Guitar Hero

Guitar Hero
Developer: Harmonix Publisher: RedOctane Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in US: November 1, 2005 Released in EU: April 7, 2006 Released in AU: June 15, 2006 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article This game has a notes page

To do: Document Hidden Palace prototype & More information on Prototype Page

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Notes

Unused Textures

The game uses a combination of loose and '.rnd_ps2' files for textures, most of the unused ones are found in the game's various textures folders.

Venues:

Basement

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  Cop Car

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  Flyer

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  GH Poster

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  Bl poster1

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  Bl poster2

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  Bl poster3

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  Bl poster4

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  Bl poster5

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  Snake poster

Note: The poster textures have been clumped together in one single texture for the final version. The separate textures can be found inside 'venues\basement\textures\gen' .

The snake poster can be seen in the 'Making Guitar Hero Characters' video at 10:30 and the Flyer texture can be seen in the same place in the 'Making the venues' video at 10:20. It is also used as the texture for Axel Steel's highway.

The posters were most likely meant to be seen on the walls, and were not part of the actual wall itself.

• The police car was originally meant to be seen behind the right window while the lights flash blue and red. The car is visible in the prototype, however.

Freak Pit

Prototype	Final

The red texture was originally meant to be in the Freak Pit venue, as seen here. It was later replaced with a blue version. The red banner can still be seen in the final version if you play the multiplayer mode.

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  Arcade Cabinet Texture

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  Bathroom Door

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  Budeiser Banner

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  Curtain

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  Dude

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  Exit Sign

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  Fen Cab (Amp)

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  Jukebox

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  Unseen Exit Sign

• The arcade cabinet and jukebox do not appear in the final build of the game. They can be seen on the right side of the screen here at 2:51. A pinball cabinet can be seen in the concept art in the 'Making the Venues' video at 1:53.

• The bathroom door does not appear in the final build, however two door cutouts can be seen in concept art in the 'Making the Venues' video at 1:50 and 1:53. The bathroom door can possibly be seen here at 3:35 on the middle-left side of the screen.

• The Budeiser Banner and curtain texture do not appear in any pre-release footage, but it is worthy to point out that the Budeiser Banner does use the same effect and color as the red Harmonix banner. It is safe to assume that the banner was cut pretty early in development.

• The 'dude' texture has no model associated with it, nor is it known where it would appear. This may be just concept art, as seen in the 'Making the Venues' video at 1:56.
• The Exit sign texture can also be found inside the files for Red Octane Club. In this venue it would appear above the exit doors, which earlier in development were on the opposite side of the venue. It can be seen here at 3:31. The model for the exit sign can still be found in the files, and it is hidden behind a wall in this venue. It does not use any textures, however.
• The Fen Cab texture has no model associated with it, and it is not known where it would appear. It looks to be a really early or possibly even a concept texture.

Red Octane Club

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  Bass Amp

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  Black Floor

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  Drum01

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  Bouncer (Security)

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  Cushion01

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  Goldleaf (Wall)

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  Missing

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  Wspe (Poster)

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  Wspk (Poster)

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  Wspm (Banner)

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  Wspn (Banner)

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  Wspo (Banner)

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  Wspp (Banner)

Some of the textures seen here can be seen in the 'Making the venues' video at 4:18.

UI Elements:

Career Art

This texture itself is self explanatory, but where exactly it was used is currently unknown.

Edit Hero

This texture suggests that at one point in development, you could customize your 'hero'. This idea was possibly used in Guitar Hero II, where you can select different versions of your character, but full character customization wasn't implemented until Guitar Hero: World Tour.

Character

This is an unused menu texture, however it's purpose is unknown. Another texture in the game shows this with artwork of Axel Steel on it (Seen below). This could possibly be an early hero selection screen.

Char Select

This is possibly another early hero selection screen. The file name suggests that it was used as a hero selection screen.

Unused Songs

To do: Codes for the second song.

There are two extra tracks that are inaccessible without cheat devices.

Trippolette

This track, *Trippolette by Andraleia "Andi" Buch (credited under her deadname), was cut from the game because, to quote a designer who worked on the games, it was "snuck onto the disc by someone in QA without the dev team knowing until too late. Needless to say, [s]he doesn't work at Harmonix anymore." However, Buch has stated multiple times publicly that this was untrue, that the developers failed to clean up the unused files, and that she asked for permission to release the codes given below. Buch herself has been kind enough to set up a page with codes for every device out there to replace the song "Guitar Hero" with Trippolette. It is also possible to hack the game to add it to the setlist alongside the other songs, or to import it into the Guitar Hero 2 engine.

The in-game name for the song is "advharmony", which is taken from what it was derived from: Buch's Advanced Modal Harmony final project. In the September 8, 2005 prototype, the song is entitled “Advanced Harmony: Final Project”. The presence of this song on the prototype's songlist, with full metadata, casts doubt on the cited claim above regarding the track being "snuck onto the disc".

Version	Code
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GamsShark v5	2044CD38 64612F73 2044CD3C 72616876 2044CD40 796E6F6D 2044CD44 7664612F 2044CD48 6D726168 2044CD4C 00796E6F 2044CD54 64612F73 2044CD58 72616876 2044CD5C 796E6F6D 2044CD60 7664612F 2044CD64 6D726168 2044CD68 2E796E6F 2044CD6C 0064696D 205CBAF0 6E656857 205CBAF4 646E4120 205CBAF8 73692079 205CBAFC 2074276E 205CBB00 6B636168 205CBB04 2C676E69 205CBB08 20656820 205CBB0C 706D6F63 205CBB10 7365736F 205CBB14 20746120 205CBB18 6B726542 205CBB1C 0065656C 205CAD20 00796F4A 20545760 72646E41 20545764 42207765 20545768 00686375 205459D0 6972542A 205459D4 6C6F7070 205459D8 65747465
Action Replay Max	H6GQ-TAN4-Q0PAW 7VM9-P1N0-T0D33 2MT1-M3FA-93UDT VJQN-R3EK-VJ8NP 0KWW-ZG79-807J5 0D8R-RDXR-1U4RQ F540-H9CA-2ZJZ9 E5YD-VJ04-JHTZG G152-DBDU-MUFRC 5765-HRFZ-PK4RG JD96-Y01M-F4WW4 AUZF-JR3H-BHNJ0 XVU6-8Y8E-9PABM EQ8F-NUZX-X7UDC JCPT-5VTH-9KW92 42FM-J1FR-1WX51 CW2W-HAE0-P0GND 7B2R-W9YW-ATYEU 2T1K-Z3HZ-U1RDU YY7F-DRB0-R8EC1 7Z7Y-HWTF-JUVYX WY9P-BR9Q-QM99W T5RK-YHZ0-CF1JR KJ7N-9ZWB-F6UHE 97ZE-5G6M-H2JZY 112D-PTHZ-G1DF0 N3TV-ADPU-T3UA4 RKFT-41Z1-RWXM8 AGXU-H2GW-2AP0U WE5N-119G-5RUZ5 4JFM-Z2Y3-ET1EP XPA1-NH7Y-HRBCW 9XQC-GPCY-NMPX6
GameShark 2v2 Action Replay 2v2	DEBA29B6 200ACAF6 DEBA29B2 2E0A03F9 DEBA29BE 35170AF0 DEBA29BA 320DFCB2 DEBA2946 291BFCEB DEBA2942 BC2209F2 DEBA294A 200ACAF6 DEBA2956 2E0A03F9 DEBA2952 35170AF0 DEBA295E 320DFCB2 DEBA295A 291BFCEB DEBA2966 EA2209F2 DEBA2962 BC0D04F0 DE4244EE 2A0E03DA DE4244EA 2017DCA3 DE4244F6 2F12BBFC DE4244F2 DC1DC2F1 DE423BFE 270CFCEB DE423BFA E81009EC DE423B86 DC0E03A3 DE423B82 2C160AE6 DE423B8E 2F0E0EF2 DE423B8A DC1DFCA3 DE423B96 271B00C5 DE423B92 BC0E00EF DE42499E BC220ACD DE4AA75E 2E0D09C4 DE4AA75A FEC912E8 DE4AA766 BC11FEF8 DE4AA5CE 251BEFAD DE4AA5CA 28180BF3 DE4AA5D6 211D0FE8
GameShark 2v1 Action Replay 2v1	1CD34E60 F8750098 1CD34E64 E6753F93 1CD34E68 DB70407A 1CD34E6C EA7A46BC 1CD34E70 EF64467D 1CD34E74 145D417C 1CD34E7C F8750098 1CD34E80 E6753F93 1CD34E84 DB70407A 1CD34E88 EA7A46BC 1CD34E8C EF64467D 1CD34E90 325D417C 1CD34E94 147A3E7A 1CCB3D18 F2793F74 1CCB3D1C F87026C5 1CCB3D20 E56D078E 1CCB3D24 346A087B 1CCB3C28 ED73467D 1CCB3C2C 3077417E 1CCB3C30 34793FC5 1CCB3C34 E4714088 1CCB3C38 E579347C 1CCB3C3C 346A46C5 1CCB3C40 ED644A67 1CCB3C44 14794A79 1CCB2E48 145D405F 1CC3D888 E67A4166 1CC3D88C D6363882 1CC3D890 146E4492 1CC3DAF8 EB641BBF 1CC3DAFC F06F3795 1CC3DA00 F76A3B82

(Source: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?action=showpost&postid=386411204&forumid=44)

Graveyard Shift

Oddly, the author of this track isn't listed in-game, though Harmonix has reported that an employee named Aaron is the author of this song. The September 8, 2005 prototype lists an artist name of “Gurney”.

(Source: http://www.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=137236#137236)