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Parasite Eve

Debug Room#

Endless Void Storage Co., for your convenient storage and cheating needs.

There is a debug room! Yes, there is.

Throw the following codes into your GameShark:

D009D0F0 0003
8009D280 6048
D009D0F0 0003
3009D282 0006

Then, while in-game, hit L2 and R2 at the same time to be whisked away to a black room full of talkative boxes. Yeah, nothing fun like Masato Kato's room, it's all business here.

Front Left Chest#

This chest gives you items to make testing easier.

  • Cancel
  • Gun 1 (Gives you a bunch of guns.)
  • Gun 2 (Gives you a different bunch of guns.)
  • Gun 3 & Armor (Again, gun bundle (gundle?), but with some armor too!)
  • Armor & Items (Yyyup.)
  • Items (A bunch of different items.)

Top Left Chest#

This chest seems to be focused on skipping stuff.

  • Cancel
  • Battle OFF (Turns battles off. Handy!)
  • Battle ON (Turns battles back on.)
  • Get weapon & armor (Another batch of guns and armor.)
  • Event skip (Lets you skip game events.)

Top Middle Chest#

This chest lets you warp to different points in the game.

  • Cancel
  • Next page
  • Opening
  • Under Theatre
  • Sewer 1
  • Theatre Exterior
  • NYPD -Day1-
  • Museum -Day1-
  • NYPD -Meeting-
  • Central Park
  • NYPD -After CP-
  • Police Barricade
  • Soho
  • Museum -Day2-
  • NYPD Battle
  • Hospital
  • NYPD EVE Meeting
  • Chinatown
  • Warehouse
  • Sewer 2
  • Subway
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Museum Final
  • Street
  • Aircraft Carrier
  • Helicopter
  • Statue of Liberty
  • Cruiser
  • Port
  • Theatre Epilogue
  • Chrysler 1F
  • Chrysler 71F
  • Chrysler 77F

Top Right Chest#

More warping!

  • Cancel
  • Next Page
  • Theatre-NYPD
  • NYPD- Museum1
  • Museum1-NYPD
  • NYPD-Central Park
  • Soho-Museum2
  • Museum2-NYPD Bt1
  • NYPD- Hospital
  • Hospital-NYPD
  • Museum3-Big Blobby
  • NAVY Attack!

Front Middle Chest#

This chest grants you the Chrysler Building keys.

  • Cancel
  • Next Page
  • Get 10F Key
  • Get 20F Key
  • Get 30F Key
  • Get 40F Key
  • Get 50F Key
  • Get 60F Key
  • Get 70F Key

Front Right Chest#

More items!

  • Cancel
  • Get Poisons (Gives you a bunch of medicines.)
  • Get Bullets (Gives ammo!)
  • Get Status Items (Gives a bunch of curative items)
  • Get Tools, etc. (Gives revives and stat increasing items.)
  • Get Tune up Items (Gives stat increasing and tuneup items.)

(Source: Odin)

Unused Ability#

Parasiteeve_ability_rsteal.png

Decreases Items Stolen

None of the armors used in-game are equipped with this ability.

Unused Graphics#

Several inventory icons remain unused. Parasiteeve_icon_11.png   Parasiteeve_icon_23.png   Parasiteeve_icon_24.png   Parasiteeve_icon_25.png   Parasiteeve_icon_30.png

Unused Locations#

NYPD 17th precinct - Weapons Department

map_1a   map_1b   map_2  

Unused precinct maps, presumably meant to be an extension of the Weapons Department.

Unused Enemy Data#

The Alligator found in the sewers on Day 1 has a 2nd set of enemy data for the tail. This includes an unused item drop and item steal data.

Item Drop: Range +2 OR PE +2
Steal: Range +1 OR PE +1

Regional Differences#

Opening Movie#

Japan

North America

Watch on YouTube

Watch on YouTube

The opening movie is slightly different in the Japanese version. It displays a quote from "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins as well as various quotes from the game's characters. Additionally, the intro has different animations for the day names.

Text

Japanese

Translated

Prologue

"遺伝子は自分の子孫を多く残す事のみを考える"
リチャード・ドーキンス

"Genes only care about producing as many offspring as possible."
Richard Dawkins

Day 1

『大丈夫なのか?ゆっくり休んでりゃいいものを。』
『そうしたいけど、ゆうべの事件の真相は私しか知らないもの。』

"Are you okay? You should get some rest."
"I'd like to, but only I know the truth about what happened last night."

Day 2

『で、人体自然発火ってのは本当なのか?』
『正確には自然発火ではないわ。発火させられるの。』

"So, is spontaneous human combustion really a thing?"
"Actually, it's not spontaneous combustion. You can make yourself combust."

Day 3

『軍の仕事じゃないんですか?』
『我々が動くという事は本来あってはならない事なのだ。』

"Isn't that the military's job?"
"We shouldn't be moving in the first place."

Day 4

『・・・NY市警が、なぜミトコンドリアなどに興味を?』
『昨夜おきた事件の犯人が"ミトコンドリアが解放される日"・・・と言ったのです。』

"Why is the NYPD interested in mitochondria?"
"The perpetrator of the crime that happened last night said that this is the day mitochondria will be liberated."

Day 5

『なぜだ?なぜ、人間の側につく?』
『当然よ。私は人間だもの。』

"Why? Why side with the humans?"
"It's obvious. I'm human."

Day 6

『私も・・・化物かも知れない。』
『もしかしたら私があなた達を殺してしまうかも知れない・・・』

"I might be a monster too."
"Maybe I'll end up killing you all..."

Title Screen#

Japan

North America

Compared to the English version, the Japanese title screen has a brighter smoke effect, ring and font, thinner font, halo is angled slightly more vertical, and the katakana title of the game is displayed.

Tutorial#

Japan

North America

The background the Japanese tutorial appears to be based off an official semi-nude sketch of Aya, while the North American version of Aya is covered up.

Japan

North America

Parasiteeve_tutorial2_1_jp.png
Parasiteeve_tutorial2_7_jp.png

Parasiteeve_tutorial2_1_na.png
Parasiteeve_tutorial2_5_na.png

Tutorial #2 (Icons) use different backgrounds.

Japan

North America

Tutorial #5 (Tools & Mods) use different backgrounds. The Japanese one is a recycle of the image used in Tutorial #2.

Name Input#

Japan

Parasiteeve_naming_aya1_jp.png Parasiteeve_naming_aya2_jp.png Parasiteeve_naming_aya3_jp.png

North America

For naming Aya, your custom armor and your custom weapon, the Japanese version offers hiragana and katakana characters in addition to what the English version offers, plus the menu buttons that allow players to switch between the lists, but limits the character count to 6. Curiously, the Japanese default name is "Aya" in English, while everyone else's names (Save for Maya and Eve) are written in Japanese.

Day Screens#

All the day screens are similar between the Japanese and English versions, except for the placement of the English word and kanji in the bottom corner of the Japanese one.

Japan

North America

融合 Pronounced yu'u'go'u. Translates to Fusion.

Japan

North America

淘汰 Pronounced to'u'ta. Translates to Selection, though with a hint/implication that is biological.

Japan

North America

受胎 - pronounced ju'ta'i. Refers to taking within the womb, effectively to conceive.

Japan

North America

解放 - Pronounced ka'i'ho'u. Translates to Liberate, with an implication of freedom.
Japanese and North American Day 5 names are switched around.

Japan

North America

進化 - Pronounced shi'n'ka. Translates to Evolution
Japanese and North American Day 6 names are switched around.

Boss Stats#

Some of the bosses have more HP in the Japanese version.

Bosses

Japan

North America

Triceratops

850+1000 HP

750+900 HP

T-Rex

2600 HP

2400 HP

Eve (4th form)

2300+1700+1900 HP

1600+1750+1900 HP

Eve (5th form)

2300 HP

2200 HP

Ultimate Being (2nd form)

1800+1200 HP

1500+950 HP

Ultimate Being (3rd form)

4300 HP

3500 HP

(Source: Forbidden-Siren.ru)

References#


  1. SQUARESOFT Press Release↩︎
  2. GDR プレイステーション ソフト一覧 1998年 - PlayStation Software List 1998↩︎