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beatmania complete MIX [Model GX858]

Arcade Video game published 25 years ago by Konami Co., Ltd.

Listed in MAME

beatmania complete MIX [Model GX858] screenshot

beatmania complete MIX © 1999 Konami Company, Limited.

TECHNICAL/MACHINE PICT.
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Konami Bemani DJ-Main Hardware
Game ID : GX858

CPU : MC68EC020FG25 @ 25MHz
Custom Chips : 058143, 056832, 055555, 056766, 058141, and KS10101
Sound : Custom Konami Sound Chips for Multiple Sound Channels
Res : 24kHz 512x384
Drives : Pop'N Music use 3.5inch IDE-HDD, all other games use 2.5inch.
Roms : Program and graphics on EEPROM.

Players : 2
Control : dial
Buttons : 5

TRIVIA

Released in January 1999.

This game is known in US as "hiphopmania Complete MIX".

TIPS AND TRICKS

* Complete Song List Choice Mode :
1) Insert your credits.
2) Hold down 1P buttons 1+4 and fully turn turntable clockwise once.
3) Hold down 1P buttons 2+5 and fully turn turntable clockwise once.

4) Hold down 1P button 4 and press START.
5) Release button 4 and press button 2.
If you did it right, you should be able to select all songs.

* Another Version :
1) During 'STAGE SELECT', turn the records and press buttons 2-4-2 in quick succession while they are turning.
2) Next, turn the records again and press buttons 4-2-4 in quick succession while they are turning.
3) Later, when 'hard house', 'hard techno' (Acid Bomb) or 'euro beat' are selected, 'Another' version can be played.

* Random Play Mode : Can be activated by pressing the following 2P side buttons in the following order, followed by the 1P START button : 3-5-3-2-1-3-5-3-2-1-3-5-3-2

* Mirror Play Mode : Can be activated by pressing the following 2P side buttons in the following order, followed by the 1P START button : 3-5-3-2-1-3-5-3-2-1-5-3-2-1

SERIES

1. beatmania (1997)
2. beatmania 2ndMix (1998)
3. beatmania 3rdMix (1998)
4. beatmania complete MIX (1999)
5. beatmania 4thMix the beat goes on (1999)
6. beatmania 5thMix Time to get down (1999)
7. beatmania complete MIX 2 (2000)
8. beatmania ClubMix (2000)
9. beatmania featuring Dreams Come True (2000)
10. beatmania CORE REMIX (2000)
11. beatmania 6thMix The UK Underground Music (2001)
12. beatmania 7thMix keepin' Evolution (2002)
13. beatmania THE FINAL (2002)

STAFF

Producer & Director : Koji Okamoto
Planner : Mizking
Sound director : Reo Nagumo
Composers : Nite System, Quadra, DJ Mazinger, Crunky Boy, Nouvo Nude, Hiroshi Takeyasu, Reo Nagumo, Ohta Tomomi, Yohei Shimizu
Programmers : Hideki Hashimoto, Takayuki Fukunaga
Hardware engineer : Masayuki Senami
Mechanical engineers : Yuichiro Sagawa, Toshiharu Miura
CG designers : Mizking, Hotaru Komatsu, Gyo Eguchi, Hajime Yashiro (KCE Japan)
Graphic designer : Noriyuki Yokoki
Vocalist & Rapper : Yurika Nagasawa, Miryam, Muhammad, Butcher "ONE LOVE", Chappy, Bombman
Sound tool programmer : Yohei Shimizu
Guitarists : Hiroshi Miyauchi, Takumi Kikuya, Yoriyoshi Matsushita
Dancer : Wan-Chan, Nami
Japanese-english translators : Mutsuko Ichikawa, Hideki Hashimoto, Ami Masaki, Mary Hermanson, Justin Lazaroff

* Staff of SPU original songs 'Big Beat Mix' :
CG designer : Hajime Yashiro (KCE Japan)
Composers : Hiroyuki Togo (KCE Japan), Tappy
Lyricists : Fabienne Haber, Hiroyuki Togo
Sound data analizers : Masashi Watanabe (KCE School), Hiroyuki Togo
Vocalist & Rapper : Fabienne Haber, Ikuzo Fujimura
Guitarist : Hiroyuki Togo
Japanese-English translators : Kerry Nagai, Ikuzo Fujimura
Japanese-French translator : Fabienne Haber

SOURCES

Game's picture.
Game's screenshots.
Game's ROM.
Official website: http://www.konami.jp/am/bm/comp/