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Placeholder Cutscene Graphics

This is a sub-page of Dark Cloud 2.

Explanation#

In almost every cutscene prior to Chapter Five that has still images overlaid on the screen, there exists placeholder images for each image that's meant to be overlaid. All these are almost all plain, black Japanese text on a white background which goes over what each image is meant to be.

Universal Placeholders#

In almost every cutscene that has overlay images prior to Chapter 3, these four placeholder images are located there as well, and do not differ from one another in the game's files, so they should be placed here first.

Chapter One#

E100 (Gate Key Tutorial)#

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Chapter Two#

E203 (Introduction of Emporer Griffon)#

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E207 (Origin Point Cutscene)#

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E207 (Holly's Backstory)#

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E212 (Spectrumization and Build-Up Tutorial)#

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E250 (Geostone Tutorial)#

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Chapter Three#

E372 (Crest shows Max and Monica Lunatic Wisdom Laboratory)#

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Chapter Four#

E428 (Dr. Nobb's Introduction)#

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Chapter Six#

E640 (Paznos vs. Moon Flower Palace)#

A screenshot of Kazarov Stonehenge is in the cutscene files and goes unused. It has no equivalent in the final cutscene, since images aren't used anywhere in it.