Thanks to everyone that got interested by the repo. Even if we left the project on the side we may be able to work on it. Unfortunately, it is REALLY hard to get this done as we are a really small team. And we lack motivation and knowedges as most of us never did any decompilation in the past, me included. Open-Ribbon Discord Server: [join via the github]

Woooo! This was a simple but great game, and the music was just GREAT. Also, you could pop open the PS1 CD reader, and put whatever Audio CD you had around, so you could play with custom music that, more or less, was followed by the game levels.

Love the game, even bought an E3 shirt for it from a random person via a google image search years back.

Might be worth just directly asking Masaya Matsuura about this if you get stuck, he's fairly accessible via facebook (or at least he used to be).

Also, I've done no machine learning stuff at all, but wouldn't something like Vib Ribbon be absolutely ripe for reverse engineering via finding trends in the kinds of levels produced on the basis of the kind of music played fed into them?

I love this so much. I remember reading about this game in a PS1 magazine as a kid, but I could never get my hands on it. For some reason, it stuck with me for all these years until I finally got around to making an open source Android game inspired by it: https://github.com/beat-feet/beat-feet. The idea of loading up your own MP3 files and playing levels is something I think should get a lot more mileage.

What's up with the recent blow up in popularity of this simple rhythm game woth sound generated obstacles, that is neither groundbreaking technologically and not even impressive gameplay wise, with unaccurate obstacles not matching anything really in the sound and lacking in variety?

I have first seen it like a week ago in this video essay https://youtu.be/1X6D39Cd34k where it seemed to have an adorable initial vibe, but after a minute of interaction, there is no more novelty and engaging content in it. What in this concept makes it worth our time, compared to AudioSurf, osu, PaRappa, or more recent, stunning Thumper?

Music stuck in head now.

"Ran ra ran, tanoshii na--otto!

Abunakatta!

Biburibon wa otokara umareta piisu ni awasete tadashii botan o osu geemu nan da!"

Is this legal? I know decompiling is legal in some areas for specific reasons. But I don't think that you can open source the result of that decompilation. You end up with an artifact based on something you don't have the rights to relicense.

First encountered this game about a decade ago at the TATE gallery in London on an exhibition showcasing their newly created video game collection. Was immediately taken by the soundtrack and chased it down. Fantastic game, fantastic music

I've never played the game but listened to Vib-Ribbon Blues a million times. Seeing this I took the opportunity to watch a playthrough, and wow, the singing voice is actually the character speaking in the tutorial. I had no idea.

One of my favorite games for the dev, non region locked, ps1 I have. Picked it up out of a used game bin for a couple of bucks. I still find myself humming the soundtrack.

Ahaha, this is amazing! Was only searching this on Goog cause I just bought it off ebay (I'm collecting retro games to play).

So weird to see this up from only 4 days ago. Can't wait to play it, I love the vibe of the game and the theme song/vibri are so cute!

Not sure if you are one of the people working on this. But some screenshots inthe readme would be nice for the unfamiliar :-)

This reminds me of the demo disc i got with my ps1, it had a music visualizer that also loaded into memory and then let you swap out a disc.