JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Phantom Blood

JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Phantom Blood is an adaptation of the first part of the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Unused Textures#

Debugging Font#

Present at offset 0xE24F0 in the game's executable is a compressed and swizzled font texture used for debugging purposes. The game always loads the texture into RAM, but never uses it.

Placeholder Portrait#

Inside the files of Chapter 8's third cutscene is a placeholder portrait of Jonathan Joestar smiling from Chapter 18 of the manga.

Unused Hint Screens#

While every main story battle has a hint screen, only six of them are used in-game.

Hint Screen	Translation
	Battle #01 vs. Bullies Beat the bullies!
	Battle #02 vs. Dio Brando A boxing match against Dio!
	Battle #03 vs. Dio Brando Defend Erina's honor!
	Battle #04 vs. Dio Brando Investigate the suspicious Dio by defeating him!
	Battle #05 vs. Speedwagon Defeat Speedwagon and his gang!
	Battle #06 vs. Police Zombies Defeat the zombie constables!
	Battle #09 vs. Jack the Ripper Defeat Jack the Ripper!
	Battle #11 vs. Zombie Knights Defeat the zombie knights!
	Battle #12 vs. Zombie Knights Defeat the zombie knights!
	Battle #14 vs. Bruford Defeat Bruford!
	Battle #15 vs. Zombie Knights Escape to the Chamber of the Two-Headed Dragon!
	Battle #16 vs. Tarkus Fight Tarkus to save Jonathan.
	Battle #17 vs. Tarkus Defeat Tarkus!
	Battle #18 vs. Mr. Adams Defeat the zombified Adams!
	Battle #19 vs. Mystery Man Defeat the mystery man that suddenly appeared!
	Battle #20 vs. Doobie the Monster Defeat Doobie the Monster!
	Battle #21 vs. Executed Zombies Defeat the Executed Zombies!
	Battle #22 vs. Needle Vein Zombies Defeat the Needle Vein Zombies! Note: Page, Plant, Jones and Bonham are not given a collective group name in the series; the name in the mission comes from their common technique they share, the Needle Vein Strike.
	Battle #23 vs. Vampire DIO Defeat Vampire DIO!
	Battle #25 vs. DIO and the Three Knights Defeat Vampire DIO and the Three Knights!

Unused Text#

Present in the battle dialogue data for Chapter 8 is unused text instructing the player how to charge an attack with the R1 button.

Erina has an unused line in Chapter 23's second cutscene.

Within the files for Speedwagon and Tonpetty's Heat Attacks, there is unused text left over from Jonathan Joestar's Heat Attack.

Unused Audio#

The file gameover.adx, evidently intended for a game over screen.