beatmania DA!!

beatmania DA!!
Developers: Oracion, Prime Systems Publisher: Konami Platforms: Windows, Mac OS Classic Released in JP: February 17, 2000 This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused text.

Basically, beatmania, but transformed into a typing practice game. Apparently, the idea went well, and it spawned two sequels.

Unused Text

Each of the game's .bmd files, used for the chart data, have unused genre, song title and artist labels. All of these start from offset 0x20, save for Study\Key\Key.bmd, whose unused labels start at the file's very beginning. Most of the artist labels likely refer to Shintaro Sasaki, as he was in charge of "extending" most of the songs for the game.

File	Genre	Title	Artist
Master\Normal\01\~01_U gotte.bmd	HipHop	U Gotta Gloove	Rapper Sasaki
Master\Normal\02\~02_Biginning.bmd	Ambient	Beginning of life	AMB Shin
Master\Normal\03\~03_loveso.bmd	Soul	Love So Groovy	Sasaqi
Master\Normal\04\~04_JamJam.bmd	Reggae	Jam Jam	Hippy Sasaki
Master\Normal\05\~05_ballad.bmd	Ballad	Balla
Master\Normal\06\~06E-motional.bmd	euro?	E-motion	euro chin
Master\Normal\07\~07_bossa.bmd	,	Bossa	sasaqi
Master\Normal\08\~08_OVERD.bmd	Techno	Over The	Tech Sasaqi
Master\Normal\09\~09_NahaGacho.bmd	?????	NhahaGachooon	Hayachiya Shinpey
Master\Special\10\~10_KUMA.bmd	.	Beauty and The KUMA-SAN	KUMA-SASA
Study\Key\Key.bmd	キー打ち (Key Strike)	キー打ち (Key Strike)
Study\Mix\Mix.bmd	キー単語打ち (Key and Word Strike)	キー単語打ち (Key and Word Strike)
Study\Word\Word.bmd	単語打ち (Word Strike)	単語打ち (Word Strike)

(Source: tikal.)

Unlock All Songs

Clicking the Stage 3 option while holding the keys B, M and D allows for the hidden song Beauty and The KUMA-SAN (Synth Junkie Mix) to be played.

(Source: tikal.)

Easter Egg

Clicking the Credits option while holding the keys B, M and D reveals a silly screen featuring a dancing character, with the text "びーとまにあ どうわっ!!" (roughly "beatmania DA!!") above. Clicking this mascot character briefly shows an edited image of DJ KONAMI with an unknown employee's head, as the text and sound "Typin' groooove!!" also appear.

(Source: tikal.)