7 times. You should see something on the left side of the screen after you push it 7 times. Now hold the effector button down. The thing on the left should now stay visible. Hold the effector button down while pushing these buttons for modes:

Mirror - push left blue button once
Random - push left blue button twice
High Speed 1 - push right blue button once
High Speed 2 - push right blue button twice
High Speed 3 - push right blue button 3 times
Hidden - push middle white button once
Sudden - push middle white button twice
Stealth - push middle white button 3 times

Remember to hold the effector button down when pushing any of the buttons for the modes. To reset or 'turn off' any of the modes just hold the effector down at the song select screen and press the key until the thing on the left has all lines.

• Re-arranging songlist by Anothers: This only works for Hard mode, since Basic mode does not have Anothers. While selecting game type mode (Basic/Hard/Expert), hold the Effector key down and hit any key. This will then rearrange the songlist according to Another difficulties. If a song does not have an Another, it will be arranged to it's normal difficulty.

Note: You can still select the normal version of the song by hitting the two black keys on the highlighted song.

SERIES

• beatmania (1997)
• beatmania 2ndMix (1998)
• beatmania 3rdMix (1998)
• beatmania complete MIX (1999)
• beatmania 4thMix the beat goes on (1999)
• beatmania 5thMix Time to get down (1999)
• beatmania complete MIX 2 (2000)
• beatmania ClubMix (2000)
• beatmania featuring Dreams Come True (2000)
• beatmania CORE REMIX (2000)
• beatmania 6thMix The UK Underground Music (2001)
• beatmania 7thMix keepin' Evolution (2002)
• beatmania THE FINAL (2002)

STAFF
Producer: Koji Okamoto
Director: Seiji Higurashi
Sound directors: Takehiko Fujii, Kiyotaka Sugimoto
Sound superviser: Reo Nagumo
Programmers: Yohei Marufuji, Masaru Nakamura
Cg designers: Yaku Hiranabe, Mikio Yasumatsu, Tomoko Shiono
Hardware engineer: Masayuki Senami
Mechanical enginners: Yuichiro Sagawa, Toshiharu Miura
Graphic designer: Noriyuki Yokoki
Composers: D&G Music Factory (AMD), Deep Emotion, Dj Oddball, Hiroshi Watarai, Hiroyuki Togo (KCEJ), Kouichi Yamazaki, Kiyotaka Sugimoto, Mikio Endo, Mitsukumi Murayama, NM Sequence Unlimited (AMD), Reo Nagumo, Takayuki Ishikawa, Takehiko Fujii, Hiroshi Takeyasu, Toshiyuki Kakuta (KCEJ), Larry Dunn, Luisa Dunn, Hiroshi Watanabe, Aki, Tag, Delaware, Nouvo Nude
Sound data analyzers: Mitsukuni Murayama, Ryuchi Nitta, Migitera Osamu, Uchida Tomoyuki, Tatsuya Furukawa (good~cool), Tag, Aki
Vocalist & Rappers: Megumi Oka, Scotty D., Andrea Robinson, Brenda Vaughn, Argie Lanette Phine, Linda Gish, Ike Nelson, Jeff Coote
Drummer: Kiyotaka Sugimoto
Dancers: Nami, Wan~chan
Mixing engineers: Masaki akamura (Onkio Haus), Toshihiro Hayano (Kim Studio)
Japanese~English translator: Justin Lazaroff

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