Beatmania THE FINAL

The last game in the beatmania series. This game serves as a combination collection release and update, with songs from almost every previous beatmania arcade release, along with brand-new songs and transplants from beatmania III and IIDX. It's arguably the best game in the original beatmania series.

Unused Text
Mixed in with the song titles in CPU memory are a few unused ones. "ENDING" is used as the title of the song you "play" during the credit roll after finishing a Normal mode game, but there is no way to pick it during normal play.

DUMMY ENDING 173(Reserved) 174(Reserved) 175(Reserved) 176(Reserved) 177(Reserved) 178(Reserved) 179(Reserved) 180(Reserved)

"DJ Groove"
At the beginning of PRG ROMs 6a and 8a (which are the odd and even split bytes of one single binary image), the following string can be found: COPYRIGHT (C) KONAMIGRXXX 96.10.26DJ GROOVE

As shown by comments in the leaked source code found attached to beatmania Best Hits which also mention "DJ Groove", and the early date of this notice, DJ Groove was probably the working title for the original beatmania.