The Black Market is a store mechanic in Cytus II where you can purchase extra DLCs. It was released in version 1.3.
The player can access the Black Market by hitting the pink icon on the bottom left of the character selection screen.
There, you will be able to choose whether to look at song packs, or another option, CAPSO.
Then, you'll be able to preview the song packs that have already been released. Currently, there are fourteen available: Two Game Discs and a maimai DX+ collab pack for NEKO#ΦωΦ, two Memory Units for ROBO_Head, three Marvelous Mixes for multiple characters (Paff, Neko, ROBO_Head and Crystal PuNK), three Emotion Samples for Ivy, a Featured Article for Paff and a PuNK EP for Crystal PuNK.
If you wish to go to the CAPSO option instead, you will do so by clicking the left side of the Black Market. There, you can roll with either 1 CAPSO or 10 CAPSO, which you collect by playing songs and gaining letters from the word. The maximum amount of CAPSO you are able to keep is 99. Rewards are songs/charts, skins, tap FX, gallery images and XP. However, since CAPSO is purely luck-generated, there is a chance that you are able to get none of the rewards, and instead receive letters which are needed for you to complete a CAPSO.
In rare occasions, Deemo (from Rayark's game with the same name), a Mandora, or Graff.J (a character made by Rayark for April Fools') may appear instead of the usual shopkeeper.
An old friend in an unexpected place
Remember Me?
In the Black Market menu, the unavailable option (which is now the CAPSO option) was titled as "IzxYFjTzDZ3". If you spell it backwards ("3ZDzTjFYxzI"), the string is a link to a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDzTjFYxzI. The link teases Graff.J as an April fools joke.
The Black Market icon is a reference to the date when the Black Market was first released. (May 31st)
The list of characters with the most songs featured in Black Market packs.
NEKO#ΦωΦ: 19 Songs
ROBO_Head: 17 Songs
Ivy: 15 Songs
PAFF: 8 songs
Crystal PunK: 6 Songs
This concludes that NEKO#ΦωΦ has the most songs featured in Black Market songs packs having featured in 2 Game Music packs, All 3 Marvelous Mix packs and the Battle CHAOS 2019 pack.
ROBO_Head and NEKO#ΦωΦ were the only characters featured in all 3 Marvelous Mix Packs. PAFF is featured in 2, Crystal PuNK is featured 1 and Ivy is yet to be featured.
Ivy was the first character to have 2 Black Market packs released after an update, her Emotion Samples pack was also the first Black Market pack to be released with a Vol.2
PAFF was the last character to be featured in the main 3 (PAFF, NEKO#ΦωΦ and ROBO_Head) to release a Black Market pack featuring only her songs. (her own pack Featured Article was released in update 2.3).
Crystal PunK was the latest character to release a black market pack featuring their own songs: PunK EP was released on update 2.6.
ROBO_Head was the first character to have more than 2 songs released on a "Marvelous Mix" pack. In Marvelous Mix Vol. 3 he has 3 songs (Fade Into The Darkness, SHIRO and Tunnef's Nightmare.)
All the songs from the maimai DX+ collab have sped up revolving drag note patterns, as a reference to the said arcade game.
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