I've recently gotten into the music of Del the Funky Homosapien. I'm a habitual wikipedia reader and was reading through every blue link on his page and eventually got curious about the line
In 2003, "Positive Contact" from Deltron 3030 was featured in Tony Hawk's Underground and "The Izm" was featured in Rolling.
I hadn't heard of Rolling, so I checked it out and there's really not a lot about the game online, I guess it flopped. There's this page from the wayback machine, and this page from GameSpot. The wikipedia page doesn't source the claim of the song "The Izm" being on the soundtrack, and the only list of songs I can find is from the Videogame Soundtracks Wiki, which doesn't have a source either.
The game company that made Rolling seems to have gone under and is now owned by Square Enix(?) and I'm not sure how to contact the artist himself to ask about this song (or if he'd even have access to/remember a 2003 vgs track), but I can't find it anywhere. Searches for the artist (under multiple of his names he's performed under) and "The Izm" mostly just turn up stuff about the slang term 'izm' and not anything to do with a song by him. I wonder if it's a misattribution? Or a mis-named song?
I'm going to try and poke through the files on an emulator of the game but I'm not super great at that but I'll update here if I find anything!
So I've gotten as far as downloading the game files, but I'm not very good at poking around in these folders and knowing what I'm doing. There's a folder path that's Music/Hiphop/... and that folder is full of '.MIB' files, which I have no idea how to meaningfully open. Any help would be useful, I can send the .7z file for the game to anyone who might know how to pull the songs out of it
So I've gotten as far as downloading the game files, but I'm not very good at poking around in these folders and knowing what I'm doing. There's a folder path that's Music/Hiphop/... and that folder is full of '.MIB' files, which I have no idea how to meaningfully open. Any help would be useful, I can send the .7z file for the game to anyone who might know how to pull the songs out of it
Here's the games Wikipedia page, looks like the reason there's not much about it online is because it only came out in Europe(which is weird seeing as inline skating is mostly popular in America): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_(video_game)
Found some gameplay footage on Youtube, looks like another one of those cheap budget european-exclusive titles, there were a ton of these on the PS2 like White Van Racer(Blast Entertainment was a major offender in pumping out garbage like that). Though surprisingly this one got an Xbox release as well(it was also supposed to get Gamecube and GBA ports but declining interest in extreme sports titles led to them getting cancelled). Also apparently the original developer went bust before the game was finished, forcing another company to step in and finish it.
I've actually been thinking about importing the Xbox version and checking it out for myself as the original Xbox is region-free and will play a number of overseas-only titles. Unfortunately none of the lists I can find list this game and say if it's region-free or not so i'm going to ask some sellers on Ebay UK if its' region-free or not(and see if I can get some answers on that original Xbox sub-reddit)
Rolling was meant to be a whole series of games and was made in participation with real-life skaters like Jon Julio and it was supposed to come out in the U.S., but after 90% of the work was done the original studio went bankrupt and what was finished was bought by an overseas publisher and finished by an in-house team. Jon talks about it in his documentary "Barely Dead" which you can check out here:
I have all of the music files from this game. They're unlabeled so I don't know which is which, though. Though I did identify a song on here as At The Helm by Hieroglyphics which features Del, so I wonder if that's what it is.
Uploaded it to my site for downloading since idk where else to host it for now! I got all the tracks out of the hip hop folder using PSound and just listened through one by one and of course it was the last one in the folder I checked! This is awesome for me very fun search and i learned a lot about game files and stuff!