Monthly Archives: September 2020

Earliest PS2 build of Bionicle 2: City of Legends found!

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Recently, I managed to secure another PS2 build of Bionicle 2: City of Legends. This is the third PS2 build of the game I have received, and it is particularly special. This build is from a former Argonaut Games developer, and it is the earliest build of the game known to exist. Compared to the other City of Legends builds, this one is vastly different. This build contains two different levels, and both are in a very early state. This build also has scrapped gameplay elements which are not present in any of the other builds. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this build is that Matau’s model closely resembles the art in the pitch document I received back in April!

You can download this build from the retail games page, or this link.

Gameplay can be found here.

The Sound of Updates 2: Stock Music Edition

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Music

We are happy to bring you a big music update today! Included are many stock music tracks that were used in a variety of trailers and promotional material for Bionicle over the years. They’re all in their own album that you can download or stream from the music page (scroll down to the Misc section).

We’re also planning a gradual transition to FLAC over mp3 where possible – you can see this reflected in the changes.

And there’s plenty more new beyond that! Here’s the changelog:

Music 2.2.3

  • General
    • Various albums had slight name changes and album art changes
  • Animation Music
    • Renamed TLR and JTO albums for consistency
  • Game Music
    • Redid Quest for the Toa soundtrack in better quality, added HQ Kopaka track from Huai Snowball Sling standalone release
    • Quest for the Toa and Heroes GBA downloads include midis and tracker modules respectively
    • Heroes Mobile and Challenge/Defenders downloads have been updated to their original midis
    • Updated Legend of Mata Nui soundtrack. Download now includes WAVs from Dave Madden
    • Added beta placeholder tracks to Bionicle Heroes soundtrack
    • Updated Bionicle Heroes GBA soundtrack to use HQ versions from Tom Miller
    • Renamed Bionicle Heroes mobile track names
    • Renamed Mask of Control track names
    • Updated City of Legends music to PS2 versions (which are better!)
    • Removed Agori Defender music (source now in stock music)
  • Stock Music
    • Added stock music
  • Miscellaneous
    • Removed tracks that now have full versions in the stock music album
  • Added links to Spotify playlists of music we can’t host to downloads