Pop ‘n Music Goes Portable

By Spencer . September 29, 2009 . 10:56am

Konami is taking a step away from their slaphappy motion controlled Pop ‘n Music game and going back to basics with Pop ‘n Music Portable.

The PSP game has over eighty songs from various Pop ‘n Music games. Not sure how many you start with, but new songs can be found in the single player adventure mode. All of your collected songs can be played in freeplay mode with 3, 5, 7, or 9 (!) buttons.

A new feature in Pop ‘n Music Portable is music play mode which lets players listen to songs they cleared. It’s almost like a bonus Pop ‘n Music Portable’s soundtrack on UMD.

TAGS: Highlight, Konami, Pop 'n Music, Pop 'n Music Portable, PSP

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Comments to “Pop ‘n Music Goes Portable”

kdash Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:05 am

This is extremely awesome! This is also based on Pop'n Music Adventure, which was the one they stopped at on the PS2.

Although 9 button… I can't think of any kind of good button placement that would work, and not make some buttons combinations uncomfortable.

TheCleaningGuy Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:36 am

Interesting! I've only played pop'n music once in an arcade, but it looks better suited to this than the wii's motion control.

Hiryuu Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:39 am

Honestly, they'd be better off porting it to a console with the actual controller in the States…

I mean they did the very same with IIDX, why not this?

FireCouch Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 11:48 am

Awesome, now DJ Max won't be so lonely.

honorless Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

Because “beatmania US” bombed so hard that I don't even know how many IIDX fans realize it existed. Pop'n, with its cutesy anime aesthetic, would perform even more dismally at retail—especially now that Rock Band/Insert-Franchise-Here Hero VII have pretty much worn out the US welcome mat for expensive peripheral instruments.

kdash Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Remember how well Beat N'Groovy did?

No?

Yeah.

Jenni Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:13 pm

It does sound interesting. I'll have to keep it in mind before I go and buy a Dreamcast version.

I could see 9 button working. It'd could be the two shoulder buttons, up, down, left, triangle, circle and X, and probably the square and right buttons would both be considered as one.

maxchain Says:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

Now this is more like it! If it ain't broke, don't tether motion controls to it! Although I can't figure out for the life of me how they plan to get a 9-button setup going. (Maybe an accessory?…)

cj_iwakura Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

And what did Beatmania US and Beat n'Groovy have in common?

Survey says: THEY SUCKED.
(Re: the songlists were awful.)