maimai DX:Grade Certification
For the mechanic with the same name in maimai MiLK PLUS and earlier, see maimai:Grade Certification.
Grade Certification (Japanese: 段位認定, Chinese: 段位认定), added in maimai でらっくす Splash PLUS, is based on FiNALE Course, and serves as a "proper" grade system.
Interestingly, despite that the name of this mechanic was translated as "Grade Certification" in Asian versions of the pre-DX maimai series, it's untranslated in maimai DX スプラッシュ PLUS.
General Information
- Maximum 4 songs can be played.
- Songs and difficulties are pre-determined.
- Locked Master charts in the course can be played directly, and can be unlocked if Rank S is achieved.
- Each course starts with a certain amount of Life, which would decrease for each non-Perfect judgment.
- Life would increase a certain amount when a song is passed, but will not exceed the starting value.
- In true grades, the game ends prematurely if Life reaches 0.
- In normal and random grade certification, all 4 songs could be played to the end even if Life reaches 0.
- In 2-player mode in true grades, the game ends when the Life of both players reaches 0.
- There is also "Random Grade Certification" (Japanese: ランダム段位認定, Chinese: 随机段位认定), in which the 4 songs are randomly chosen based on difficulty, similar to the Ultra Expert level (無差別級) in Event Course.
- What was called 裏段位 (officially "secret grades", but 裏 is more commonly literally translated as "inner" or romanized as "ura" among players) in FiNALE Course is now called 真段位 ("true grades"), and is unlocked when 十段 is passed.
- Unlike in FiNALE Course, the contents of the courses cannot be viewed on the grade selection screen; you have to play it.
Course Contents
Numbers in "Life config" means "Max Life／Damage per Great note/Damage per Good note/Damage per Miss note／Life recovery per completed song"
Random Grade Certification
Completely random within the level ranges below. The same song might be chosen more than once.
| Course | Min level | Max level | Life config |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXPERT初級 | 7 | 9 | 700／-2/-2/-5／+50 |
| EXPERT中級 | 8 | 10 | 600／-2/-2/-5／+50 |
| EXPERT上級 | 10+ | 12+ | 500／-2/-2/-5／+50 |
| MASTER初級 | 10 | 12 | 700／-2/-2/-5／+50 |
| MASTER中級 | 12 | 13 | 500／-2/-2/-5／+50 |
| MASTER上級 | 13 | 14 | 300／-2/-2/-5／+20 |
| MASTER超上級 | 14 | 14+ | 100／-2/-3/-5／+10 |
For reference, below is the number of charts in each level as of BUDDiES:
| / | 8 | 8+ | 9 | 9+ | 10 | 10+ | 11 | 11+ | 12 | 12+ | 13 | 13+ | 14 | 14+ | 15 |
| EXPERT | 16 | 34 | 93 | 131 | 191 | 135 | 151 | 135 | 93 | 44 | 14 | 5 | - | - | - |
| MASTER | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 24 | 44 | 107 | 231 | 319 | 249 | 140 | 53 | 2 |