UI Guide

Most photos are taken by a phone, on game version 1.00.04. A few are taken by the same phone but on game Version 1.50.01. Higher quality photos, or screenshots taken from inside the game, are welcome.

## Common menu controls

These controls will not be marked again in subsequent images.

Not every screen allows you to cancel.

## Log in

After pressing start, you will begin the log in process. You can also tap your card on the card reader instead of pressing start, which will skip the following screen.

At the above screen, tap your card on the card reader to log in, or press Skip to play as guest. When playing as guest, Elizabeth will introduce herself and offer to start the tutorial. Afterwards, continue from mode select.

If the game received an update since your last game, you will be prompted to update your save data. Press the red button to proceed.

"By playing on this cabinet your save data will be updated. It will be no longer playable on cabinets prior to <current version>. Your data needs to be processed to be playable on the current version. Continue?"

Once logged in, player's info will be shown on the top left. On WACCA S, the highest Stage you cleared in Stage Up mode will be shown to the right of your name.

If you have not inserted credit yet, Elizabeth will ask you to do so.

Then, if applicable, Elizabeth will show you your log-in bonus, as well as the number of EX Open Tickets you hold.

You can earn the log-in bonus on your first game each day. A "day" starts at 7 AM JST (GMT+9). The bonus includes:

* 1 EX Open Ticket, which expires in 3 days, and you can hold no more than 5 (3 before WACCA S).
* Additional WP for this game only. (How much? Does it stack with VIP?)
* Additional experience for this game only. (How much?)

Once the log-in process concludes, move on to Mode Select.

Sometimes the game will hate you and fail to load your data.

## Gate select

If there are multiple sets of Gates available (typically during events), you need to choose which set to advance for this game.

## Mode select

* Single play: play 3 songs alone.

* Multi play: the multiplayer mode. Choose from versus or co-op. If there's only 1 cabinet in your arcade, choosing this will only waste time.
* Stage Up: see Stage Up.
* Shop: see next section. Before WACCA S, only VIP membership was sold here.

## Shop

You can return to mode select from the Shop.

* VIP Membership / renew: costs 3 credits.
* Boost badge: costs 1 credit, grants 2x WP and Gate point from songs (for how long?).
* Boost badge S: costs 2 credits, grants 3.1x WP and Gate point from songs (for how long?).
* EX Open Ticket: costs 3000 WP, never expires, you can hold no more than 5 of these. This is a good way to dock WP if its getting close to the 9999 WP cap.

## Song select

Select a locked song to unlock it with WP. Guests cannot unlock songs.

"Jump to next genre" is only available when using the default sort method, which sorts by genres.

On WACCA S, songs with a "BONUS" mark will grant bonus Gate points:

Press "Sort" to choose a sort method.

After confirming a song, move on to chart select.

## Chart select

**WARNING:** Before WACCA S, once you confirm a chart, you would be unable to return to chart select or song select.

If the Expert chart is locked and you want to unlock it with an EX Open Ticket, do so by pressing confirm on the Expert chart. Out of all tickets you hold, the one closest to expiration will be spent first.

Unlocking Expert chart will not actually confirm the chart; you can still select chart/song after unlocking Expert.

## Game options

After selecting a chart, make your final preparations on this screen. The center shows a preview of selected chart with current options applied.

Adjust mask intensity to darken the background while playing.

## Results & Gate

    On WACCA S, the Gate screen will follow the result screen.

## Total results

Shown after completing all 3 songs.

This is where you receive experience. Players at a low level will receive a "Start dash bonus".

If you receive any level-up bonus, or unlock any title/icon/trophy, they will also be shown here.

## Stage Up

In Stage Up mode, you choose a Stage instead of songs and charts. You will still get the Options screen before each song, and Results & Gate screens after.

## My Room

After the total results screen, guests will see a screen reminding them of the benefits of using a card. The game would then be over.

Logged in players, on the other hand, go to My Room.

### Change title

Press the Sort button to change sort method.

* デフォルト順: default order
* レアリティ順: by rarity
* 獲得順: recently unlocked

### Options

Sound effect: choose the set of Sound Effects played when hitting notes.

Color: choose the Color theme for WACCA Console.

BGA: choose whether to play BGA (background animation) if a song has one. Available options are ON, OFF and Ask every time.

### More options

Judgement position: whether to show judgement text (Marvelous/Great/Good/Miss) at the center, top or bottom. Or hide it altogether.

Timing display: whether to show "Fast"/"Slow" when judgement is not Marvelous.

Guideline: the while lines separating the game's 60 "lanes". You can turn it ON/OFF, as well as adjust its intensity.

To exit: go straight to the "Exit" option in My Room's main menu.

Score display: choose how the score is displayed.

* プラス方式 (Plus method): the usual method, score starts at 0 and increases with each note.
* マイナス方式 (Minus method): score starts at 1,000,000 and decreases with each non-Marvelous note. In other words it shows the potential max score you can get at any point.

Allow giving up: if turned ON, the game will show a "give up" button after it receives absolutely no input for a few seconds. Useful when grinding Full Combos or All Marvelous's.

Guide sounds: whether to play "sounds with correct rhythm". Not entirely sure what it refers to; might be those few ticks before a song starts.

Bonus effects: if turned ON, gilded notes will fill the Normal Gauge by an extra amount when hit. Has no effect on score.

Character voice: whether Elizabeth can speak during gameplay.

### Ranking

Not sure if this screen even works. It's supposed to show:

* Rank of your total score across all charts
* For how many charts do you have a place in its leader board

For more accurate ranking, go to WACCA My Page.

## Game Over

After the game is over, Elizabeth will randomly say something along the lines of "thanks please come again". Depending on what happened during your game, you may see special messages, such as:

"Seems you just got ranked in some leaderboard. Congrats!"

Sometimes the game will randomly decide to reboot itself. Do not touch the WACCA Console until the reboot is complete.

"This cabinet will soon reboot. You can continue to play after reboot is complete. Please wait a moment."