Unused Graphics

This is a sub-page of Shining Force III.

Early Title Screen#

To do: Get the file name.

An .spr containing a very early title screen is still present on the disc. This was used in earlier versions of the game as a placeholder of sorts.

Unused Sprites#

CBE23#

• Conrad

ID:0338
Only the sprites where he's slumped over in a chair are used, but it seems he was meant to move around at some point. Also worth noting that he appears to be missing a frame for the back.

XBTL99.CHR#

• Early Treasure chest

ID:0199
A treasure chest, similar to the ones in Shining the Holy Ark. The final goes with a different design.

XBTL115.CHR#

• Edmund

ID:0128
Oddly, using the same ID as Blue Dragon in other maps is this sprite of what appears to be Edmund in a death throe. It's possible the original intention was for General Garzel to actually kill Edmund, rather than simply knock him off the bridge.

XBALCHR.CHR#

• Fiderit

ID:0139
Only the rightmost frame is used for a cutscene.

XOP101.CHR#

• Masqurin(Opening Cutscene)

ID:0002
The developers decided to animate this sprite from every angle, though most of it isn't used.

XOP102.CHR#

• Grace(Opening Cutscene)

ID:0003
Similar to the previous, most of the frames are not used by the game.

XTEST.CHR#

• Dantares

ID:0001
This can only be found in the initial 1.006 Japanese release.

• Black cat

ID:0141
The cat used for the Dusty Village cutscene in Scenario 2, albeit unfinished and with black fur instead of white.

• Red Dragon

ID:0126
A similar dragon shows up in a cutscene late in the game, but even this is another case where more of the sprite was completed than what was used.

XTWNTEST.CHR#

• Man

ID:0142
An NPC that was oddly not used in any other .CHR.

• Woman 1

ID:0063
The file these NPCs are in was used as a placeholder in earlier versions of the game for maps that did not have a finished .CHR.

• Monk

ID:0064
Mainly used as a placeholder in early versions of the game. This may also be related to a cut enemy named "Monk"

• Woman 2

ID:0065

Spells#

The item sheet contains a full sprite set for spells, including many, many leftovers from Shining the Holy Ark that were oddly never replaced. These all appear to fit in the gap between Return(ID:15) and Phoenix(ID:26), which the game reserves for items and certain enemy attacks, however the icons themselves don't appear to be called by the game at any point.

FACE64B.DAT/FACE64C.DAT#

To do: This is the US version. It's unlikely, but possible these were dummied out of the original japanese release.

Both files are placeholders for Scenario 2 and 3's teams. Though at this stage, they simply reuse Synbios' team portraits

Unused Sprite Set Placement#

Each area and scene of the game stores necessary sprites in a .CHR file, which a particular map or cutscene calls for when needed. However some of these files contain sprites that while used elsewhere, are never used in that specific part of the game.

Benetram#

Around the middle point of the game, Benetram (ID: 0076) leaves the party, and doesn't appear again until the ending. However, XBTL118(Volcano Hole), XBTL120(Flagard Castle), and XBTL121(Road to Lookover) all still contain Benetram's sprite.

XBALCHR#

For some reason Medion (0020), Campbell (0021), and Grantack (0128) are all loaded into Balsamo Church spriteset.

Unused Textures#

• Waterfall

Viewing Battle 14 on an Yaiba Sanshiro before version 3.4.2 will show that the Waterfall has been wallpapered over with 3 slightly different placeholder textures