How to Download Songs and Make Your Own Charts for Taiko no Tatsujin Simulators

The Taiko no Tatsujin Simulator Guide at guide.tjadataba.se covers both tasks you're asking about: it has a dedicated Downloading Songs section and a Making Songs section, alongside pages for individual simulators (YataiDON, OpenTaiko, Taiko-San, Daijiro 3), a TJAPlayer3 page, pages for forks and other simulators, an error messages page, and a Links and Resources page. The guide's own framing is that you should "use the tabs above to find simulators, download songs, and learn how to make your own charts" — so the site is organized around exactly this workflow. What follows is how to approach each half of it.

Downloading songs

The guide treats song downloading as its own top-level section rather than something buried inside a simulator page. That structure tells you the intended order of operations:

1. Pick your simulator first. The guide lists YataiDON, OpenTaiko, Taiko-San, and Daijiro 3 as covered simulators, plus a separate TJAPlayer3 page and a page for forks and other simulators. Song files and chart formats are tied to the simulator you run, so choosing one before downloading avoids collecting files you can't load.
2. Go to the Downloading Songs section. This is where the guide points for obtaining songs, rather than the individual simulator pages.
3. Check the Links and Resources page if the Downloading Songs section doesn't cover the source you're looking for. The guide maintains this as a separate index, which is typically where community chart repositories and mirrors get listed.
4. If a song won't load, check the Error Messages page before assuming the file is bad. The guide keeps a dedicated page for error messages, which suggests common loading failures are documented there rather than left to trial and error.

One thing the guide's structure implies but doesn't spell out: song availability is community-driven, so the Downloading Songs page is a pointer to sources, not a fixed catalog. Expect the Links and Resources page to matter as much as the download page itself.

Making your own charts

The Making Songs section is the guide's chart-authoring track. Based on how the site is organized, the practical path is:

• Start from the Making Songs section, not from a simulator page — chart creation is treated as its own discipline here, separate from playing.
• Know which simulator you're targeting, since the guide separates TJAPlayer3 from the other simulators and from forks. Chart formats and the tools that produce them differ across these, so the simulator choice you made for downloading also constrains your authoring workflow.
• Use Links and Resources for tooling. The guide's resource index is the place it collects external tools, which is where chart editors and conversion utilities would live.
• Keep the Error Messages page open while testing. A chart that's structurally valid but mis-formatted will usually fail at load time, and that's the page the guide provides for diagnosing it.

What the guide does and doesn't tell you

The guide does not publish pricing information, and its pages carry no pricing signals — so nothing here should be read as confirming that any simulator or song source is free. Treat cost and licensing as something to verify at each source the guide links to.

A realistic first pass

If you're starting from zero, the lowest-friction sequence is: choose one simulator from the guide's list, read its page, then pull songs from the Downloading Songs section and confirm they load before you touch chart authoring. Once playback works, move to Making Songs and build one short chart against the same simulator. That order means any failure you hit is isolated to one layer — simulator, song file, or chart — which is what the guide's separate Error Messages page is there to help you narrow down.