Rock Band Unplugged

Rock Band Unplugged
Developers: Harmonix, Backbone Entertainment Publisher: MTV Games Platform: PlayStation Portable Released in US: June 9, 2009 (Retail UMD Version), October 1, 2009 (PSN “Lite” Version) Released in EU: June 9, 2009 (Retail UMD Version), October 1, 2009 (PSN “Starter Pack” Version) This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article

Rock Band Unplugged is the first foray of the Rock Band series into exclusively portable rocking. It’s also the first game in the series to have the sole player play multiple instruments as part of the same song.

The game also represents an unusual downloadable content model, with two full released versions of the game; one with the usual library of 41 included tracks, and another, exclusively downloadable to the PSP Go system, featuring 5 tracks, a coffee-sized price tag (or a free download voucher with your new North American PSP Go, you lucky devil!), and a focus on downloadable content.

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Prototype Info

Revisional Differences

The retail and downloadable releases of the game feature the 1.00 and 1.01 version labels respectively, and bring along with them big differences in track list size, as well as several text and graphical revisions.

Changes for PSP Go Exclusivity

The download- and PSP Go-exclusive “Lite” (North America) or “Starter Pack” (Europe) version of the game brings with instructional imagery of the PSP Go itself, rather than the more traditional PSP silhouette used in the UMD release. Neither version of the game can detect which console variant it’s running on, so they in fact differentiated by release of the game, not by console.

Retail Version	Downloadable Version

All autosave screens also directly refer to the PSP Go’s Memory Stick Micro (M2) over the other PSPs’ Memory Stick Duo.

Retail Version	Downloadable Version

Text Changes

The downloadable game has some text changes. These include updated, spelling-corrected and rearranged credits, more references to the PSP Go and Memory Stick Micro (M2) devices, as well as some more interesting changes to the pool of random band name parts.

Band Name Parts

One change was made to the pool of English-, German- and Italian-language band name suffixes, in TEXT/STR_EN_BANDNAME_B.TXT, TEXT/STR_GE_BANDNAME_B.TXT and TEXT/STR_IT_BANDNAME_B.TXT; “Smiths” was replaced with “Babies.”

Retail Version	Downloadable Version
Icarus Smiths Spiral	Icarus Babies Spiral

Spanish made a similar, though localised, change in TEXT/STR_SP_BANDNAME_B.TXT, replacing “Smiths” with “Bebés.”

Retail Version	Downloadable Version
Ícaro Smiths Espiral	Ícaro Bebés Espiral

There was a similar story in French, TEXT/STR_FR_BANDNAME_B.TXT replaced “SÉPARATISTES” with “CACOPHONIQUES.”

Retail Version	Downloadable Version
CANONISÉS SÉPARATISTES ET LES POULPES	CANONISÉS CACOPHONIQUES ET LES POULPES

Loading Screen Tips

Though the downloadable version’s loading times are significantly faster than off a spinning disc, it made some changes to the loading screen tips. Two were removed in all languages, likely for referring to content that no longer existed, and for being a bit mean-spirited.

Retail Version	Downloadable Version
Discover songs and travel the world by taking your band on Tour.	(Removed)

Retail Version	Downloadable Version
Think Expert is too easy? Try earning a perfect score on Painkiller.	(Removed)

And the one cute tip which referred to the PSP’s hardware was changed to refer to the correct PSP. This tip only refers to the console by name in English (in TEXT/STR_EN_GAMEPLAY_TIPS.TXT), so other languages’ versions of this tip remain unchanged.

Retail Version	Downloadable Version
Shaking the PSP® system will not make you go into Overdrive, no matter how hard you try. Press [color=0xffFFFFFF][font=ButtonsSM]А[color=default][font=FakirMED] instead! (default controls)	Shaking the PSP®go system will not make you go into Overdrive, no matter how hard you try. Press [color=0xffFFFFFF][font=ButtonsSM]А[color=default][font=FakirMED] instead! (default controls)