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Persona 4 Arena

Persona 4 Arena is a fighting game made by the team who worked on the Guilty Gear and BlazBlue series. It later got a sequel named Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.

Notable for being one of only two region-locked games on PS3 (the other being Way of the Samurai 3), which didn't exactly go over well when combined with an extremely delayed European/Australian release.

Unused Stages#

To do:
Use screenshots/footage from Persona 4 Arena, possibly from arcade build for easier use.

Shadow Labrys Transition Stage#

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Unused stage labeled bg_boss_1to2, created for the pre-rendered cutscene that occurs before the fight with Shadow Labrys in Arcade Mode. Screenshot is what the stage looks like normally (when the intro is skipped or after round 1 when intro isn’t skipped.

Unused Graphics#

Placeholder Graphics#

Gold! Silver! Crystal!

Chie Satonaka, Yu Narukami, and Naoto Shirogane all have camera sprites, which are leftovers in their sprite banks.

A placeholder icon for Yu Narukami.

An image that says kanban, or signboard.

A placeholder image dated for March 23rd, 2012—just four months before the initial release. The green bit on the right shows that this image was overwritten at least once leading up to March 23rd.

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Temporary thumbnails for the opening BGM, opening movie, and two for an Arcade Mode boss.

Test Graphics#

Persona-4-Arena-Normal-Map-1.png Persona-4-Arena-Normal-Map-2.png

Two versions of a normal map. The text translates to indent and emboss.

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DDS and PNG test images. The first says This is DDS, and the second says Full color PNG (with alpha channel).

(Translations: Glitterberri)

Unused Audio#

This page or section needs more audio.
There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough audio. Please fix this.
Specifically: Rip the remaining unused character voice clips.

Announcer#

Present in the Gallery Mode of the game are unused audio clips for the announcer.

Speech

Sound Effect

Description

"Yu Narukami"

Announcer saying the full names of some of the cast. This was likely intended for the character select screen, as ArcSys' other series such as BlazBlue have the announcer call the characters by their full names. However these go unused and the individual characters speak instead.

"Yosuke Hanamura"

"Chie Satonaka"

"Yukiko Amagi"

"Kanji Tatsumi"

"Naoto Shirogane"

"Mitsuru Kirijo"

"Akihiko Sanada"

The announcer has alternate names for each character as well.

Speech

Sound Effect

Description

"Kuma"

Alternate takes for characters with one name, also likely intended for the character select screen. Aigis has two, referencing her English and Japanese names, while Teddie is only referred to by his Japanese name, Kuma.

"Labrys"

"Aigis"

"Aegis"

"Elizabeth"