Jubeat - Series

Series

jubeat

Operation started on 24 July 2008 in Japan, December in Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau, and 10 February 2009 in South Korea. Designed theme is of a Blue and Black techno ambience.

jubeat ripples

Location tests during March and April 2009 in Japan. Operation started on 5 August 2009 in Japan, 27 August 2009 in South Korea. Designed theme is of a white and light green natural ambience, using doughnut-like rings as a motif of ripples. In addition, following key changes were made:

• The original "Skill class" system was replaced with a grade points driven "Grade-up" system.
• Specific requirements for "CLASS-UPs" and hidden contents are replaced with gaining specific amount of grade points.
• Tournament function is added. Registered e-AMUSEMENT PASS holders can hold tournaments to compete with other players who signed up on the e-AMUSEMENT site in advance.
• Tune selection screen allows different "sorting" preferences, including: difficulty, BPM, rating, score.
• Purchasing e-Amusement Pass monthly service activates the "Rival" and "Competition" system.
• Additional background colors and markers (some to be unlocked by grade-up).
• More detailed information on the differences in Ripples can be found in the external links section at the bottom
• Despite not carrying the "ripples" sub-title, this is the version that exists in mainland China. However, in the mainland China version, there is no Grade-up, e-AMUSEMENT PASS, tournament, or other network functions.

jubeat ripples APPEND

An update kit set for the current version of ripples. To be released in Japan on 18 March 2010. Beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius will be updated with new data through the Konami server automatically.

• At least 20 additional licensed tracks that were released after the launch of jubeat ripples to be added, including "Unbelievable" by mihimaru GT, other songs by GIRL NEXT DOOR, Lecca and Coltemonika.
• New Original tracks to be added included "ALBIDA", a Level 10 (Extreme) tune from DJ Yoshitaka, composer of "Evans" in jubeat.
• In collaboration with Beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius, players will be able to unlock tracks on both machines.
• Phase 1: From 8 March 2010, jubeat ripples players can unlock "IN THE NAME OF LOVE", "Special One" and "bass 2 bass" on Beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius by playing them on jubeat ripples.
• Phase 2: From 18 March 2010, after playing the above tunes, "AIR RAID FROM THA UNDAGROUND" will be unlocked on jubeat ripples APPEND. After playing it, the same track will be unlocked on Beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius. After clearing the above 4 tunes, "Evans" will be unlocked on Beatmania IIDX 17: Sirius.
• Mainland China got an altered version of this around May 2011. It includes some songs that were exclusive to Japan before as well as a China-exclusive song.

jubeat knit

The 3rd generation of jubeat with a yellow ambience and graphics of wavy lines. Released in Japan on 29 July 2010, in South Korea on 10 August 2010, and in HK/Singapore/Taiwan a couple of months later. Mainland China has yet to receive this version.

• Location Test Version exhibited in the AOU 2010 Amusement Expo on 19–20 February 2010 in Japan.
• Location Test in Japan starts from 26 February 2010.
• System Vocal has been changed to male, with Jazz background music.
• New functions including "Concierge", "Grouping", "Tag Entry" and "Variable Level Matching".
• External online players can be matched in "Local Play" mode.
• Grading System theme changed from Animals to Yellow objects. Order of unlocking new tunes will be different for each player.
• "jubility" skill point scheme introduced.
• New original tunes including "Sweet Rain" (by Y&Co.) and "Shining Wizard" (by 96) will be included.
• PASELI service introduced. Players can "pay-per-tune" up to a maximum of 5 tunes per game.
• Group function introduced.
• A new "Wool System". Achievement points are now used to buy wools, which used to knit shirts. When a shirt was completed, new songs, new markers, or new backgrounds are unlocked. Different shirts require different amount of wools. The first shirt knitted is White Shirt. Afterwards, 4 new colors of shirts will unlocked. If the player has completed all of them, the Rainbow shirt becomes available, which unlocks "Sweet Rain" (by Y&Co.). If it has already completed, the Black shirt becomes available, which unlocks "I'm So Happy" (by Ryu*).

jubeat knit APPEND

An update kit set for the current version of knit. It was released on March 23, 2011.

• 19 new songs has been added which consists of 16 new licenses and 3 Konami originals.
• For promotion of the game, an event called "Append Festival" was announced on March 10, 2011. The game will share a song with the current active BEMANI series, Beatmania IIDX 18: Resort Anthem, Pop'n Music 19: Tune Street, Dance Dance Revolution X2, Guitar Freaks XG2 & Drum Mania XG2, and Reflec Beat.

jubeat copious

The fourth iteration of jubeat, released on September 15, 2011. The overall interface is based on astronomy, with dark blue colors meant to represent night sky and white diamonds and lines as constellations.

• FULL COMBO mark is displayed if the player gets full combo
• The top scores for each song are now displayed
• New unlocking system: copious travel.
• The game will have two Lincle LINK events with beatmaniaIIDX 19 Lincle. There are two events that had been carried out. The first event allows players to play on specific songs in beatmaniaIIDX 19 Lincle which net players with ACHIEVEMENT POINTs. The second event have the player getting a full combo on the ANOTHER chart "天空の夜明け" in beatmaniaIIDX 19 Lincle. Doing so will unlock "WONDER WALKER" in jubeat copious. Getting a full combo on this song on EXTREME will unlock "yellow head joe".

jubeat copious APPEND

An update kit set for the current version of jubeat copious, released on March 14, 2012. Like jubeat knit APPEND, an event was held to promote the game, called "APPEND TRAVEL". Six BEMANI games participated in this event: beatmaniaIIDX 19 Lincle, pop'n music 20 fantasia, Dance Dance Revolution X3 vs 2ndMix, GuitarFreaks / DrumMania XG3, REFLEC BEAT limelight, and SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH. Each game share a song with jubeat copious APPEND, which can be unlocked by spending 3000 currencies called "APPEND ENERGY" (obtained by playing those BEMANI games). Successfully unlocking all songs allows the player to purchase the last song, "JOMANDA".

jubeat saucer

The fifth installment, jubeat saucer was announced on March 29, 2012. The location test is currently scheduled for March 30, 2012 to April 1, 2012. It was released on September 25, 2012. This overall interface is based on space restaurant theme with line motifs, with gray, silver and white colors to indicate the colors of the typical dish saucers.

• FULL COMBO is now indicated as a splash (similar to most Bemani games such as Dance Dance Revolution X and Beatmania IIDX), instead of showing it after the song has finished.
• New unlocking system: Bistro Saucer. Players will earn ingredients (known as Tune Foods) which is needed to unlock songs that is locked initially. Fulfilling sastifications will unlock songs. It will be accessed on every stages instead of at the end of the game.
• Swap System on song list is introduced, therefore the Overall songlist will be updated every week or month to include new songs, along with removal or revival of some songs.