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Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Yumi Yoshida

Yasumi Takase

Kei Nagaoka

Hirotaka Ishikawa

Akinori Tamura

Yoshiko Wada

Takashi Nishibori

Kazuya Takahashi

Naohiro Yamamoto

Toyofumi Kitano

To provide a game device capable of selecting game data to be played by a player when playing a game in a straightforward manner. One or a plurality of primary play candidate data names are selected from secondary play candidate data containing one or a plurality of items of game data and names for this game data. A primary play candidate data file configured so as to contain primary play candidate data name information necessary for displaying the selected primary play candidate name(s) is stored in a storage media. One or a plurality of primary play candidate data names is then displayed based on the stored primary play candidate data name information. One or a plurality of the displayed primary play candidate data names is selected as one or a plurality of play target data names. A game can then be controlled based on game data for the selected play target data name(s).

Game device, program, information storage medium, game device control method, game distribution method, and game distribution device

To evaluate a game playing performance from a new point of view, a control method for controlling a game machine allowing a player to enjoy stepping while listening to game music, comprises the steps of detecting whether or not the player puts their foot or feet on each of a plurality of step positions; judging, based on a detection result on the step position, according to which, of a plurality of pattern changes, a state of the player's feet relative to the plurality of step positions has changed to; calculating, based on the determined pattern change, an energy consumption amount due to a change of the state of the player's feet; calculating an accumulative energy consumption amount by accumulating an energy consumption amount calculated after a predetermined timing; and reporting the accumulative energy consumption amount calculated to the player.

Game machine, game device control method, information storage medium, game distribution device, and game distribution method

Data link-up between multiple game devices can be more flexibly achieved. A game system ( ) comprises a game device for business ( ) and a game device for use at home ( ), which execute games in accordance with predetermined programs, it being possible to exchange information between these games devices, and the game device for business ( ) comprises an information output device for outputting judgement information for judging whether predetermined conditions have been satisfied in the game device for business ( ). The contents of the game executed on the game device for use at home ( ) are changed based on the judgement information output from the game device for business ( ). For example, when a predetermined game result has been achieved in the game device for business, the content of the judgement information is updated, and a hidden element appears in the game device for use at home ( ) in correspondence therewith.

Game system, game device capable of being used in the game system, and computer-readable memory medium

Disclosed is a game system which matches a player's tastes. In a game system operating in time with music, it is possible to select an edit mode for editing timing data which define timings of operations. In the edit mode, an edit window having a predetermined display range is displayed on a screen of a display device in correspondence with information representing a position in a tune. Images in the edit window are scrolled so that the position of a target to be edited set inside the edit window moves forward and backward through the tune. When an operation is performed to provide marks, timing data for showing an operation timing of a control member provided in correspondence with the operation is provided at the position of the edit object in the edit window, and in addition, the timing data during editing is updated so that the position in the tune corresponding to the position of the edit object is defined as a operation timing.

Game system and program

A music game device is provided in which a player manipulates a manipulation unit in conformity with music. The device includes an input unit for setting play information including a plurality of tunes to be successively played and a play order of the plurality of tunes, a storage unit for collectively storing the play information, an automatic setting changing unit for automatically changing a part of the play information set by the player to a preset standard play information if the play information set by the player includes a setting which cannot be executed by the music game device, and a reproduction unit for successively reproducing the plurality of tunes in the play order based on the play information stored in the storage unit.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yumi Yoshida