Beatmania IIDX 7th Style
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beatmania IIDX 7th Style is the 7th game in the beatmania IIDX
Beatmania IIDX
is a series of rhythm video games and the sequel to Beatmania that was first introduced by Konami in Japan on February 26, 1999. IIDX has since spawned over 19 arcade releases and over 13 console releases on the Sony PlayStation 2...

 series of music video game
Music video game
A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs...

s. It was released in arcades by Konami
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

 in March 2002.

Gameplay

Core gameplay remained the same on 7th Style. 5-key mode has been changed from a difficulty to its own modifier, allowing it to be used on any difficulty level as with normal charts. A new spinoff of Expert Mode also debuted, Daninintei (Class) mode, a mode containing a series of courses ranked so that each course is harder than the last, the highest rank course a player can beat in Dan mode is often used to compare players. Dan mode would have significant integration in future styles implementing the e-Amusement
E-AMUSEMENT
e-AMUSEMENT is an online service offered worldwide by Konami to enable exclusive online features in games, such as Internet Rankings and unlockable content. It is utilized by multiple Konami games as listed below, including the arcade and the PlayStation 2 platforms.- Magnetic Cards :Before 2006,...

 system, which could save a player's rank, and may also restrict access to specific songs based on their current rank.

Music

This is the complete list of new songs from the arcade version of Beatmania IIDX 7th Style. Songs highlighted in green need to be unlocked. The Extra Stage (highlighted red) is "MAX 300", while the One More Extra Stage is "革命".
Genre Song Artist
RAVE "2002" tiger YAMATO
FAKE JAZZ "9 o'clocks" SYMPHONIC DEFOGGERS
RENAISSANCE "A" D.J.Amuro
ALTERNATIVE HOUSE "AVE DE RAPINA" Shawn The Horny Master
FILTER HOUSE "Bad Routine" D.J. Spugna
TRIBAL BASS "BRING HER DOWN" AKIRA YAMAOKA
12 BEAT "Burning Heat! (Full Option Mix)" Mr.T with Motoaki.F
SUPER EUROBEAT "BURNING UP FOR YOU" SARA
BIG BEAT "Cheer Train" Fuzita Blender
DRUM 'N' BASS "CLOUDY MUSIC" SLAKE
HYPER ROCK BEAT "D2R" NAOKI
HYPER EUROBEAT "DESTINY" NAOKI feat. Paula Terry
SOUL "E.V CAFE" reo nagumo feat. hajime.y
TECHNO "entrance" Kobo project with Masa
PROGRESSIVE JAZZ "foreplay" Osamu Kubota
UK GARAGE/2-STEP "General Relativity" SYMPHONIC DEFOGGERS
HIP HOP & SOUL "Glorious Days" Noria
BIG BEAT "Gravity" TaQ
HOUSE "Happy Wedding" ASKA
SUPER EUROBEAT "HEARTBEAT" NATHALIE
TRANCE "i feel..." AKIRA YAMAOKA
EUROBEAT "Last Message" good-cool feat. Meg
AMBIENT POP "Let the Snow Paint Me" Sana
SUPER EUROBEAT "LOVE GENERATION" SUZY LAZY
NEW WAVE "Love Me Do" AKIRA YAMAOKA
YEYE "Marmalade Reverie" Orange Lounge
2STEP "more deep (ver.2.1)" Togo project feat. Sana
TRANCE "Never Look Back" DuMonde
LIBRARY BEATS "New York" Fuzita Blender
SUPER EUROBEAT "REMEMBER ME" LESLIE PARRISH
SOFT ROCK "Secret Tale" dj nagureo feat. asuka.m
SUPER EUROBEAT "SOLID GOLD" DUSTY
POPS "Somebody Like You" good-cool
HOUSE "Spica" D.JW
HARD HOUSE "Spooky" good-cool
TECHNO "stoic" TaQ
TRANCE "The Beauty Of Silence" Svenson & Gielen
TRANCE "The Sound Of Goodbye" Armin van Buuren presents:Perpetuous Dreamer
TRANCE "Tomorrow Perfume" dj TAKA
Trance "Traces" TaQ
ELECTROSHOCK "ZERO-ONE" Mr.T
HARDCORE TECHNO "MAX 300" Ω
ORCHESTRAL "革命" dj TAKA with NAOKI
  • Burning Heat!(Full Option Mix) - a remix of the song Burning Heat! from Gradius II
    Gradius II
    is a horizontally-scrolling shooter originally released for the arcades in Japan in . It is the sequel to original Gradius and was succeeded by Gradius III. Ports of Gradius II were released for the Family Computer, PC-Engine Super CD-ROM², and X68000 in Japan...

    .
  • The Beauty of Silence
    The Beauty of Silence
    The Beauty of Silence is an uplifting trance track that was composed and produced by Sven Maes and Johan Gielen. The song was a huge hit in Japan and was the title track for a compilation of singles released by Avex...

    by Svenson & Gielen, Never Look Back by DuMonde
    DuMonde
    DuMonde was a German trance duo, consisting of Jürgen Mutschall and Dominik De Leon .-Singles:*"Tomorrow" - UK #60 *"Fly To The Sky" with Anastasia*"See The Light" *"Just Feel Free"...

     and The Sound of Goodbye by Perpetuous Dreamer are the last Avex Trax
    Avex Trax
    , listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange as 7860 and abbreviated as AGHD, is the holding company for a group of entertainment-related subsidiaries based in Japan...

     Trance licenses.
  • Extra Stage - To access the Extra Stage (or the One More Extra Stage from the Extra Stage), the player must AAA a flashing 7-ranked song with Hard mode on. The extra stage is MAX 300, a song well known as being the extra stage from DDRMAX: Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix (which had been released a few months before). The OMES is Kakumei, a remix of Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin
    Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

    's Revolutionary Étude
    Etude op. 10 no. 12
    Étude Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor, known as the Revolutionary Étude or the Étude on the Bombardment of Warsaw, is a solo piano work by Frédéric Chopin written circa 1831, and the last in his first set, Douze Grandes Études, dedicated "à son ami Franz Liszt" .-History:The 12th Étude appeared around...

     by dj TAKA with NAOKI (which is also the OMES of DDRMAX2).

Home version

The home version of 7th Style was released several years later in 2004 for the PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...

. It contained two preview songs from 8th and 9th Style, as well as some revivals. 5-Key was left as a mode instead of a modifier (unlike the arcade version), and unlike future home releases, the special Extra Stage methods were not present. Masters Mode was also introduced as a modified version of Survival Mode.
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