BEMERA

BEMERA is a YAHPP remix that stitches together two landmark series tracks: "Bee" from Premiere 3 and "Chimera" from NX. Because it is a remix, it lives in Remix mode rather than the standard arcade lineup. It surfaced in NX at the same moment as Chimera, and for years the two shared a reputation as the cruelest content in the game. Until Vacuum Cleaner and Crashday appeared in Fiesta EX, BEMERA carried some of the highest difficulty ratings of arcade-era charts. Players treated the pair as twin songs, much like Final Audition Episode 2-1 and 2-2.

Where Chimera earns its menace through high-BPM footwork and weight shifting, BEMERA wins by relentless drills, twists, and brutal stamina drain. As a Remix-mode track it runs longer than a normal song, with almost no rest and a storm of steps at 210. It is not all brute force, though: there are staircases that demand weight shifting and the occasional siderun. The generic NX BGA, infamous for hiding notes, used to affect difficulty until Fiesta EX promoted a proper BGA OFF mode. BEMERA was also the closing song of the men's speed division at KPF 2007.

The Remix offers S17, S24, D18, and D26. That D26 is the very first D26 in Pump It Up history, a stamina marathon built on four-note drills capped by a fearsome Chimera section. Fiesta later added a Short Cut version with S15, S21, S22, and D19, all built on unusual patterns. In PHOENIX the hold-note ticks of the Chimera section were heavily rewritten, sharply raising the real difficulty of S24 and D26 by erasing the old "winning run." A Fiesta mission (QH201, later QN066) also existed that was so deranged it eclipsed even Vacuum Cleaner's D27.