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GuitarFreaks 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX

Also known as: PercussionFreaks 8thMIX (drummania, AS)
Developer: Konami AMD
Publisher: Konami
Platform: Arcade (Konami System 573)
Released in JP: April 2, 2003
Released in AS: 2003 (PercussionFreaks 8thMIX)


DevTextIcon.png This game has hidden development-related text.
GraphicsIcon.png This game has unused graphics.
MusicIcon.png This game has unused music.
SoundIcon.png This game has unused sounds.


GuitarFreaks 9thMIX & drummania 8thMIX, songlist-wise, contains little more crossovered songs, not only from pop'n music, but also from Dance Maniax and, to an extent, FIGHTING WU-SHU and Speed King NEO KOBE 2045. Visual-wise, they're recolors of the previous games.

Unused Graphics

Note: All of these take in consideration folder DATA6, which contain the game's graphical assets.

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, in the horrid color combination of blue background and red text. They are leftovers from GuitarFreaks 7thMIX & drummania 6thMIX.

File Image
BGM0015.FCN GF8DM7-BGACROSS.png
BGM0019.FCN GF8DM7-BGDEPEND.png
BGM0021.FCN GF8DM7-BGJETWOR.png
BGM0101.FCN GF8DM7-BGMIDNIG.png
BGM0105.FCN GF8DM7-BGSTOPSP.png
BGM0108.FCN GF8DM7-BGCENTAU.png
BGM0110.FCN GF8DM7-BGCOSMIC.png
BGM0209.FCN GF8DM7-BGMAGIC.png
BGM0229.FCN GF8DM7-BGERASER.png
BGM0307.FCN GF8DM7-BGRIGHTO.png
BGM0403.FCN GF8DM7-BGSASPRO.png
BGM0404.FCN GF8DM7-BGCLASS3.png
BGM0413.FCN GF8DM7-BGSAKPOP.png
BGM0434.FCN GF8DM7-BGNEWSVO.png
BGM0504.FCN GF8DM7-BGCHILD.png
BGM0513.FCN GF8DM7-BGSWING.png
BGM0514.FCN GF8DM7-BGONPUNK.png
BGM0517.FCN GF8DM7-BGTENTAI.png
BGM0527.FCN GF8DM7-BGMISS.png
BGM0603.FCN GF8DM7-BGM603.png
BGM0604.FCN GF8DM7-BGM604.png
BGM0609.FCN GF8DM7-BGM609.png
BGM0610.FCN GF8DM7-BGM610.png
BGM0617.FCN GF8DM7-BGM617.png
BGM0618.FCN GF8DM7-BGM618.png
BGM0619.FCN GF8DM7-BGM619.png
BGM0620.FCN GF8DM7-BGM620.png
BGM0622.FCN GF8DM7-BGM622.png
BGM0626.FCN GF8DM7-BGM626.png
BGM0627.FCN GF8DM7-BGM627.png
BGM0629.FCN GF8DM7-BGM629.png
BGM0630.FCN GF8DM7-BGM630.png

Unused Background Animation Sprites

Happy man - BG0005.FCN

From the original GuitarFreaks to GuitarFreaks 3rdMix, during a scene in the video of the song Happy man, a rocker character is displayed, strumming either a guitar or a broom. In later releases, only his head is displayed, albeit the graphics for his other body parts can still be found.

GF9DM8-happyman (6).pngGF9DM8-happyman (1).png
GF9DM8-happyman (3).pngGF9DM8-happyman (4).png
GF9DM8-happyman (5).png
GF9DM8-happyman (8).pngGF9DM8-happyman (7).png
GF9DM8-happyman (2).png

JET WORLD - BGM0021.FCN

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

GF8DM7-JETWOR 1wow.png GF8DM7-JETWOR 2yeah.png GF8DM7-JETWOR 3comeon.png GF8DM7-JETWOR 4goodgosh.png
GF8DM7-JETWOR hand1.png GF8DM7-JETWOR hand2.png GF8DM7-JETWOR hand3.png GF8DM7-JETWOR handP.png
GF8DM7-JETWOR goodgoshL.png

P.P.R. - BGM0111.FCN

Unused graphics for a blast animation.

GF8DM7-M111 blast1.png GF8DM7-M111 blast2.png GF8DM7-M111 blast3.png GF8DM7-M111 blast4.png
GF8DM7-M111 blast5.png GF8DM7-M111 blast6.png GF8DM7-M111 blast7.png GF8DM7-M111 blast8.png

SAY WHAT YOU MEAN - BGM0129.FCN

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

GF8DM7-M129 staff1.png GF8DM7-M129 staff2.png GF8DM7-M129 staff3.png GF8DM7-M129 staff4.png GF8DM7-M129 staff5.png
GF8DM7-M129 staff6.png GF8DM7-M129 staff7.png GF8DM7-M129 staff8.png GF8DM7-M129 staff9.png
GF8DM7-M129 staff10.png GF8DM7-M129 staff11.png GF8DM7-M129 staff12.png GF8DM7-M129 staff13.png GF8DM7-M129 staff14.png

Songlist Item

This graphic, found as the 58th and 89th images of M_IMAGE.FCN, is a songlist item for the How To Play song, which is not selectable under normal circumstances.

GF9DM8-howtoplay.png

Results Screen

These placeholder graphics are leftovers from GuitarFreaks 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX, and can be found in RESULT.FCN. They come in seven variants. Additionally, the first two are seen in other files as well, such as SELECT.FCN.

GF8DM7-target1.png GF8DM7-target2.png GF8DM7-target3.png GF8DM7-target4.png

GF8DM7-target5.png GF8DM7-target6.png GF8DM7-target7.png

Unlock Card

The lottery card unlock screen has these two placeholder images:

GF9DM8-1p.png GF9DM8-2p.png

Other

The dead fish from the GuitarFreaks 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX data also returned, albeit a little smaller in size.

GF9DM8-fish.png

Unused Music

Folder DATA0 contains the game's system music assets. However, two tunes, which are only present in the drummania 8thMIX data, are not heard:

GF5dm4 Opening

File OPENING.DAT in DYNAMIC is the opening theme for GuitarFreaks 5thMIX & drummania 4thMIX, which can be found unused since GuitarFreaks 6thMIX & drummania 5thMIX.

Game Over

File OVER.DAT in STATIC is a short tune likely meant to be used on a Game Over sequence of sorts. This file can be found unused since drummania 4thMIX.

Unused Audio

Many announcer lines, leftovers from GuitarFreaks 8thMIX & drummania 7thMIX, can be found in GAME.DAT.

Audio Transcription Description
"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"
"Game Over" Because the Game Over screen was removed in GuitarFreaks 8thMix Power-Up Version, this line goes unused.
"Nyuumon" In this release, the "Nyuumon" mode was renamed back to "Beginner", using the old announcer line[!], leaving this unused.

Build Date

drummania 8thMIX's build date can be found in the title of the game's uncompressed ISO file:

drummania 8thMIX PercussionFreaks 8thMIX
VOL_20030308012310
VOL_20030311091828


(Special thanks: SakamotoNeko)