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popnhook
popnhook is a collection of hook libraries for pop'n music, providing ways to play the games on non BemaniPC, hardware and newer Windows versions.
Supported version so far
15 ADVENTURE, 16 PARTY♪, 17 THE MOVIE, 18 せんごく列伝
We recommend using clean dumps to avoid any conflicts with other cracks or binary patches.
How to use Popnhook
You need to use an older version of popnhook (as of the time of writing, 4/17/25), as newer versions have broken compatiblity with older games.
Verion 5.44 can be found here.
Once downloaded, you have to open the game folder, and go into the prog folder. If there's multipe files here, you have to choose the one with the biggest number, which is typically the last one.
this happens when there's multiple versions of a game, you can use the hook for all versions, but you only really need to do the last one.
When you open the folder, you'll see a lot of different folders, you just need the popn-15-to-28.zip one. Simply extract the contents of the folder with the highest number, it'll look something like this
Now that you have everything in the right spot, you choose which gamestart-XX.bat file you need for your game. You can delete the ones that aren't your game. To set your controls, you open the config.exe program in the same folder we've been working in.
What if you don't want to open to the folder everytime you want to start the game? Simply right click the gamestart-XX.bat, hover over Send to, then select Desktop Shortcut. Now you can move the short cut anywhere you want, and when you open it, it'll boot up the game. Simple Stuff!
Trouble Shooting
You may run into a few errors, here's the more common problems, what they mean and how to fix them. If you want a full list of error codes the game may throw out, You can see so here
5-1502
This means game's security was missing something, it'll typically fail at security. It means that you didn't install the older version of bemanitools/popnhooker, and are using the latest version. Please install the older version, which can be found here.
Verion 5.44 can be found here.
5-1501
The game is trying to connect online, but is failing. This requires a few extra steps to fix. Go to your Firewall settings, and click Allow an app through firewall
Click Change settings, then Allow another app... and find select the popnXX.exe This is in the same folder you extracted your popnhooker. Then set the connection setting to Publc.
After that, you can boot up the game just fine. You can do a few things to remove it from the firewall if you care to do it (and doesn't show the e amuse prompt on boot up).
Once in the game, press the service menu option (you can set it to w/e you want it to be, in the config.exe program.
Once in the service menu, go to Network Settings
then e-amusement settings, and on this screen, turn OFF e-amusement
Now, you can remove popnXX.exe from the firewall. Now you can boot up without any issue!
Command line options
Add the argument -h when running inject with popnhook to print help/usage information with a list of parameters you can apply to tweak various things.