LEGO Rock Band (Wii)

LEGO Rock Band
Developer: Harmonix Publishers: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, MTV Games Platform: Wii Released in US: November 3, 2009 Released in EU: November 27, 2009 Released in AU: November 25, 2009 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused sounds.

LEGO Rock Band is a spinoff of the Rock Band series, targeted to families and children, featuring a surprisingly detailed recreation of Brian May's hair.

Unused Sounds

The game has several unused sounds. Some unused sounds were also unused in Rock Band 2.

Test Sounds

Inside the sfx/samples/test/gen folder, there are several unused sounds. These are: 1, 2, 3, 4, min1, min2, min3, min4; all of type .wav_wii. They are of a man saying the number or a minus number. These files also have SFX logs in the root directory of the game.

1.wav_wii

2.wav_wii

3.wav_wii

4.wav_wii

min1.wav_wii

min2.wav_wii

min3.wav_wii

min4.wav_wii

Mic Test

Inside the sfx/samples/gen folder, there are various common sound effects. There are two mic test files in here that contain a few seconds of vocals to 2 songs, possibly to test the mic. These also appear in Rock Band 2, but they are longer in this game.

mic_test1.wav_wii

This is the first verse of "Cherry Lips", by Garbage. The song was never released as DLC, though this suggests it was planned at some point. Also of note is that since this version is longer than the clip in Rock Band 2, you can hear the word "shit" towards the end, which would have never made it uncensored in the game. Especially this game.

mic_test2.wav_wii

This is part of the first verse and chorus of "Monkey Wrench", by Foo Fighters. The song was released as DLC in a full album release shortly after Rock Band 2's release. The vocals don't quite match the DLC version's because this is the dryvox version of the vocals, with no effects or processing on it. The full version of this track would be used to generate the lip sync for vocals. Though since the file is called mic_test, this sound, if picked up by the microphone, should score perfectly along with the track. At least it would if parts of the verse weren't edited out in this clip.

Curiously, the album that "Monkey Wrench" comes from, The Colour and the Shape, has its album art appear several times as unused placeholder art in Rock Band 3.

Say It Ain't Clean/Dist

These are simply a few seconds of the guitar track from the song "Say It Ain't So", by Weezer. The song originally appeared in the first Rock Band game.

test_sayitaintclean.wav_wii

This is the "clean"-sounding part.

test_sayitaintdist.wav_wii

This is the "distorted"-sounding part.

These sounds are also longer than in Rock Band 2, by about 10 seconds, despite not being used.

SFX Sample Logs

Various raw text files exist in the root of the file structure. Most of the files with spaces in their names refer to audio samples in a folder that no longer exists. These relate to sound effects on certain maps, though some don't exist at all. The first block of their headers are below.

pig fucker.wii.txt

Sample     : 'sfx/samples/farm rain/dont use these/pig fucker.wii.wav'
Length     : 275825 samples
Num nibbles: 315229 ADPCM nibbles
Sample Rate: 18000 Hz
Loop Flag  : NOT LOOPED

bits fall off car1.wii.txt

Sample     : 'sfx/samples/oval race/bits fall off car1.wii.wav'
Length     : 60328 samples
Num nibbles: 68948 ADPCM nibbles
Sample Rate: 18000 Hz
Loop Flag  : NOT LOOPED

king wants drag.wii.txt

Sample     : 'sfx/samples/castle attack/dont use these they are just bits for the pass fail stuff/king wants drag.wii.wav'
Length     : 203466 samples
Num nibbles: 232534 ADPCM nibbles
Sample Rate: 18000 Hz
Loop Flag  : NOT LOOPED

Unused Song

On the disc, there is the full audio and midi chart for the song "Just For Tonight". There is no metadata associated with it, so the game won't load it normally. The song was released as regular DLC in 2010, a year after the game's release. The audio file on the Wii version is a few megabytes bigger than the DLC version, suggesting it's slightly higher quality.

MOGG Encode Logs

Only 3 mogg log files did not get removed in a few places. These were probably generated by whichever tools were used.

tute_vocal_distance_encode_log

==============================

08/18/2007  15:52:20

Input files:
K:\projects\Band\Tutorial\vocal vo\vocal tutorial vo 2-proc\tute_vocal_distance.wav

Output Formats: mogg 

tute_drum1_single_slow_encode_log

==============================

09/16/2009  13:20:35

Input files:
Z:\legorockband\audio\tute_drum1_single_slow.wav

Output Formats: mogg 

wewillrockyou1_encode_log

==============================

06/05/2009  16:58:37

Input files:
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_0DMS 2-44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_4BASS 2-44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_5GTR 2-44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_6VOX 3-added bgv 44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_7TRKS 2-just countin 44S.wav

Output Formats: mogg 

==============================

06/05/2009  17:34:01

Input files:
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_0DMS 2-44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_4BASS 2-44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_5GTR 2-44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_6VOX 3-added bgv 44S.wav
C:\Documents and Settings\eric\My Documents\Band2\aaTransfer to masters drive\Digidelivery\We Will Rock You MASTERS\WeWillRockYou_7TRKS 2-just countin 44S.wav

Output Formats: mogg