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.

New:

Walpurgis Night is coming.
Interviews:Interviews and behind-the-scenes information.

Current Events

2/19: Enter the code from this Walpurgis preview page to get 1000 coins. If the total number of codes entered reaches certain requirements, all players will receive bonus prizes. All prizes will be unlocked after 100,000 entries. Code: ipXyFifc7CWo6x9C Codes are entered in the shop screen's second tab.
2/19: A Comeback Campaign will award prizes for logging in between 2/19 and 3/5:

RR purple sunglasses for 1 day, lv 15 S sword for 3 days, 2 weapon fodder cards for 7 days, and 30 silver event tickets for 10 days.

2/19: Collect the 4 new EX cards from the special box between 2/19 and 2/26 to get a cute dress and accessory.
2/14: As a collaboration with Dengeki Game Appli, devs are pleased to announced that by buying Dengeki Game Appli Vol. 8 edition will get a EX Yellow Politan Doll card. Also announced that from 2/26 to 3/12, girls may obtain a special EX Dengeki Game Appli's Sword card by clearing story quest 3-5 which will be renamed as Dengeki Game Appli Collaboration Quest! for 7 times.
2/14: Due to numerous bug reports, co-op has been extended until further notice and duration for the co-op has been extended 1 hour longer from 7:00 pm JST to 10:00 pm JST.
2/12: Weapon fusion 1.5x exp has been started and the duration of this event will last until 2/26 maintenance in order to let girls to prepare for the worst nightmare.
1/28: Instructions have been posted for claiming your Kyubey doll for Twitter following event.
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.

News and Announcements

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Next Co-op Start:
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For details go here: Madoka Magica Online Events

2/08: Walpurgis Night special dedicated site has been updated with basic rules of how to encounter her. Apparently you will randomly encounter her RIGHT AFTER Normal Quests/PVP/Special Quests, but fear not, you may allowed to ask your friends to join the fight as they will receive a notice of which friends are encountering Walpurgis Night.
2/08: Weapon EXP will be increased to 1.5x next week to help prepare for Walpurgis.
2/07: The new boxes incorrectly gave out low tier Fedeltas instead of S anti-Charlotte muskets. Players who got the wrong weapon will receive the anti-Charlotte musket in the mail.
2/05: The Platinum Box has been replaced by the new Event and Character boxes. See the 2/5 maintenance box for details on how they work and what kinds of cute megucas you can get from them.

Maintenance Changes: 2/19

QB Box changes:

Special Box

Additions: New EX cards.

Removal: Animage EX Cards Series 2.

Character Box

Additions: U Winter Coats with 75 DEF, an SS anti-Walpurgis weapon of each weapon type, and an SS anti-Elly bow. These will only be available for 2 weeks.

The Magic Bow of Covetousness (Prologue) uses Prologue (like Walpurgis) instead of Rebirth (like Charlotte), which may indicate that the developers are planning something new for the sunset quest tab, such as tying Elly's appearance into the Walpurgis event.

Removal: Charlotte (Rebirth) Bane Weapon Series, Winter Meguca Series

Co-op changes:

Co-op test has been extended until further notice, duration for co-op has been extended from 2 hours to 3 hours.

A box will appear by the dice/gong button while waiting for other players.

Closing contents:

Charlotte (Rebirth) Special Quests are ending.

Uniform Madoka's limited time achievement records are ending.

Limited Login Stamp is ending.

Weapon Fusion Support Pack sale is ending.

Maintenance Changes: 2/12

QB Box changes:

Special Box

Removal: Animage EX Cards Series 1.

Co-op changes:

Co-op test open after maintenance until 2/19's maintenance for 2 hours from 7:00 pm JST to 9:00 pm JST everyday with no AP usage.

System changes:

Weapon Fusion 1.5x EXP From 2/12 Maintenance to 2/26 Maintenance.

New Limited daily login stamp.

Closing contents:

Uniform Kyouko's limited time achievement records are ending.

Everyday's first 3 platinum tickets for 100 points is ending.

Maintenance Changes: 2/5

QB Box changes:

Variety Box

New clothes and accessories have been added.

Special Box

Removal: New Type Series EX cards.

Platinum Box

Removal: ALL OF THEM! (Refer closing contents below)

Event Box and Character Box

New boxes that use Platinum and Event tickets. See below for details.

PVP changes:

PVP point reset. The new reset period will last 4 weeks, instead of the usual 2. The developers intend to put a larger focus on PVE instead of giving everyone incentives to do PVP nonstop.

System changes:

Characters and Others Box and Event QB Box will be added.

The Character Box uses Platinum Tickets. See a full list of Character Box contents on this page.

New U character cards featuring the megucas in winter clothes are available for 2 weeks.

There are a total of 200 cards in every box. The more you roll it, the better the chance that you get the cards you haven't seen yet. The numbers below the box, such as U 0/0, indicate how many cards of that type you've received and how many are available in total. SS 4/6 would mean you've gotten 2 out of the 6 SS cards in that box, and 4 are still available.

The button at the bottom of the card counter box is a reset switch. If you press it, you'll be able to get cards you already got before.

This box also provides SS weapons that deal 10x damage to Charlotte, the witch who currently occupies the special quest sunset levels.

The Event Box uses new Event Tickets. They come in two types: Gold and Silver, which each open a different type of Event Box. See a full list of Event Box contents on this page.

The Event Box contains muskets that deal extra damage to Walpurgis. The RR version does 3x, S does 5x, and SS does 10x damage.

Uniform Madoka's limited time achievement record will be added.

Special quests renewal. Charlotte has replaced Gertrud, and there is a new set of rewards. These stages will last for 2 weeks. See Charlotte's stats here.

The new special quests all require only 10 AP. Rewards include clothes and hats (One is a U tiara), as well as Event Tickets for clearing every 5th stage multiple times (5, 10, and 15 clears of levels 5, 10, etc). You can also get 10,000 coins for clearing them.

An Event Pack is available in the cash shop with tickets and AP potions.

Closing contents:

Treasure Quests are ending.

The Platinum Box is being removed from the game. Platinum tickets will still be usable via new mechanisms.

Uniform Kyouko's limited time achievement records are ending.

Special Quests (Gertrud) limited time achievement records are ending.

Getting Started

How to register.
Choose a world/server.
Enter your character's name here.
How to change your party members and their gear.
How to use the friends screen.
Top: Retreat. Middle: Recenter camera. Bottom: Inventory picked up in the quest.
How to use the achievements screen.
How to collect presents.
Character profile and how to change appearance.
In-game help notes.
The co-op UI preview.

The Home/Lobby 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 devices, 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.

Inventory full. Sell items until you have room in all 4 card categories.
The red 50/50 means the inventory is full. Categories: weapons(full), clothes, accessories, and skills.
Inventory full. Sell items and clear history packages.
How to collect presents.
Server can't get status. Enable third-party cookies and restart the game.
Connection lost. Restart the game.
You were disconnected during a quest. Click the right button to resume where you left off.
This present must be retrieved before time runs out.
You can't have more than one of the same SS character. Tickets will be refunded.
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.