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KeyboardMania (PlayStation 2)

A home port of KeyboardMania, which comes with a keyboard peripheral.
Contains three additional songs and a "free" mode in which one can play whatever using preset instruments.

Build Date#

A build date can be found at 0xB0C98 of the .ELF executable. Note that it is outdated, as the latest file in the disc is dated July 27, 2000.

MTS.MASTER.KCEJ($Date: 2000/06/12 13:56:58 $)

(Source: tikal.)

Debug Menu Remnants#

Also in the game's .ELF executable are several strings from a texture viewer function, starting at offset 0xB2340.
The first set of strings reference an old version of the game's filesystem; some of the files listed no longer seem to exist. They were meant to be displayed in a selection menu:

staff.dat
glevel.dat
sound.dat
keysize.dat
test.dat
train.dat
stagefailed.dat
msel.dat
main.dat
system.dat

The second set of strings are for the texture viewer itself:

(%3d, %3d) : TEXTURE %03d
SEMI  : %d
ALPHA : %d
RGB   : %d
W, H  : %d, %d

Note that while those screens can be accessed, they are non-functional, as there is no code for the cursor position, controller input registers, and texture pointers.

(Source: tikal., punk7890)