Proto:Katamari Damacy

This page details one or more prototype versions of Katamari Damacy.

To do: Cover the other demos and find other differences

Several different demo discs of Namco's roll-em-up were published prior to the release of the final version of the game.

January 2004 Demo

This demo, disc serial PAPX-90234, has a build date of January 14, 2004.

To do: Level differences described in this document.

Music

Most of the music present in the demo differs from release:

• The songs "Nananan Katamari", "Angel Flavor's Present", "Lovely Angel", "Katamari On The Rocks", "Katamaritaino" and "Katamari Mambo [Katamari Syndrome Re-mix]" have some missing instrumentation or minor mixing differences, although they are pretty close to the final versions.
• The songs "Katamari Of Love", "Overture", "Katamari On The Rocks", "Lonely Rolling Star" and "Katamaritaino" are present as rough demo versions.
• Three of the songs are unused. The early version of "Canon Of Kings" is replaced by "Fugue #7777" in the final game.
• The songs "You Are Smart" and "The Moon & The Prince" are identical to the final versions.
• The songs "Fugue #7777", "The Wonderful Star's Walk Is Wonderful", "A Crimson Rose And A Gin Tonic", "Wanda Wanda", "Que Sera Sera", "Katamari☆Stars", "Cherry Blossom Color Season", "Stardust Fanfare" and "The Last Samba" are not present in this demo.

The majority of the music on the disc is not accessible during gameplay.

Unused Songs

Track	Notes
	A snippet from the "Acapella" sample file included with the Mac OS synth voice software VocalWriter, likely used as a placeholder until Fugue #7777 was finalized. Reworked and expanded for the 2005 sequel Me & My Katamari as "Canon Of Kings", with the intro being recycled as a (very quiet) sound effect in later games.
	A shoegaze-ish song. Lyrics had evidently not yet been written.
	A Katamarified version of the famous introduction to Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra.

Demo Versions

Title	Track	Notes
Katamari Of Love		An early version of the song with a scratch vocal, before Shigeru Matsuzaki's vocals had been recorded.
Overture		An all-synth arrangement of the song. The final version is a piano piece.
Katamari On The Rocks		An early version before the lead vocal had been recorded. The melody also differs from the final version.
Lonely Rolling Star		Very early version with only the verse and chorus. There are scratch vocals, but lyrics had not yet been written.
Katamaritaino		An early version with scratch vocals and an incomplete arrangement.

(Source: Vera, PepsimanGB)