How to Play (AKB48 SKE48 Official Music Game)

Menu Navigation

Main Screen

• Rank
  • Your player level. Under this is your EXP. Gaining EXP through Lives will help you level up. As you rank up, you unlock more songs. Under your EXP is Live Points. Doing lives uses this up; you get one in every 4 minutes and it refills every time you level up.
• Notices (お知らせ)
  • This is where informations about events (in red), maintenance (in purple), general notifications (in yellow) and updates (in blue) are posted.
• Hearts (ハート)
  • You use these to do lessons.
• Sounds Stones (音石)
  • You use these to get paid content. To buy more gems, click on the trolley icon.
• Shop (ショップ)
  • Here you can buy gems and Home screen change tickets.
• Mail
  • All of your mails comes here, including login bonuses, members you win by rank, mission bonuses, etc. You can open all of them individually or click on the green "Open All" (全部開けて) button on the bottom of the screen. To delete mails, click on the blue "Erase" (消去).
• Mission (お題)
  • Complete missions to earn gems and hearts.
• Group Change
  • Here you can change between AKB, SKE, NMB and HKT mode.

Other (その他)

• Profile (プロフィール)
  • Change your oshimen and your oshimen photo, change your display name and motto.
• Badges (バッジ)
  • Check your badge progress and set which 3 badges you want to appear on your profile.
• Friends (フレンド)
  • First tab shows your current friends, second tab shows people who have requested to add you, third tab shows your in-game ID code, and a box to enter in other peoples' codes to add them.
• Shop (ショップ)
  • Buy gems for dasu/janken/etc. Android devices can buy via proxy from the Android store, iOS users will need to have money on their Japanese iTunes account to buy gems.
• Options (オプション)
  • Toggle the sound and music volume, etc.
• Purchase History (購入履歴)
  • See your previous gem purchases.
• Serial Codes (シリアルコード)
  • Enter in any serial codes you have.
• Help (ヘルプ)
  • Help provided in Japanese.
• FAQ / Contact Us (FAQ / お問い合わせ)
  • Commonly asked questions and information on how to contact the developers.
• Official Site (公式サイト)
  • A link to the game's official site.
• Code Takeover (引き継ぎコード)
  • Generate and enter in an account takeover code.
• Referral Codes (招待コード)
  • Enter in any referral codes from friends.
• Terms of Use (利用規約)
• Privacy Policy (プライバシーポリシー)

Dasu (ダス)

• First page: Janken (じゃんけん)
  • Pay 5 gems to play rock paper scissors to get a janken/dasu costume. Further rounds cost one gem up until the final round (at 9 gems), after which rerolls will cost 3 gems each).
• Second page (going right): Dasu (ダス)
  • This is sorted into teams, the first option is a 5 gem dasu, the second option is a 50 gem dasu. 50 gem dasus give you 10 pots, with the center pot guaranteed to be a gold pot.
• Third page: Regular ticket store
  • Buy costumes for regular (yellow) tickets.
• Fourth page: Event ticket store
  • Buy costumes with event tickets.

Member (メンバー)

• Unit organization (ユニット編成)
  • Here you can create and edit your units. You have 5 units, from A to E. You can change the unit's name by clicking to the small pencil icon. Click to the blue "Make this your main unit" (メインユニットにする) to make your chosen unit the one to appear first when choosing a song. Clicking on the "Recommended selection" (オススメ選択) button will select the five highest performance point values into your unit. The third button is "Complete selection" (まとめて選択) which will let you to pick your members by hand. After selecting your members, click on the big red "Decide" (決定) button for each unit to save your changes.
• Member list (メンバー一覧)
  • Here you can see all members you have.
• Member protection (メンバー保護)
  • Here you can select or deselect members to protect. Protecting them will remove them from the Retire and Lesson Partner menus.
• Retire members (メンバーおわかれ)
  • Retiring members give you Hearts and Tickets, however, you'll only get tickets if you retire three-star or above members. Three-star members give you 100 hearts and 1 ticket, four-star members give you 20 tickets, etc... Retiring members is basically firing them, so once they're gone, they're gone forever.
• Album (アルバム)
  • Here you can see the avatars, photos and can listen to the voices of members you have.

Lessons (レッスン)

• Normal lessons (通常レッスン)
• Special lessons (特別レッスン)