Shaman King: Power of Spirit

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To do: Leftovers from Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum. D_MESS.BIN has text strings of different Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. It also has text strings for different debug menus. See if they're viewable in-game or not. There's three songs from Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum on the disc. Figure out if these are unused or not.

Unused Video#

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Embedded in a file on the disc called D_MOVIE are two unused videos. The first one is the video to the left, detailing what looks to be a sample demo movie of the game, but in Japanese. The second video is a copy of the opening movie.

The Japanese sample demo video appears to be recorded from an earlier build of the game (one that might have been intended for release in Japan, though the final game ultimately never had a Japanese release), judging by the different-looking text box than what was used in the final game. The cutscene in question does not appear to have an English equivalent in the final game, but given that it appears to be a near-direct adaptation of a specific part from the original manga's 64th chapter from volume 8 (Ceremonious Decision according to the official English manga translation), it could have feasibly showed up at the end of this game's fourth chapter, The Return of Tao Len, which instead used a different cutscene in the final game.

Below is a translation of the sample demo video cutscene. Please note that while in-game one of the characters is referred to as Tao Len (to be consistent with the 4Kids dub of the 2001 anime adaptation that was current at the time of the game's release), the translation below opts to refer to that character as Tao Ren to ensure a more accurate translation, and to be consistent with English-language Shaman King material currently being sold, such as the Kodansha manga release and the 2021 anime adaptation available on Netflix.