pop'n music 14 FEVER! (PlayStation 2)

pop'n music 14 FEVER!
Developers: Konami Digital Entertainment, Konami Software Shanghai Publisher: Konami Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: July 12, 2007 This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text.

A port of Konami's pop'n music 14 FEVER! arcade game. It is notable for having nearly every song that was featured in the original ee'MALL service, and for also being the last pop'n music game to be released for the PlayStation 2.

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.

Unused Song Leftovers

Throughout the game's archives are leftover graphics for several songs that are normally unplayable. Note that cases in which only character data is present are listed separately.

Denpa no kurashi

• Genre: MODERNISM
• Character: MEBAE [6]
• Origin: pop'n music 6
• Contains: Artist tag

File 71

ULTRA BUTTERFLY(kongouriki)

• Genre: GRUNGE-DES
• Character: MTO [10]
• Origin: pop'n music 10
• Contains: Artist tag

File 71

Sushi kuine!

• Genre: SUSHI
• Character: PIERRE&JILL [TV&ANIME]
• Origin: pop'n music 11
• Contains: Artist tag

This is a licensed song, so its presence is rather uncertain.

File 71

Jack and Mark Get Busy!

• Genre: UK GARAGE
• Character: MZD [9-2P]
• Origin: ee'MALL
• Contains: Complete character data, background

Notably the only song from the original ee'MALL service to not appear at all in the pop'n music home installments.

File 4

Files 210 & 211

File 396

Sprite Data

File 397

Sprite Data

File 535

ALONE

• Genre: J-R&B
• Character: MISAKI [10-2P]
• Origin: ee'MALL 2nd avenue
• Contains: Artist tag

File 71

Citta' del sole

• Genre: VIVACE
• Character: CECIL [12]
• Origin: pop'n music 12 Iroha
• Contains: Artist tag

File 71

Unused Characters

Cases for unused characters, or unused songs that only have leftover character data within this game.

Mimi [12]

• Song: N/A
• Origin: pop'n music 12 Iroha
• Contains: Character icons

This is a strange exception, as this character was previously a default one, never used by any song.

File 4

Nyami [12]

• Song: N/A
• Origin: pop'n music 12 Iroha
• Contains: Character icons

This is a strange exception, as this character was previously a default one, never used by any song.

File 4

Mimi [13]

• Song: POP'N CARNIVAL MARCH
• Genre: CARNIVAL
• Origin: pop'n music 13 Carnival
• Contains: Character icons, in-game sprites

Due to the sheer quantity of the proper character sprites for each palette (over 150), they have been placed in packages, which can be downloaded below.

File 4

File 385

Download Mimi [13] (1P character sprites) File: pnm14PS2-mimi13SA.zip (349 KB) (info)

File 386

Download Mimi [13] (2P character sprites) File: pnm14PS2-mimi13SB.zip (334 KB) (info)

Nyami [13]

• Song: POP'N CARNIVAL MARCH
• Genre: CARNIVAL
• Origin: pop'n music 13 Carnival
• Contains: Complete character data (icons, portraits, in-game sprites)

File 4

Files 224 & 225

File 410

Sprite Data

File 411

Sprite Data

HIKARU [13]

• Songs: Infinity Blue / Sora he tsuzuku michi~Infinity∞MIX
• Genre: EURASIA ROCK / ROCK STYLE
• Origin: pop'n music 13 Carnival / pop'n music 13 Carnival (PlayStation 2)
• Contains: Character icons

File 4

Leftover Random Graphics

The icon and portrait graphics for the "random" character selection from the PlayStation 2 release of pop'n music 13 Carnival can still be found unused here.

File 4

File 130

Placeholder Song Slot

There is also a placeholder song slot; it is the same as the one in the PlayStation 2 release of pop'n music 11, though no banner, title tag or character data exists anymore.

File 5

File 71

File 622

Placeholder Textures

File 33, which contains the graphics for the body-washing minigame within the Fever senshi Pop'n 14 mode, has two crude placeholder textures.

Arcade Leftovers

Found within File 8, which contains the title screen graphics, are two leftover graphics from the game's original arcade release, related to an e-AMUSEMENT functionality.

(Special thanks: W.F.)

Unseen Details

When a mode is highlighted on the main menu, it displays artwork of one or various characters, however the bottom part them is always overlapped by their respective menu label, making about 1/4 of the graphic go unseen by normal means.

Unused Text

At offset 0x13E8F0 of the game's executable is a placeholder song comment string:

Text	Translated
テスト用のダミ子ちゃん	Dummyko for testing purposes

Earlier at 0x132B20 are Taisen mode message strings for the "Random" character slot. Given that this "character" is just a redirect to choose a proper one, these strings are merely placeholders.

ランダム
ランダム！
ランダム！？
ランダム？