Taiko no Tatsujin DS challenges help

[prozero]

Hello,
I just received TNT DS. I don't speak japanese at all and could not find a complete translation guide (the one on gamefaqs is not that useful).
I looked at the "ds unlocks" thread and found that I did not get the same "gifts".
After doing the tutorial, one song in "free play" and one song in "challenge", I have two letters with gifts in my mail box, here are they:



I guess the first one says I can go in the challenge mode?
Why are my gifts not the same than in the guide?

And now, I can't do the next challenge. I just have to play random songs in "free mode" to be able to do the next one?
Does the blue option when starting a challenge means "training" ?
Can we do previously achieved challenges?
Many questions here, sorry...

Thanks!

[Enaress]

If you could please keep all DS unlock discussion in that one thread, it would keep the discussion easier to keep track of instead of jumping around threads.

Daily training dojo is what you are talking about when you say Challenge mode, I am guessing. You unlock songs in that mode, which you haven't yet.

Perhaps you neglected to read the bold type on the stickied thread? "Remember you can only do these challenges once you get the letter in your mailbox that tells you to do it." Usually there is a number at the end of a letter in your mailbox, that is a Challenge letter. In order to get the letters, keep playing songs on the difficulty you want to get letters for, until you get all the letters.