pop'n music 11 (PlayStation 2)

pop'n music 11
Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Studios Publisher: Konami Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: July 21, 2005 This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

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A home port of Konami's pop'n music 11 arcade game. It is notable for introducing the Character Guide mode, which allows the player to view the animations of characters, including those that are not normally playable.

Unused Graphics

NOTE: None of the graphics listed below have proper filenames; the names are given based on the order in which they are present in IMAGE.DAT.

Placeholder Song Entry

Graphics for a placeholder song, which includes a banner, genre and artist labels, a background, and even character portraits and icons. Curiously, no in-game character sprites exist. The basic song information can be labeled as follows:

• Genre: Dummy Mimi ai no theme (Dummy)
• Title: Dummy Mimi ai no theme
• Artist: Dummy no Mimi-chan
• Character: Dummy

File 4

File 5

File 6

File 39

File 57

File 251

File 605

File 611

Unused Song/Character Remnants

Ai wo sagasou

• Genre: J-R&B 2
• Character: tourmaline [3]
• Origin: pop'n music 3
• Contains: Character icons

File 5

STAR TREK (and its URA version)

• Genre: AMERICA / URA AMERICA
• Character: Mimi [TV&ANIME-AMERICA] / Mimi [TV&ANIME-AMERICA-2P]
• Origin: pop'n music 6 / pop'n music 11
• Contains: Genre label, In-game character sprites

File 6

File 285

Sprite Data

File 286

Sprite Data

White Lovers

• Genre: WINTER POP
• Character: SANAE chan [7]
• Origin: pop'n music 7
• Contains: Genre label, In-game character sprites

File 6

File 419

Sprite Data

File 420

Sprite Data

I REALLY WANT TO HURT YOU

• Genre: POPS ENCORE
• Character: POPPERS [9]
• Origin: pop'n music 9
• Contains: Character icons

File 5

Suki suki song

• Genre: SUKI SUKI SONG
• Character: SPACE MACO [TV&ANIME]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: In-game character sprites

File 438

Sprite Data

Meikyoushishui

• Genre: ZEN JAZZ
• Character: ikkei [10]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: Character icon

File 5

SUMMER TIME

• Genre: CARIBBEAN BEATS
• Character: Uncle JAM [10]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: Character icon

File 5

Umi no uta

• Genre: SHIMA-UTA
• Character: Chiyoko [10]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: In-game character sprites

File 430

Sprite Data

File 431

Sprite Data

Pop'n hanbai kabukishikigaisha

• Genre: TELEPHONE SHOPPING
• Character: Mr.FUKUMIMI [10]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: Genre label

File 6

Hideo taisou daiichi

• Genre: POP'N TAISOU
• Character: Suwapunch [10]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: Genre label

File 6

Jack

• Genre: MIXTURE
• Character: JACK [10]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: Genre label, in-game character sprites

Strangely, the file that would contain the sprites for his 2P palette, File 308, is a duplicate of the 1P palette archive.

File 6

File 307

Sprite Data

Line Times

• Genre: CLASSIC 8
• Character: HAMANOV [1]
• Origin: CS (pop'n music 8)
• Contains: Character icon

A thing to note is that this song made its arcade debut on the original release of pop'n music 11.

File 5

Other Unused Characters

File 5 also contains some icons that don't apply to a specific song.

The Mimi variant from pop'n stage.

The MZD variant from pop'n music 2.

The MZD variant from pop'n music 5, which was used in several remixes from that game and from pop'n music 4.

The MZD variant from pop'n music 7, which was used in several remixes from that game.

Unused Within Characters

The character Lucy, whose sprites are present within files 479 and 480, have a leftover from her original appearance in the PlayStation 2 release of pop'n music 9. It would be seen in her Fever Win animation.

Placeholder Icons

Files 617 and 618, which contain graphics from the game's Omake mode, have placeholder icons.

Arcade Leftovers

Multiple leftovers from the original arcade version of pop'n music 11 can still be found within the archives.

File 9
Contains assets from the title screen.

File 25
Sorting labels, meant to be seen in the character selection screen. There is also a graphic related to an internet ranking function from the original release.

File 35
Contains additional sorting graphics not seen in the console release.

Early Assets?

File 26 contains leftover graphics for an early version of the mode/character/button selection screens. Some of these graphics are leftovers from pop'n music 10.

Unused Text

...But does it make sense? The translations on this page need to be proofread. If you are fluent enough in this language, please make any corrections necessary!

At offset 0xD41E0 of the game's executable are two unused song descriptions. One of them is for the Study Mode song, which normally is never displayed, and the other is simply a placeholder.

Text	Translated
スタディ専用で、あ～～～る！！	THIS IS RESERVED FOR STUDY MODE!!
テスト用ダミーデータ	Dummy data for testing purposes