User:Jack980517/History of changes in maimai

maimai

• Game options
  • Guide speed: 1~5, interval 1 (default 2)
  • Answer sound (played at the correct timing): on/off
  • S.E. (played when the player hits the note): on/off
  • Mirror: on/off
• Collection
  • Called "Trophy" at the time
  • Icon and title only
• Break notes have no bonus points (max point 2500)
• Master charts are always level 10
• Hold notes are a lengthened circle instead of a hexagon
• Slide notes have an animation of small stars where your hand is
• Slide notes can only be a straight line or an arc on the outer circle
• Judgment effects are shown for a shorter amount of time compared to location test versions

maimai PLUS

• Game options
  • Guide speed is now 1~9, interval 1
  • S.E.: Short(new)/Long(older, default)/Off
  • BG info: Combo(default)/Achievement/Score
  • Star rotation: on/off(default)
  • Movie brightness:0(default)/-1/-2/-3
• Added 2550 and 2600 for break notes
• Added AA(94%) and SS(100%) ranks
• Master charts re-rated to level 8~10
• Joypolis songs added
• Players can now choose different difficulties in VS mode
• Achievement rate is now shown at the trophy screen
• Aime card can now be scanned before inserting coin
• Combo text is now smaller
• Titles are now colored, with colors varying by rarity, purple being the rarest
• Fixed the bug that a tap note at where a slide note ends would cause the slide note to not be detected properly (affects Genpei taisen emaki Thema song Expert)

maimai GreeN

• Game options
  • "High Score" / "ハイスコア表示きりかえ" added: change high score display on the song select screen (achievement/score/off?)
  • Mirror: UD, UDLR mirror added
  • S.E.: Short is now default
• Collection
  • Frame and Name Plate added
  • Can be purchased with maimile
• maiご近所さん and maiFriend features added to maimaiNET
  • maiご近所さん: people who played before or after you on the same cab
  • maiFriend: people who played together are automatically registered as friends
• Rating added
• maimile added, can be used to purchase collection or songs
• Player level/experience removed
• Old charts rerated, max level for old charts is now 11
  • Level 12 boss songs added (System "Z", Garakuta Doll Play)
• Sorting and filtering added on song select screen
  • Sorting: Genre/Level/Song Title/Version/Rank
    • If using Level sort in VS mode, and players need to play different difficulties, another sorting method has to be chosen, because Level sort forces the same the difficulty selection on all players.
  • Filtering: All of the above plus REC(Recordable songs)/Full Combo/All Perfect/100% Sync
• Touhou songs added
• "Hit ranking" introduced: guest players only see 5 most popular songs for each genre by default
• Options can now be set for guest players
• Rating ranking and maimile ranking added (on the attract screen?)
• Number of video uploads to niconico limited to 2 per day
• Improved slide note detection
• Collections can no longer be changed on maimaiNET
• FC/AP voice is now played regardless of options
• Recorded videos no longer include the metronome sound at the beginning
• maimaiNET is now only available in Japanese

maimai GreeN PLUS

• Game options
  • Slide/Break sound added: switch between bought sounds, or turn it off
• Collection
  • Slide Sound and Break Sound added
• BMS songs added (Jack-the-Ripper, DRAGONLADY)
• New slide types: p, q, s, z, v
  • Arc-shaped slide notes can now cover more than 3/8 of the circle
• Hold notes are now hexagon-shaped
• Quality increased for recorded videos on maimaiNET
• Fixed the bug that judgment isn't displayed when hitting two single slide notes together
• Usatei jacket changed
• Slide note visual effect removed
• Judgment loosened
• More charts up-rated to fill the new 1~12 level scale

maimai ORANGE

• Game options
  • Speed is now 1.0~10.0 + Sonic, interval 0.5
    • GreeN+ speed 6 != ORANGE speed 6.0
  • Judge style added: tighter judgments
  • Slide skip added: on the song select screen, swipe the whole screen to skip to the next category
  • "Disp Mark" / "クリア表示きりかえ" added: change the "cleared" mark display on the song select screen (clear/rank)
  • Slide/Break volume added: change the volume of slide/break sounds (1~3, off is still a choice where you change different kinds of sounds)
  • "Upper Score Disp" / "上画面スコア表示" added: change the score display on the upper screen (achievement/score?)
• Sorting wheel added. Press button 6/7 to quickly switch between the following sorting methods:
  • Hit ranking (default behavior in GreeN+)
  • Genre (default behavior in maimai/maimai+)
  • Title (same as choosing title sort in older versions)
  • Level (same as choosing level sort in older versions)
  • Version (same as choosing version sort in older versions)
  • maiLIST (full song list mode as in older versions; sorting and filtering options only available in this mode)
• music ticket added. maimile can no longer be used to purchase songs
• maiCHALLENGE added
• "Yukkuri" voice can be added in recorded videos
• On 2014/11/14, SEGA announced that, since 2014/12/1, videos with less than 100 views within 90 days after being uploaded to niconico would be removed. Videos uploaded before that date would be removed on 2015/3/1 if 100 views are not reached before that date. This seems to be a policy of niconico, and SEGA couldn't do anything about it.
• "Recommended" genre added
• Song title changed: from System "Z" to System “Z”
• Long titles (as in the collection) now scroll when displayed
• Shiawase usagi jacket changed
• Endless, Sleepless Night jacket changed
• Folder lamp added (like DDR)
• A special banner/effect is placed on the song's row on the song select screen depending on the score

maimai ORANGE PLUS

• Re:Master charts added, can be purchased after clearing the Master chart
• Chart designer's name is displayed
• Improved detection of touch sensors
• "New get" added in collection select screen for all collections obtained in the current version
• "Home ranker" system added
• Song title text on result screen is now smaller
• Rating can now be hidden
• Changes to the maiLIST feature (?)
• Long song titles now scroll when displayed on both the upper screen and result screen
• Removed songs for the first time in maimai history

maimai PiNK

• Challenge Track added
• New slide types added: pp, qq, V, w
• Star break notes added
• Star notes can now have two slide notes
• Rank (A/S/SS/etc) changed
• "Random select" becomes "Omakase select" / "Recommended"
• New Aime cards can play a song free
• Screen resolution upgraded to 1080p from 720p
• maimile and music ticket abolished; new in-game currency "maiBerry"
• maiCHALLENGE abolished
• Song select screen revamped
• Difficulty levels now have + from 7+ to 11+
• Detailed stats per note type on the result screen
• Collections can be changed again on maimaiNET
• Rating graph is shown on maimaiNET
• Privacy/visibility of videos and activities can now be changed to friends-only
• "Home arcade" settings added on maimaiNET. "Rankers" (skilled players) with the same "home arcade" set would be displayed in attract mode.
• It's now possible to press a button to enter the entry screen without inserting coins
• Collection obtained is now shown per game session instead of per song
• Detection changed for some slide notes
• Answer sound is now louder
• Bonus track abolished; most arcades that used 3+1 tracks are now 4 tracks guaranteed
• "Fantastic clear" etc is now gone
• ホーム店舗上位に入った時に出ていた特別エフェクトが撤退 (?)
• Color for Perfect judgment for break notes is now yellow, same as other note types
• 1 song / 2 songs per game can no longer be set in the operator menu
• Re:Master unlock condition changed: clear (Rank A) the Master chart to unlock
• Massive removal of collection items
• 99% sync icon added

maimai PiNK PLUS

• Game options
  • BG info display: Achievement(-), Score border (S/SS/SSS/my best) added
  • Track Skip (Auto(S/SS/SSS/my best)/buttons)
  • Fast/Late display added
  • Fast/Late display position can also be changed
  • Judgment Timing change added (-2.0~2.0, interval 0.1)
  • Answer sound volume can now be changed
  • S.E. renamed "Tap/Hold SE", and its volume can now be changed
  • Challenge Track damage SE volume can now be changed
• Event Course added
• Grade Certification Course added
• Difficulty can now be changed at category select screen (buttons were unresponsive at category select screen in PiNK)
• Challenge Track Life amount changed
• "Yukkuri" voice removed

maimai MURASAKi

• Game options
  • "Appeal comment" added: 5 types, shown on the other side's upper screen when in single player mode, used to "appeal" other players to play together with you
  • "Display of Fever" added: set whether to display the new "fever" number in-game
• The ripple effect displayed when holding down a hold note is now colored according to the judgment of the starting point (Yellow = Perfect, etc).
  • Before MURASAKi, it was always pink.
• Enkaijou added
• In-game currency changed to maiZenny (basically just a rename)
• "Fever"/"Max Fever" added (pretty useless)
  • Fever: total non-miss judgments of all players in multiplayer
  • Max Fever: all players full combo
• Challenge Track changes
• Re:Master & Master unlock condition changed: get Rank S or higher on Expert or higher
  • Upon data succession, if the player's high score for Expert or higher is Rank S or higher, Master & Re:Master charts are unlocked automatically. (In PiNK, players had to play the Master difficulty again to unlock a newly-added Re:Master chart.)
• Video upload mechanics changed
  • In older versions, if the player chose to upload a video, they would not be asked again for uploading new videos until the current game session ended.
  • In MURASAKi, the player would be asked each song regardless of whether a prior track is already queued for uploading. However, only the last track queued in a game session would be uploaded.
• Rating system changed
  • There's now a "history" slot that covers almost every chart. This means that almost all charts are now involved in Rating calculation, and not just the highest-level, highest-score charts.
  • Rating is now colored:

Rating	Color
0.00	White
2.00	Blue
4.00	Green
7.00	Yellow
10.00	Red
12.00	Purple
13.00	Bronze
14.00	Silver
14.50	Gold
15.00	Rainbow

• Old charts re-rated; max level for old charts is now 12+
  • This is basically a new scale instead of a simple expansion of the formerly highest difficulty. Most charts are simply up-rated half a level (eg. 12→12+). However this is not uniformly applied and resulted in a messy difficulty scale.
  • Level 13 boss songs added (Our Wrenally, Panopticon)
• Colored plates added to titles (the collection), with colors varying by rarity
• 99% sync icon removed
• Judgment effect is now shown for an even shorter amount of time
• Fixed the bug notation when high score updated +50 points and percentage didn't change
• "Activity" on maimaiNET no longer shows multiple AP/Sync achievements in a row (only shows once)
• Advanced and below difficulties no longer show in Activity
• Friend request feature added
• It's no longer possible to press a button to enter the entry screen without inserting coins

maimai MURASAKi PLUS

• Game options
  • Judgment text (PERFECT etc) can now be moved closer to the circle center, or hidden entirely
• maimaiNET internals revamped
  • Players can no longer log in until they did the data succession on MURASAKi PLUS
  • All older dates (e.g. date when a collection is obtained) are not kept; set to the date of the data succession
  • Play history and Activity from MURASAKi is deleted
  • Usage right (利用権) is reset. All players are granted 33 days of usage right upon data succession.
  • High score ranking per chart added
  • Challenge Track completion ranking added
  • Sorting for play history changed
  • Item count for Activity changed to 15
  • Player name is changed from half width to full width characters, and now allows some symbols
  • Friend system changed
    • Players in a multiplayer session are no longer automatically added as friends. Instead, they appear in each other's "candidate" (候補) tab, and can send friend requests there
    • maiご近所さん feature removed
  • Favorite friend ranking (score etc ranking among favorite friends) added
  • All friends ranking, shop ranking, prefecture ranking removed
• Event Course revamped
• Otohime's Room added
• maiZenny donation amount ranking added
• Collection "random set" feature added (randomly set collections for each game session)
• Collection purchase confirmation prompt removed
• VS mode position (1st place etc) is now displayed on the upper screen
• "Master chart not unlocked" mark added
• Daily video posting limit increased to 5
• More charts re-rated to fill the new 1~13 level scale
• Chart file format updated, now allows changing slide standby time

maimai MiLK

• Partner added, player level revived as a result
  • Total Lv can be hidden
• In-game currency changed to Cheese; collection items are now more expensive
• Total Cheese pieces ranking added
• Event category added
• Event Course removed
• Survival Course added
• "Next Track" screen replaced by tips
• Rating restriction removed for Grade Certification, Enkaijou and Challenge Track
• Unlocking is no longer necessary before playing Master charts in Challenge Track
• maimaiNET changes
  • "VS feature" between Favorite friends (Score etc comparison) added
  • Serial code redeem feature added
  • Friend candidates now disappear from the list after some time
  • Filtering in "song score" page added
  • "Home arcade" setting removed
• Weekly bonus per Thursday removed (?)
• Changed charts (using the new format introduced in MURASAKi PLUS) for songs with BPM changes so that the standby time of slides is one beat in the changed BPM
• Challenge Track completion medal removed
• Decreased contrast of the video of Shissou ensemble
• Video for YU-MU and Fragments removed
• Fixed the bug that the max score effect doesn't work for Utage charts

maimai MiLK PLUS

• Otohime added as a partner
  • Total donation amount in MURASAKi PLUS is converted to Otohime's initial level
• Survival Course renewal
• "Present Event" added
  • Points are obtained after playing each song (similar to the old maimile). If a Present Event is in progress, the player would earn collection items after reaching a set amount of points. The progress is linear, and the collection awarded cannot be chosen.
  • First play of the day awards 20 pt. Date change is at 0:00 JST.
  • Each track awards 4 pt, and songs with the "present box +1" mark awards 1 extra pt
  • Points needed until the next collection is displayed when points are obtained
  • There are Japan-only Present Events that don't activate in Asia at all. However, if the collections are awarded in Japan, they could be used normally in Asia.
• Added more tips between tracks
• Fixed the bug that number of Cheese pieces would be reset (?)
• Fixed the bug that Sync Rate is 1000x the normal value
• Version filtering added to the song list on maimaiNET
• フレンド候補の表示期限の追加 (?)
• Goods campaign page added on maimaiNET
• AP+ and SSS+ (both for max score) marks added

maimai FiNALE

• Cheese, Partner, and Present Event retained
• "New Music" category added
  • Like Event categories, songs in this category awards 2 more cheese pieces and 1 more present point
• Shama (black cat) and Milk (white cat) from Oshama Scramble! added as Partners
• Experience value changed
• Enkaijou restriction removed
• Added more tips between tracks
• Challenge Track, Survival Course, Grade Certification Course removed
• FiNALE Course added
• PANDORA BOXXX added
• "Ras's watching diary" added. At the end of a game session, Ras would put honey on a tree to attract "Fairy Happy". If the player plays maimai in 3 days since the next day, "Fairy Happy" would appear and give bonus effects to the player:
  • Locked Master charts can be played directly, and can be used to unlock them, or Re:Master charts of the same song.
  • Rating Guard can be activated in Game Options. If activated, a beehive-shaped shield would appear on the result screen and prevent the Rating from decreasing.

Sources

• My own memory
• https://ch.nicovideo.jp/SE_2_NYAN_P/blomaga/ar1576714
• http://hakasetaku.blogspot.com/2019/07/maimaihistory.html
• https://maimai.fandom.com/zh/wiki/遊戲簡介