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Like ''beatmania'', there is a life bar with a long green section on the left and a short red section on the right. Getting Greats raises the lifebar, while getting Poors lowers it. When it is completely full, a higher rating called 'Fever' replaces 'Great' until the lifebar drops again. A song is passed if the life bar is in the red section at the end, which lets the player play another song. Your overall score in a song is based on a possible 100,000 points. If the song is failed, the game ends. A player may play a maximum of 3 songs before the game is over. Later entries guarantees three stages, regardless of whether the first two are cleared. | Like ''beatmania'', there is a life bar with a long green section on the left and a short red section on the right. Getting Greats raises the lifebar, while getting Poors lowers it. When it is completely full, a higher rating called 'Fever' replaces 'Great' until the lifebar drops again. A song is passed if the life bar is in the red section at the end, which lets the player play another song. Your overall score in a song is based on a possible 100,000 points. If the song is failed, the game ends. A player may play a maximum of 3 songs before the game is over. Later entries guarantees three stages, regardless of whether the first two are cleared. | ||
pop'n music is differentiated from ''beatmania'' by its lack of a turntable and by its hand-size buttons. Where ''beatmania'' is played by pressing buttons with your fingers, pop'n music is played by hitting buttons with your palms, fingers, and in some situations, your arms and elbows. Also, unlike in ''beatmania''(or at least | pop'n music is differentiated from ''beatmania'' by its lack of a turntable and by its hand-size buttons. Where ''beatmania'' is played by pressing buttons with your fingers, pop'n music is played by hitting buttons with your palms, fingers, and in some situations, your arms and elbows. Also, unlike in ''beatmania'' (or at least until[[AC pnm Usaneko|うさぎと猫と少年の夢]]), pop'n music does not give you letter grades upon completion of a song. | ||
Before [[AC pnm SP|pop'n music Sunny Park]], players could choose from a 5-key mode (disabling the leftmost and rightmost buttons), or a 9-key mode. Older console versions also included 7-key mode, which made it easy to fully use a beatmania IIDX controller. | Before [[AC pnm SP|pop'n music Sunny Park]], players could choose from a 5-key mode (disabling the leftmost and rightmost buttons), or a 9-key mode. Older console versions also included 7-key mode, which made it easy to fully use a beatmania IIDX controller. | ||