KeyboardMania 2ndMIX

KeyboardMania 2ndMIX
Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami FireBeat) Released in JP: October 6, 2000 This game has hidden developer credits. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics.

The sequel to the original KeyboardMania. It introduced courses, as well as an easier difficulty.

Unused Graphics

Unused Frames

The file MOVIE\MM_01.GCZ contains the frames seen in the movie of the song Morning Music, which depict a countdown, as seen in Konami's Bubble System games, going from 99 to 01 and then looping. However, three unused frames for the countdown reaching 00 exist; curiously, they cannot be found in the original KeyboardMania.

Placeholder

ETC_01.GCZ is a file that contains graphics for the Song Splash, Results, Internet Ranking and Game Over screens. It also contains this placeholder graphic featuring pop'n stage character Space Maco.

(Source: tikal.)

Developer Credit

At offset 0x949F8 of a decompressed FIREBEAT.EXE is a set of security strings which contain a programmer credit.

MoDe:MaNuFaC/PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)
MoDe:SeRViCe/PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)
MoDe:EVeNT  /PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)
MoDe:OVeRSea/PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)
MoDe:DuMMY01/PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)
MoDe:DuMMY02/PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)
MoDe:DuMMY03/PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)
MoDe:DuMMY04/PRoGRaMeD BY USR01979(HaJiMe SaiTo)

Burn Date

A burn date can be found in the title of the game's main program ISO:

VOL_20000907130350