Talk:Beatmania

Grammer
Second grammatical person is great for writing letters, but is unprofessional. Also, this work could easily be more concise. By "easily" I mean "if someone else does it." Sethimothy 11:45, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Second grammatical person gone soon. Jazzcello 22:47, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

beatmania title
I've edited this page so that "beatmania", lowercase, is used consistently throughout. This is consistent with other BM-related articles. I've also italicized the title throughout, which I believe is the proper styling (especially when dealing with lowercase titles at the beginning of a sentence). However, if I'm way off here, feel free to change it back and let me know. Typobox43 15:24, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

completeness
The article is called beatmania, and includes what appears at first glance to be a complete list, even including Gameboy, WonderSwan, and beatmania pocket versions, yet it doesn't mention IIDX beyond a note that beatmania US is based on it... There is a separate article for IIDX, but the way it's set up now, it denies that beatmania IIDX is even part of the series, despite having the same name and gameplay as beatmania, save for (literally) a couple of minor changes. This is like saying that Street Fighter Alpha and anything beyond it isn't part of the same series as Street Fighter II because it's an actual sequel and not just a level and character upgrade.

I added a couple sentences explaining that there were also eight IIDX games, but it was reverted within ten minutes, and I can't send a message to the resident guardian of the article, so I'm adding this note here.
 * Beatmania IIDX is the successor to the original Beatmania, but it is not considered to be the same series, much like Beatmania III is not considered to be part of the Beatmania or Beatmania IIDX series. If this were the case, the Beatmania Gateway on Konami's official website would contain the Beatmania IIDX and Beatmania III games, which it does not. --Core des at talk. ^_^ 00:38, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Importance
The DDR article is mid-importance. Considering how much influence this game had on the music game genre (if it weren't for BM, there would be no DDR, for instance), wouldn't this be deserving of mid-importance? --Core des at talk. o_O 06:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I put low because Beatmania is certainly not a no. And besides, the fact that Beatmania inspired DDR and is pretty notable is why it reached low, but it's certainly not on the same level of importance as the DDR franchise. - A Link to the Past (talk) 06:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Playing the game.
I play one of those Beatmania games once in a while. Whenever I play, mostly I play the keyboard with one hand (my left) and the scratcher with the other (my right). Sometimes I see players play the keyboard part with BOTH hands. I wonder, is that appropriate? 61.9.126.41 12:10, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Maybe playing with both is a standard especially if the song becomes more complicated. Sorry for the long the delay. 122.3.107.65 (talk) 03:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Added information of the two cabinet types
Information was provided and added about the two cabinet types, standard and mini- a picture of both (once open source shot can be taken) will be added.

Also added after "there are very few cabinets in the United States" the following phrase, many cabinets are now in the hands of arcade collectors or enthusiasts.

Beatmania 5th mix source code
Is it Wikipedia-worthy to mention that an almost-final version of the PS1 Beatmania 5th Mix source code was covertly embedded onto the Beatmania Best Hits CD? The DUMMY file, normally used for padding on PS1 to avoid disk read errors near the edge, was actually an LZH file containing the source code to an almost-final build of Beatmania 5th Mix.

And yes, given pirated dev tools, you can actually compile and run it. -- Myria (talk) 06:43, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Translation from Japanese Wikipedia
Some of the release dates are missing. Shall it be translated from the Japanese Wikipedia corresponding article? If it's a green light, I can start work anytime. PrismRhythm (talk) 13:08, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Date conflict
When I ran a search on Google about beatmania's initial release date, the sources gave me the date December 1, 1997, which also is supposedly from Wikipedia. However, our own article does not display this date. Furthermore, the date on the Japanese Wikipedia (which is the one I used when editing List of Beatmania video games) is December 10, 1997. Could someone help me confirm and correct the info on the list given if I made a mistake? Thank you. PrismAira (talk) 14:35, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

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