DJ MAX Portable BlackSquare Link Disc Unlock Guide
Written by INFERTakuya
Version 2.00
---Version Information---
Version 0.00 - A very crappy and completely incorrect guide was born in the
GameFAQs DJ MAX Portable BlackSquare board.
Version 0.75 - Polished and steered in the right direction. The prototype of
this guide you are reading now was born, again in the the
GameFAQs DJ MAX Portable BlackSquare board. One last piece of
information was needed to make it "finished".
Version 1.00 - After adding in contributions by other DJs and polishing up the
guide further, this guide has finally earned the right to show
its face in the FAQs section. Finally got the stupid logo done
too. Forgive me for the crappy ASCII art, it's my first time
doing it.
Version 2.00 - This is the version of the guide you are viewing. After some
deliberation, I have decided to add in a table of contents, due
to the fact that I will also be including a long list of
available notecharts, after realising that my guide has caused
some confusion.
---Table of Contents---
1. Introduction
2. Copyright
3. Introduction to Link Disc
4. Link Disc Unlockables
5. Link Play
6. List of Unlockable Notecharts
7. Known Problems
8. Final Words
9. Contacting Me
---Introduction---
This is a list of Link Disc unlockables for BlackSquare which I have compiled
after much hard work (and deteriorated eyesight) as well as contributions by
fellow DJs. This list was created with the intention of helping fellow DJs.
Let us begin with the very uninteresting copyright information before going
into the unlockables proper.
---Copyright---
This guide is the intellectual property of INFERTakuya, and should not be
placed on any other site except for GameFAQs and GameSpot. Using any portion
of this guide in your own FAQ without the permission of the creator of the
guide will be considered plagiarism and will render you punishable under the
Copyright Act of your own country.
DJ MAX and the DJ MAX Portable series are products and trademarks of
Pentavision and Neowiz. I am not affiliated with the creators of this game in
any manner.
Slay3rH3ll is allowed to include this guide in his FAQ, if he ever gets round
to making it, that is.
---Introduction to Link Disc---
Link Disc is a feature that was first introduced in DJ MAX Portable 2. It was a
rather innovative feature for a portable console, which required the player to
swap to a different UMD of the same series, somewhat like a disc change for
the Final Fantasy games. Link Disc gave veteran players the opportunity to
play their favourite songs from DJ MAX Portable using the DJ MAX Portable 2
interface, as well as offer some otherwise impossible-to-unlock items. In
Clazziquai Edition, the Link Disc system was stripped down, giving up Link
Play in favour of immediate unlocking of songs, gears, notes and characters.
BlackSquare has brought together the best of both worlds, boasting both faces
of the Link Disc feature. While there are now fewer unlockables, it is still
much better than Clazziquai Edition's Link Disc nonetheless.
---Link Disc Unlockables---
These are unlocked simply by swapping the UMDs when prompted.
BlackSquare -> Portable 2:
Characters - Sehra; NB Red
Gears - Roadster Gear
Notes - Bird Note
Songs - DIVINE SERVICE
Clazziquai -> BlackSquare:
Characters - Hea
Songs - Proposed, Flower, Wolf
---Link Play---
Now, this is probably the favourite aspect of Link Disc for the veterans. Just
a little information on how the unlocking process here works. Playing any of
the following Clazziquai Edition songs will unlock the listed BlackSquare song
in the Arcade mode for BlackSquare, but only for the button mode you played
the Clazziquai Edition song in. For example, playing Freedom NM 4B in Link
Disc will unlock Get Down NM 4B. Do take note that there will not be an unlock
notification.
BlackSquare -> Clazziquai:
Format: Clazziquai song - BlackSquare song
1. Come to me - Proposed, Flower, Wolf Part 2
2. Color - Sweet Shining Shooting Star
3. Creator - Fermion
4. Freedom - Get Down
5. Eternity - Heart of Witch
6. No Way - Remember
7. Closer - In My Dream
8. Motion - Keys to the World
9. Lover - Shoreline
10. Y - Cypher Gate
11. BlythE - Beat U Down
12. Oblivion - Ask to Wind Live Mix
13. Every morning - Get Up
14. Memory of Beach - Relation Again
15. SunnySide - YO MAX
16. Taekwonburi - Super Lovely
17. Elastic Star ~UK Garage Remix~ - Real Over DRIVE
18. Syriana - HAMSIN
19. Ask to Wind - DIVINE SERVICE
20. Fate - Higher
21. Play the FUTURE - Space of Soul
22. Landscape - Nightmare
HD/MX charts (It is required to unlock the NM chart of the song first):
(BS song) HD style - Clear the related CE song on HD style
(BS song) MX style - Clear the related CE song on MX style
Some people might be a little confused here, so I'll explain. Playing a more
difficult chart for the CE song in Link Disc will unlock a chart of the same
difficulty level for BS. For example, Playing Color HD 4B unlocks Sweet
Shining Shooting Star HD 4B, and playing Eternity MX 4B unlocks Heart of Witch
MX 4B. Of course, clearing the BS song on NM in the arcade mode will unlock
the HD mode, so you won't have to worry there.
For a list of MX and RD charts, and how to unlock them, you can check out
Slay3rH3ll's submissions in the Codes section of the BS page.
Some charts cannot be unlocked by Link Play. I'll cover those that can in the
next section.
---List of Unlockable Notecharts---
This is a list of notecharts of the BlackSquare songs that are unlockable via
Link Play. Obviously enough, if a certain chart difficulty (HD, MX, RD) does
not appear for the CE song, you won't be able to unlock that same chart
difficulty for the BS song via Link Disc.
For simplicity's sake, I have assigned numbers to each song. The numbers
assigned to each BS song will be from 1 to 22, in the order listed in the
previous section.
6BFX Mode:
Only NM charts, except Nightmare, which cannot be unlocked as Landscape is
missing.
---Known Problems---
"Glitched" Unlocks: No, this is not as serious as it sounds. Clearing the CE
songs on any other button mode before doing so on 4B will
result in a "glitched" unlock. This causes the unlocked
song to not show up in the play data screen.
[This "glitch" can be fixed by unlocking the song on 4B.
(Contributed by SirEntropy)]
False Unlock Message: After playing about 28 songs in Link Disc, you should
receive a notification stating that you have unlocked
Y MX 4B. This unlock message is false. Y MX 4B will not
be unlocked even after you receive the message.
---Final Words---
I wish to thank
- Everyone who contributed to this guide.
- Those who have helped to bump my guide up on the GameFAQs boards when the
guide was still in its early days.
- Everyone on the DJ MAX GameFAQs boards for being such a wonderful community.
I have had a lot of fun chatting with you guys.
I hope that this guide will help you, the reader. Thank you for taking the
time to read this guide (rather, a huge chunk of text). I hope you enjoy
playing this amazing game as much as I have.
---Contacting me---
No matter how much I have done, this guide still cannot be considered complete.
If you find out anything that I have missed, send an e-mail to me at
deathblade6385(at)hotmail.com and title it "BSLinkDisc".
If you have any questions on the game itself, or require any gameplay help,
you can post in the BlackSquare boards or ask for help in the Q&A section. I'm
sure that there will be a good Samaritan who will be willing to help.
