Taiko no Tatsujin: Doki! Shinkyoku Darake no Haru Matsuri

Taiko no Tatsujin: Doki! Shinkyoku Darake no Haru Matsuri
Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: March 27, 2003 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has debugging material.

Taiko no Tatsujin: Doki! Shinkyoku Darake no Haru Matsuri was the second game on the Taiko no Tatsujin series to be released on home systems. It includes songs up to Taiko no Tatsujin 4, along with brand new originals.

Unused Graphics

Taiko no Tatsujin: Tatakon de Dodon Ga Don Leftovers

Several leftovers from Taiko no Tatsujin: Tatakon de Dodon Ga Don, the previous home installment, are still present in the data, including graphics for the Title Screen and Ending sequences.

Title Screen

Ending Sequence

Credits Text

(Source: tikal.)

Arcade Leftovers

Leftovers from Taiko no Tatsujin 3, also brought over from Taiko no Tatsujin: Tatakon de Dodon Ga Don.

Donderful! Course Leftovers

Course Selection Screen

Song Selection Screen

Results Screen

Other

Leftover credit counter graphics.

Leftover graphics for a timer, along with an "Infinite Stage" counter.

(Source: tikal.)

Debug Functions

Entering the code below boots the game to a debug menu and toggles a "debug pause". The former contains "warps" to many of the game's screens, while the latter contains several content viewers, much like Taiko no Tatsujin: Tatakon de Dodon Ga Don, although some of these options were changed a little. The controls are independent of controller.

Boot To Debug Menu
20120500 24100107
20120504 A63001A8

(Source: Punk7890 (code), tikal. (initial discovery, cataloging))

Debug Menu

Press Up and Down to navigate through the options, and Left and Right to switch through them. Pressing Circle or X selects a screen. Note that any of the warps will display sprites without transparency, and there is no actual input in them independent of settings used.

INFO

A configurations menu for the warps in the main debug menu. Pressing Circle, Square, Triangle, or X will leave the screen. There are seven pages of options available.

Page	Description
GAME	Changes general values for most of the screens such as song, mode, and players available.
RESULT	Changes the score values in case one wants to access the song result screen.
TOTAL 1	Changes the songs displayed in case one wants to access the total results screen.
TOTAL 2	Changes the scoring and titles displayed in case one wants to access the total results screen.
RANKING	Changes the names, scoring, and titles displayed in case one wants to access the name ranking screen.
BATTLE RESULT	Changes the score values in case one wants to access the battle result screen.
RACE	Despite being accessible, its options very likely don't work, as the 100M Race and Boston Marathon minigames are not present in this game.

"Warps"

Warp	Description
OPENING	Displays a black screen. Judging by the name, it was likely meant to display the game's opening movie.
TITLE	Warps the player to the game's title screen.
ACCEPT	No longer works, as it displays a black screen.
COURSE SELECT	Warps the player to the difficulty select screen.
MUSIC SELECT	Warps the player to the music select screen.
RESULT	Warps the player to the song results screen.
TOTAL	Warps the player to the total results screen.
NAME	Warps the player to the name entry screen.
RANKING	Warps the player to the ranking screen.
BATTLE RESULT	Warps the player to the battle results screen.
100M RACE	As the 100M Race minigame is absent from this game, this now warps to the Galadon minigame screen.
BOSDON	As the Boston Marathon minigame is absent from this game, this now warps to the Janken minigame screen.
MENU	Warps the player to the main menu.
RULE	No longer works, as it displays a black screen.
HIDE	Warps the player to the "Song Unlocked!" screen.
GAME OVER	No longer works, as it displays a black screen.

Debug Pause

Aside from the text being moved slightly to the left, making it impossible to determine which option is "overlayed", this Debug Pause menu is the same compared to its previous appearance. Press Start to display the debug pause menu and select options, Up and Down to navigate through the options, and Left and Right to switch through them. Holding L1, L2, R1 or R2 hides the debug pause.

Option	Description
CONTINUE	Closes the debug pause menu.
DISPLAY	Display options, such as screen resolution and effects.
CAMERA	Camera options.
LIGHT	Light options.
IMAGE	An image/screen viewer.
SOUND	Doesn't work, instead disabling the debug pause. Presumably a sound test menu.
MOVIE	A movie displayer. Doesn't work.
MEMORY	Doesn't work. Presumably a memory viewer.
TASK	Doesn't work.
FILE	Doesn't work.

Development-Related Text

Build Date

A build date is present at offset 0x490B28 of file SLPS_202.72.

Mar 11 2003 20:09:00

(Source: tikal.)

Debug Menu Leftovers?

Text for another debug menu is present at offset 0x490BCC of file SLPS_202.72. It's the same text as seen in Taiko no Tatsujin: Tatakon de Dodon Ga Don. Line breaks were added for readability.

START MENU

SYS MODE
OPENING
SUB MODE
ISSHIKI
PS2 EXEC
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COUNTRY
LANGUAGE
JAPANESE
ENGLISH
FILE MODE
PC READ
CD READ
ROM READ
DEBUG

(Source: tikal.)