DDR AC General Info: Difference between revisions

Unlike beatmania IIDX and pop'n music, DanceDanceRevolution's menu layout tends to change a lot based on what version you are playing. Also unlike beatmania IIDX and pop'n music, DanceDanceRevolution has dedicated menu buttons.

All DanceDanceRevolution cabinets have at least left, right, and start menu buttons. Cabinets that were sold with [[AC DDR X|DanceDanceRevolution X]] or later also have up and down menu buttons. The directional menu buttons are used to navigate menus, and the Start button to make selections.

Once the game is started, the first order of business is inserting your [[eAMUSEMENT]] card if the machine supports eAMUSEMENT. After that, or otherwise, you will be taken to the Select [[#Styles|Style]] screen. After that, you will be taken to the Select Difficulty or Select [[#Modes|Mode]], and from there to Select Music or Select Course. In [[AC DDRMAX|DDRMAX]] or later, you can hold Start when you select a song to enter [[#Modifiers|modifiers]]. In earlier versions, you must use codes. After play, your score will be evaluated, and you will be returned to Select Music if not playing a course. When the game is done, a final evaluation is performed, and under certain circumstances you can enter your name.

The first screen that appears when starting a game with an eAMUSEMENT card is the Entry Screen. If the player doesn't have a eAMUSEMENT card, the next screen will be the Play Style selection screen instead.

=== eAMUSEMENT ===

[[eAMUSEMENT]] is KONAMI online service used to keep all the players play data such as the scores, rivals and unlock achievements between all of their games. It was introduced in [[AC DDR SuperNOVA|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA]] and is now found in every titles since. In DanceDanceRevolution, eAMUSEMENT have the following features in game:

** Result Star: Since [[AC DDR X3|DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX]], Result Stars can be obtained when playing in order to access the EXTRA STAGE. The Result Stars earned by the player are transferred between each game.

* Rivals: The player can have up to three rivals by entering their DDR-CODE. Allows to target their Rivals scores during gameplay and play their EDIT DATA.  

* Workout Function: Keep tracks of the calories spent while playing. Requires the weight (in kilogram) of the player.

* Character: Pick a character from the available rooster to be shown on screen dancing during gameplay.

* Play Area Browser: Player play history across the various prefectures in Japan.

On the official website of DanceDanceRevolution, eAMUSEMEMT members can access a more detailed view of their play data, view their Rivals and change their settings.

;Single Play (シングルプレー) [[Image:AC DDR SINGLE PLAY.png|18px]]

:One side of the dance floor (4 foot panels), one player. Always requires only one credit.

;Versus Play (バーサスプレー) [[Image:AC DDR VERSUS PLAY.png|32px]]

:Two players, each with one side of the dance floor. This requires two credits unless Joint Premium is enabled.

;Double Play (ダブルプレー) [[Image:AC DDR DOUBLE PLAY.png|32px]]

:One player uses both sides of the dance floor (8 foot panels). The BEGINNER difficulty is not available in this style. It also requires two credits unless Double Premium or Joint Premium is enabled.

;Couple Play (カップルプレー)

:Only available in [[AC DDR 3rd|3rdMIX]] or earlier. Two players each have one side of the dance floor, but each has different steps for the same difficulty. This requires two credits. This style is still available to use in EDIT DATA songs only as of DanceDanceRevolution (2014).

Once a a Play Style have been selected, the game will require a valid mode of payment. For Normal Play (ノーマルプレー), credits or coins can be used while Premium Play (プレミアムプレー), is exclusive to PASELI members.

'''PASELI''' ('''Pa'''y '''S'''mart '''E'''njoy '''Li'''fe) is a digital currency service that can be linked with an eAMUSEMENT account. Depending on the titles, the exclusive features vary from game to game. Currently as of [[AC DDR 2014|DanceDanceRevolution (2014)]], using PASELI give access to Premium Play which include:

* All STAGEs are guaranteed. Even if the DANCE GAUGE is depleted, the song will continue until the end.

* Additional modifier options (such as more SPEED mods and DANCE GAUGEs.)

* Unlock songs with EXTRA ATTACK.

:''Modes that appeared only in a single mix are not included.''

This is the default mode available in every mix. It allows the user to select the individual songs to play and to select the difficulty levels (after 2ndMIX only) one at a time. Depending on how the operator set the machine, the user can play 1 to 5 songs per game, plus an [[#EXTRA STAGE|EXTRA STAGE]] if earned. In [[AC DDR 1st|DanceDanceRevolution]], [[AC DDR 2nd|2ndMIX]], [[AC DDR 5th|5thMIX]], [[AC DDRMAX|DDRMAX]] and [[AC DDR 2013|DanceDanceRevolution (2013)]] to [[AC DDR 2014|DanceDanceRevolution (2014)]], this is the only mode available.

Instead of picking individual songs, the user have the possibility to select a course. A course is a group of at least four songs with each course having 2 difficulty  

levels. There are two lifebar types: the Normal lifebar similar to the standard lifebar, and the Challenge lifebar. With the Challenge lifebar, the player is given 4 or 8 lives (depending on difficulty level chosen) that deplete on each GOOD, BAD, MISS, or NG. When the player runs out of lives, they fail. One or two lives are recovered after each song successfully cleared. Before DanceDanceRevolution X, the COURSE MODE was split in two parts: NONSTOP MODE and CHALLENGE MODE.

;NONSTOP MODE

:First appeared in 3rdMIX and was removed in 5thMIX, and CHALLENGE MODE first appeared in [[AC DDRMAX2|DDRMAX2]]. [[AC DDR EXTREME|EXTREME]] was the first mix to have both. NONSTOP MODE included courses with a selectable difficulty level and the standard lifebar.

;CHALLENGE MODE

:Features only songs available at the CHALLENGE difficulty level, a lifebar set to LIFE4 and no choice of modifiers to select.

COURSE MODE was removed altogether in DanceDanceRevolution (2013).

As of DanceDanceRevolution (2014), 14 modifiers are available in the game (during the Select Options screen) with a few choice options being  

exclusive to Premium Play (PASELI only in Japan, in yellow in the table). When using Versus Play, each user can have their own settings which have to be set before  

playing a song. During special events such as an EXTRA STAGE, the number of modifiers available is limited and some are set ON to increase the difficulty.

Prior to DDRMAX, the modifiers had codes that had to be entered one by one. It was replaced in DDRMAX with a menu options. From DDRMAX until SuperNOVA,  

an option category named "OTHER" included ARROW, CUT and DARK (Screen Filter) together. Selecting them would turn them ON. They were divided each into a  

category in SuperNOVA. For the first time in DanceDanceRevolution (2014), the modifiers names were translated in Japanese instead of using English.

From DDRMAX to DanceDanceRevolution X3 VS 2ndMIX, a category titled STEP was available to change the song difficulty for each player. It was renamed in  

DanceDanceRevolution (2013) to DIFFICULTY and in DanceDanceRevolution (2014), it was removed from the list as Difficulty received a screen dedicated to it.

Introduced in SuperNOVA2 during gameplay, a maximum of 11 modifiers square icons can be shown on the screen on top of the score box for each player. The

modifiers icons are shown only when they are set to a value different than the defaults. The only exception is for SPEED which even "x1" is shown and for SPECIAL  

ARROW, SCREEN FILTER and GUIDELINE, they simply don't have any icon.

Allows to change the speed of the arrow flow from 0.25 to 8 times faster than normal (x1). During [[AC DDR X2|DanceDanceRevolution X2]] to DanceDanceRevolution  

(2013), the x0.25 and the x0.5 speeds were removed. In DanceDanceRevolution (2014), x0.25 and x0.5 were added back. A total of 23 speed modifiers currently exist with 8 of them being Premium Play exclusives.

!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="3"|SPEED (矢印の速度, Speed of the Arrows)

!style="background:#aaaaee; text-align: center;" width="120px"|Options

|[[AC DDR X|DanceDanceRevolution X]]

|The arrows scroll at x0.5 times slower than normal.

|[[AC DDR X|DanceDanceRevolution X]]

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"|[[AC DDRMAX|DDRMAX -DanceDanceRevolution 6thMIX-]]

ARROW MOVE was known as BOOST when it was introduced in DDRMAX until DanceDanceRevolution (2013). Also in 2013, NORMAL was simply known as OFF while BOOST was titled ON. BRAKE and WAVE were introduced as a fixed option in a DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME course. They were later made as options in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2.

!style="background:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="3"|ARROW MOVE (矢印の動き方, Movement of the arrows)

| Arrows scroll get faster as they reach the targets.

| Arrows scroll get slower as they reach the targets.

| Arrows slow down and speed up at fixed points on their way up the screen.

!style="background:#aaaaee; text-align: center;" width="350px"|Description

| Arrows will disappear when they reach the middle of the screen.

| Arrows will appear after they reached the middle of the screen.

| Arrows are invisible.

| Display a lane cover at the top of the screen.<br>※At the bottom when using REVERSE

| Display a lane cover at the bottom of the screen.<br>※At the top when using REVERSE

| Display the bottom and top lane covers.

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"| This is the normal position for the steps.

| Steps will be rotated by 180 degrees.

|LEFT

| Steps are roated 90 degrees to the left.

|RIGHT

| Steps are roated 90 degrees to the right.

|SHUFFLE

| The orientation of the steps will be shuffled.

| Arrows scroll down from the top.

By default in DanceDanceRevolution to 2ndMIX, the arrow color was set to FLAT. The default was changed to VIVID in DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX with FLAT being an option activated using a code. In DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA, ARROW became a new option category with VIVID, NOTE, FLAT and RAINBOW as options. Also in SuperNOVA, the color scheme SOLO was renamed RAINBOW. The category name changed in DanceDanceRevolution (2013) to ARROW COLOR.

|VIVID

| The colors of the arrows change.

|[[AC DDR 3rd|DanceDanceRevolution 3rdMIX]]

| Arrows are color-coded for each timing. Different color patterns than RAINBOW.

| Arrows are not color-coded.

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"| Steps remain in their original pattern.

| Only shows the 4th step notes.

| Only shows the 4th and 8th step notes.

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"| The step chart will include the freeze arrows.

| The step chart will only include the steps at the start of the freeze arrows (i.e. no holds).

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"| Includes simultaneous steps.

| Remove the simulatenous steps from the chart and convert them into single notes.

The CLASSIC arrow was the default and only choice from DanceDanceRevolution to 4thMIX, it was replaced by NORMAL in DDRMAX. The ability to change the Special Arrow was introduced as an unlockable reward of the Enjoy Lv. system in SuperNOVA2 to X. In X2, the option was unlocked by default for everyone.

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"|[[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW NORMAL.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows.

| [[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW X.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows.

| [[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW CLASSIC.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows.

| [[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW CYBER.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows.

| [[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW MEDIUM.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows to half the size of NORMAL.

| [[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW SMALL.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows.

| [[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW DOT.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows.

| [[Image:AC DDR SPECIAL ARROW Butterfly.png|24px]] Change the shape of the arrows.

In DanceDanceRevolution X, OFF was known as NONE. The default changed from OFF to DARK in DanceDanceRevolution (2014).

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"|[[Image:AC DDR SCREEN FILTER DARK.png|24px]] Use the screen filter to highlight the arrows

| [[Image:AC DDR SCREEN FILTER DARKER.png|24px]] Use the screen filter to highlight the arrows

| [[Image:AC DDR SCREEN FILTER DARKEST.png|24px]] Use the screen filter to highlight the arrows

|[[AC DDR 2014|DanceDanceRevolution (2014)]]

| Display guidelines along the edges of the arrows. This display is similar to the EDIT mode found in the CS releases of DanceDanceRevolution.

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"|Display guidelines to fit the center of the arrows.

The EXTRA STAGE was introduced in the original DanceDanceRevolution but was not found again in a game until DDRMAX. The ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE was also added in DDRMAX. The name ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE was changed in DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 to ENCORE EXTRA STAGE.

In [[AC DDR CLUB VER.2|DanceDanceRevolution 2ndMIX CLUB VERSiON 2]], an EXTRA STAGE was possible if the beatmania IIDX machine started the link session during the EXTRA STAGE. As of [[AC DDR 2014|DanceDanceRevolution (2014)]], the EXTRA STAGE is only available for [[PASELI]] users.

Usually, the EXTRA / ENCORE STAGE system changes from title to title. For more details on how the EXTRA STAGE work, see the individual pages below.

| [[AC DDR 2013|DanceDanceRevolution (2013)]] || style="background:#00FF7F;"| ✔ || style="background:#ffaaaa;"| ✘

[[Category:Other]]