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: One player uses both sides of the dance floor (8 foot panels). The BEGINNER difficulty and the LEFT, RIGHT, and SHUFFLE options are not available in this style. This requires two credits unless Double Premium or Joint Premium is set.

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

: Only available in [[AC DDR 3rd|3rdMIX]] and 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).

: Only available in [[AC DDR 3rd|3rdMIX]] and [[AC DDR 3rd PLUS|3rdMIX PLUS]]. Two players have one step chart at the center, with different colors of arrow: Blue arrows for the left-hand player, red arrows for the right-hand player, and yellow arrows for both players. However, left-hand player can step on the red arrows and right-hand player can step on the blue arrows. Having more than two arrows in one row requires respective players stepping on them. On the 1st STAGE, step charts for the left-hand player and right-hand player are separate but will show its animation of merging once stepping zone starts blinking.

As of [[AC DDR A3|DanceDanceRevolution A3]], the player can now switch between the Single and Double play styles (when only one player is present) by pressing [3] on the keypad.

Instead of picking individual songs, the player can 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, which similar to the standard lifebar; and the Challenge lifebar, where the player is given 4 or 8 lives (depending on the difficulty level chosen) that deplete on each Good, Boo, Miss, or N.G. When the player runs out of lives, they fail the course. Successfully clearing each song will regenerate a life or two. Before DanceDanceRevolution X, the COURSE MODE was split into two parts: NONSTOP MODE and CHALLENGE MODE. In DanceDanceRevolution A20 onwards, Courses are split into two parts: NONSTOP and 段位認定.

Allows to change the speed of the arrow flow from 0.25 to 8 times faster than normal (x1) with matching spacing of arrows. 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 24 speed modifiers currently exist with 9 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:#9999ee; text-align: center;" colspan="3"|ARROW MOVE (矢印の動き方, Movement of the arrows)

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"|The step chart is in a normal position.

|Steps are flipped by 180 degrees.

|Steps are rotated 90 degrees to the left.

|Steps are rotated 90 degrees to the right.

|Columns of steps are randomly arranged.

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, and to RAINBOW in DanceDanceRevolution (2014). 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.

|style="background:#ffaaaa;"|The default color since DDR (2014). Arrows have different gradient cycles which correspond to note value: pink for 1/64-beat to 1/16-beat steps, blue for 5/64-beat to 1/8-beat steps, purple for 9/64-beat to 3/16 beat steps, and orange for 13/64-beat to 1/4-beat steps.

| style="background:#ffaaaa;"|Step chart is unchanged.

|Only shows the 1/4-beat steps.

|Only shows the 1/4 and 1/8-beat steps.

| 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.

|Removes the simultaneous steps from the chart.

|The song ends on 4 combined MISSes and/or NG's. This is an option for advanced players.

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

| Getting a single MISS or NG will fail the song.

|[[AC DDR X2|DanceDanceRevolution X2]]

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

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

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

| [[AC DDR A3|DanceDanceRevolution A3]] || style="background:#00FF7F;"| ✔ || style="background:#ffaaaa;"| ✘