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Beatmania IIDX 3 points 4 years ago Even if it's not arcade-perfect, you still might want to include the U.S. Konami Official Controllers for IIDX. They cost in the $70-$100 range, I got mine (with the U.S. PS2 game) for $80 off eBay. Windy Fairy and Jennifer Taylor have continued to improve MAME’s support for Konami rhythm games, making beatmania IIDX, Beatmania III, Keyboardmania and ParaParaParadise games playable.

Post #1 · Posted at 2020-10-04 06:10:04am 8 months ago

Hi. I want to talk about one thing.
You will know MAME. That emulator capable of emulating arcade machine games and reliving those times when we played on those little machines spending our credits until we ran out of money. As well as playing games that were hard to find rarities and most were exclusive to Arcade.
But everything has its pros and cons. Well, MAME is not capable of emulating various games 100%, either because they have graphical errors, it has many slowdowns or problems that make the game unplayable.
And unfortunately this happens to the BEMANI games. Some work perfectly well, others are playable but with some bugs and most are unplayable.
Because of that, I will ask you the question .. Why isn't there a proper emulator for BEMANI AC games?
They will see. There are tons of emulators dedicated to different arcade boards. Like Final Burn, he decides to emulate games from the CPS1, CPS2, CPS3 and Neo Geo boards. Zinc, which is dedicated to emulating arcade board games based on PS1 hardware such as ZN-1, ZN-2 and Namco System 11. Finally there was Demul, who is dedicated to emulating boards whose hardware is based on or similar to Dreamcast like NAOMI, NAOMI 2, Atomiswave and Hikaru.
I wish there is an emulator, and that this emulator is dedicated solely and exclusively to emulating BEMANI games. Make it open source because I want it to be a community project and to borrow parts of the MAME source code to make its development a little easier. Even it has built-in tools to rip songs and all kinds of assests.
This would be the arcade boards with respective specifications and their respective games that I want to be emulated that I will put on this list.
BEMANI DJ-MAIN
Specs:
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.
Notes ; Hardware is basically Konami GX with a hard-drive.
Games:
-beatmania
-beatmania 2ndMIX
-beatmania 3rdMIX
-beatmania completeMIX
-beatmania 4thMIX -the beat goes on-
-beatmania 5thMIX -Time to get down-
-beatmania completeMIX 2
-beatmania ClubMIX
-beatmnaia featuring DREAMS COME TRUE
-beatmania CORE REMIX
-beatmania 6thMIX -THE UK UNDERGROUND MUSIC-
-beatmania 7thMIX -keepin' evolution-
-beatmania THE FINAL
-pop'n music
-pop'n music 2
-pop'n music 3
-pop'n stage
-pop'n stage ex
BEMANI SYSTEM 573 ANALOG
Specs:
System ; Based on the PSX based System 573.
I/O Board ; Digital I/O board GX894-PWB (B)A
Analog board gets audio directly from the audio output on the CD-Rom drive.
Sound is also routed differently through the PCB compared to Digital board.
Main CPU : R3000A 32 bit RISC processor, Clock - 33.8688MHz, Operating performance - 30 MIPS, Instruction Cache - 4KB
BUS ; 132 MB/sec.
OS ROM ; 512 Kilobytes
Additional Sound Chips ; Playstation SPU, 24 Channels, 44.1KHz sample rate, PCM audio source, Digital effects include: Envelope, Looping, Digital Reverb, Load up to 512K of sampled waveforms, Supports MIDI Instruments.
Main RAM; 2 Megabytes
Video RAM; 2 Megabyte
Sound RAM ; 512 Kilobytes
Graphical Processor ; 360,000 polygons/sec, Sprite/BG drawing, Adjustable frame buffer, No line restriction, 4,000 8x8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation, Simultaneous backgrounds (Parallax scrolling)
Sprite Effects ; Rotation, Scaling up/down, Warping, Transparency, Fading, Priority, Vertical and horizontal line scroll
Resolution ; 256x224 - 740x480
Colours ; 16.7 million colors, Unlimited CLUTs (Color Look-Up Tables)
Other Features ; custom geometry engine, custom polygon engine, MJPEG decoder
This hardware is based on Sony PlayStation
Games:
-DanceDanceRevolution
-DanceDanceRevolution Internet Ranking Version
-DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX
-DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON
-DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX LINK VERSION
-DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX AND beatmania IIDX substream CLUB VERSiON 2
-DanceDanceRevolution KIDS
-Dancing Stage
-Dancing Stage featuring TRUE KiSS DESTiNATiON
-GUITARFREAKS
-GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX
-GUITARFREAKS 2ndMIX Link version
BEMANI TWINKLE
Specs:
Hardware Notes ; Playstation based but not system 573.
Main CPU ; R3000A 32 bit RISC processor, Clock - 33.8688MHz, Operating performance - 30 MIPS, Instruction Cache - 4KB
BUS ; 132 MB/sec.
OS ROM ; 512 Kilobytes
Sound CPU ; 68000
Sound Chip ; RF5c400
Additional Sound Chips ; Playstation SPU, 24 Channels, 44.1KHz sample rate, PCM audio source, Digital effects include; Envelope, Looping, Digital Reverb, Load up to 512K of sampled waveforms, Supports MIDI Instruments.
Main RAM; 2 Megabytes
Video RAM; 2 Megabyte
Sound RAM ; 512 Kilobytes
Graphical Processor ; 360,000 polygons/sec, Sprite/BG drawing, Adjustable frame buffer, No line restriction, 4,000 8x8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation, Simultaneous backgrounds (Parallax scrolling)
Sprite Effects ; Rotation, Scaling up/down, Warping, Transparency, Fading, Priority, Vertical and horizontal line scroll
Colours ; 16.7 million colors, Unlimited CLUTs (Color Look-Up Tables)
Display notes ; Display is composite TV so can use unlimited colors, but system uses CLUT due to overlay graphics only use 16k colors for background animation and 256 colours for flames and demo.
Other Features ; custom geometry engine, custom polygon engine, MJPEG decoder
Storage Media ; Combination of CD's, DVD's, Roms and Harddrive with a small ROM cartridge for protection.
JVC DVD player ; DVD background movies.
Toshiba PD chip ; Security chip.
SCSI CD-Rom drive ; Program core and ingame graphics.
IDE Hard Drive ; Audio.
Conversion Notes ; All games can be converted to latest versions.
Upgrade kits consist of 2 CD's, Security Chip, DVD, Hard-Drive, Manual and all associated stickers.
PCB : Case - Main - SPU - Sub 2
This hardware is based on Sony PlayStation
Games:
-beatmania IIDX
-beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON
-beatmania IIDX substream
-beatmania IIDX substream CLUB VERSiON 2
-beatmania IIDX 2nd style
-beatmania IIDX 3rd style
-beatmania IIDX 4th style
-beatmania IIDX 5th style
-beatmania IIDX 6th style
-beatmania IIDX 7th style
-beatmania IIDX 8th style
BEMANI SYSTEM 573 DIGITAL
Specs:
System ; Based on the PSX based System 573.
I/O Board ; Digital I/O board GX894-PWB (B)A
Digital board gets sound in digital format from the CD-Rom through the the IDE lead.
Sound is also routed differently through the PCB compared to Analog board.
Main CPU ; R3000A 32 bit RISC processor, Clock - 33.8688MHz, Operating performance - 30 MIPS, Instruction Cache - 4KB
BUS ; 132 MB/sec.
OS ROM ; 512 Kilobytes
Additional Sound Chips ; Playstation SPU, 24 Channels, 44.1KHz sample rate, PCM audio source, Digital effects include; Envelope, Looping, Digital Reverb, Load up to 512K of sampled waveforms, Supports MIDI Instruments.
Main RAM; 2 Megabytes
Video RAM; 2 Megabyte
Sound RAM ; 512 Kilobytes
Graphical Processor ; 360,000 polygons/sec, Sprite/BG drawing, Adjustable frame buffer, No line restriction, 4,000 8x8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation, Simultaneous backgrounds (Parallax scrolling)
Sprite Effects ; Rotation, Scaling up/down, Warping, Transparency, Fading, Priority, Vertical and horizontal line scroll
Resolution ; 256x224 - 740x480
Colours ; 16.7 million colors, Unlimited CLUTs (Color Look-Up Tables)
Other Features ; custom geometry engine, custom polygon engine, MJPEG decoder
Flash Card Notes ; All games used a 32meg flash card for the games program, the exception for this is the 'Disney's Rave' machine, which for some reason uses a 16meg flash card, so if you want to upgrade you need to get your hands on a 32 meg card.
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