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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. Before [[AC pnm Usaneko|pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢]], pop'n music did not give the player letter grades upon completion of a song.
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. Before [[AC pnm Usaneko|pop'n music うさぎと猫と少年の夢]], pop'n music did not give the player letter grades upon completion of a song.


Before [[AC pnm SP|pop'n music Sunny Park]], players could choose from a 5-Buttons mode (disabling the leftmost and rightmost buttons), or a 9-Buttons mode. Older console versions also included 7-Buttons mode, which made it easy to fully use a beatmania IIDX controller.
Before [[AC pnm Sunny Park|pop'n music Sunny Park]], players could choose from a 5-Buttons mode (disabling the leftmost and rightmost buttons), or a 9-Buttons mode. Older console versions also included 7-Buttons mode, which made it easy to fully use a beatmania IIDX controller.


To make the gameplay more interesting, obstacles known as "Ojamas" can be enabled by the player, which are large sprites which obscure the player's view of the descending pop-kuns.  
To make the gameplay more interesting, obstacles known as "Ojamas" can be enabled by the player, which are large sprites which obscure the player's view of the descending pop-kuns.  
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* pop'n music 解明リドルズ: Japanesque / mystery novel
* pop'n music 解明リドルズ: Japanesque / mystery novel


The songs used to be sorted by genres up until [[AC pnm SP|pop'n music Sunny Park]], and while genres for older songs were not removed, the default sorting was changed to song titles since ラピストリア.
The songs used to be sorted by genres up until [[AC pnm Sunny Park|pop'n music Sunny Park]], and while genres for older songs were not removed, the default sorting was changed to song titles since ラピストリア.


Each song has a NORMAL difficulty, most songs have a HYPER difficulty (with harder notes), and some songs have an EX difficulty (with very hard notes). Since [[AC pnm 15|pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE]], all brand-new songs introduced into each pop'n music title have all difficulties mentioned above.
Each song has a NORMAL difficulty, most songs have a HYPER difficulty (with harder notes), and some songs have an EX difficulty (with very hard notes). Since [[AC pnm 15|pop'n music 15 ADVENTURE]], all brand-new songs introduced into each pop'n music title have all difficulties mentioned above.