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I wonder how much of this format the arcade games share. they recently axed the official servers for the arcade machines so they've been making their way to the secondary market more. Porting over songs from 3DS to arcade or visa versa would be interesting

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Looking at gameplay videos of the arcade game, there is at least one addition not present in the 3DS iteration: multiple touch notes that you need to hit at the same time. The 3DS format should be able to represent that, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were subtly different.

There was also a (now defunct) iOS game, which notably had a "Compose Scores" mode to edit your own tracks (though you couldn't change the BGM). I would be curious to see what the editor interface looked like.

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