Rap Basketball Unreleased Games Unused Early SNES Home Improvement Songs Die 25
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Rap Basketball (USA) (Proto).sfc
An unreleased prototype game contains prototype versions of Home Improvement songs!
Tim Allen isn't playing Basketball, instead they got someone else to do the grunt while getting beamed by the ball.
Basketball game music / sound effect modifier
80A65E??
*All are early HI songs unless noted*
04 home Improvement Theme (with grunt)
05 Dialogue
06 Dinosaur Safari Sets
07 Unused Jingle 1 "Fox Interactive Losinghorn.wav"
08 Monster Theater Sets
09 Bonsai Entertainment Logo
0A Space Station Sets
0B The Temple of Tools Sets
0C Unused Jingle 2 not found in HI "Fake 20th Century Fox"
0D Set Completed
0E Unused Jingle 3 not found in HI
0F Unused Jingle 4 not found in HI
10 Unused Song not found in HI
*skipping some SE listings*
13 Grunt with music
14 Boing SE
17 Car screech SE (from Frogger?)
Jul 9
18 Boing SE (looping with sustained motor SE)
1E oof! player is hurt from HI
24 Unused Jingle 5 not found in HI
25 Die from HI (early)
2B Absolute Entertainment Logo (early)
33 Song not found in HI (seems like a reprise for the HI theme or an early "Dialogue" variation?)
34 Unused Jingle 6 not found in HI (Based off the HI motif)
38 is the last sound effect.
Some sound like they're ripped from SNES Frogger, the only difference is they play at different pitches. They probably weren't.
https://members.tripod.com/~Ross_Harris/console.html - Insight from the developer. "...We could've done a really nice platform game with the engine we came up with but, as usual, the license always conflicts with gameplay." - That makes sense and is a common problem in game development.
Bonsai was founded by Joseph Moses who was previously a programmer at Imagineering Inc.
Imagineering was internal development studio of Absolute Entertainment, who did Home Improvement. I should ask him to find out more details. Also, 18 months to develop the SNES version of HI.
Also, I'm guessing he had a ton of files from Home Improvement at some stage and just inserted them into Rap Jam as a placeholder until the project was finished. Long story short the project wasn't completed and they had to rush and find a publisher.
*BONUS NOT POSTED AT TWITTER: The prototype songs don't contain a grunt and they couldn't get the rights to Tim Allen and they probably paid big money. They ended up not using any grunt in the final build of SNES Home Improvement. Jesus christ it would have given the game so much personality instead of being a generic platformer. I'm also guessing they deliberately made the grunt not sound to avoid calling it into question.
Various sound effects appear to be from the SNES version of Frogger. This may be possible because David Lubar programmed Frogger entirely and was also a programmer for Home Improvement. Mark Van Hecke also may have been involved in Home Improvement, the composer for Ren & Stimpy - Buckeroo$ and appropriately, or inappropriatetly enough, those sound effects were also used in Frogger that I also discovered years ago.*