Skies of Arcadia Legends

To do: Unused text in Sailors' Island for Pinta's Quest and loads of debug menus. Regional Differences Boxart indicates a possible banner and title screen difference. Differences between this version and the original Dreamcast release. Make a sub-page for it. There's a bug related to item boxes being used in battle use the green element regardless of the element being used that isn't in the original. Lower music quality JP Dreamcast leftovers The script (me131i.sct) for the cutscene in Soltis where Ramirez cuts his hand with his blade has instructions removed to get rid of the blood, restoring it shows the blood is still there. You can use this tool to edit the scripts.

Skies of Arcadia Legends (also known as Eternal Arcadia Legends in Japan) is an enhanced port of the Dreamcast game, Skies of Arcadia, for the Nintendo GameCube. A PlayStation 2 and a PC version were also announced, but were cancelled.

Unused Graphics#

This section will only cover unused graphics unique to this version of the game. For unused graphics in the original Dreamcast release, see here.

Piastol Lineart#

Inside \field\a250aq13.mld are three unused linearts for an earlier version of Piastol's flashback cutscenes.

Debugging Functions#

Hydra Debug Menu#

To do: This menu might exist in the original Dreamcast version. ME355A.SCT is also in the Dreamcast version.

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This menu (in Japanese only) lets you skip to different points of progression throughout the game. The script that handles this scene is named ME355A.SCT.

To access this menu, use the following Action Replay code, and then press L + R + X during an area transition (do not activate it while flying a ship).

Note that some of the Japanese text will be shown cut off or empty. In addition, the European version does not show the text properly.

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When enabled, the player will be teleported into a small dialogue cutscene in the Hydra, which resembles the one seen before confronting Galcian on said stage near the end of the game. The player will then be greeted with the following options:

If the 「みる」 option is selected, Galcian will say the following:

Either way, selecting both options will take the player to the main submenu, where the player can choose the following:

NOTE: The following text will only show up if the 「みる」 option was previously selected. Otherwise, an empty textbox will show up instead.

Debug Fast Travel#

To do: This also enables other debug menus in Sailors' Island to access any battle in the game, me004a.sct is the script that controls it.

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This menu (in Japanese only) enables a debug fast travel feature where the player can talk to the helmsman inside the Delphinus ship and select the different options to warp to many of the explorable maps from the game.

Note that some of the Japanese text will be shown cut off or empty. In addition, the European version does not show the text properly.

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The helmsman will begin saying their usual lines, and then the following options will be displayed:

Select the third option, which displays the following text (depending on the helmsman):

And finally, the map selection menu! Three options will be displayed, depending on the type of location the player wants to go:

Selecting one of the options opens up a new submenu with each of the available maps, depending on their location type. Since not all options fit in a single textbox, usually three options will be displayed, with the third one, 他へ (Next page), showing the next two locations on the list. If this option is やめる (Stop), it will close the menu.

When a map is selected, the helmsman will say the following: