Beatmania IIDX 14: Gold
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Beatmania IIDX 14: Gold is the 14th game in the beatmania IIDX
series of music video game
s. It was released in arcades by Konami
on February 21, 2007. The game features over 45 new songs, some of which are unlocked over Konami's e-Amusement
platform. The game instituted another hardware change for IIDX, now running on more powerful hardware using Windows XP Embedded as its operating system.
The user interface features a predominantly metallic appearance, with gold and silver accents throughout.
(Suzaku). The stage is played on Hard mode, which removes the 80% groove gauge requirement, but will fail the player if it drops down to 0%. If the stage is cleared, the player gets to play One More Extra Stage, Fascination MAXX, a crossover from the then recently released Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova
.
Clearing 60 songs on one difficulty, then clearing GOLD RUSH with an A in hard mode, plus another payment of 1700 GP unlocks the Gold Room, containing CANDY GALY by Risk Junk-G.
Clearing 90 songs, 5 songs from IIDX Records on the same difficulty, clearing CANDY GALY with an A or higher in hard mode, and another payment of 1700 GP unlocks the Platinum Room, which contains 電人、暁に斃れる。 (Denjin, Dead at Dawn) by L.E.D-G. An additional OMES in the Black Room was Sense 2007 by good-cool.
The VIP Room system was later dropped as all songs were later unlocked for regular play on e-Amusement connected machines. All songs contain different frames for the gameplay UI in their room's color.
*1 CROSSROAD has 2 different versions in this game.
Notable songs from this version include:
was released on May 29, 2008. The console version includes new songs such as 6 collaborations with IIDX regulars, 6 unlockable songs, and revivals of older songs from other IIDX versions and from the original 5-key Beatmania series, a total of 96 songs.
Two songs from the Kaiden course in Class mode, Vanessa and Kamaitachi, feature new Another charts only playable on the course, which are more difficult than their original charts. As with other recent PS2 styles, the game also contains unlockable interface items, such as different menu music, category announcers, additional lane covers for the Sudden+ modifier, and discs for the turntable icon in gameplay.
The original videos of Last Message and Sense 2007 (which are infamous for containing scenes of sexually provocative imagery, were replaced with generic videos on Gold CS due to stricter age certification processes by the CERO
and a desire to keep the game A-rated, although Last Message's video was included on the console version of 7th Style (which does not have a CERO rating). On the contrast, 星をこの手に now has a dedicated video, and Metallic Mind now has overlays featuring Hihumi, the mascot of the game.
Some pre-order bundles for the game also include the "Beatnation Summit" DVD, the artwork book "Puzzle - Maya Takamura's Pieces", and L.E.D's album, Denjin K.
market. As with other music video games, Japanese IIDX machines have been imported by some arcades, but are still considered rare. This is not the first time a Beatmania IIDX game has been released in North America though, as a Beatmania game based on 9th Style, featuring songs from IIDX, and the original Beatmania games, were released for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. These did not have an arcade counterpart.
The build was first seen at a location test at Brunswick Zone Naperville in Naperville
, Illinois
. Most of the instructions in the interface was translated into English, though Dan mode was untranslated, and song titles were not translated or romanized (although the LED marquee does show titles in a romanized format on all styles by default). The English build of IIDX Gold was never released.
Beatmania IIDX
is a series of rhythm video games and the sequel to Beatmania that was first introduced by Konami in Japan on February 26, 1999. IIDX has since spawned over 19 arcade releases and over 13 console releases on the Sony PlayStation 2...
series of music video game
Music video game
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...
s. It was released in arcades by Konami
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...
on February 21, 2007. The game features over 45 new songs, some of which are unlocked over Konami's e-Amusement
E-AMUSEMENT
e-AMUSEMENT is an online service offered worldwide by Konami to enable exclusive online features in games, such as Internet Rankings and unlockable content. It is utilized by multiple Konami games as listed below, including the arcade and the PlayStation 2 platforms.- Magnetic Cards :Before 2006,...
platform. The game instituted another hardware change for IIDX, now running on more powerful hardware using Windows XP Embedded as its operating system.
The user interface features a predominantly metallic appearance, with gold and silver accents throughout.
Gameplay
Core gameplay remained the same on Gold. A new hidden modifier, "REGUL-SPEED", locks the BPM of a song to a constant 150, but scores achieved with it turned on are not recorded. In addition, a new song folder was added, Assist Clear, for songs which were cleared using the 5-Key or Auto Scratch modifiers. Gold also utilizes less strict timing windows than previous arcade releases, utilizing more CS-like timings. Also, the ability for 2 players to play on separate difficulties was added.e-Amusement
A new e-Amusement feature added to Gold are "GP", points earned during songs which can unlock secret songs such as console exclusives and revival songs from previous styles.Extra Stages
If the player gets three AA's on any difficulty (without use of the Random or Mirror modifiers) and the levels for all the songs add up to either 20 for Hyper or 30 for Another, the player is awarded a chance to play the extra stage, Vanessa by 朱雀Yoshitaka Nishimura
Yoshitaka Nishimura , better known as DJ YOSHITAKA, is a composer for Konami's line of Bemani games. DJ YOSHITAKA has been making solo songs since the release of Beatmania IIDX 11: IIDX RED, though he has had previous BEMANI involvement as a member of Osamu Migitera's Des-ROW group...
(Suzaku). The stage is played on Hard mode, which removes the 80% groove gauge requirement, but will fail the player if it drops down to 0%. If the stage is cleared, the player gets to play One More Extra Stage, Fascination MAXX, a crossover from the then recently released Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA
Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova is an arcade game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was produced by Konami and released through Betson Enterprises. The game was released in Europe on April 28, 2006, followed shortly by the North American release on May 15...
.
VIP Room
An additional extra stage-like system added to Gold through e-Amusement is the VIP Room, an extension on the system introduced by Distorted's "Cardinal Gate" system. To access the VIP Room, the player must play 30 songs on one difficulty, then pay 1700 GP. This unlocks the Silver Room, containing GOLD RUSH by DJ Yoshitaka-G feat. Michael a la mode.Clearing 60 songs on one difficulty, then clearing GOLD RUSH with an A in hard mode, plus another payment of 1700 GP unlocks the Gold Room, containing CANDY GALY by Risk Junk-G.
Clearing 90 songs, 5 songs from IIDX Records on the same difficulty, clearing CANDY GALY with an A or higher in hard mode, and another payment of 1700 GP unlocks the Platinum Room, which contains 電人、暁に斃れる。 (Denjin, Dead at Dawn) by L.E.D-G. An additional OMES in the Black Room was Sense 2007 by good-cool.
The VIP Room system was later dropped as all songs were later unlocked for regular play on e-Amusement connected machines. All songs contain different frames for the gameplay UI in their room's color.
New Songs
| Genre | Song | Artist | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hindu Salsa | 2hot2eat | Osamu Kubota | |
| Flow Pop | Air Bell | D-crew | |
| Psychedelic Synth Trance | ANDROMEDA II | Sota Fujimori | |
| Epic Poetry | Blind Justice ~Torn Souls, Hurt Faiths~ | Zektbach | Also on pop'n music 16: Party and DDR Supernova2 |
| Spanish Cool | カミロ・ウナ・メンデス | 山根ミチル | |
| Nostalish Requiem | CaptivAte～誓い～ | A/I | |
| Nostalish Requiem | CaptivAte～裁き～ | DJ Yoshitaka feat. A/I | Also on GF/DM V2 |
| Trance | シティ・エンジェル | PINK PONG | |
| Techno Rave | Come On | John Robinson | |
| Dramatic Euro Trance | CROSSROAD *1 | jun with TAHIRIH | |
| Cyborg Trance | Cyber Force | Sota Fujimori feat. cyborg Akemi | |
| Scouse House | Dreaming Sweetness | Auridy | |
| Acid Jazz | earth-like planet | ELEKTEL | |
| Buchiage Trance | FIRE FIRE | StripE | Also on DDR X2 |
| Rock | four-leaf | Sis Bond Chit | Also on GF/DM V6: Blazing!!! |
| Disco | GHOSTBUSTERS | Remixed by DJ Yoshitaka | |
| Electronica | GRID KNIGHT | SAW WAVE SQUAD | |
| Progressive | HALF MOON | Mutsuhiko Izumi | |
| Japanese Alteration | 花吹雪 ～ IIDX LIMITED ～ | S.S.D.FANTASICA feat.ユッコ | Also on pop'n music 17: Movie |
| Filter House | heaven above | kors k | |
| High Speed Love Song | High School Love | DJ Yoshitaka feat. DWP | Also on pop'n music 14: Fever! |
| J-Happy Hardcore | HONEY♂PUNCH | 小坂りゆ | Also on DDR SuperNOVA |
| J-Pop | 星をこの手に | DJ YOSHITAKA feat.星野奏子 | |
| Millennium Trance | INORI | dj TAKA feat.HAL | Revived from beatmaniaIIDX 11 IIDXRED CS |
| Freeform Hardcore | KAMAITACHI | DJ TECHNORCH fw. GUHROOVY | |
| Industrial Review | 鬼言集 | あさき | |
| Future Pop | クルクル☆ラブ～Opioid Peptide MIX～ | イオンチャンネル | |
| Pops | Love Again... | Tatsh feat Junko Hirata | Revived from beatmaniaIIDX 11 IIDXRED CS |
| Nu Skool Breaks | LASER CRUSTER | L.E.D. | |
| House | Make Me Your Own | good-cool ft. Raj Ramayya | |
| Oldskool Hardcore Rave | METALLIC MIND | DJ TECHNORCH fw. GUHROOVY | |
| Hyper Eurobeat | My Only Shining Star | NAOKI feat. Becky Lucinda | Also on DDR SuperNOVA |
| Dance Pop | never... | 星野奏子 with dj TAKA | |
| Piano Concerto | op. 31 叙情 | akiko | |
| Drum'n Bass | PHOTONGENIC | L.E.D. fw.堀澤麻衣子 | Revived from beatmaniaIIDX 9th Style CS |
| 小倉テクノ (Ogura Techno) | Play back hate you | AKIRA YAMAOKA | |
| J-Pop | Red Rocket Rising | BeForU | |
| Hyper J-Pop Zero | 零 -ZERO- | TЁЯRA | Appeared in DDR X |
| Euro Trance | リグレット | 星野奏子(with DJ Yoshitaka) | Revived from beatmaniaIIDX 11 IIDXRED CS |
| Eurobeat | Roulette | Y&Co. | |
| Handz Up | Second Heaven | Ryu☆ | Also on DDR X2 |
| Ele Pop | smile | miru_maki. gjw | |
| Trance | snow storm | dj TAKA | |
| 歌謡ハウス (Song House) | So Real | Y&Co. feat.mioco | |
| Hyper J-Pop+ | STARS☆☆☆ (Re-tuned by HΛL) -IIDX EDITION- | TЁЯRA | Cut version on DDR SuperNOVA 2 |
| Schranz | the shadow | kors k | |
| Pop | The Smile of You | 猫叉Master feat.JESSY | Also on pop'n music 17: Movie |
| PSG Works | TRANOID | T&S seq. factory | |
| Hiphop | Watch out!! | MAD Sequence＊ | |
| J-House | With Your Smile | Shoichiro Hirata plus Junko Hirata | |
| Retro Rave | X-rated | SADA | |
| Digital Rock | Yabis Starlight | DAJI | |
| Techno | ヨシダさん | AKIRA YAMAOKA | |
| Deceptive Gabba | VANESSA | 朱雀 | Extra Stage, Appeared in DDR X2 |
| SuperNOVA Beat | Fascination MAXX | 100-200-400 | One More Extra Stage |
| Nu-NRG | 電人、暁に斃れる。 | L.E.D.-G | VIP Room (Platinum) Extra Stage |
| Happy | CANDY GALY | Risk Junk-G | VIP Room (Gold) Extra Stage |
| Reckless Rave | GOLD RUSH | DJ Yoshitaka-G feat. Michael a la mode | VIP Room (Silver) Extra Stage, Appeared in DDR X2(2 versions), pop'n music 18: Sengoku Retsuden |
| Rave | Sense 2007 | good-cool | VIP Room (Black) One More Extra Stage |
*1 CROSSROAD has 2 different versions in this game.
Notable songs from this version include:
- GOLD RUSH - a song accessed through the VIP Room system. The song is an extended remix of Gold's opening theme by DJ Yoshitaka, with additional vocals provided by "Michael a la Mode", and a middle breakdown containing a naming of all the IIDX versions in order of release. The song gained a cult following in IIDX online communities due to Michael's incomprehensible but booming vocals, and lines from the song have often become memes. Michael a la Mode as a character has appeared in other roles due to his popularity among fans, such as hosting the Tutorial mode in future versions, and later appearing in a B4U remix.
- TRANOID - a tribute to video game music. The video for the song contains an opening sequence for a fictitious game of the same name, starring "Tran", an alien character seen frequently in IIDX videos. The actual game, consists of her running down a track (which resembles the gameplay area of IIDX but tilted on its side), dodging other red, white, and blue aliens. The "game", is actually Tranoid's notechart on Normal for that portion of the song, and the game area and colors even imitate the standard colors of notes on IIDX. The logo for the game, resembles the logo for GradiusGradiusThe Gradius games, first introduced in 1985, make up a series of scrolling shooter video games published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms. In many games in the series, the player controls a ship known as the Vic Viper...
, another Konami game. - The Smile of You - the theme song from the Konami game ElebitsElebits, known in PAL territories as Eledees, is an action/first person shooter game developed by Konami Digital Entertainment and published by Konami for the Wii...
, which coincidentally also includes references to other Bemani games in general. - Golden Cross, a techno song by DJ REMO-CON and dj TAKA, and one of the collaborations on the console version of Gold. The song is the toughest out of the new songs on Gold CS, with its another chart being ranked a 12 and containing a total of 1765 notes. The video features several of the musicians in a show named "Yoshitaka no ShogiShogi, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan...
" (a parody of Hikaru no GoHikaru no Gois a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...
, another television program based around a Japanese board game). - Sense 2007 - a song accessed through the VIP Room system. Sense 2007's normal difficulty is rated a 9, making it the hardest normal difficulty in IIDX history.
Home version
The home version of Beatmania IIDX 14: Gold for the PlayStation 2PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
was released on May 29, 2008. The console version includes new songs such as 6 collaborations with IIDX regulars, 6 unlockable songs, and revivals of older songs from other IIDX versions and from the original 5-key Beatmania series, a total of 96 songs.
Two songs from the Kaiden course in Class mode, Vanessa and Kamaitachi, feature new Another charts only playable on the course, which are more difficult than their original charts. As with other recent PS2 styles, the game also contains unlockable interface items, such as different menu music, category announcers, additional lane covers for the Sudden+ modifier, and discs for the turntable icon in gameplay.
The original videos of Last Message and Sense 2007 (which are infamous for containing scenes of sexually provocative imagery, were replaced with generic videos on Gold CS due to stricter age certification processes by the CERO
Computer Entertainment Rating Organization
The is a Japanese entertainment rating organization based in Tokyo. rating video game content in console games with levels of rating that informs the customer of the nature of the product and for what age group it is suitable...
and a desire to keep the game A-rated, although Last Message's video was included on the console version of 7th Style (which does not have a CERO rating). On the contrast, 星をこの手に now has a dedicated video, and Metallic Mind now has overlays featuring Hihumi, the mascot of the game.
Some pre-order bundles for the game also include the "Beatnation Summit" DVD, the artwork book "Puzzle - Maya Takamura's Pieces", and L.E.D's album, Denjin K.
North American location test
Gold was the first version of Beatmania IIDX to have a dedicated English build for the North AmericanNorth American
North American generally refers to an entity, people, group, or attribute of North America, especially of the United States and Canada together.-Culture:*North American English, a collective term used to describe American English and Canadian English...
market. As with other music video games, Japanese IIDX machines have been imported by some arcades, but are still considered rare. This is not the first time a Beatmania IIDX game has been released in North America though, as a Beatmania game based on 9th Style, featuring songs from IIDX, and the original Beatmania games, were released for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. These did not have an arcade counterpart.
The build was first seen at a location test at Brunswick Zone Naperville in Naperville
Naperville, Illinois
Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will Counties in Illinois in the United States, voted the second best place to live in the United States by Money Magazine in 2006. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 141,853. It is the fifth largest city in the state, behind Chicago,...
, Illinois
Illinois
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. Most of the instructions in the interface was translated into English, though Dan mode was untranslated, and song titles were not translated or romanized (although the LED marquee does show titles in a romanized format on all styles by default). The English build of IIDX Gold was never released.