GuitarFreaks 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX

GuitarFreaks 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX
Also known as: PercussionFreaks 7thMIX (drummania, AS) Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami System 573) Released in JP: August 30, 2002 (original), November 29, 2002 (Power-Up Version) Released in AS: 2002 (PercussionFreaks 7thMIX) This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has regional differences. This game has revisional differences.

This game/console's online features are no longer supported. While this game/console's online features were once accessible, they are (as of April 16, 2003) no longer officially supported and online-exclusive features may be documented as now-unseen content.

GuitarFreaks 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX did a major facelift in the game's interface, doing changes such as giving individual ratings to Bass charts, making modifiers easier to access, and giving songs individual banner images.

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Power-Up Version There's never too many difficulty rating tweaks.

Unused Graphics

NOTE: Graphics that are unused in the original release, but used in the Power-Up Version are not listed here.

The folder DATA6 contains the game's graphical assets. However, several sprites, and even complete files are left unused; some of them are leftovers from previous games.

Hit Chart Screen Leftover

MRANKING.FCN contains the files for GuitarFreaks 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX's hit chart screen, along with a few server-related messages.

File Name	Image	Description
Error Messages
amuse00.tim		Roughly translates to "The data is corrupted".
amuse01.tim		Roughly translates to "You have to communicate to the server".
amuse02.tim		Roughly translates to "The server is not registered".
amuse03.tim		Roughly translates to "Unable to communicate to the server".
amuse04.tim		Roughly translates to "You do not have a license".
amuse05.tim		Roughly translates to "The service has stopped".
amuse06.tim		Roughly translates to "Please call the person in the shop". It likely refers to the arcade operator.
Backgrounds
rank_back0.0.0.tim rank_back0.0.1.tim rank_back0.1.0.tim rank_back0.1.1.tim		An empty background.
rank_back1.0.0.tim rank_back1.0.1.tim rank_back1.1.0.tim rank_back1.1.1.tim		A series of backgrounds used in the Hit Chart screen, which showcases the most played songs.
rank_back2.0.0.tim rank_back2.0.1.tim rank_back2.1.0.tim rank_back2.1.1.tim
rank_back3.0.0.tim rank_back3.0.1.tim rank_back3.1.0.tim rank_back3.1.1.tim
Objects
rank_logo_dm.tim rank_logo_gf.tim		The "Current Hit Chart" object, displayed in the top of the screen.
rank_line.tim		A large box that separates the numbers from the titles.
rank_bar@1_15.0.tim rank_bar@1_15.1.tim		Appearing and disappearing boxes.
Text
rank_rank.tim		The "Rank" text, always displayed near the top corner of the box, above the rank numbers.
rank_id120.tim		A series of title graphics for several songs.
rank_id313.tim
rank_id413.tim
rank_id504.tim
rank_id506.tim
rank_id514.tim
rank_id516.tim
rank_id517.tim
rank_id519.tim
rank_id522.tim
rank_id524.tim
rank_id608.tim
rank_id609.tim
rank_id614.tim
rank_id616.tim
rank_id617.tim
rank_id627.tim
rank_id628.tim
rank_id629.tim
Fonts
rank_number@10_1.tim		Numbers, used to display a ranking position.
rankascii0@8_8.tim		Numbers and symbols, used to display a song's name, if not in Japanese. Comes in 10 colors, but only one is displayed here.
rankascii1@8_8.tim		Many letters and symbols, used to display a song's name, if not in Japanese. Comes in 10 colors, but only one is displayed here.

Songlist Screen

File M_IMAGE.FCN, the directory file for the songs' banners and songlist items, contains several unused graphics relating to several scrapped songs/revivals. Additionally, there's also songlist items for the six songs introduced in the Power-Up Version.

File Name	Image	Description
i0128_name.tim i0436_name.tim		A songlist item for the HOW TO PLAY sequence.
i0016_image.tim		A banner for the song Heaven is a '57 metallic gray, which was later added to the Power-up Version.
i0104_image.tim		A banner for the song ON OUR WAY, which was later added to the Power-up Version.
i0235_name.tim		A songlist item for the song JET WORLD (Long Version). Only the short version is playable in both of the game's releases, though this long version would be revived in GuitarFreaks V5 & DrumMania V5: Rock to Infinity.
i0406_image.tim		A banner for the song FIRE IN THE DARK, which was later added to the Power-up Version.
i0407_image.tim		A banner for the song THREE WORMS, which was later added to the Power-up Version.
i0408_image.tim		A banner for the song ORANGE JET STREAM, which was later added to the Power-up Version.
i0415_image.tim		A songlist item for the song DEPEND ON ME(Long Version). The song was later revived in GuitarFreaks V & DrumMania V, receiving a proper banner.
i0714_image.tim (clean version)		An early banner for the song Tsuminagara... to kanojo wa ifu. Note that the song's name written in the banner is Hakaishini, to kanojo wa ifu, possibly an earlier title. This banner is seen multiple times as a placeholder.
i0714_name.tim		A songlist item for the song Save A Little Something, which would later be playable in GuitarFreaks 10thMIX & drummania 9thMIX.
i0739_name.tim		A songlist item for the song Daikenkai, which would later be playable in the next installment.
i0740_name.tim		A songlist item for the song Ringo to hachimitsu, which would later be playable in the next installment.

(Source: syntax-error (discovery))

Song Titles

Many of the "BG" files, in which are stored the background animation sprites for the songs, have a graphic file displaying the song's title. As evidenced by the color combination used for both the background and text, they are leftovers from GuitarFreaks 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX.

File	Image
BGABBADA.FCN
BGACROSS.FCN
BGBRAZIL.FCN
BGCAPTAI.FCN
BGCARNIV.FCN
BGCENTAU.FCN
BGCHILD.FCN
BGCLASS3.FCN
BGCONQUE.FCN
BGCOSMIC.FCN
BGDEPEND.FCN
BGERASER.FCN
BGHERRIN.FCN
BGHROCK.FCN
BGIZPUNK.FCN
BGJETWOR.FCN
BGL_CLAS.FCN
BGL_PRIM.FCN
BGM600.FCN
BGM601.FCN
BGM602.FCN
BGM603.FCN
BGM604.FCN
BGM606.FCN
BGM607.FCN
BGM609.FCN
BGM610.FCN
BGM611.FCN
BGM613.FCN
BGM614.FCN
BGM615.FCN
BGM616.FCN
BGM617.FCN
BGM618.FCN
BGM619.FCN
BGM620.FCN
BGM621.FCN
BGM622.FCN
BGM624.FCN
BGM626.FCN
BGM627.FCN
BGM629.FCN
BGM630.FCN
BGM632.FCN
BGMAGIC.FCN
BGMIDNIG.FCN
BGMISS.FCN
BGNAKARO.FCN
BGNEOACO.FCN
BGNEWSVO.FCN
BGONPUNK.FCN
BGPIANO.FCN
BGRIGHTO.FCN
BGRUSSIA.FCN
BGSAKPOP.FCN
BGSASPRO.FCN
BGSEAANE.FCN
BGSECRET.FCN
BGSENPOP.FCN
BGSTOPSP.FCN
BGSWING.FCN
BGTENTAI.FCN
BGWAZA.FCN
BGYOUELE.FCN

Unused Background Animation Sprites

Some songs' background animation sprite packages also have unused images within them:

cachaca - BGM713.FCN

713_foot01@3_1.tim	713_out.tim	713_sky_night.tim

JET WORLD - BGJETWOR.FCN

Text and graphics from the song's original background animations, featured in the original GuitarFreaks 2ndMix.

j_lycnkr1.tim	j_lycnkr2.tim	j_lycnkr3.tim	j_lycnkr4.tim
j_lycnkr5.tim	j_lycnkr6.tim	j_lycnkr7.tim	j_lycnkr8.tim
j_lycnwow4.tim

MIDNIGHT SUN - BGHROCK.FCN

hrock_kenshi.tim	hrock_kenshi02.tim
hrock_nirami01.tim	hrock_nirami02.tim

P.P.R. - BGM111.FCN

Unused graphics for a blast animation.

mt_111boyb_01.tim	mt_111boyb_02.tim	mt_111boyb_03.tim	mt_111boyb_04.tim
mt_111boyb_05.tim	mt_111boyb_06.tim	mt_111boyb_07.tim	mt_111boyb_08.tim

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN - BGM129.FCN

GuitarFreaks 3rdMIX's credits still exist within the song's background animation files.

129_say_cg1.tim				129_say_cg2.tim				129_say_dt1.tim				129_say_dt2.tim				129_say_hard1.tim
129_say_hard2.tim					129_say_pd1.tim					129_say_pd2.tim					129_say_sd1.tim
129_say_sd2.tim				129_say_soft1.tim				129_say_soft2.tim				129_say_sp1.tim				129_say_sp2.tim

Other

A few "BG" files, such as BGM714.FCN, have a placeholder background animation graphic stored in them.

seisaku_0.tim	seisaku_1.tim	seisaku_2.tim	seisaku_3.tim	seisaku_4.tim
seisaku_5.tim	seisaku_6.tim	seisaku_7.tim	seisaku_8.tim	seisaku_9.tim
seisaku_a.tim	seisaku_c.tim			seisaku_b.tim
	The text roughly translates to "Intensive production!"

Results Screen

Clearly placeholder banners, featuring a smiley face and the text "TARGET" written on them, are found in RESULT.FCN. They come in seven variants. Additionally, the first two are seen in other files as well, such as SELECT.FCN.

Other

This dead fish is seen many times, in many files in the game's data.

Unused Song

Complete data for the song Save A Little Something, which wouldn't appear until GuitarFreaks 10thMIX & drummania 9thMIX, can be found in the game's files, which include music tracks, keysounds, and charts (in drummania 7thMIX, the chart data is complete, but in GuitarFreaks 8thMIX, only Basic Guitar and Bass charts exist). In the case of the Guitar charts, while the notes are placed accordingly, the charts only consist of red notes and measure markers, effectively making them placeholders. The preview file is also different between releases; I0714GF.DAT in the GuitarFreaks 8thMIX data is of the actual song, while I0714DM.DAT in the drummania 7thMIX data is of Natsuiro, a song absent from this release.

GuitarFreaks	drummania

Download Save A Little Something (guitar/bass charts) File: GF8DM7-saveG.zip (6,96 MB) (info)

Download Save A Little Something (drum charts) File: GF8DM7-saveD.zip (2,17 MB) (info)

Unused Music

Folder DATA0/STATIC contains the game's system background music files. However, two tunes are not heard:

GF5dm4 Opening

File OPENING.DAT is the opening theme for GuitarFreaks 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX.

Game Over

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

Unused Audio

To do: Verify some more other sounds.

Unused audio files for the game's announcer can be found in GAME.DAT. It is entirely possible that the announcer was planned to be more "prominent" in the game's screens, much like the first four GuitarFreaks games.

Audio	Transcription	Description
	"Mode Select"	Alternate takes for entering the mode selection screen.
	"Select Mode"
	"Playstyle Menu"	A sound for entering the Settings menu, before the mode selection screen. The announcer is silent when the screen is entered, however.
	"How To Play"	A sound for entering the How To Play sequence during the attract mode. The announcer is silent when the screen is entered, however.
	"Music Select"	Alternate takes for entering the music selection screen.
	"Select a music"
	"First Stage"	Sounds that supposedly were to be played before the song started. However, only the Extra and Encore stages are announced.
	"Second Stage"
	"Third Stage"
	"Fourth Stage"
	"Fifth Stage"
	"Congratulations!"	It is likely that this would be played in the Ending sequence. However, the announcer is silent.
	"Are you ready?"	Could have been possibly used before the song started (like in the early GuitarFreaks titles)?
	"This one's easy!"	Likely meant to be used in Nyuumon/Lesson mode?
	"Amazing play!"	Assorted praising sounds. Likely meant to be used in Nyuumon/Lesson mode?
	"Gnarly, dude!"
	"Great job!"
	"Incredible!"
	"Super duper!"
	"Very clever!"
	"Way to go!"
	"Wow, man, that was cool!"
	"You're fantastic!"
	"Beginner"	A leftover from the previous announcer.

Burn Date

The title of Percussion Freaks 7thMIX's ISO image contains a burn date, which is not seen in any of the Japanese releases:

VOL_20020820103537

Regional Differences

drummania 7thMIX was released in Asia under the title of PercussionFreaks 7thMIX. The only major difference is that many of the songs' titles and artists were translated/romanized to English, and, in one case, Traditional Chinese. Curiously, some of these translated banners are based on earlier variants.

	Japan	Asia
愛のしるし [Ai no shirushi]
ありがとね。 [Arigato ne.]
ボーイフレンド [Boyfriend]
☆CANDY
CAPTAIN'S VOYAGE
CHOCOLATE PHILOSOPHY
CLASSIC PARTY 3
CLASSIC PARTY triathlon
Concertino in BLue
誰? [Dare?]
Destiny lovers
Double Trouble
ファミレス・ボンバー [Famiresu bomber]
FIRE (Long Version)
GETAWAY
人にやさしく [Hito ni yasashiku]
JET WORLD
君のハートにドキュン [Kimi no heart ni dokyun]
子供の落書き帳 [Kodomo no rakugaki chou]
美丽的家乡 [Mei Li De Jia Xiang]
MIDNIGHT SUN
みかんのうた [Mikan no uta]
三毛猫ロック [Mikeneko rock]
MISS YOU
Moonlight Walkin'
桃色片思い [Momoiro kataomoi]
波乗りジョニー [Naminori Johnny]
One Phrase Blues
Riff Riff Orbit
ロビンソン [Robinson]
ロマンス [Romance]
蛹 [Sanagi]
正論 [Seiron]
しりとり [Shiritori]
SMILE FOR YOU
そっと。 [Sotto.]
スイマーズ [Swimmers]
天体観測 [Tentaikansoku]
The Least 100sec.
THE OCEAN AND YOU
The sun shines through rain
ツミナガラ... と彼女は謂ふ [Tsuminagara... to kanojo wa ifu]