AC DDR X: Difference between revisions

** First game on BEMANI PC, running on 720p widescreen HD graphics on new cabinets, though at the cost of bugginess. (The American and European versions of X and [[AC DDR X2|its sequel]] run on modified Dell PCs instead.)

** New arrows in Shock Arrows; exclusive to CHALLENGE charts, they feature an icon near the banner when the chart is selected. Stepping on them results in your gauge going down like a misstep would.

** New mods added: nine new SPEED modifiers (x2.5, x3.5, x4, x4.5, x5.5, x6, x6.5, x7, and x7.5), SCREEN FILTER (to mask your play area, with the options of OFF, DARK, DARKER, and DARKEST), CUT modifier ON is renamed to ON1, with a ON2 modifier that removes all non-4th/8th notes.

** Combos are now color-coded, based on judgements obtained during a song: white for all MARVELOUS, yellow for at least one PERFECT, and green for at least one GREAT.  

** Play back the sample of a selected song almost in an instant after selecting from the previous/next song.

** Play back a random announcer message if 20 seconds of the countdown timer remains.

** Give 10 seconds (instead of 5 as in SuperNOVA2) of the countdown timer remaining with accompanying warning sound.

** Show stars throwing beyond the stepping zone for every MARVELOUS timing of arrows. (This was also used in [[AC DDR X2|sequel]].)

** Show a difference of increment scores between the current player and the player that attained machine-specific high score under stepping judgment during game play.

** If the selected song has a BEGINNER chart, that will be used. Otherwise, option CUT is set to ON1. This was used until X3 VS 2ndMIX.

** Show a display about Freeze Arrows before the game begins.

** Any FULL COMBO obtained during the stage now display so below the grade rank.

* Color labeling on the Music Select screen has changed since SuperNOVA2:

*** In X's location test, new songs were simply all yellow; older songs were white.

* [[Dance Celebration (System 7 Remix)]]: Clear [[Dance Celebration]]

* [[Slip Out (bounce in beat mix)]]: Clear [[Slip Out]]

* [[Taj He Spitz (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire Re-Touch)]]: Clear [[Taj He Spitz]].

As with [[AC DDR SuperNOVA2|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2]], when playing EXTRA STAGE, the LIFE GAUGE is restricted to LIFE4. One life is given to the player by default, though it can be increased depending on the score attained on FINAL STAGE: getting at least 962,500 will give the player two lives, and 975,000 will give then four lives. In all cases, the song chosen must be labeled with red text in the song wheel in order to count.

To access EXTRA STAGE, the song played on FINAL STAGE has to be either On The Break or being chosen by RANDOM on any difficulty by obtaining at least an AA. In order for On The Break to be labeled red, songs prior to the FINAL STAGE must be cleared with at least an A on any difficulty:

* Clearing with at least an AA will allow access to all difficulties, regardless of difficulty chosen.

* In the case of BEGINNER, a FULL COMBO clear or better is also required.

* In the case of CHALLENGE, clearing it with an A will only unlock EXPERT instead.

* If BATTLE mode is played, the CPU level must be at least two stars upon reaching FINAL STAGE.

* In the case for Xmix songs, it will also satisfy both pre-FINAL and FINAL STAGE as it counts as two songs; however, BEGINNER charts will not be accessible.

Clearing either EXTRA STAGE songs with at least an AA will grant access to ENCORE EXTRA STAGE. Clearing SABER WING will unlock Horatio for the ENCORE EXTRA STAGE, while playing its remix will get on the bounce or Trigger (providing if the player fulfills Foot Rating requirements above).

On The Break was unlocked on April 9th, 2009, followed by SABER WING and its remix on May 21st, 2009, Horatio on July 2nd, 2009, on the bounce on August 13th, 2009, and Trigger on September 17th, 2009.

Added on February 12th, 2009 are X-Special Charts, those being former songs that are given new CHALLENGE-only charts that previously appeared from the first eight mainline games from [[AC DDR 1st|the first game]] through [[AC DDR EXTREME|EXTREME]]. Each game consist of two songs where they are previously boss songs (and in the case of DDRMAX and later, EXTRA and ENCORE EXTRA songs). These songs would appear on their respective folders upon their appearance (though it would later be relocated on the X folder instead in the next game despite being former songs). Clearing the respective X-Special song with at least an AA grade will access the corresponding version's ENCORE EXTRA STAGE.

|Clear any songs from DDR 1st.<br><small>(Choosing songs via RANDOM are allowed)</small>

|Input the following code by pressing the buttons (Left, Left, Left, Right, Right, Right, Left, Right), then clear any songs from DDR 3rdMIX.<br><small>(Choosing songs via RANDOM are not allowed)</small>

|Clear any songs from DDR 4thMIX, with either [[YUNI]] or [[JENNY]] being set as your dancer.<br><small>(Choosing songs via RANDOM are allowed)</small>

|Clear any songs that contained only CHALLENGE charts.<br><small>(choosing songs via RANDOM are allowed, but X-Special chart does not count)</small>

|Clear the following songs in order: MAX 300, MAXX UNLIMITED, [[Sakura|桜]], The legend of MAX and [[PARANOIA survivor MAX]] (CHALLENGE).<br><small>(Choosing songs via RANDOM are allowed, but must be in EXPERT difficulty)</small>

After a certain time indicated above, conditions to access the X-Special charts are relaxed and thus playable in the EXTRA STAGE by default.