Sanbai Ice Cream is a third-party score tracker for rhythm games. Right now, only DanceDanceRevolution is supported.
Without an account, you can browse songs to view things like difficulty ratings, BPM graphs, score world rankings, and stepchart videos.
With an account, you can also upload your own score data, track your most recent personal bests, as well as see a personalized home page feed of the scores of players you choose to follow.
To upload your scores to Sanbai Ice Cream, you'll need:
- An e-amusement pass
- A KONAMI ID account
- A subscription to KONAMI's Basic Course
An e-amusement pass is a card which allows you to login to your e-amusement account while playing Dance Dance Revolution (and other Bemani music games) at the arcade.
It's similar to a memory card-- it allows you to save your progress as you play so you can progressively unlock content, as well as save your scores and your settings.
If you're in Japan, you can purchase an e-amusement pass in a vending machine at your local arcade. If you're outside of Japan, they are harder to come by: your local arcade may sell them if they carry the latest Bemani games; otherwise, you may be able to purchase them online on eBay, Amazon, or on music game social media community groups such as Reddit or Facebook.
A KONAMI ID is an account with the KONAMI website.
You can create one by following this guide.
After you create a KONAMI ID, you will need to connect it to your e-amusement account.
KONAMI's Basic Course subscription allows access to additional features for your e-amusement account.
One of the main features of a Basic Course subscription is that KONAMI allows access to your score history. Sanbai Ice Cream accesses your scores from KONAMI's Basic Course, so it is required to upload your scores to Sanbai Ice Cream.
KONAMI's Basic Course requires a monthly payment to KONAMI of 330 yen (approx. USD$3.00). Users add money to their accounts by buying credits called PASELI. If you're in Japan, you can buy PASELI using a PASELI kiosk at your local arcade. If you're outside of Japan, you can buy PASELI using any accepted international credit card.
For more details, see How do I add PASELI to my KONAMI ID account?
To get these set up, follow this step-by-step guide, and then you'll be ready to create a Sanbai Ice Cream account.
An e-amusement pass is a card which allows you to login to your e-amusement account while playing Dance Dance Revolution (and other Bemani music games) at the arcade.
It's similar to a memory card-- it allows you to save your progress as you play so you can progressively unlock content, as well as save your scores and your settings.
If you're in Japan, you can purchase an e-amusement pass in a vending machine at your local arcade. If you're outside of Japan, they are harder to come by: your local arcade may sell them if they carry the latest Bemani games; otherwise, you may be able to purchase them online on eBay, Amazon, or on music game social media community groups such as Reddit or Facebook.
Follow this guide to set up everything you need to add PASELI to your KONAMI ID account.
KONAMI's Basic Course is essentially a paid premium account for your KONAMI ID account.
Subscribing to KONAMI's Basic Course subscription unlocks access to your scores and stats via the e-amusement website, as well as some premium in-game options, such as enabling FAST/SLOW timing in DanceDanceRevolution.
KONAMI's Basic Course requires a monthly payment to KONAMI of 330 yen (approx. USD$3.00). Users add money to their accounts by buying credits called PASELI. If you're in Japan, you can buy PASELI using a PASELI kiosk at your local arcade. If you're outside of Japan, you can buy PASELI using any accepted international credit card.
Since a Basic Course subscription is required to unlock access to your scores on your e-amusement account, and Sanbai Ice Cream accesses your scores from KONAMI's Basic Course, it is required to upload your scores to Sanbai Ice Cream.
Follow this guide to set up everything you need to add a Basic Course subscription to your KONAMI ID account.
There are three parts of the Sanbai Ice Cream system:
- Your e-amusement account (and KONAMI ID)
- This is where BEMANI games send your scores to after you play in the arcade.
- The Sanbai Ice Cream mobile app
- The mobile app is used as a bridge to sync your scores from your e-amusement account onto your Sanbai Ice Cream account. You can also use it to view your scores.
- The Sanbai Ice Cream website
- This is where you can view your scores once you have uploaded them, and where you create and manage your Sanbai Ice Cream account.
Follow these steps to get your Sanbai Ice Cream account up and running:
- Set up your e-amusement account and KONAMI ID by following this guide)
- Create an account on Sanbai Ice Cream (which can be found here)
- Download the Sanbai Ice Cream app (Android | iOS)
- Sign into your Sanbai Ice Cream account on the mobile app
- Sign into your e-amusement account using your KONAMI ID
- That's it! Sanbai Ice Cream will begin syncing your scores from your e-amusement account to your Sanbai Ice Cream account
The first time you sync your scores, it can take a few minutes, depending on your device's internet connection. Sanbai Ice Cream will keep your scores up-to-date while the app is open, or you can sync immediately by pressing the sync button on the app.
Since all scores listed on Sanbai Ice Cream are official scores from KONAMI's e-amusement server, Sanbai Ice Cream currently does not allow the submission of user-entered scores.
However, a Sanbai Ice Cream account still allows you to follow other users and receive updates from their most recent scores on your home page. As well, no account is needed to browse the publicly available information on the site, such as song data, global rankings, and world records.
Security restrictions on modern browsers prevent websites from one domain (i.e. 3icecream.com) from accessing non-media resources from another domain (i.e. p.eagate.573.jp). These restrictions make it impossible for the Sanbai Ice Cream web application to directly access your scores on the e-amusement website, unless the domain explicitly marks these resources as sharable with other domains via the CORS protocol.
There are some solutions to circumvent these restrictions, including writing the application as a bookmarklet or browser extension (which would require the user to download an application anyway), disabling the web security feature on the browser via command line (which is highly unsecure for the user and leaves the user vulnerable to various attacks), or accessing the scores using the Sanbai Ice Cream server (which would require users to give Sanbai Ice Cream full access to use and save all users' KONAMI ID credentials on our server). It was decided a mobile application was the preferable solution to acccessing and uploading e-amusement scores, as, along with all the other reasons stated above, it also does not require PC access to update scores while you are playing in the arcade.
It is possible that additional solutions may be visited in the future for users who do not have an iOS or Android mobile device, but it is not currently an improvement that is being worked on at the moment.
