Gameplay

In the same playing style with earlier editions of DJMax Technika, the game requires the player to touch musical notes which appear at various points on the arcade touchscreen in sync with the rhythm of a song as it plays, specifically as a bar which moves along the upper and bottom halves of the screen crosses the notes. There are various different note types as well, and each category of notes are played in a different manner. Whilst playing, the fever meter builds up as notes are successfully touched on progression; once full the player may activate Fever mode, which increases the score value of each note for a limited duration. The "groove meter" will decrease if notes are missed, and once empty the player fails the chart and the game concludes.

The game features five game modes:

• Star Mixing: Explained within the in-game menu as "normal difficulty", this single player mode uses three rows of notes. One play involves three songs which are manually selected by the player.
• Pop Mixing: Explained within the in-game menu as "hard difficulty", this single player mode uses four rows of notes. One play involves three songs which are manually selected by the player.
• Club Mixing: Explained within the in-game menu as "maniac difficulty", this single player mode uses four rows of notes. The player selects a mixing set of songs that contain a limited range of six songs, and of these six, three songs are chosen to be played in any order determined by the player. A fourth song is determined based on the player's performance.
• Crew Race: Explained within the in-game menu as "various difficulty", this is an online mode. One play involves three songs, and the mode involves the player competing against a challenge based on computer-generated scores.
• Crew Challenge: Explained within the in-game menu as "various difficulty", this is an online mode. This mode features competitions, events and game challenge missions, and up to three songs are played. The types of missions available are:
  • Crew Mission: Mode based on cooperative play, which gives rewards when team players clear the mission.
  • Challenge Mission: Mode containing challenges to be cleared.
  • Special Mission: Mode containing missions from competitions and events.

The player is able to record their scores and gather MAX points by saving data on an IC card. MAX points are used to purchase additional songs, effectors, DJ icons, notes and emblems.

Technika 3 New songs

As of present, list of known new songs include:^[4]

New songs from earlier DJMAX games

Complete songlist

Club mixing disc sets

^[6]

Crew Challenge Mission