Boom Boom Rocket Bonus run
To get an easy bonus run, look at the top right-hand corner. When it reads “X4” and is blinking, it means you can do it anytime you desire until you miss a button.
Fireworks
Perform well and a spiral-tailed rocket will appear during the indicated song on the specified difficulty setting. Explode the rocket and complete the song to unlock the corresponding new firework:
- 8-ball: William Tell Overload on the Easy difficulty setting
- Apple with arrow: William Tell Overload on the Hard difficulty setting
- Bat: Valkyries Rising on the Hard difficulty setting
- Bizarre Creations pumpkin logo: Toccata and Funk on the Medium difficulty setting
- Butterfly: Rave New World on the Medium difficulty setting
- Cactus: William Tell Overload on the Medium difficulty setting
- Cherries: Game Over Beethoven on the Medium difficulty setting
- Cleff: Carmen Electric on the Easy difficulty setting
- Club Card: Rave New World on the Easy difficulty setting
- Crescent moon: Tail Light Sonata on the Hard difficulty setting
- Crown: Carmen Electric on the Hard difficulty setting
- Diamond card: Hall of the Mountain Dude on the Easy difficulty setting
- Dragon: Hall of the Mountain Dude on the Medium difficulty setting
- Dual musical note: Tail Light Sonata on the Easy difficulty setting
- Flower: Smooth Operetta on the Hard difficulty setting
- Guitar: 1812 Overdrive on the Hard difficulty setting
- Heart: Game Over Beethoven on the Easy difficulty setting
- Heart Card: Smooth Operetta on the Easy difficulty setting
- Jellyfish: Hall of the Mountain Dude on the Hard difficulty setting
- Llama: Valkyries Rising on the Medium difficulty setting
- Rocket ship: 1812 Overdrive on the Medium difficulty setting
- Saxophone: Rave New World on the Hard difficulty setting
- Seahorse: Game Over Beethoven on the Hard difficulty setting
- Single musical note: Toccata and Funk on the Easy difficulty setting
- Skull: Toccata and Funk on the Hard difficulty setting
- Smiley Face: Smooth Operetta on the Medium difficulty setting
- Snowflake: Tail Light Sonata on the Medium difficulty setting
- Spaceship: Carmen Electric on the Medium difficulty setting
- Spade card: 1812 Overdrive on the Easy difficulty setting
- Spider: Valkyries Rising on the Easy difficulty setting
Unlocking the following fireworks requires the bonus downloadable content:
- Bee: Sting of the Bumble Bee on the Hard difficulty setting
- Cannon: Cannon in D on the Medium difficulty setting
- Flame: Explode to Joy on the Hard difficulty setting
- Four leaf clover: Cannon in D on the Easy difficulty setting
- Heart with wings: Eine Kleine Rochtmusik on the Medium difficulty setting
- Helmet: Sugar High on the Hard difficulty setting
- Horseshoe: Cannon in D on the Hard difficulty setting
- Hot Air Balloon: Sting of the Bumble Bee on the Medium difficulty setting
- Raining Cloud: Sugar High on the Medium difficulty setting
- Scorpion: Sugar High on the Easy difficulty setting
- Shark: Eine Kleine Rochtmusik on the Easy difficulty setting
- Tea Pot: Explode to Joy on the Medium difficulty setting
- Teddy Bear: Sting of the Bumble Bee on the Easy difficulty setting
- Top Hat: Explode to Joy on the Easy difficulty setting
- Windmill: Eine Kleine Rochtmusik on the Hard difficulty setting
Achievements
Accomplish the indicated achievement to get the corresponding number of Gamerscore points:
- Bonus, Schmonus (5 points): Activate the bonus run for the first time.
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Award (50 points): Get an “A” rating on 10 songs on medium.
- Curtain Call (10 points): Complete 10 songs with any rating.
- Honor Roll (15 points): Get an “A” rating for any song on medium.
- Johnny 3 Fingers (5 points): Unlock your first firework type.
- Johnny No Fingers (25 points): Unlock all firework types.
- Pyro (10 points): Achieve 100% hit ratio on any song.
- Sore Thumb Award (30 points): Successfully complete 5 laps in an endurance game on hard.
- Speeding Ticket (5 points): Successfully complete 3 laps on an endurance game on medium.
- Suma Cum Laude (20 points): Get an “A” rating for any song on hard.
- The “C” Student (15 points): Get a “C” rating or above on 10 songs on any difficulty.
- The Easy “A” (10 points): Get an “A” rating for any song on easy.
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