Rhythm Tengoku (Game Boy Advance)

Rhythm Tengoku
Developers: Nintendo SPD Group No. 1, J.P Room Recordings Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Game Boy Advance Released in JP: August 3, 2006 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a data page This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

This page is rather stubbly and could use some expansion. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue this article?

Rhythm Tengoku is what happens when popular Japanese music producer/singer Tsunku♂ partners up with the team behind WarioWare - a weird but awesome rhythm game filled with all sorts of wacky characters (and lots of monkeys), which further resulted in the Rhythm Heaven series.

While exclusive to Japan, it actually requires little to no knowledge of Japanese to pick up and play, making it a good (and popular) import title, though a fan translation is available. It's also the last first-party GBA game, coming two years after the Nintendo DS' launch.

To do: Some of the unused graphics, like the flower pot in Spaceball, have OAM animations. We need someone to rip them. The original Marching Orders minigame as well as variants in Remix 7 and 8 have unused pointing animations. Rip them if possible. We don't have footage or images of where each debug menu option leads to. We could really use these! Sound effects from the scrapped rhythm games mentioned in an interview still exists. MF5K has some good videos on this game. As noted on the talk page, Marching Orders has some unused sound effects. While working on a fan translation, W Hat found some unused graphics. While some of these have been documented, others weren't. Unused notification for the Rhythm Library. Investigate this unused practice thingy from Bouncy Road. Investigate this also. More stuff from this game might've been posted on the Rhythm Heaven Modding Discord.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Data

Debug Menu Snippets from various parts of development.

Unused Rhythm Games

Tanooki & Monkey

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A screenshot from the Rhythm Game. Tanooki and Monkey are on the left, the monkey-like drummer is on the right.

An unused Rhythm Game where you control a monkey-like drummer, who's tasked to copy the patterns that are played by Monkey and Tanooki. The game controls the same as the Drum Lessons from the final game, but only A, Right, and Down are used on the patterns. The player is given three attempts at completion for each pattern. Upon completing the game, the player is taken to the Rhythm Test result screen. Upon losing the game, however, the player is taken to the Ratings Screen. It doesn't go much farther than that, though, as the game crashes shortly after.

Tanooki & Monkey also has text to go along with it!

To do: Add the rest of the Japanese text.

...But does it make sense? The translations on this page need to be proofread. If you are fluent enough in this language, please make any corrections necessary!

Japanese	Translation
こんにちわ！	Hello!
サルとポン太です。 ドラム侍さんのご紹介で あそびに来ました。	We're Saru and Ponta. We've come here to play on the Drum Samurai's introduction.
今回は　ボクたちが レッスンしますネ！	This time, we're giving the lessons!
さっそくですが、 Ａボタンの練習です。	Now, without further ado, let's practice hitting that A button.
よく　きいて マネしてネ！	Listen well and repeat!
ポン太くんも入ります。 ポン太くんの音は 十字キーの下で鳴ります。	Ponta will join in too. Ponta's sound is playing by pressing "down" on the D-pad.
次は、速いやつです。 Ａボタンと十字キーの右を 交互に押すとラクだヨ。	Next is a fast part. It's easier if you alternate pressing "A" and "right" on the D-pad.
練習は　次で最後です。	This is the last stage of practice.
むずかしいかな？ がんばってネ！	Seem tough? Good luck!
それでは、ボクたちと リズムバトルを してみましょう！	All right, come on, let's have a rhythm battle!
各パターンにつき ３回　チャンスが あります。	You get 3 chances for each pattern.
さて、どこまで ついてこれるかな？	I wonder how far you can go?
じゃ、とりあえず シンプルなやつネ。	Okay, let's start out simple for now.
オッケーです。 つぎ　いってみよう！ できるかな？	Okay! On to the next one! Think you can handle it?
やりますね。 つぎのパターンは ポン太くんも叩くヨ！	Good work. For the next pattern, Ponta will play too!
おぉ、すごい！ つぎのは　ちょっと テクニカルだヨ！	Wow, great! The next one's a little more technical!
くっ、てごわい！！ こうなったら とっておきのやつだ！	Heh, you're pretty good! Looks like it's time for our trump card!

If the player wins:

Japanese	Translation
まいりました！ あなたの勝ちです！！	We lose! You win!
また、あそんでネ！	Come play with us again sometime!

If the player fails a pattern:

Attempts Left	Japanese	Translation
2	やりなおし！ チャンスはあと2回。 がんばって！	One more time! You get two more tries. Good luck!
1	やりなおし！ ラストチャンス！ 集中！！	Try again! This is your last chance! Concentrate!

If the player loses:

Japanese	Translation
ブブー！！ ゲームオーバーです！ ボクたちの勝ちでーす！	Boo! Game over! Looks like we win!
また挑戦してネ！	Take us on again sometime!

Rhythm Games

Karate Man

Unused Background

These are background graphics that go unused in the first Karate Man rhythm game. They can be activated if 0x089CFF05 is changed to 0x01 in a memory viewer.

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  This (non-karate) man appears when you get an input right...

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  ...while this other man appears when you either barely hit an input, or when you hit a rock when you don't have enough flow (you can tell how much flow you have with the hearts that appear in the normal game).

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  This last man appears if you might have missed an input.

Spaceball

Unused Sprites

A flowerpot with a face, an apple, and a star all go unused. The apple was most likely replaced with the rice ball, and the star is a graphical replacement for the baseball since it can be activated by changing the baseball GFX.

Unused Variants

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There are two unused variants of Spaceball present in the game's file. Both variants use the second minigame selection track.

Remix 1

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: Add the videos of the dance classes to the prerelease page, they feature a variant of the song from this Remix.

Located on page 8 of the Debug Menu, labeled as ダンスレッスン1 (Dance Lesson 1), is an early version of Remix 1! This version of Remix 1 is a minute longer than the final, using unused portions of Remix 1's music (with a few parts of it being reused in Remix 7). The most interesting thing to note is that Rhythm Tweezers is absent in this version and has been replaced by Tap Trial! This implies that it was either originally in Stage 1 but was then moved to Stage 5 later in development.

It's named "Dance Lesson 1" after the dance classes the development team had to take during the game's development, as recommended by Tsunku♂.

(Source: https://www.1101.com/nintendo/rythm_heaven2/06.html)

Bunny Hop

There are two unused sprites for the A button and D-Pad within the Bunny Hop sprite sheets. The game might have been planned to have the A button and D-Pad interchangeably, similar to Rhythm Tweezers.

Space Dance

To do: Re-rip these graphics with a transparent background. We also don't need that second image, and can just use text to explain it.

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  The unused English letters here can spell out any number of words, including "down", "punch", and "right".

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  Japanese words are displayed during the tutorial, and they mean essentially the same thing as the unused English text. For example, "パンチ" means "punch."

Night Walk

To do: As seen in the arcade port page, there are also some unused sprites of Play-Yan, including one where he crouches, like in the Play-Yan minigame JUMP. Rip those sprites.

A crab and a duck, which both go unused. These might have been a reference to the Play-Yan for the Game Boy Micro.

An unused sound for Play-Yan screaming. This could have been used when Play-Yan fell off of the stairs after the steps disappeared. It doesn't appear in its sequel either, suggesting it was cut before either one was finished.

Toss Boys

To do: Rip the sound effects instead of having two separate YouTube videos.

Located within Toss Boy's soundbank are some unused SFX. With new SFX, comes new combos. These include:

• Aka-Chan saying "Ao-Kun" in a louder, longer fashion;
• Aka-Chan saying "Kii-Yan" in a faster manner;
• Aka-Chan saying "Kii-Yan" in a louder, longer fashion;
• Aka-Chan's 3 Grunts (Hoomph);
• Kii-Yan saying "Aka-Chan" in a louder, longer fashion;
• Kii-Yan saying "Ao-Kun" in a louder, longer fashion;
• Aka-Chan saying "Hey!";
• Ao-Kun saying "Pachi!," a Japanese onomatopoeia for a clap

Tap Trial

To do: Rip and add the unused Pig sprites along with the unused sprites for the Remix 5 and Remix 7 variations of Tap Trial.

There are a few unused sprites meant to replace the giraffe for the different versions of Tap Trial, but only the original giraffe ever appears in the final game. Remix 7 would've utilized the dragon, and Tap Trial 2 might have, at one point, used the camel.

The Pigs from Remix 7 also have finished sprites for jump taps and triple taps, which are not used in the final game. The girl that is used in this version winks if you do a jump tap correctly. These sprites can be seen by editing the memory values at memory address 0x089D1CA1 to 0x02.

Rap Women

This unused variant of Rap Women can be found on Page 6 of the Debug Menu, labeled as ラップウイメン(by KAZU), with the other option, labelled as "by YONE", being the version used in-game. This version is likely named after Kazuyoshi Osawa, the Chief Director of Rhythm Tengoku; similarly to how the used "YONE" version is named after Masami Yone, who was the game's Sound Director.

The audio cues in this version are placed differently than that of the used version, most of which being on offbeats. It was likely changed to make the song flow better with the lines from the characters, however this has yet to be proven true.

Ratings Screen

Unused Graphics

Early versions of the OK and Try Again graphics.

This directly translates to "Norikan Check", with "Norikan" being the Japanese term for "Flow". This appears over the white oval with text that serves as the caption on the rating screen after completing certain unused games in the debug menu.

Rhythm Test

Unused Graphics

To do: There are unused, earlier versions of the Rhythm Test present that are still accessible via the Debug Menu, document them.

Sprites of a cowbell are present within the Rhythm Test's graphics, it might have once been intended to be used for a timer's ending tone.

Game Select

Graphics from an earlier version of the Game Select screen. "Rhythm IQ" was a working title for this game.

Rhythm Toys

Meow Mixer

To do: Technical stuff.

These graphics go unused in Meow Mixer normally, they show different Japanese characters.

Japanese	Translation
耳はスピーカー ボタンはOBJに します	Ears are speakers Button to OBJ To do

Rap Machine

Hidden in the background layer for this game is an early version of the "controller".

Unused Text

Japanese	Translation
なっとくの　せいかくさ	Natoku no Seikakusa
レッスン（じっせん８）	Lesson (Experiment 8)
リズムお習字 ２	Power Calligraphy 2

Some unused text that isn't used in-game. There would have been an eighth Drum Lesson experiment, and Power Calligraphy doesn't have a sequel version in the final game, so these are unused. The second text string can be seen in the Debug Menu, and the third text string can be seen in the unused Gameplay History, also featured in the Debug Menu.