Dtxmania - Including Drummania Mixes. Works Wi... May 2026
To play it, Nautilus modded a real Kickbox (a USB MIDI interface) to accept two bass drum pedals. He mapped the second pedal to a hidden "hi-hat control" lane in DTXMania’s code. When he posted the video of his clear, the comments exploded: “This isn’t DrumMania. This is DTXMania. And it’s better.”
Official DrumMania charts are locked to specific BPMs and note lanes. DTXMania let you chart anything . A fan named Nautilus decided to chart the impossible: the drum solo from Rush’s "Tom Sawyer" with four pedal notes in rapid succession—something the original arcade hardware couldn’t even parse due to its single-pedal input limit. DTXMania - Including Drummania mixes. Works wi...
A small, secretive group of dumpers had managed to extract the contents of DrumMania arcade hard drives. The .dtx format evolved to directly support the proprietary .gda (graphics) and .2s (sound) files from Konami’s Bemani series. With the right assets, DTXMania would boot up looking exactly like an arcade cabinet—the same UI, the same lane graphics, the same note skins. The most legendary story among DTXMania veterans involves DrumMania 10th Mix . To play it, Nautilus modded a real Kickbox
The old heads just smile and hand them the sticks. This is DTXMania
Then, a whisper spread through underground rhythm game forums like VJ Army and Geocities fan pages: “There’s a program. It runs on your PC. It plays every DrumMania mix.”
Today, DTXMania lives on in the shadows of every rhythm game convention. At events like MAGFest or JAEPO , you’ll find a laptop hooked to an Alesis electronic drum kit, running DTXMania with a custom skin that looks like DrumMania 5th Mix . New players ask, “Wait, is this an arcade machine?”
Konami released it in 2004. It had a now-classic setlist: "Over the Top" , "She Said" , "A.D. 2079" . But arcade operators hated it—the difficulty spiked hard, and casual players stopped feeding it coins. Many operators overwrote the hard drive with the safer 9th Mix. Within a year, original 10th Mix cabinets became extinct in the wild.