Dead or Alive: Dimensions

Prototype Info SpotPass exclusive contentCostumes and challenges that were distributed through SpotPass, now inaccessible through conventional means.

Unused Sprites#

menu_all_noe.arc#

These are old icons and some unused ones for the main menu. These have a lighter shade of blue compared to the actual icons in the final.

Costume and Model Oddities#

There are many oddities concerning the costumes, but note the following:

• Every character has a monochromatic CTEST1 model, each with a filename in the format ###_CTEST1. "###" is generally a three letter ID, generally of the character's name, though some (as an heritage of previous Dead or Alive), doesn't follow this rule.
• Though not really noticeable in-game, each character's shadow is a low-quality 3D model which barely resembles the character when it's not a generic model altogether.
• Meshes inside the .bcmdl directory have a lot of Engrish or misspelled words, see below.
• Kasumi's (and her clones) katana and wakizashi can be referred to interchangeably, though according to official media, it is technically a wakizashi, despite the mesh saying it's a katana.
• RTM folder contains a file RTM_000.bcmdl, which is a dummy model.
• A female CTEST1 model in dark blue is used by multiple characters, regardless of gender, including, but not limited to: Alpha-152, Kasumi-α (Alpha) and Donovan.
• Adding costumes for characters for a character that never received any SpotPass costumes, whether it works or not, will cause the "A new costume was unlocked" message to display, which normally cannot be seen at all for some characters as they also lacks an unlockable costume. To do so, there is currently 2 techniques :
  • the first one (and quite frankly frighteningly stupid), replacing an existing SpotPass costume by replacing the .bcmdl, though (if it work) doing so will cause the costume to bug out (one example is the charm on Kasumi Alpha's katana extending to the middle of the stage), but still be playable regardless or not work and not showing much else outside of the message due to the careless nature of the swapping.
  • The second and much smarter technique would be to hex edit the ecb_costume_data.ecb file in the ecb folder.

Stages#

A dozen of what seem test stages exist recognizable as their names follow a T## format where ## is between 00 and 19. Most of them are a flat plain but some are of interest as they are part of stages or for other reasons:

• Lorelei (or part of it)
• Fallen Miyama (or part of it)
• Kyoto in bloom (or part of it)
• Top of the towers of the level 999 Meters
• A flat plain but with different texture
• The normal test stage but with a tree from Kyoto in bloom
• The lowest level of Freedom Survivor
• A slope test with Japanese text on it, the text in purple is not visible

• The Danger Zone
• Tao (or part of it)
• The lower part of Frozen Peaks

There is also multiple other stages that doesn't follow this formatting, those test stages are different.

Other#

In ecb_costume_data.ecb, for some reasons, the first character on the list is Leon when hexediting and Zack when done in other way.