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Graphics, sprites, and others. There's even something of an unused enemy I've unearthed.

Posted by Josh_7774 on Sep 4th, 2023

I was messing around in the Prototype ROM of Hybrid and creating codes for it to explore deeper into the rabbit hole. Well, turns out I've uncovered a bunch of really neat stuff.

With the help of a code to change the inventory icon on the HUD to something else by incrementing the ID value, I was actually able to get the other HUD icons as well that aren't normally seen, but also, sprites & graphics both used and unused, pickup graphics that aren't normally seen, and much more interestingly, level textures, both used and unused.

But far more interestingly, what appears to be an unused enemy:

And the unused graphics:

And some unused sprites for a broken security camera & a tree with full rotations:

This got me excited enough to want to rip pretty much every graphic from the game (with the help of RetroArch and the Beetle PSX HW core that has texture dumping and replacement) and I can say that I have most, if not all, of the graphical stuff from the Prototype.

All of this stuff will of course be featured in the TC as something of a bonus, much like the GOODIES folder on the original final release game disc.

I have a hunch that I can do something similar with the final release to see if there are any assets that are unused there.

Oh, I should also mention the debugging commands with controller 2 also function in the Prototype. And there's interesting stuff to see within it too.

Anyways, I'll provide the GameShark codes below:

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Have All Weapons