Taiko no Tatsujin RT: Nihon no Kokoro

Taiko no Tatsujin RT: Nihon no Kokoro
Also known as: Taiko no Tatsujin: Nihon no Kokoro (title screen) Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Platform: Arcade (Namco System 10) Released in JP: November 2004 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has a notes page

Taiko no Tatsujin RT: Nihon no Kokoro is a bit of a peculiar entry in the series: Rather than arcades, the game was meant to be played in hospitals; the "RT" stands for "rehabilitation", and it was used to help injured people recover their limb strength rather than to make players showcase their skill. In fact, the game's song list is almost entirely composed of simple arrangements of shouka and folk songs, and few charts exceed even 70 notes (with the longest chart having 118 notes).

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Notes

Unused Chart

The song Shunkashuutou Dondokodon has a few additional charts in the game's data, labeled as F4KI_B, F4KI_D, F4KI_H, and F4KI_M (for reference, the used chart IDs are F4KI_E for the Easy difficulty and F4KI_N for Normal). Their contents are the same, and consist of 50 measures of Don (red) notes on every beat at roughly 200 BPM.

(Source: tikal., WindyFairy)

Taiko no Tatsujin 6 Leftovers

The game is heavily based on Taiko no Tatsujin 6, the then-current mainline arcade installment of the series, and there are many graphical and sound leftovers from that game.

Graphics

Unavailable Courses

The following are graphics relating to the Muzukashii (Hard), Donderful, and Battle courses, none of which are available in this game.

Course Selection Menu

Icons

Song Select Screen

Difficulty Select Screen (after choosing a song)

Gameplay

Results/Total Results Screen

Unavailable Categories

In Taiko 6‍ '​s song selection screen before choosing a difficulty, each of the game's songs are divided into four categories: Namco Original (yellow), Kids/Anime (red), J-POP (blue), and Variety (green). However, all of this game's songs are listed under Variety, leaving all graphics for the other three categories unused.

Branches

None of this game's charts have branch paths, leaving its associated graphics unused.

Song Selection Screen

Gameplay

Others

An alternate fan graphic meant to be displayed for Player 2 in the Player entry screen, which has a different font for the text (参加). Rather than displaying this graphic, the game simply displays a palette swap of Player 1's.

Used	Unused

Graphics for song genres. Taiko RT only ever uses 4 genre graphics (Minyou/Folk song, Ondo, Shouka, and Douyou/Nursery rhyme), leaving the rest unused. There is also a tag graphic which notes that a song is an original track created specifically for the series, but the game's only original track, Shunkashuutou Dondokodon, never displays it.

Graphics of black stars, meant to be displayed alongside the flashing white stars in the song/difficulty select screens. There is also a graphic with a yellow background, though that one is used.

Leftover credit counter graphics.

(Source: tikal.)

Sounds/Music

Title Screen/Attract Demo

A sound that would play when inserting a coin.

An announcer sound line telling the player to insert more coins.

The music played when scrolling through the Hard song rankings.

Course Selection Menu

Announcer sounds that play when selecting the Hard, Donderful, and Battle courses before choosing a song.

Music Selection Menu

An announcer sound that would play when selecting the Hard difficulty after choosing a song.

Gameplay

Announcer sounds for achieving from 200 to 700 combos. As the song with the most notes in Taiko RT only reaches up to 118, these go unused.

Song Results

An announcer sound likely meant to be heard upon entering the song results screen. This is also unused in Taiko 6; Don-chan/Kat-chan wouldn't properly announce this until the next game.

Battle Results

Various announcer sounds that would play upon finishing a round on the Battle Course...

Result Announcement

Winning Player

Losing Player

Draw

...and upon finishing all rounds.

Total Result Announcement

Winning Player

Losing Player

Game Over

These sounds aren't exactly leftovers from Taiko 6, but rather Taiko 4. However, they can be found unused in the former game as well.

The first sound is a jingle that plays on the game over screen after failing a song.

The second sound is an announcer clip that plays on the game over screen after clearing all songs and viewing the credits.

(Source: tikal.)

Operator Menu Strings

There are also several leftover strings loaded in memory which were meant to be seen in the game's operator menu:

0x100EC	NUMBER OF STAGES (HARD) NUMBER OF STAGES (EXTRA) NUMBER OF STAGES(BATTLE)
0x105C8	HARDRANK

(Source: tikal.)

Build Dates

Loaded in memory are two build date strings:

0x101A4	19:07:55 Sep 15 2004
0x14104	17:23:15 Sep 9 2004

(Source: tikal.)