MNS

MNS is a format used in the Persona Dancing games to draw notes to the screen. In all three games, they are located in data.cpk/dance/mns, using similar file names to the game's music files with an affixed number from 0 to 3 representing Easy, Normal, Hard and All Night mode respectively.

Note Creation
Singular notes are represented as a single entry into the notedata. Unison Notes are two entries in the note data set to occur at the same time but differing locations - the game determines the union of notes on the fly. Hold Notes are controlled by offset 0x5 in the note's data. A hold note that lasts for a measure long is represented by a value of hex 18, or decimal 24. The new Double Notes in Persona 3 Dancing and Persona 5 Dancing are made by setting offset 0x6 in the note's data to 02. Scratches are made just like a singular note, however its' note location must be set to 08. To create a Fever Scratch, offset 0x6 in the note's data must be set to 01.

Note Data
Note data comes in sets of 8 bytes, located directly after the header.

Note Location
Offset 0x04 in the note's data which determines where on the screen a note should be. Note that values 06 and 07 are unused, which could suggest that Right and Square could have originally been possible note locations.