Rhythm Heaven Fever

Rhythm Heaven Fever
Also known as: Minna no Rhythm Tengoku (JP), Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise (EU/AU), Rhythm World Wii (KR) Developer: Nintendo SPD Group No. 1 Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii Released in JP: July 21, 2011 Released in US: February 13, 2012 Released in EU: July 6, 2012 Released in AU: September 13, 2012 Released in KR: September 12, 2013 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has regional differences.

To do: Unused sound effects, including outtakes, leftovers, and ones from scrapped Rhythm Games. Unused text (such as practice dialogue for Chameleon). Unused layouts (layout_cafeTest, layout_menuTest, etc.) Unused cues.

Rhythm Heaven Fever is the third entry of the Rhythm Heaven series. It's also the most infamous, as it started the memetic "Piki piki piki desu ka?" (or "Wubba dubba dubba 'zat true?", if you prefer).

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Unused Animations

Regional Differences An entire minigame was removed from the international versions.

English Translation Differences Nearly completely different English text.

Unused Audio

Music

BGM_CHECK_TRICK2

Two drum tracks meant for the Rhythm Test at the beginning of the game. These tracks are actually remade versions of the ones previously heard in Rhythm Tengoku's Rhythm Test, meaning that these would've served the same purpose.

BGM_PRACTICE_SLOW

Three versions of the standard "Let's Practice" theme, all leftover from Rhythm Heaven. This game uses unique practice music for all stages that closely resembles the stage's song, and even when it doesn't (like with the extra games), a new arrangement of the "Let's Practice" theme is used instead. BGM_PRACTICE IS used as the practice theme for the unused Endless Game "Torch Relay", however.

WSD_PROLOGUE_JINGLE1

An unused and incomplete placeholder jingle intended for the prologues, only having a basic drum track. This song is duplicated under multiple titles, all of them being WSD_PROLOGUE_JINGLE2, WSD_PROLOGUE_JINGLE3 and WSD_JINGLE1.

Unused Graphics

Rhythm Test

Faces used in the animation "navigator_a_face_look." The face depicts Marshal/Matt and Miss Ribbon being unsatisfied.

Rhythm Games

Hole in One

A pair of seagulls, occupying Sprite 187 in golf_monkey.brcad. The only difference from the final seagulls are that these ones lack their strings. The final seagulls would be stored in golf_bg.brcad.

Numbers that are present in the texture atlas for most Rhythm Games. They were used as a frame counter for animations, and can still be seen on many of them. They'll usually have there opacities set to 0, so editing them will be required in order to see them.

Tambourine

The monkey facing his side whilst smiling, found at Sprite 5 in tambourine.brcad.

A monkey-shaped shadow that would be used in place of the generic circle shadow.

The player's left hand. The used left hand has more of its arm visible.

Two sprites of the monkey's leg.

Board Meeting

A chair seat meant for the spinning animation, as it is found next to the other spinning chair seats in the texture atlas.

3 sets of chair legs.

The Assistant's "One, two, three!" body part.

Unused	Used

When compared to the final body part, the unused one has a shorter arm.

Remix 9

A group shot of everyone, including the bassist from Rhythm Tengoku's "Drum Girls LIVE!" mode. Since the assistant herself holds a bass guitar, including two bassists would be kind of redundant, so the Drum Girls bassist was removed.

Figure Fighter

A pair of red eyes belonging to the Muscle Doll. The Cast Credits shows the Muscle Doll's eyes glowing red along with his beat animation, so perhaps these had a similar purpose. This graphic only appears in the files for the original game and the Remix 10 variant.

Ringside

In Ringside, the reporter has to stand on her toes in order to get the microphone close enough to the wrestler for his response. The graphic for this however goes completely unseen, both due to the camera being too zoomed in to see, and the photographers covering most of the graphic.

Samurai Slice

Remix 4

A mask reminiscent of the ghosts from the Rhythm Tengoku version of Samurai Slice, likely to be worn by the ghosts in the remix. It's cut diagonally to the left unlike the regular ghosts, possibly an indication that the ghost that wore it would drop it after the Samurai sliced it, finishing it off with a second slice (pressing the A button twice).

Donk-Donk

Remix 10

This early image of The Donkers is bizarrely found only in the texture atlas for the Remix 10 version. They are noticeably bluer than their final versions.

Tap Troupe

Sprites that don't resemble the Wii game's art style, but rather the DS installment, exist in the main sprite sheet for the tappers. It's safe to assume these were just placeholder graphics; possibly recycled assets from the Rhythm Game that originally got planned for the DS installment, and later used as base for the artist to draw the new graphics.

Cheer Readers

Remix 9

Unused book image of the Tap Trial 2 girl from Rhythm Tengoku. The player's part of image (bottom-right) can still be seen when opening the books too early.

Karate Man

A barrel. The used barrel is manually assembled using individual pieces, meaning this already assembled barrel goes unused.

A "1", presumably for a "Hit 1" cue. This possibly went unused because asking players to "Hit 1" in a game where you spend a good chunk of time doing just that would be silly, now wouldn't it?

An entire word set, smaller than the used ones.

This background occupies sprite 74 in karateman.brcad, while the actual background is stored in karate_bg_00.brcad. Aside from the whole thing being rotated 5 degrees, no noticeable difference between this BG and the used BG are present, aside from using a slightly different, less smooth gradient.

Endless Games

Manzai

A file named layout_prologue_manzai_ver0.szs exists in the layout folder for Rhythm Heaven Fever. Prologue files are where Rhythm Games store their title cards, suggesting that Manzai might've been a normal Rhythm Game.

Chameleon

A crown. Likely to be worn by the chameleon, as it is grouped next to its sprites.

Rhythm Toys

Toy Car

Unused	Used

An early version of the toy car, with a design that resembles a Volkswagen Beetle rather than the final one's more original design.

The car is actually split into parts, unlike the final, which shows us that the car had an engine. It may have also had windows, although those aren't seen on either car.

The person driving the car wears a hat, which was removed in the final version.

A red and cyan pickup truck, likely used as a visual aid to know the correct time to launch the car.

A plain looking tile, possibly an early version of the road tile.

Epilogues

Every texture file for the epilogue images has development text to the side of each image, followed by a green image at the bottom containing the text "Test Data". The text to the side of the images translates to the following:

Try Again
Screen area 256x160
Actual image area 272x176

OK
Screen area 256x160
Actual image area 272x176

Superb
Screen area 256x160
Actual image area 272x176

Epilogue will be drawn here
Green…screen area 256x160
Red…actual image area 272x176
※The red border is actually covered with a black mask.

Game Select

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page.

A low-res logo. Code to display it still exists, revealing it would function the same way as a similar logo did in the previous installment.

Pause Screen

A debug display similar to its predecessor, featuring a points counter and 32-beat bar used to measure accuracy and determine your rating at the end of a Rhythm Game, the word "Tutorial" followed by a red cross suggesting that tutorials could be turned off, red, blue and yellow bars that indicated over the beat bar if your input were too early, spot on or too late, - and + symbols from the Wii Remote and a incomplete Japanese sentence that reads "-to the menu".

Misc

A block from Super Mario Bros. Found in layout_fader.szs.

Two-Player See-Saw

See-Saw has an unused version of the game where the game is controlled by two players, with player one controlling Saw (the one on the right, like the normal game), and player two controls See (the one on the left). This version of the game notably doesn't follow either player when they do a high jump, likely because having the camera move with both players would be nauseating.

Additionally, there are two unused miss sounds for the second player that get partially covered up by the normal landing sound. These sounds were not re-recorded for the English version, so they still use the Japanese voice.

Debug Menu

First page of the debug menu.

The following Gecko codes will trigger the debug menu in place of the title screen:

Japan	USA	Europe/Australia	Korea
0025c1cf 00000000	00256077 00000000	002583cf 00000000	00255e2f 00000000

(Source: CebolaBros64 (Gecko codes))

Listing

Entry Number		Entry	Operation Notes/Instructions	Notes
JP	INT
000		Game Select	Move the cursor... B + (+) to clear the stage (No clear > OK) (OK > Superb) (Superb > Perfect) B + (-) Starts perfect campaign (Superb Ranked Levels Only) B + 1 Barista Skip
001		Wii Strap Warning Screen		Loads up the title screen after pressing A on this screen.
002		Title Screen
003		Error Screen 1	NAND_RESULT_UNKNOWN Unexpected Result Code	Shows a black screen with the Wii cursor available.
004		Error Screen 2	NAND_RESULT_BUSY NAND_RESULT_ALLOC_FAILED
005		Error Screen 3	NAND_RESULT_CORRUPT
006		Error Screen 4	NAND_RESULT_MAXBLOCKS
007		Error Screen 5	NAND_RESULT_MAXFILES
008		Error Screen 6	NAND_CHECK_HOME_INSSPACE NAND_CHECK_SYS_INSSPACE
009		Error Screen 7	NAND_CHECK_HOME_INSINODE NAND_CHECK_SYS_INSINODE
010		Error Screen 8	NAND_RESULT_ECC_CRIT NAND_RESULT_AUTHENTICATION
011		Error Screen 9	NAND_RESULT_ECC_CRIT NAND_RESULT_AUTHENTICATION
012		Epilogue Test		Air Rally's epilogue. Most likely used as an epilogue test.
013		Perfect Achievement Screen		Perfect achievement testing screen.
014		Navi (First Rhythm Test)		Rhythm Test from when you first start the game.
015		Navi (Cafe Rhythm Test)		Rhythm Test from opening the Rhythm Test in the Café.
016		Navi (Ending)		Remix 7 cleared screen.
017		Character Introduction
018		Café
019		Listen to Music
020		Read Something
021		Bonus Menu (Rhythm Toys)
022		Bonus Menu (Endless Games 1P)		Endless games for 1 person.
023		Bonus Menu (Endless Games 2P)		Endless games for 2 people.
024		Bonus Menu (Extra Games)
025		Working Dough
026		Working Dough (Arrange)		Working Dough 2
027		Flock Step
028		Cheer Readers
029		Cheer Readers (Arrange)		Cheer Readers 2
030		Double Date
031		Double Date (Arrange)		Double Date 2
032		Launch Party
033		See-Saw
034		Figure Fighter
035		Figure Fighter (Arrange)		Figure Fighter 2
036		Donk-Donk
037		Shrimp Shuffle
038		Tap Troupe
039		Bossa Nova
040		Packing Pests
041		Packing Pests (Arrange)		Packing Pests 2
042		Exhibition Match
043		Catch of the Day
044		Board Meeting
045		Love Rap
046		Love Rap (Arrange)		Love Rap 2
047		Built to Scale
048		Built to Scale (Arrange)		Built to Scale 2
049		Fork Lifter
050		Micro-Row
051		Micro-Row (Arrange)		Micro-Row 2
052		Flipper-Flop
053		Karate Man
054		Karate Man (Arrange)		Karate Man 2
055		Tambourine
056		Hole in One
057		Hole in One (Arrange)		Hole in One 2
058		Air Rally
059		Monkey Watch
060		Screwbot Factory
061		Screwbot Factory (Arrange)		Screwbot Factory 2
062		Samurai Slice
063		Samurai Slice (Arrange)		Samurai Slice 2
064		Ringside
065		Launch Party 2P
066		Tap Troupe 2P
067		Bossa Nova 2P
068		Fork Lifter 2P
069		Micro-Row 2P
070		Flipper-Flop 2P
071		Karate Man 2P
072		Tambourine 2P
073		Ringside 2P
074		Score Screen 2P
075		Remix 1
076		Remix 2
077		Remix 3
078		Remix 4
079		Remix 5
080		Remix 6
081		Remix 7
082		Remix 8
083		Remix 9
084		Remix 10
085		Endless Remix
086		Wake-Up Caller
087		Munchy Monk (Endless)
088		Mr. Upbeat/Manzai		This entry depends on if you're playing the Japanese or international versions of the game.
089		Lady Cupid
090		Pirate Crew
091		Kung Fu Ball
092		Mochi Pounding
093		Clap Trap
094	n/a	Seika Relay		An unused Endless Game. This entry only exists in the Japanese version, making it one entry longer than the other versions.
095	094	Unused Basket (Endless Remix) Practice
096	095	Unused Chameleon (Endless Remix) Practice
097	096	Unused Frog Jump (Endless Remix) Practice
098	097	Toy Car
099	098	Hi-Hat
100	099	Police Call
101	100	Rhythm Fighter
102	101	The Clappy Trio
103	102	Power Calligraphy
104	103	Sneaky Spirits
105	104	Tap Trial
106	105	Night Walk

Torch Relay

To do: There's unused animations and background textures that need to be added.

Accessible via the debug menu is an entirely unused game called Seika Relay (or Torch Relay, as the folder containing the graphics for the game is named). Judging from its position in the debug menu, this game was intended to be an Endless Game. The game starts with a count-in, followed by a torch being thrown from offscreen. The player then must catch the torch by pressing A + B, which causes the onion to catch it. Not catching it causes the torch to permanently stay on screen, and catching it too late causes an onion to appear above the vegetables, at the center of the screen. The unused version of the "Let's Practice" theme starts playing, the onion turns towards the lettuce, and the player must press A + B again, causing the lettuce to suddenly become an onion. The onion then turns towards the next vegetable, even though the torch is still with the first vegetable, and the camera starts to infinitely pan right, eventually looping back to the first vegetable, still with the torch in its hand. Inputting anything else won't affect anything on screen, and the game continues infinitely.

Attempting to skip the practice will cause a short drum beat to play, before immediately softlocking the game. Similarly, attempting to pause and quit the game will softlock it. If the camera is panning when you do this, the vegetables will stop spawning after a while. Most of this game has been removed in international versions, with all that remains being the unused "Let's Practice" music.

Test Games

The debug menu contains 3 standalone versions of each of the Rhythm Games featured in the Endless Remix. It is likely that these Rhythm Games were once used for general testing of cues and such, mainly due to their simplistic nature. These games function similarly to the Endless Games, and use the same score counter seen in them. All of them feature a simplistic drumming track for the music, and will continue indefinitely until the player misses a cue, at which point it will display the game over graphic also found in the Endless Games. During this, the music will still continue to play until the player presses A, stopping the music and softlocking the game due to an invalid scene change.

Basket

The first of these is a test for Basket. The game starts with the girl dribbling the ball, and eventually passing it to the player. This action repeats a few times, and then the girl starts rapid-firing passes to the player. After this, the camera will start to zoom in on the Basketball net, something that does not happen in the Endless Remix, and repeat the same cues as before. After the cues repeat, the camera will zoom out from the Basketball net, returning to its default position, and the game will repeat until a cue is missed.

Chameleon

The second of these is a test for Chameleon. This game is very simplistic, as it mainly alternates between the A + B (when the fly is far away) and A (when the fly is up close) cues with no variation what so ever. Interestingly, when the game is softlocked, you can still control the chameleon.

Frog Jump

The last of these is a test for Frog Jump. Like with Chameleon, the game is very simplistic, only requiring you to hold A after the frog gives you its two-tick cue, and release it a beat later.