Karaoke Revolution (PlayStation 2)

Karaoke Revolution
Also known as: Karaoke Stage (EU) Developer: Harmonix Publisher: Konami Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in US: November 4, 2003 Released in EU: May 2005 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material.

Karaoke Revolution is a karaoke simulation game developed by Harmonix, being the first series of Konami's "Bemani" rhythm games to be developed and released entirely outside of Japan. Notably, the technology from this series would later be reused in Harmonix's own Rock Band series.

Unused Graphics

Menus

ui\image\gen\venue1.bmp.gz is an earlier version of the icon for the Club Avalanche venue. It can be seen in the July 2003 prototype.

George W. Bush

The Enormobowl (venues\stadium), The Party (venues\party) and Club Avalanche (venues\mediumclub) venues contain a placeholder graphic reserved for the screens, labeled vid01.bmp.gz. While the variant in The Party's folder merely consists of a placeholder, the others contain a picture of the then-current American president George W. Bush.

Karaoke Revolution Logo

In addition, the Enormobowl, Club Avalanche and Superstar TV (venues\tvstudio) venues contain a texture meant to display the logo of the game, labeled kr_logo.bmp.gz, but only their palettes remain. The Enormobowl and Superstar TV palettes are identical.

However, the folder arena contains a file with the same name that is not blanked out, and consists of an earlier version of the game's logo, as seen in the E3 2003 Press Kit and the July 2003 prototype. It uses the same palette as the blanked out Club Avalanche graphic.

Central Station Ads

The Central Station (venues\subway) venue displays "ads" for Harmonix, Konami, the in-game Superstar TV venue, and DDRMAX2: Dance Dance Revolution, which was also published by Konami, in the background; their texture files are labeled as ad01_combo.bmp.gz and ad03.bmp.gz. However, other textures for more generic ads can also be found unused. They can, however, be seen in the July 2003 prototype.

ad01.bmp.gz

ad02.bmp.gz

ad04.bmp.gz

Unused Song

Of the folders in the songs directory, one of them, heyevery, belongs to an unused song; a cover of Hey Everybody by Jennifer Love Hewitt, which is present in the July 2003 prototype. However, only its .dtb (script) and lipsync .rnd files remain; all other files have since been deleted, and no other references to this song can be found.

Unused Code

Unused Genre

As defined by config\gen\kara.dtb, each of the game's songs have internal genres, in the order of Slow (00), Rock (01), 80s (02), 70s (03), and Dance (04). However, the latter two genres are effectively "combined", using the former's ID but the latter's videos.

Unused/Unseen Parameters

As also defined by config\gen\kara.dtb, each of the game's songs have parameters for titles, length, and difficulty levels, which are displayed in the song selection screen, as well as gameplay parameters such as which backing characters are displayed, at what speed the lyrics scroll, at which size the lyrics appear, and the sound that plays should the player fail a stage. However, there are also two parameters which define the songs' original artist and BPM display values, also meant to be seen in the song selection screen. It's worth to note that the artist parameter is displayed in the July 2003 prototype, and that while the BPM parameter does seem to be used to define which animations should play during gameplay, the values themselves are never actually seen.

Song	Artist	BPM Display
Addicted	Simple Plan	93
All You Wanted	Michelle Branch	96
Are You Happy Now?	Michelle Branch	90
Believe	Cher	133
Billie Jean	Michael Jackson	117
Bizarre Love Triangle	New Order	119
Broken Wings	Mr. Mister	98
Celebration	Kool and the Gang	121
Chain of Fools	Aretha Franklin	117
Complicated	Avril Lavigne	78
Crawling in the Dark	Hoobastank	94
Don't Know Why	Norah Jones	88
Every Morning	Sugar Ray	110
Everything You Want	Vertical Horizon	94
Girls Just Want to Have Fun	Cyndi Lauper	120
Hey Jealousy	Gin Blossoms	153
Hit Me With Your Best Shot	Pat Benetar	128
How You Remind Me	Nickelback	86
I'm Coming Out	Diana Ross	111
It's the End of the World As We Know It	R.E.M.	103
Kiss Me	Six Pence None the Richer	100
Ladies Night	Kool and the Gang	117
Like a Virgin	Madonna	120
One Week	Barenaked Ladies	113
Red, Red Wine	UB40	90
Save Tonight	Eagle-Eye Cherry	120
Science Genius Girl	Freezepop	137
She Talks To Angels	The Black Crowes	80
Smooth Criminal	Alien Ant Farm	127
Son of a Preacher Man	Dusty Springfield	91
The Power of Love	Huey Lewis and The News	119
Waiting for Tonight	Jennifer Lopez	125
When a Man Loves a Woman	Percy Sledge	65
Wind Beneath My Wings	Bette Midler	62
You Really Got Me	Van Halen	139
You're the One That I Want	Olivia Newton John	107

Unused Videos

The folder arena\movies contains each of the videos associated with the songs' internal genres, as well as certain venues. However, there are several videos that don't seem to appear at all, as follows:

70s_1.ipu is a video associated with songs that have the internal genre 70s. However, it appears this genre was since "merged" with Dance, and use the movies associated with that genre instead, making it unused.

meta256.ipu is a generic video not associated with any genre. It is seen in some prerelease footage of the game, as well as the July 2003 prototype.

rock_1.ipu and rock_2.ipu are unused variations of rock1.ipu and rock2.ipu, which are associated with the songs that have the internal genre Rock. Compared to the used versions, the unused ones have a dotted effect in the outlines that zoom in.

superstartv_1.ipu is an unused video associated with the Superstar TV venue. While it can be seen in a screenshot seen in the back of the game's box, it doesn't seem to appear in-game.

Debug Display

Use the code below to display parameters on screen, which includes a memory availability meter, as well as camera, time, and animation values, at all times. This code applies only to the American release of the game.

20270280 00000001

(Source: punk7890)

Unused Cheats

The following cheats are defined by config\gen\kara.dtb, and could be activated during gameplay, but they don't work anymore.

Buttons	Cheat Name	Description
While holding L1 + L2
Left	heap_report	Would generate a summary report.
Right	heap_dump	Would generate a full heap report.
Down	toggle_heap	Would toggle the heap display.
Select	screen_dump	Would take a screenshot.
R3	save_objects	Would save the currently rendered objects to debug.rnd.
Triangle	toggle_panes	Would toggle the text panes.
Square	toggle_stats	Seems it would have written something to debug_dma.txt.
X	toggle_timers	Unknown.
Up	heap_alloc_dump	Prints out free and allocated blocks.
While holding R1 + R2
Up	pitch_detection	Toggles pitch detection.
Left / Right	change_excitement	Decreases/increases excitement by 0.1.
Select	mode_hack	Unknown. Related to the HUD.
Square	toggle_burn_in_cheat	Unknown.
Start	unlock_all	Would unlock everything.
L3	mute_cheat	Unknown. Likely related to the audience?
Triangle	no_mic_cheat	Likely related to bypassing the mic requirement?

There are also several cheats which would have required a keyboard to be used.

Button	Cheat Name	Description
W	camtest_begin	Likely related to a camera testing function.
E	camtest_end	Likely related to a camera testing function.
D	camtest_stage	Likely related to a camera testing function.
S	camtest_crowd	Likely related to a camera testing function.
Q	camtest_l_char	Likely related to a camera testing function.
R	camtest_r_char	Likely related to a camera testing function.
A	camtest_l_corner	Likely related to a camera testing function.
F	camtest_r_corner	Likely related to a camera testing function.
Z	camtest_crowdtest	Likely related to a camera testing function.
Down / Up		Changes the game mode.
Y		Changes the excitement meter motion scaling factor to 0.05.
U		Changes the rhythm disparity threshold to 5ms.
I		Changes the pitch disparity threshold to .1 half-steps.
O		Changes the hit multiplier to .1.
P		Changes the long note count advantage to .1.
0	set_mic_earpiece	Unknown. Likely related to the headset peripheral.
1	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 0 0
2	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 1 0
3	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 2 0
4	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 3 0
5	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 4 0
!	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 0 1
@	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 1 1
#	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 2 1
$	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 3 1
%	test_transient	Unknown. Parameters 4 1
F1	win_cheat	Finishes the stage with 0 points.
F2	win_cheat	Finishes the stage with 3000 points.
F3	win_cheat	Finishes the stage with 15000 points.
F4	win_cheat	Finishes the stage with 35000 points.
F5	finale_cheat	Likely an ending warp?