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                                FAQ VERSION 0.5 by Simon Oct./2001
                                    thiagosimoes84@hotmail.com

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Contents:

I    - Introduction
II   - Updates
III  - Whats missing
IIV  - About Popn Music
V    - Menus & Translations
VI   - Play Mechanics
VII  - Animes & Songs
VIII - Thanx2
IX   - Copyright & End

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I - Introduction

Hello, and nice to meet you. I am Simon, from Brazil, and I am here to help you with 
Popn Music Animated Melody, an awesome GB Color game. There are a couple things missing,
like one anime name and other names of songs, too. Overall, its almost half-way done.
This FAQ will just be complete with YOUR help, so, if you know something I dont know,
please, e-mail me. Surely, you will receive all the credits. Read more in the Copyright
& End section. This is the first FAQ I wrote, and, as I live in Brazil, please, sorry
for any spelling or grammary error. But it dont worry, lets play!

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II - Updates

-Added a possible name for one missing anime
-Added the Thanx2 section
-Deleted little text stuff (trash, in fact)

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III - Whats missing

A couple things. I need to compare the GB and Playstation versions and to know the one missing
anime name, and the missing songs. The FAQ section is also planned, I just need questions!

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IV - About Popn Music

Popn Music is one more game from Konamis Bemani serie. Versions were released for
Playstation (including Animated Melody), Arcade, Dreamcast and Game Boy. This version, 
Animated Melody, is the best (in my opinion) of the Bemani games, as well as Dance Dance 
Revolution Best Hits, for Playstation. Just one more thing: although this game only have
one 90s song, Konami also published another game with a 90s anime tune, Beatmania GB2.
This game have the Card Captor Sakura ending tune, "Catch you, Catch me". Saddly this
song isnt in Popn Music Animated Melody... :(

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V - Menus & Translations


The Main Menu

[ Main Mode ] - Like an Arcade mode.
[ Tour Mode ] - Survival Mode. You cant miss almost any note!
[ Free Mode ] - Play all the songs in the game. A Practice Mode.
[  2P Mode  ] - Battle vs. a friend.
[  Options  ] - Set the number of keys, key comfiguration, etc.
[ Demo Mode ] - How to Play.

After choose Main, Tour or Free Mode, (and likely 2P Mode) you need to chose between difficult:

[ Normal ] - Red Character
[ Simple ] - Pink Character
[  Hard  ] - Blue Character

In Tour Mode:

[ Course Select ] - Select the course you want to play
[     Exit      ] - Hmmmm... let me guess... exit to the main menu.     

In Free Mode:

[ MnAu ] - Choose between Manual (default) or Automatic play mode.
[ Easy ] - On/Off, less notes than normal will fall from the top of the screen. Simple mode.
[ Exit ] - Pretty obvious, no?

Options coming soon.

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VI - Play Mechanics

The game mechanic is very very simple: you just need to hit the horizontal bar at the bottom
of the game screen. But you also need to align it with the notes that keep falling from the
top of the screen, and fill your meter until it reaches the red area, and keep until the end
of the stage. With a perfect align, you will receive a "Great". If your meter is full, and 
you perform a "Great" score, you will receive a "Fever". If you hit the bar a bit late, you 
will receive a "Good". With "Fever", "Great" and "Good" scores, you can perform combos. And,
finally, if youre completly out of rythm or miss the note you will receive a "Bad" score. 
Also, you can perform Nice and Perfect scores:

Nice Play - You must receive just "Great" and "Good" scores in all the notes, in the whole
            music.

Perfect Play - You must perform ONLY "Great" scores in ALL the notes, in the WHOLE music.
               Is it really possible for any human being?

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VII - Animes & Songs

Note - After you have played a song in free mode, this menu will be shown:
       
       [ Play this same song again ]
       [ Choose other song to play ]
       [  Jump to a new difficult  ]
       [   Exit to the Main Menu   ]


Songs in order of appearing in Free Mode:


Anime........ Mahotsukai Sally (The Sorcerer Sally)
Song......... ????
Year......... 60s
Difficult.... 2

Comments: This music isnt very easy if you are a beginner. Look for "Cha-la-head-cha-la".
          The anime shows a little girl flying in a broom, at night, and in other poses.

Anime........ The Magic Mirror
Song......... ????
Year......... 60s
Difficult.... 2

Comments: This music is faster than the previous song, and, obviously, hardest for beginners.
          The anime shows a girl looking herself at a hand-mirror and in other poses.

Anime........ The Magic Mirror (The same as the previous song) 
Song......... * ???? 
Year......... 60s
Difficult.... 3
 
Comments: Ooohh, this song is good. It isnt THAT hard, as you must be playing best now.
          The anime shows three cats shaking their bodies (!), and in other poses. ;p

Anime........ Tiger Mask
Somg......... ???? 
Year......... 60s
Difficult.... 4

Comments: Take you horse and lets go to the west! Pretty good song, with western style.
          The anime shows a man with a tiger-fur in head that reminds me King from Tekken,
          and one strange Japanese hero with a red-beetle style uniform.

Anime........ Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro (The Goblin Mailbox)
Song......... ????
Year......... 60s 
Difficult.... 1

Comments: This song is quite boring... and the anime too. It shows one, after two, and so three
          toads, a boy with a strange eye-shape character in his hair, a rectangular ghost, and
          one ugly weird character. This anime is a huge success in Japan. I wonder why...

Anime........ Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro (The same as the previous song)
Song......... * ???? 
Year......... 60s 
Difficult.... 3

Comments: As this song was based in the previous anime, the song is quite boring too. The anime
          shows a wooden japanese shoe and that weird eye-shape chatacter aigain... :(

Anime........ Mazinger Z
Song......... Mazinger Z
Year......... 70s 
Difficult.... 5 

Comments: One of the hardest songs in the game! The anime shows a red space vehicle, a robot
          and that red space vehicle again entering in something like a capsule.

Anime........ Cutie Honey
Song......... ???? (This song also have a Remix version in the game Beatmania GB Gotcha Mix 2)
Year......... 70s
Difficult.... 2

Comments: Great song! I think that its one of the best songs in the game. The anime shows a
          heart, a blonde girl, this girl touching her heart shape earring and changing her 
          shape (her identity), and a guy with a red hair holding an umbrella.

Anime........ Get a Robot!
Song......... ????
Year......... 70s
Difficult.... 5

Comments: My favourite song! ;) The anime shows robots from the Get a Robot! anime, performing
          their attacks. This is also a very hard tune.

Anime........ (? Honey Honey no Sutekina Booken ? - The Fantastic Honey Trip)
Song......... ????
Year......... 70s
Difficult.... 3

Comments: Another good song. The anime shows a girl with an umbrella, a card and a guy (?) with
          a blue hair, holding a card with his (her?) mouth.

Anime........ ????
Song......... ????
Year......... 70s
Difficult.... 4

Comments: Boooooo! A pretty good scary song. The anime shows a guy sweeping, a girl calling he,
          the guy again excusing and a ghost doll hung in a tree.

Anime........ Captain Harlock
Song......... ????
Year......... 70s
Difficult.... 3

Comments: Hmmm... Medium song... not so good, not so bad. The anime shows a skull, some kind 
          of a Space Pirate and two space vehicles in battle.

Anime........ Galaxy Express 999
Song......... ????
Year......... 70s
Difficult.... 4

Comments: Great tune, hard difficult. The anime shows the Galaxy Express 999, a boy (seems like
          the pilot), and a girl wearing red clothes and a red cap.

Anime........ Hana no ko Lun-Lun (The Angel of Flowers)
Song......... ????
Year......... 70s
Difficult.... 2

Comments: Excellent tune. The anime shows a rose, a brown dog with a white cat, a blonde school
          girl, and this girl again with a men with red hair wearing medieval blue clothes.

Anime........ Dr. Slump & Arale Chan
Song......... ????
Year......... 80s
Difficult.... 3

Comments: Another weird and boring tune... The anime shows a strange creature brushing its
          theet, a girl with a blue hair calling it, and a picture of this girl again.

Anime........ Muscle (Kinnikuman)
Song......... Muscle Go Fight!
Year......... 80s
Difficult.... 3

Comments: The music is pretty good, the anime isnt so much. It shows a... weird and ugly
          creature with a spiked head and clothes based on Superman uniform (Muscle). After
          that, a tiny version of Muscle is shown, and now Muscle (big again) eating like a
          hungry pig...

Anime........ Saint Seya (The Knights of Zodiac)
Song......... Soldier Dream
Year......... 80s
Difficult.... 3

Comments: My all-time favourite anime! :) The music is also very very good. The anime shows
          Seya, Shiryu, Hyoga, Shun and Ikki (all the warriors of zodiac), and Seya calling 
          the Pegasus strength. The best of the game, in my opinion!

Anime........ Dragon Ball
Song......... Maka Fushigi Adventure
Year......... 80s
Difficult.... 4

Comments: I bet you know this tune. Everybody knows! The anime shows a Dragon Ball, the little
          Goku, and that huge dragon.

Anime........ Dragon Ball Z
Song......... Cha-la-head-cha-la
Year......... 80s
Difficult.... 1

Comments: This is the easiest song in the game. The anime shows a Dragon Ball, Goku, Piccolo
          and Goku performing one of his attacks.

Anime........ Sailor Moon
Song......... ????
Year......... 90s (The one and only...)
Difficult.... 3

Comments: Good music. The anime shows the girls from Sailor Moon performing poses as in battle.

* You must perform high scores to unlock these songs.

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VIII - Thanx2

-You! 
-Shirokawai, for the great PSX version review, posted at GameFAQs.
-http://www.kwvideogiochi.kataweb.it/ - Great help with the names of the animes.

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IX - Copyright & End

This FAQ is a Copyright of Simon (Thiago Simes), and you are NOT allowed to translate,
post it in your site or any other media-vehicle without my consent, rewrite this FAQ 
and sell this to ANYBODY. The only site allowed to post this FAQ (until now) is GameFaqs 
(http://www.gamefaqs.com). If you want to, e-mail me first, and Ill analyse your site. 
Please, e-mail me if you are an old-animes fan, because there are a lot of things missing,
or if you know something I dont. I want to improve this FAQ more and more. Help me and 
you will receive all the credits. I hope you enjoyed!

E-mail - thiagosimoes84@hotmail.com
         thiagosimoes84@ig.com.br

ICQ - 117643160

See u!

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