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 KONAMI also launched in March spinoff game [[CS pnm Puzzle Dama|pop'n 対戦 ぱずるだま ONLINE]], a puzzle game based on their long-running ''Taisen Puzzle Dama'' (対戦 ぱずるだま) series. As the ONLINE subtitle implies, you could go online and play the game with other people, as well as download new pop'n music characters and songs. Unfortunately, the offline mode went down later that same year, leaving a lot of the content forever locked from new players. The game is played by matching three of the same liked color pop-kuns back at your opponent until their side is completely full. KONAMI never re-released the game as their part of their PS2 the BEST line, and the game has since remained in obscurity.
-After the nine releases KONAMI released of the series last year, DanceDanceRevolution dialed it back a bit this year. Since there were no arcade games to port over for Japanese players, Japan's one and only CS release of 2004 was the mid-November release [[CS DDR FESTIVAL|DDR FESTIVAL -DanceDanceRevolution-]]. It was mostly a compilation game, containing some old DanceDanceRevolution songs and a few new licenses, as well as most of the new content from  [[CS DDR EXTREME NA|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME US CS]]. But the game's biggest draw is that it also included '''all''' the new songs/DLC from [[CS DDR ULTRAMIX|DDR ULTRAMIX]], available to Japanese players for the first time ever. Many of them even received new HEAVY charts by the Japanese staff.
+After the nine releases KONAMI released of the series last year, DanceDanceRevolution dialed it back a bit this year. Since there were no arcade games to port over for Japanese players, Japan's one and only CS release of 2004 was the mid-November release [[CS DDR FESTIVAL|DDR FESTIVAL -DanceDanceRevolution-]]. It was mostly a compilation game, containing some old DanceDanceRevolution songs and a few new licenses, as well as most of the new content from [[CS DDR EXTREME NA|DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (North America)]]. But the game's biggest draw is that it also included '''all''' the new songs/DLC from [[CS DDR ULTRAMIX|DDR ULTRAMIX]], available to Japanese players for the first time ever. Many of them even received new HEAVY charts by the Japanese staff.
-North America received two new releases in 2004: the aforementioned DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME US CS and [[CS DDR ULTRAMIX2|DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2]]. EXTREME US featured some backlash from fans of the [[AC DDR EXTREME|arcade release]], in that very few of the songs are from the arcade version (only three EXTREME non-BEMANI originals are even in the game, and one is hidden behind a code). There's also the matter of the new scoring system, which rated on a flat scale to 7 million, awarding you an extra 3 million max based on your combo. If you break your combo at any point in a song, though, you can't get higher than an A. But arguably the most controversial of all is the music select screen layout, which is down in more of a jukebox style with banners in the top center, with very minimalist, grey backgrounds. (DDR FESTIVAL, listed above, also used this same exact interface.)
+North America received two new releases in 2004: the aforementioned DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME CS (North America) and [[CS DDR ULTRAMIX2|DanceDanceRevolution ULTRAMIX2]]. EXTREME US featured some backlash from fans of the [[AC DDR EXTREME|arcade release]], in that very few of the songs are from the arcade version (only three EXTREME non-BEMANI originals are even in the game, and one is hidden behind a code). There's also the matter of the new scoring system, which rated on a flat scale to 7 million, awarding you an extra 3 million max based on your combo. If you break your combo at any point in a song, though, you can't get higher than an A. But arguably the most controversial of all is the music select screen layout, which is down in more of a jukebox style with banners in the top center, with very minimalist, grey backgrounds. (DDR FESTIVAL, listed above, also used this same exact interface.)
 The other North American release in 2004 was ULTRAMIX2. Compared to [[CS DDR ULTRAMIX|the first ULTRAMIX]], ULTRAMIX2 mostly featured new content, with commissioned originals and lots of brand-new BEMANI crossovers, mostly from beatmania IIDX. (The DLC song packs would even include GUITARFREAKS / drummania and even KEYBOARDMANIA songs mixed in.) It also featured a brand-new interface and layout, and even new generic clips not previously used in any game in the series before. It got the best reviews of the ULTRAMIX series, and several of its crossovers and originals later made their way two years later into [[AC DDR SuperNOVA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA]].
-Europe also got two new releases in 2004. First up was the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 versions of [[CS DS Fusion|Dancing Stage Fusion CS]], the former version being the last BEMANI in ''any'' region for the original Sony PlayStation. The PS2 version is based on EXTREME US CS interface-wise, but is more colorful. Confusingly, only ''seven'' of the game's twenty-one licenses have Double charts, the rest being only playable in Single. The PlayStation version only includes a total of 20 songs, but the PS2 contains a far bigger 54, which is nearly bigger than the previous two Dancing Stage PlayStation 2 releases combined.
+Europe also got two new releases in 2004. First up was the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 versions of [[CS DS Fusion|Dancing Stage Fusion CS]], the former version being the last BEMANI in ''any'' region for the original Sony PlayStation. The PS2 version is based on EXTREME CS (North America) interface-wise, but is more colorful. Confusingly, only ''seven'' of the game's twenty-one licenses have Double charts, the rest being only playable in Single. The PlayStation version only includes a total of 20 songs, but the PS2 contains a far bigger 54, which is nearly bigger than the previous two Dancing Stage PlayStation 2 releases combined.
 The other European release was [[CS DS Unleashed|Dancing Stage Unleashed]]. It's mostly a port of the North American ULTRAMIX, but with eleven originals removed, the four licenses replaced with eight brand-new ones, and a couple of DLC song pack songs replaced. The game is also only available in English, despite its European release.