Music game device with automatic setting, method for controlling the same, and storage medium therefor

• US 6,320,110 B1
• Filed: 08/14/2000
• Issued: 11/20/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: KCE Tokyo Incorporated, Konami Digital Entertainment Company Limited (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: KCE Tokyo Incorporated, Konami Corporation (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Kazuya, Ishikawa, Hirotaka, Tamura, Akinori, Nishibori, Takashi, Yoshida, Yumi, Wada, Yoshiko, Nagaoka, Kei, Takase, Yasumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Witkowski, Stanley J.
• Application Number:
  US09/638,813
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• Field of Search: 846/00, 846/09--14, 846/34--38, 846/44, 434/307.A
• US Class Current: 84/600
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/361 Recording/reproducing of accompaniment for use with an external source, e.g. karaoke systems
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/141 Games on or about music, i.e. based on musical knowledge, e.g. musical multimedia quizzes
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/151 Musical difficulty level setting or selection

Abstract

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.

Claims

1. A music game device in which a player manipulates a manipulation unit in conformity with music, the music game device comprising:

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.

2. The music game device according to claim 1, wherein the play information includes information of a number of players and play-difficulty of the plurality of tunes.

3. The music game device according to claim 1, wherein the play information includes at least one play condition according to which the player plays the game.

4. The music game device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit comprises a removable storage medium from and to which the play information is readable and writable by a different game device.

5. The music game device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit comprises a link storage unit for exchanging the play information between a plurality of different game devices, and wherein the reproduction unit performs reproduction based on the play information written into the link storage unit by a different game device.

6. The music game device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first display unit for displaying manipulation instruction instructing timings at which the player manipulates the manipulation unit in conformity of the music; and

a second display unit for displaying various kinds of dance pictures.

7. The music game device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a standard play information storage unit for storing preset standard play information; and

a rewriting unit for rewriting the standard play information in accordance with the play information set by the input unit.

8. The music game device according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit can store a plurality of play information.

9. A game device in which a player manipulates a manipulation unit, the game device comprising:

an input unit for setting play information including a plurality of stages which are executed according to a progress degree of game and play conditions in the stages;

a storage unit for collectively storing the play information set by the input unit;

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 control unit for successively executing the plurality of stages according to the play condition based on the play information stored in the storage unit.

10. The music game device according to claim 9, wherein the play information includes at least one play condition according to which the player plays the game.

11. The music game device according to claim 9, wherein the storage unit comprises a link storage unit for exchanging the play information between a plurality of different game devices, and wherein the control unit controls progress of the game based on the play information written into the link storage unit by the different game device.

12. The music game device according to claim 9, further comprising:

a standard play information storage unit for storing preset standard play information; and

a rewriting unit for rewriting the standard play information in accordance with the play information set by the input unit.

13. The music game device according to claim 9, wherein the storage unit can store a plurality of play information.

14. A method of controlling a music game device comprising the steps of:

receiving play information including a plurality of tunes to be successively played and a play order of the plurality of tunes;

temporarily and collectively storing the play information;

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 game device; and

successively reproducing the plurality of tunes in the play order based on the play information.

15. The method of controlling a music game according to claim 14, wherein the play information includes at least one play condition according to which the player plays the game.

16. A computer-readable storage medium which stores a program for controlling a computer to execute a music game, the program controls the computer as a computer game device comprising:

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.

17. The computer-readable storage medium according to claim 16, wherein the play information includes at least one play condition according to which the player plays the game.