Guitar Hero: World Tour (PlayStation 2)

Guitar Hero: World Tour
Developers: Neversoft, Budcat Creations Publisher: Activision Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in US: October 26, 2008 Released in EU: November 21, 2008 Released in AU: November 12, 2008 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has debugging material.

To do: Document the Settings debug sub menu.

Guitar Hero: World Tour now lets you play as the whole band, leaving even more plastic instruments to clutter the living room. Also, this game includes a simple editor to make your own songs.

Debug Mode

Applying the below code will enable a debug mode that opens a debug menu in the main menu and in the pause screen.

Version	Code
USA	2028081C 24020000 20139168 00000000

(Source: Original TCRF research)

DEBUG MENU

Menu Option	Notes
Toggle Bot	Enables the player to automatically hit all notes correctly.
Unlock All (be patient, make yourself a cup of tea...)	Unlocks everything.
Widescreen	Toggles widescreen.
Progressive Scan	Enables progressive mode.
Repeat Last Song	Repeats the last song played.
Play Song	Allows you to quickly select a song and mode.
Settings	Enters a sub menu.
Debug_Audiable_HitNote	Unknown.
Check CAS Assets	Unknown.
Dump Heap	Unknown.
Character Select	Allows changing of characters on-stage, though doesn't seem to work perfectly.
Skip Into Song	Presumably skips to points in the song.
Save Replay Buffer	Unknown.
Load Replay Buffer	Unknown.
Play Credits	Plays the end credits.
Model Viewer	Would open a model viewer, but doesn't appear to work correctly.
Difficulty Analyzer	Shows a screen with song information.
Toggle Changelist Number	Enables some debug information.
Roland Drumkit	Likely enables use of a special drumkit.
Guitar motion	Enables some debug information.
Toggle Lightshow debug	Enables some debug information.
Color Calibration	Doesn't appear to work.
UI Physics Test	Opens a menu to test on-screen graphics and icons.
Repeat Last Song With Intro	Restarts the song.
Play into	Plays an intro of a song.
Increase Band Money by 100k Credits	Increases band money.
Bankrupt Band	You guessed it.
Toggle FPS Display	Enables an FPS counter.

Build Dates

Two different build dates are present, as with every Guitar Hero game after III.

Date = Aug 21 2008 Time 16:36:41

Dumping from elf built on %s at %s
Aug 19 2008
18:47:49

Development-Related Text

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and 3 (?!?) related strings are present in every Guitar Hero after III.

http://www.thug3online.com/testmotd.dat
http://www.thug3online.com/motd.dat

THUG2 Viewer

THUG2
Pal
NTSC
THUG2\

A bit of placeholder text.

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