pop'n music 8 (Arcade)

pop'n music 8
Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami FireBeat) Released in JP: May 30, 2002 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has revisional differences.

pop'n music 8 is the eighth main installment of the titular rhythm game series, and features a spring/picnic theme.

Notably, it brought over songs from many other BEMANI games, though mostly from the short-lived Mambo a Go Go. It's also known for introducing Shaka, whose EX chart was then considered to be one of the hardest in the franchise.

Unused Graphics

Graphics for two unplayable characters can be found in the game's data: the MZD variant from Oedo hanafubuki TEYAN-day MIX, and the Nyami variant from PROJECT A PROCEEDS (both songs being absent from this release). These include a splash screen portrait, animation sheets, and in the former's case, icons.

MZD

HA_MZD04.GCZ

MZD4/0.GCZ

ICON/0.GCZ

Nyami

HA_PROJ.GCZ

PROJECT/0.GCZ

Revisional Difference

Two revisions of the game are known to exist, labeled as ver.JAA and ver.JAB. However, the only difference was the correction of a typo in the result screens, in which the "2nd" displayed if a player ranked in second place on the highscore table was originally shown as "2st".

ver.JAA	ver.JAB

Burn Date

Burn dates can be found as the labels of each of the program discs:

ver.JAA	ver.JAB
VOL_20020505110459	VOL_20020608215031