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If that weren't enough, a handful of songs brought straight over from the original beatmania series are included as well, completely intact. In addition, Attack the music and super highway both contain their remixed ANOTHER charts (49 MUSIC MIX and SUPER SUBWAY MIX, respectively). Since the original beatmania series featured only five keys, the notecharts remain intact but have been adapted for IIDX's seven-key layout. The spirit of each chart remains identical, and the number of notes and keysounding of the notes remain the same as their original versions as well -- the charts have just been expanded to utilize seven lanes instead of five (this is true for 321 STARS, Attack the music, LIGHT MOTION, and super highway, at least -- some other classic songs may be found lurking, featuring completely original, harder notecharts......) For an extra dose of nostalgia, all of the original beatmania charts are playable in their unaltered form by enabling the 5KEYS modifier. While normally this modifier simply puts two of the keys on Autoplay, when used on a beatmania song it enables you to play the song with its original 5-key notecharts. This is a present from Konami to its fans -- to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Bemani, and to give new players a view of the series' roots -- and certainly an inclusion that is worthy of a lot of attention.
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Frequency is a lot like Konami's Beatmania series. As markers drop toward the bottom of the screen, you hit a series of buttons to play the samples associated with each of the markers. In Frequency, the major difference is that each song is divided into 8 tracks, each of which occupies the inner face of a 3-D octagonal tunnel. As you complete two measures of a given track, it "locks" the track for the remainder of that segment of the song.
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The beatmania III series was only released in the arcade; no console releases were ever produced even though both Japanese and US beatmania IIDX controllers have output ports for a bass pedal. Each release added songs from the beatmania games their titles refer to, plus all previous arcade releases (except beatmania featuring DREAMS COME TRUE). For example, beatmania III APPEND 7thMIX includes songs from beatmania III, beatmania CORE REMIX, beatmania 6thMIX, and beatmania 7thMIX, hence the "append" part of the title.
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