Guitar Hero: World Tour (PlayStation 2)

To do:
Document the Settings debug sub menu.

Guitar Hero: World Tour now lets you play as the whole band, leaving even more plastic instruments to clutter the living room. Also, this game includes a simple editor to make your own songs, not to mention that it now uses the original song masters from the artists themselves instead of covers done by WaveGroup.

Due to platform limitations, the PS2 conversion uses polygonal models of characters laid on top of pre-rendered backgrounds taken from the main console releases.

Debug Mode#

Applying the below RAW codes on the USA release of the game (SLUS-21781, 54C3926E CRC) will enable a debug mode and open a debug menu in the main menu and in the pause screen.

Effect	Code
Open Debug Menu	2028081C 24020000
Display Debug Stats	20139168 00000000

(Source: Original TCRF research)

DEBUG MENU#

Menu Option	Notes
Toggle Bot	Enables the player to automatically hit all notes correctly.
Unlock All (be patient, make yourself a cup of tea...)	Unlocks everything.
Widescreen	Toggles widescreen.
Progressive Scan	Enables progressive mode.
Repeat Last Song	Repeats the last song played.
Play Song	Allows you to quickly select a song and mode.
Settings	Enters a sub menu.
Debug_Audiable_HitNote	Unknown.
Check CAS Assets	Unknown.
Dump Heap	Unknown.
Character Select	Allows changing of characters on-stage, though doesn't seem to work perfectly.
Skip Into Song	Presumably skips to points in the song.
Save Replay Buffer	Unknown.
Load Replay Buffer	Unknown.
Play Credits	Plays the end credits.
Model Viewer	Would open a model viewer, but doesn't appear to work correctly.
Difficulty Analyzer	Shows a screen with song information.
Toggle Changelist Number	Enables some debug information.
Roland Drumkit	Likely enables use of a special drumkit.
Guitar motion	Enables some debug information.
Toggle Lightshow debug	Enables some debug information.
Color Calibration	Doesn't appear to work.
UI Physics Test	Opens a menu to test on-screen graphics and icons.
Repeat Last Song With Intro	Restarts the song.
Play into	Plays an intro of a song.
Increase Band Money by 100k Credits	Increases band money.
Bankrupt Band	You guessed it.
Toggle FPS Display	Enables an FPS counter.

Settings#

Menu Option	Notes
Allow Controller for All Instruments: Off	Toggles classic GH1~3-styled DualShock compatibility and control scheme (E.G. L1, L2, R1, R2 and X for guitar).
Change Venue	Untested.
Change Guitar	Untested.
Change Bass	Untested.
Toggle visibility...	Untested.
Select Slomo : 1.000	Untested.
Show Measures : off	Untested.
Show Song Stars : off	Untested.
Stereo Sound: ON	Untested.
Show Song Time : off	Untested.
Show Camera Name : off	Untested.
Show Input Log : off	Untested.
Rock Meter Debug : off	Untested.
Volumes On Screen : off	Untested.
Lag Test Part 1 : off	Untested.
Lag Test Part 2 : off	Untested.
Lag Test Part 3 : off	Untested.
PS2 Input Logic Lag Value: -60	Untested.
PS2 Gem Lag Value: -55	Untested.
PS2 Audio Lag Value: 0	Untested.
Toggle Bot P1: Off	Untested.
Toggle Bot P2: Off	Untested.
Toggle Bot P3: Off	Untested.
Toggle Bot P4: Off	Untested.
Toggle Star P1: Off	Untested.
Toggle Star P2: Off	Untested.
Toggle Star P3: Off	Untested.
Toggle Star P4: Off	Untested.
Set Hyperspeed P1: 1.000	Untested.
Set Hyperspeed P2: 1.000	Untested.
Set Hyperspeed P3: 1.000	Untested.
Set Hyperspeed P4: 1.000	Untested.
Input Log Lines: 10	Untested.
Show Tilt : off	Untested.
Lefty Flip : off	Untested.
Select CameraCut	Untested.
Toggle GPU Time	Untested.
Toggle CPU Time	Untested.
Force Score : off	Untested.
Vocals Freeform Always: Off	Untested.

Build Dates#

Two different build dates are present, as with every Guitar Hero game after III.

Date = Aug 21 2008 Time 16:36:41

Dumping from elf built on %s at %s
Aug 19 2008
18:47:49

Development-Related Text#

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and 3 (?!?) related strings are present in every Guitar Hero after III.

http://www.thug3online.com/testmotd.dat
http://www.thug3online.com/motd.dat

THUG2 Viewer

THUG2
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NTSC
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A bit of placeholder text.

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v · t · e The Guitar Hero series

PlayStation 2
Main Series	Guitar Hero (Prototype) • Guitar Hero II (Prototypes) • Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock • Guitar Hero: World Tour • Guitar Hero 5
Band-Specific	Aerosmith • Metallica • Van Halen
Expansions	Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80's (Prototype) • Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
Spin-Offs	Band Hero • DJ Hero

Wii
Main Series	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock • Guitar Hero 5 • Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
Band-Specific	Van Halen
Expansions	Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
Spin-Offs	DJ Hero • DJ Hero 2

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Main Series	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Prototype) • Guitar Hero: World Tour • Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock (Prototype)
Spin-Offs	DJ Hero • DJ Hero 2

Windows, Mac OS X
Main Series	Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock • Guitar Hero: World Tour

Nintendo DS
On Tour	On Tour • Decades • Modern Hits
Spin-Offs	Band Hero

Arcade
Main Series	Guitar Hero: Arcade