Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (PlayStation)

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Also known as: Marl Oukoku no Ningyou Hime: the Adventure of Puppet Princess (JP) Developer: Nippon Ichi Software Publishers: Nippon Ichi Software (JP), Atlus (US) Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: December 17, 1998 Released in US: March 30, 2000 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has regional differences.

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure is Nippon Ichi's first RPG, now with more musical numbers and giant flying pastries (a point that the American marketing campaign would really try to drive home)!

To do: Document the demo disc version, as well as the pre-release screenshots. More regional differences.

Debug Menu

Use the following code to display a debug menu after the Nippon Ichi Software logo. This debug menu is available in the US version only.

8004327C 2CD8
8004327E 8001
80043280 3B78
80043282 8001
80043284 440C
80043286 8001
80012560 2C00
80012562 0805
8014B000 0000
8014B002 2486
8014B004 8005
8014B006 3C08
8014B008 BA18
8014B00A 8104
8014B00C BA19
8014B00E 8105
8014B010 0000
8014B012 24A9
8014B014 0000
8014B016 24CA
8014B018 000A
8014B01A 240C
8014B01C 0000
8014B01E 814B
8014B020 0000
8014B022 0000
8014B024 0006
8014B026 1160
8014B028 0000
8014B02A 0000
8014B02C 0002
8014B02E 156C
8014B030 0000
8014B032 0000
8014B034 0001
8014B036 2529
8014B038 FFF8
8014B03A 1000
8014B03C 0001
8014B03E 254A
8014B040 BA19
8014B042 A109
8014B044 20C0
8014B046 0004
8014B048 F106
8014B04A 0800
8014B04C 28C0
8014B04E 0005

(Source: Original TCRF research)

GAME START

Supposedly to start the game normally, but it doesn't work.

MAP TEST

Some flag test?

MUSICAL TEST

Supposedly to play the musical song in the game, but it doesn't work.

SLG TEST

Press Left/Right to select map number, and X to start a battle. Maps #34 through #62 fail to load.

SOUND TEST

Sound test menu.

Unused Characters

Mucholy, Shirowdia, Hao, and Nyao

Palette-swaps of the game's main villains (Marjoly, Crowdia, Gao, and Myao, respectively) exist in the game. These were initially made accessible as a download through the Japanese gaming magazine Dengeki DPlaystation15, but can be still accessed in-game through PSX Emulation Cheater or a similar program by inputting the code 3004C00F 00??, where "??" is one of the following:

• 72 - Mucholy
• 73 - Shirowdia
• 74 - Hao
• 75 - Nyao

Removed Characters

Internally, there's party info for Kururu, Cherie, "Super Kururu" (Cherie's angel form), and the Prince in the code. These can be hacked back into the game through cheat codes, though doing so causes the game to malfunction to various degrees - attempting to view these characters in the Status menu throws up corrupted graphics instead of their actual sprites, and entering a battle with any of them in your party garbles the screen beyond recognition and eventually forces the game to hang completely. However, the mere inclusion of their battle data in the code may imply that these characters were at one point planned to have their own battle sequences, and/or may have been recruitable into Cornet's party.

• 3004C00F 0066 - Kururu (Character slot 1)
• 3004C033 006E - Cherie (Character slot 2)
• 3004C057 006D - S. Kururu (Character slot 3)
• 3004C07B 0067 - Prince (Character slot 4)

Dummied-Out Content

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Restricted Castle Rooms

Regardless of when you visit MotherGreen Castle, a guard always stands in the way of the Prince's room, denying you entry. However, by using the following GameShark code:

D00E311C 0093
800E311E 1000

...You can bypass the guard and enter an entire wing of the castle that has fully-programmed NPCs and interactable objects! Strangely, this wing is marked on the in-game map in the DS port, but it crashes when similar cheats are used to try to access it there, suggesting it may have been removed from that particular version.

Hidden Shopkeeper Text

By using the following GameShark code to disable wall collision:

D00E371C 0006
800E371E 2400
D00E3A94 0006
800E3A96 2400
D00E3BA8 0006
800E3BAA 2400
D00E38E8 0101
800E38EA 1000

...You can walk directly through the counters in the shops. Talking to the shopkeepers while behind the counter triggers unique dialogue. This may have been a developer Easter egg that was left in.

Unused Items

Two unused items are present in the game's code. Their intended functions are unknown, but their names and descriptions are translated in-game.

Lovestone	Revivepotion
3004BBFB 0063	3004BBFD 0063
Everything's like a dream...	Not used...

Unused Music

Several tunes go unused and do not appear in the game or any of the soundtracks. While a portion of them were definitely composed by the game's musician, Tenpei Sato, a few of them sound distinctly...off. It's unknown if these were scrapped at the last minute, placeholder tracks, or leftovers from a previous game that Nippon Ichi developed.

To do: There's more unused sound clips that can be found in the sound test written about above. Rip, describe, and add these here.

BGM.STR[10] sounds like a slower version of the used track "Beauty Castle".

BGM.STR[11] is a marching theme, complete with a marching-band-like whistle in the background. This might be an alternate victory tune.

BGM.STR[16] bears similarities to the game over theme, "Falling Star".

BGM.STR[17] an odd trumpet-heavy tune that contains the same dripping sound font as BGM.STR[10], for...some reason.

BGM.STR[18] also contains the dripping sound font, but this track is more mellow and (for lack of a better word) "retro" than the previous tracks.

BGM.STR[19] is another (short) musical segment that sounds like it was ripped from 1990s-era PBS.

BGM.STR[22] is a strange, ambient track with a MIDI chorus.

Regional Differences

Japan	US

The title screen was completely redesigned for the US version.