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Pop'n Music 4

Game Information
manufacturer Konami
year 2000
genre Rhythm
downloads 51
Screenshots
popn4 title
popn4 snap
popn4 howto
popn4 select
popn4 gameover
popn4 scores
popn4 warning
Download Details
split set popn4.zip 76.02KiB
merged set popn4.7z 61.36KiB
standalone set popn4.7z 61.47KiB
chd gq986jaa01.chd 42.75M
chd gq986jaa02.chd 1.57G
Game Details

Arcade Video game published 24 years ago:

pop'n music 4 (c) 2000 Konami Company, Limited.

"pop'n music" is part of Konami's BEMANI series of games. The game has 9 colorful buttons which the player must hit in time with 'notes' that travel down the screen in order to fill in sound effects missing from a song.

- TECHNICAL -

Konami Bemani Firebeat Hardware

CPU : IBM Power PC 403GCX
Graphics System : Konami custom (sprite style chip)
Sound : Yamaha YMZ280B
Software : DVD Drive, CD-ROM drive & Dongle
Graphics Notes : Can draw arbitrary sized images from VRAM, which is laid out like a 2D texture sheet, also all the images are packed 16-bit pixels so there's no palette.
Storage Media : CD-ROM (Program) & DVD-ROM (Audio)

- TRIVIA -

Released in April 2000.

Konami Music Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Pop'n Music 4 arcade originals - KMCA-62) on 21/06/2000.

- SERIES -

1. pop'n music (1998)
2. pop'n music 2 (1999)
3. pop'n music 3 (1999)
4. pop'n music 4 (2000)
5. pop'n music 5 (2000)
6. pop'n music 6 (2000)
7. pop'n music 7 (2001)
8. pop'n music 8 (2002)
9. pop'n music 9 (2003)
10. pop'n music 10 (2003)
11. pop'n music 11 (2004)
12. pop'n music 12 Iroha (2004)
13. pop'n music 13 Carnival (2005)
14. pop'n music 14 Fever! (2006)
15. pop'n music 15 Adventure (2007)
16. pop'n music 16 Party (2008)
17. pop'n music 17 The Movie (2009)
18. pop'n music 18 Sengoku Retsuden (2009)
19. pop'n music 19 Tune Street (2010)
20. Hello! pop'n music (2011)
21. pop'n music 20 fantasia (2011)
22. pop'n music Sunny Park (2012)
23. pop'n music éclale (2015)
24. pop'n music - Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume (2016)
25. pop'n music Peace (2018)
26. pop'n music - Kaimei Riddles (2020)
27. pop'n music UniLab (2022)
28. pop'n music - Jam & Fizz (2024)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sega Dreamcast (2000, "Pop'n Music 4 Append Disc")
Driver Details
source konami/firebeat.cpp
driver status imperfect
emulation status good
save states unsupported
sound imperfect
channels 2
Screen Details
display screen
type raster
orientation horizontal
width 640
height 480
refresh rate 59.94hz
Input Details
player: 1
type only_buttons
directions N/A
buttons 9way
Chipset Details
IBM PowerPC 403GCX 66.00mhz
Motorola MC68000 16.00mhz
CD/DA 44.10khz
CD/DA 44.10khz
Speaker present
Speaker present
Yamaha YMZ280B PCMD8 16.93mhz
Ricoh RF5C400 16.93mhz
CD/DA 44.10khz
ROM Details
name size crc
a02jaa03.21e 512.00KiB 43ecc093
gq986_gc986 200.00B df7935c4
a02jaa04.3q 512.00KiB 8c6000dd
rtc 4.05KiB 4a5c946c