Madoka Magica Online

Puella Magi Madoka Magica Online is a multi-player browser-based freemium game based on Puella Magi Madoka Magica settings. It is open for play, with some regional access restrictions. The game is free to play but Platinum coupons for a slim chance to get premium items and Action Point immediate restoration items are purchasable from the cash shop.

• Introduction: Get an overview of the game.
• Getting Started, Troubleshooting: Answers to common questions.
• Co-op Play: Multiplayer guide.
• Story: In-game dialogue (still needs translation).
• Gameplay: Quests, PvP, stats, and mechanics.
• Items: Cute clothes and badass gear.
• Gallery: Screenshots, jokes and art.
• Updates and Events: Details of updates and past events.

Current Events 1/29: In conjunction of 40 thousand contracted megucas, devs are pleased to launch several events: Treasure quest map will grant you 2 APs each time you enter, the APs will be distributed on 2/7. The "Find friends campaign" will give extra 400,000 Magica Coins for those who successfully added at least 40 friends. You will get 3 plats by enter this sentence: 40万人突破おめでとう in your profile page before 2/5 maintenance. The plats will be distributed on 2/7. (Maybe Japan region only restricted) By login into the game, you are entitled to win Aoi Yuki and Chiwa Saito's Signature board or the official Madoka Clear Folder. There will be 4 lucky winners to win those signatures, and 36 winners for the Madoka Clear Folder. 1/28: The trumpet legendary weapon event has been extended until 2/5. 1/28: Instructions have been posted for claiming your Kyubey doll for Twitter following event. 1/26: (p2w): You'll get 3 plats for every 1,500 points you spend during the limited Time Sale which will occur today in 2 sessions: 2 pm to 5 pm and 9 pm to 12 am JST. 1/23: Get 50 friends and receive prizes. All megucas are friends, so this will be easy. Rewards are given at 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, and 50. The total at 50 is 45 special tickets, 6 AP potions, 2 skill fodder, and 4 weapon fodder. Counts will be taken during maintenance on 1/29 and 2/5. You can only get each reward once, but rewards are cumulative, and the second counting gives you a chance to get any you missed the first time. 1/23: A raffle will award 30 Madoka clear files and 50 webmoney cards to random players who cleared more than 20 A levels. 1/22: Yahoo! Japan service begins with the latest version of the game. Anyone with a Yahoo! Japan account can join on its single server Mermaid. Everyone can join the official community to obtain S cards. 1/22: The Pink Waitress dress from purple tickets will have +50 DEF if you get it in the week from 1/22-1/29. 1/22 (p2w): You may purchase rookie box 100 which comes with 1 AP, 30 Special Tickets and 1 level 20 RR sword for just 100 points. Money box also available for 1000 points, 3000 points and 5000 points in which the box contains a special ticket called Treasure Ticket for you to stand a chance to obtain an U weapon. 1/22: PVP rewards have changed. Try to get Madoka Uniform for 120 points (N rarity), 1000 points (R rarity), 4500 points (RR rarity) or 10000 points (S rarity) before 2/5 maintenance. Do note that you are only entitled to obtain the highest possible rarity meguca based on your pvp points you achieved before maintenance, just like how you obtain your Kyoko Uniform meguca. 1/22: Skill card fusion will grant 1.5x exp until next maintenance. 1/18: After you get your Uniform Kyoko, level up your newly acquired Uniform Kyoko and get Special Tickets, Skill fodder, Weapon fodder and SS Bag of Apples with 20DEF+20ATK. The reward amount may differ depending on your Uniform Kyoko's rarity. The SS apples will be the same regardless of her rarity. 1/17: (NicoApp only) Starting from 1/17 to 1/29 maintenance, if you managed to invite any Nico friends to play the game, you'll get a lvl 10 RR sword with 50,000 Magica coins for each successfully invited friend, and invited friends will get 5 APs. 1/15: Collect 6 EX cards before 1/29 maintenance and you will get a lvl 1 S Legendary Trumpet (Mid-tier) musket.

News and Announcements Maintenance End: {DAY} days {HOUR} hours {MINUTE} minutes {SECOND} seconds Next Weekly Maintenance: {DAY} days {HOUR} hours {MINUTE} minutes {SECOND} seconds For details go here: Madoka Magica Online Events 1/23: The Walpurgis Coming Soon page has been updated. Walpurgis Night is coming soon! Statistics indicate that she will appear in the Spring. Could the target date be April 30th, the date of the real life Walpurgis Night? 1/22: Emergency maintenance will fix a bug that allows multiple characters to equip one accessory, and an issue involving BOX buyers not getting their skill fodder. 1/22: In the Sunset A levels, Gertrud is in rampage mode featuring ultra violence and new rewards. The AP costs range from 10 to 30 instead of 1 to 50. These levels and rewards will be replaced by new ones after 1/29. The in-game info screens show different rare drops than the web site. A-47 Gertrud hits for about 860 damage. If you give your whole team lv20 RR DEF cards, difficulty should be roughly similar to the old A levels, except there's only one DEF potion on the map now. Notable rewards include Platinum Tickets in 36, 41, and 46; SS Madoka single target skill in 30; Event EX cards in 10 and 20; a Treasure Ticket in 45; U DEF card in 50. 1/16: You will get more friends as friend list capacity increased from 40 to 50 after 1/22 maintenance. 1/22: You can equip two skill/stat cards on each character. You can't equip two skill procs at the same time. 11/27: Co-op play will not be available until mid-December (Update: Co-op is expected to return in February) because they are trying to make it less frustrating to play.

Maintenance Changes: 1/29 QB Box changes: Special Box Removal: B.L.T. June 2011 EX card series and SS Le Oro musket along with SS Red Waitress +50 Def version. Based on past patterns, it's speculated that the Witch Hunter SS pistol might be added to the purple box. System changes: The violence rampage berserk Gertrud sunset levels and their rewards will remain in place for an extra week, until 2/5. A "go to the map" button will be added to the quest completion screen. Bulk card selling: sell multiple cards at once. A continuous opening function will be added to the Kyubey box. Closing content: Limited Login Stamp is ending. 1.5x skill card fusion EXP is ending. Rookie Box and Money Box promotion sale is ending. Bug Fixes: Fixed for rewards that were not given for Special Quest A-34. Fixed for achievement rewards that were not given for completing 11-x and 12-x story quests 15 times. Fixed for skills that had display errors when upgraded while a character was wearing them.

Maintenance Changes: 1/22 System changes: New story quests (11-1 to 12-5) will be added. Special quests renewal for a limited time. Treasure Quests will be added for a limited time. The Night tab in the quest screen contains Treasure Quests. These are bonus levels with chests that may contain SS or U weapons as well as level 10 or 20 fodder weapons. This video shows four Treasure Quest runs starting at 7:50. Treasure Tickets (Green tickets) grant access to Treasure Quests. Alternatively, you can spend 6 Platinum Tickets to enter. Friend list capacity increased to 50. Notice Board added. Skill Card fusion will grant 1.5x exp for a limited time. Limited Login Stamp ends, new Limited Login Stamp will begin from 1/22 maintenance until 1/29 maintenance. Level up Uniform Kyoko <Rarity> limited time achievements will be added. QB Box changes: Special Box Removal: Bubbles Bride dress and EX New Type Cards Series 5. Additions: The Pink/Red Waitress dress and several new EX cards. Platinum Box Removal: Red Waitress dress. Additions: A U spear with 9050-9300 max ATK and a U Kyoko single target skill card. Homura and Sayaka New Year's character cards, clothes, and accessories. PVP changes: PVP map will be changed. The new map is smaller, requiring you to travel 6 squares to the center instead of 13. PVP points will be reset. Closing content: Beginner's Box sale ends. Platinum box's increased rate for the SS and U skill cards ends. Story quests 1-1 to 2-5 no longer grant 1.5x exp. The first 3 Platinum Tickets for 100 points per day promotion sale ends.

Maintenance Changes: 1/15 QB Box changes: Special Box Remove: EX New Type Cards Series 4 and SS Truck Addition: EX New Type Cards Series 5 and SS Kyoko Single Target Skill Platinum Box Remove: New Year Madoka along with her outfit and stat card Addition: New Year Kyoko along with her outfit and stat card, and new U Bow Weapon and tri-stat skill card PVP buttons will have auto countdown and close feature just like co-op buttons. Coins will be renamed to Magica Coins

Maintenance Changes: 1/8 Story quests from 1-1 to 2-5 will give 1.5 times EXP PVP rewards include school uniform Kyokos, and enough of them for a Rosso Fantasma (except you can only get the highest one you qualify for). S at 12,000, RR at 6,500, R at 2,000, and N at 120 PVP points. A new limited log in bonus will replace the New Year's one, and will last until 1/22. The first bonus is an S weapon. Every level up from 2 to 30 will have an achievement rewards. See the Events Page for details. Higher level characters only need to complete any quest (including PVP) to get the rewards. Total rewards for a level 29+ include 46k Coins, 90 Browns, 45 purples, 4 AP potions and 1 weapon & skill fodder. [pay2win] Beginner's Box for 100 yen will be added to the cash shop, containing 1 AP pot, 10 purple tickets, and one 20RR weapon. The New Year's "lucky bag" sale ends. 1.5x skill fusion EXP is ending. The treasure chests in PVP will be removed and replaced with 100 damage traps. 5 new series will be added to the picture book. QB Box removals: Platinum: Christmas Homura and Kyoko along with their outfits and stat cards Special: 7 EX cards, and the SS sword, bow, and lance. The EX card availability from special stages' achievement reward has been extended. QB Box additions: Platinum: New Year's Mami is here, with two stat cards, clothing, and an accessory. Since Mami doesn't have time for a boyfriend, the new U card features Madoka and Homura cuddling, with up to 490ATK at max level. Special: 3 new Hand-holding EX cards will be added. Collect all of them to get a lovely accessory and dress. The items may be the head protector and green outfit pictured at the bottom of this announcement. Variety: A squirrel tail and purple dress have been added. The chances to get U and SS cards from the platinum box have been changed to 1% and 15%, down from 1.5% and 18%, but the chance to get weapons has not decreased. The chances to get EX, S and RR from the purple box are 2.1%, 3.8%, and 33.1%, changed from 1.5%, 4%, and 32.7%. The +25 DEF black cat accessory from A-40 has been changed to +50. This applies retroactively to accessories you already have.

Getting Started

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  How to register.

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  Choose a world/server.

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  Enter your character's name here.

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  How to change your party members and their gear.

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  How to use the friends screen.

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  Top: Retreat. Middle: Recenter camera. Bottom: Inventory picked up in the quest.

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  How to use the achievements screen.

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  How to collect presents.

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  Character profile and how to change appearance.

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  In-game help notes.

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  The co-op UI preview.

The Home/Lobby UI.

• A step by step guide on how to register
• Translations of the help screens, which explain the UI

There are four worlds (servers): ローズ (Rose), シルバー (Silver), ダーク (Dark), and シャドウ (Shadow). Once you choose one, your account will be locked in to it. For a list of players on each world, see the Meguca Online Spreadsheet, which also contains the Suffering Calculator and Weapon Damage Calculator.

Troubleshooting

Unplayability

• If you get an Apache 2/CentOS test page(previous) or a Forbidden 403 error(current), you may need to use a proxy to bypass IP blocks. Certain blocks only apply to the signup and login areas, so some users have been able to log in with proxies and switch to direct connections after world server selection screen.
  • Try using the Nico client to play the game if your IP is blocked: http://app.nicovideo.jp/app/ap110
• The game will load a large cinematic the first time you play. This can cause extended loading times in excess of 5 minutes, and you may need to relaunch the game if your connection to the server fails during loading, causing you to become stuck at the loading screen.
• If the game is freezing when you try to enter pvp or co-op, or when you try to access any feature changed in a recent maintenance, try clearing your browser's cache and restarting the game.
• If you frequently get the "server can't get status" error while using the QB Box or weapon synthesis, try using a different browser. There has been a case where the error persisted after handling the cache and cookies, but was fixed by switching from Chrome to Firefox. It is speculated that in such cases the error can prevent you from receiving some items, so don't ignore these errors.
• If the game will not load after re-logging in after your first time, it might be because of your character name. Try creating a new account with a character name using only 'normal' characters (A-Z, Hiragana, Kanji, Katakana with no spaces, underscores or other funny characters). Might be related to the following point.
• The chat and automessage systems don't allow some common characters such as spaces and periods. You'll get an error message if you try to use them. Some English swearing is also blocked. Note that the double width question mark works, but the normal one doesn't.
  • Allowed: ~`!@#&<>=？
  • Illegal: .$%^*()-,/':"?-- space
  • Also allowed: ´・ω・`：。β★◆●【】※・ー一！）（「」┃○‐
• Mobile users may be able to play by using software such as Teamviewer to remotely run the game on a PC. The browser Puffin from iDevices has been reported to be able to play the full game, including battles that fail on most mobile devides, but you must mute the music before closing the game or else it will continue playing.

Miscellaneous

• For buyfags who got their Charlotte or Walpurgis mini-nendroid, please make sure you empty your accessories slot before entering your serial-number.
• In-game mail from other players will be automatically deleted after 10 days.
• Some presents, such as items found in quests while your inventory was full, will expire after a short time. Make sure to retrieve your presents quickly.
• Presents from special events are often sent some time after maintenance ends, not immediately after the servers come up. Presents can expire before the time listed in the presents window entry.
• The game constantly transfers data through 113.192.241.11/amf/gateway.php and any downloads or uploads to it that take too long will cause you to disconnect. The timeout has switched between 5 and 30 seconds, and is currently believed to be 30 seconds.
  • It was 5 seconds until the 11/21 maintenance, 30 until 11/28, 5 until 12/4, and 30 following the 12/4 maintenance. Changes in the limit have greatly affected the number of disconnections players experience.
  • When initially entering the game, you must transfer about 40KB within the time limit. Prior to 11/28, it was 167.17KB. The developers appear to have reduced the size of each transfer to prevent disconnections.
  • Cheat Engine can be used to reduce the game's speed, tricking it into giving players more time to transfer data, which reduces the number of disconnects. This can be particularly useful at the end of a PVP match, when disconnections and freezes are likely to happen.
  • If you are having trouble connecting, make sure that nothing is interfering with your access to the gateway IP.

Performance

• Some users have found that the game runs better in Chrome than Firefox.
  • However, other users have solved errors by using Firefox instead. Try a variety of browsers if you're having trouble playing. Reports indicate that the IE10 and Apple Flash engines may perform better than Firefox as well.
• Reducing the game's graphics quality can dramatically lower CPU load.
• If you're getting disconnected frequently, avoid using flash-based sites in other browser tabs or running P2P applications such as bittorrent in the background.
• High server load can cause issues such as being stuck at a loading screen or getting stuck with a grayed out screen while trying to load a menu.

Errors

• If you get the error pictured below while trying to open a Kyubey BOX, your inventory is full. You can have at most 50 of each type of card (weapons, clothes, accessories, skills). Sell some to make room. The numbers along the side of the Kyubey BOX screen tell you how much space you have left in each card category.
  • If you still can't open the box after making sure you have space in all 4 card categories, check your presents. Open the history screen from the lobby (icon: papers with quill pen). Go to the packages tab and collect the card that was withheld due to the inventory being full. After clearing your inventory and packages, Kyubey BOXes should work again.

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  Inventory full. Sell items until you have room in all 4 card categories.

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  The red 50/50 means the inventory is full. Categories: weapons(full), clothes, accessories, and skills.

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  Inventory full. Sell items and clear history packages.

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  How to collect presents.

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  Server can't get status. Enable third-party cookies and restart the game.

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  Connection lost. Restart the game.

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  You were disconnected during a quest. Click the right button to resume where you left off.

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  This present must be retrieved before time runs out.

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  You can't have more than one of the same SS character. Tickets will be refunded.

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  Your present could not be claimed. This may be caused by not having enough inventory space (there may be multiple items in one present, and you can only have 999 tickets) or the expiration of the present.

Teaser site

See also Madoka Secret Project

External links

• Official website (Main portal) (may be region-restricted)
• NicoNico App Portal
• Yahoo! Japan Portal
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica Online Wiki (Japanese)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica Online Kouryaku Wiki (Japanese with simplified stat calculator)
• Help screen translations
• Madoka Online fan blog
• Meguca Online Spreadsheet

• Closed Beta site
• Strategy Partners official website (game developer's website)
• ANN announcement
• OnlineGamer write-up (Japanese)
• Interview with Producer Fujii, by 4Gamer (Japanese)
• Trailer
• The Victory theme music

• 4chan thread

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