Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
Developer: iNiS Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: July 28, 2005 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has a prerelease article

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, or simply Ouendan, is the first in a series of rhythm games all about solving your problems with the power of inspirational dancing. Its success as an import title led to the US getting a spiritual sequel in the form of Elite Beat Agents and Japan getting a full sequel.

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Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

To do: Add the placeholder title screen/buttons present in the other games in the series.

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Placeholder

A placeholder title screen. This file also exists in Elite Beat Agents, as well as in Ouendan 2.

Ouendan Member Graphics

Ouendan Map Screen Portraits

Contained within /data/3d/menu are what appear to be early portraits of the Ouendan leader selected to be placed on the map screen. No equivalent for the cheerleaders appears to exist.

Early	Final

Early 1 (m_s_3)	Early 2 (m_s_1)	Final

Early	Final

• The early portraits are zoomed out further than the final versions.
• m_s_3 appears to be an even earlier version of Ryuta Ippongi, being zoomed in akin to the final but looking much rougher than the final with a very low-detail uniform.
• The buttons on the uniforms, as well as part of Kai Domeki's hat, appear to be white as opposed to yellow in the final, although this could be a palette error.
• The emblem on Hajime Tanaka's headband/Kai Domeki's hat appears to be an early Ouendan logo, featuring a figure with outstreched arms as opposed to the final's Japanese character.

Intro Graphics

Early	Final

Old graphics of the introduction of the cheerleaders, in the final version was redrawn, these graphics also appear in the prerelease screenshots.

This graphic would appear when Ryuta says "OSU!"

Ryuta's design is slightly different.

Countdown Graphics

The countdown graphics are mostly similar to the final, but Atsushi Saito's uniform looks slightly different. No equivalent for the victory graphics appears in the files, but can be seen in prerelease screenshots.

Map Screen Graphics

Character Face Icons

Contained within /data/3d/menu are early face icons for the stage selection menu.

Early	Final

Shin is the most different—his hair is brown instead of black (and is less spiky), his expression is different, and he's not wearing a headband.

Early	Final

Tanaka's hat is missing the red stripe.

Early	Final

Ishida's hair is light-brown instead of black and his icon lacks his halo.

Multiplayer Icons

Included in the same folder as the above map icons are icons for the multiplayer stage health bars. While most are the same as their final counterpart (though all but three are not colored in for some reason), the Player 2 icon for the Baseball stage shows a completely different character.

Early	Final

Interestingly, the character depicted does appear in the final game as a member of the male team.

Stage Graphics

Stage 1 - Loop & Loop

ED (Ending)

Tsuyoshi was supposed to shout this after passing his exam, but he simply reuses the "よっしゃー" line from Midsection Cutscene 3.

bg2_s (Unused)	bg1_s (Used)

Tsuyoshi celebrating with his family. bg_2 shows him being thrown higher (note his family appearing smaller)—either an alternate version of bg_1 or a third frame of animation. The palette for bg_2 is slightly incorrect.

Stage 2 - Koi no Dance Site

Koi no Dance Site Unused Graphics A lot can happen in three hours.

Stage 3 - Gutz da ze!!

PLA (Scene 1)

obj_s (14)	obj_s (15)

Biridon's rider facing left. Biridon knocks the rider off before any scenes where he runs towards the left.

Stage 4 - Melody

IN (Intro)

bg0_s	bg2_s

An unused section of the intro with Shizu and her father looking down at something, presumably Shin.

KNA (Midsection Cutscene 1)

obj_s (6)	obj_s (7)	obj_s (8)

Sprites of the English-speaking tourists getting knocked off the mikoshi in the "bad ending" cutscene. Likely meant for Scene 4's cutscene, but Scene 3's cutscene is simply reused instead.

While this sprite is used, all but the girl's arms are obscured by the mikoshi.

ED (Ending)

Not unused, but everyone except the three leftmost characters are almost entirely obscured by Shizu's father and a speech bubble.

Stage 6 - Kokoro Odoru

KNB (Midsection Cutscene 2)

bg0_s	bg1_s	bg2_s

bg3_s	bg4_s	bg5_s

For some reason, one of the fail scenes from Over the Distance is present in Kokoro Odoru's files. There is a minor difference, though not a visible one—the keyboard key graphics are contained in bg_4 here, but are in obj_s in OtD's files (bg_4 does not exist in the OtD files for this scene).

Stage 7 - Atsuki Kodō no Hate

KNA (Midsection Cutscene 1)

Mizutani in tears. The head is meant to be placed on his body for the cutscenes where he encourages the students to participate in each activity. This tearful expression is likely meant to be used if the previous scene is failed, but Mizutani keeps his smile no matter what in the final.

PLB (Scene 2)

A scene of the pool. Meant to appear as the bottom screen background to Scene 2, but the bottom screen just uses the top screen's fence background. Oddly, this file is named differently than other background files (bg_m, as opposed to the standard bg0_m).

PLC (Scene 3)

Like the above, this classroom scene is meant for the bottom screen's background during Scene 3, and like the above, the top screen's background is repeated in its place. This one, however, is named correctly in the files.

Shots of the two girls that appear during the 300s animation of Scene 3. These girls do appear, but it seems like they were planned to be animated—in the final, the first girl keeps her legs together as she moves, and the second always has her leg extended. Additional sprites also exist of these poses facing left instead of right.

KNC (Midsection Cutscene 3)

Mizutani wiping the chalkboard. Was likely meant to be used with the used sprite with his arm extended to make the scene animated, but his pose is static in the final.

Stage 8 - Thrill

To do: Reupload these images with the transparency setting on Tinke on.

IN (Intro)

bg1_s	bg2_s

A...bizarre early version of Torao's "dejected" pose before the Ouendan cheer him on.

KNA (Midsection Cutscene 1)

The first intended midscene cutscene appears to be completely unique, appearing mostly complete (though missing a "good ending" variation) but being cut regardless.

A snippet of dialogue for Torao's speech bubble as he throws the dodgeball. "せいっ" is used, but not this.

bg0_s	bg1_s	bg2_s	bg3_s

bg4_s	obj_s (1)	obj_s (2)

A shot of an unaware teacher presumably getting beaned from behind with the dodgeball.

To do: Since bg1/bg2 are used, they may be better off cut from this section. I thought it flowed better with their inclusion, but I could be wrong.

bg1_s	bg2_s	bg3_s	bg1_s/bg2_s (Final)

Torao, distraught at the destruction he's caused. bg1/bg2 are used in the final game as Torao's "dejected" pose (replacing IN_04 above), but the exclamation in bg3 is completely unused.

KNC (Midsection Cutscene 3)

Torao's "good ending" response to Shizuyama when confronted. Torao is silent in the final.

Stage 11 - One Night Carnival

PLD (Scene 4)

obj_s (5)	obj_s (6)	obj_s (7)

Sprites for tears. Possibly meant for the 50s/Miss scene, but neither the Bacteria Men nor the viruses cry.

OV (Game Over)

An unused character for the Game Over haiku. Its placement in obj_s indicates it was the second character of the second line, meaning the line ソリストの夢 could have originally been ソロストの夢.

Stage 12 - Over the Distance

KND (Midsection Cutscene 4)

bg0_s	obj_s (0)	obj_s (1)

Ishida aghast at something. The head seems to fit with the scene of him manipulating objects with his hand; presumably he'd react this way if the scene failed.

Stage 13 - Taiyō ga Moeteiru

PLA (Scene 1)

bg5_s (Unused)	bg6_s (Used)

Ichirou barely holding onto his bike. Possibly meant to be used with the used frame as an animation.

PLB (Scene 2)

bg7_s	bg4_s

Salary-Man and Mousezilla facing off. Meant to be used for the 100s animation for Scene 2, but for unknown reasons (possibly a bug), the 50s/Miss animation plays in its place.

In fact, these sprites are even visible in the Scene 2 thumbnail on the ranking screen, further proving their intended purpose.

ED (Ending)

Meant to appear on the scene of Salary-Man knocking out Mousezilla.

Stage 14 - Shanghai Honey

KNA (Midsection Cutscene 1)

A small upright robot. Intended to appear in the background of the scene of the robots being blasted by Joe and Dan.

obj_s (3) (Unused)	obj_s (1) (Used)	obj_s (2) (Used)

A third variation of a UFO, meant for the cutscene of Joe and Dan hiding from the robots in the alley. Strangely, three UFOs do appear in the cutscene, but variation 2 is used twice. Note that the sprites have been enlarged for visibility.

Stage 15 - Ready Steady Go

ED (Ending)

A shot of the meteor being destroyed. The game fades to white before this scene is visible.

Unused Audio

To do: To be honest, I can't really tell if the TnM one is unused. Compare to Scene 3's fail cutscene and give me a second opinion.

Thrill - WAVE_OPEN08/SWAV_0

Electricity crackling. Sounds like the dodgeball charging with electricity in the game over, but without the deeper hum.

Taisetsu na Mono - WAVE_MOV09/SWAV_0

A booing crowd. Scene 3's fail cutscene has a booing crowd, but it seems to be a different sound effect.

One Night Carnival - WAVE_MOV11/SWAV_3

An odd violin sting. Failing Scenes 2 and 3 show a sprite of Kouji in pain with discordant music notes around him, so it's possible it was meant to play there.