GuitarFreaks 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX

GuitarFreaks 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX
Also known as: PercussionFreaks 6thMIX (drummania, AS) Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami System 573) Released in JP: February 28, 2002 Released in AS: 2002 (PercussionFreaks 6thMIX) This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music.

GuitarFreaks 7thMix & drummania 6thMIX introduced the Open Pick mode for Guitars, although it could only be accessed via a code. Aside from also balancing the difficulty ratings of the returning songs, these releases do not have much to say of.

Unused Graphics

Folder DATA6 contains the graphical data for the game. Among the files for the songs' background animations, several unused sprites can be found. Sadly, there's not as many compared to some of the previous titles, due to a change in how the files are organized.

BGM633.FCN

This file seems to belong to a dummied out song, with no other references in the game's code. Most of the sprites present in it also exist in the graphic repository file of the song Seiron (BGONPUNK.FCN).

	The text roughly translates to "Intensive production!"

JET WORLD - BGJETWOR.FCN / BGL_JET.FCN

MIDNIGHT SUN - BGHROCK.FCN

Natsuiro - BGNATSU.FCN

THE POWER OF LOVE - BGPOWERO.FCN

Placeholders

A placeholder icon can be found among the speed mod icons of drummania, present in D_RES_NS.FCN and D_SEL_MD.FCN.

(Source: tikal.)

Unused Music

GuitarFreaks 5thMix Opening

File OPENING.DAT is the opening theme for GuitarFreaks 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX, which can also be found unused in the previous releases.

Game Over

File OVER.DAT is a short tune likely meant to be used as a Game Over sequence of sorts.

(Source: tikal.)

Build Date

The game's build date can be found in the title of the game's ISO image:

GuitarFreaks	drummania	PercussionFreaks
VOL_20020212062540	VOL_20020212063035	VOL_20020218133438

(Source: tikal.)