Persona 3 FES

The third installment in the Persona series (part of the larger Shin Megami Tensei series) and the first to be on the PlayStation 2. This version contains both the original Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 game and the extra content from the Persona 3 FES expansion disc released in Japan, adding some extra content to the main quest as well as a separate Epilogue storyline called The Answer.

Graphics
There are quite a few graphics leftover from earlier periods of development, including concept sketches.

Temporary Title Screen
There is a title screen image that was probably used early in the development of Persona 3 as a design placeholder.



Certificate of Marriage
There is an image depicting a menu where the player could enter a name for what appears to be a certificate of marriage. Mr. Aragaki Shinjiro is typed in.



Bust Graphics
These are unused bust graphics that were left in the game. The final images include more of the body than the earlier versions.

Yukari made it in without any obvious changes.

Aigis had her arm moved up for the final version.

Mitsuru seems unchanged.

Junpei has no line drawings, but the shading does improve in the final image.

Same as before, shading added.

Fuuka's right arm and hand were either not planned to be visible or the concept sketch was really bad at emphasizing them.

Here Fuuka looks almost identical, her collar is the only thing that was changed.

The strap on Akihiko's arm had detail added and a pin was put on his shirt.

Ken's uniform sports the Gekkokan logo in the final where it didn't before. The lace on his sweater has also changed a bit.

They decided to make Shinjiro look angrier at some point.

No changes are obvious for Shinjiro in this one.

Koromaru's stance was changed at some point.

Ryuji made it through the grinder without any obvious changes.

Keisuke was always planned to grin like an idiot.

Hidetoshi's smile was given the Mona Lisa treatment and made more ambiguous.

Bebe was given his trademark fan at some point and his arms were moved a bit to compensate.

Nozomi looks unchanged.

Voice Clips
There are a LOT of unused voice clips in this game. Primarily, from Fuuka and Mitsuru's Support clips, as a lot of Japanese clips remain. Other examples include ones for each Arcana of Shadow mid-boss - since Mitsuru is only on Support for a small number, most of hers are never heard, like the one for Fortune: "This Shadow's Arcana is Fortune, but this battle won't be won by luck."

Other examples are alternative story-specific battle end quotes from Mitsuru, ie: "Let's continue searching for Fuuka!"

More interesting are the voice clips the Protagonist and Aigis have when summoning their Ally's Personas. Whilst Aigis does have Palladion and Athena, they appear to be seperate recordings and not duplicates of the normal versions used in 'The Journey'. They're most likely present to avoid the game crashing if the player hacks in Personas like Io, Hermes, etc. If one hacks in Lucia and Juno, they work normally but their image is of the classic SMT design of Cerberus. In Persona 4, the same happens if one hacks in Himiko or Kanzeon. pcLZTwwx9PA

There are also unused story sequences, such as two involving Ms Toriumi giving you study guides after the protagonist awakens: vi_CoCLjWU8

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Music
Apart from some leftover tracks from a Raidou Kuzonoha game, there are three Beta versions of 'The Voice Someone Calls' (Tartarus Entrance theme). They're clearly works in progress. These are also present in the Persona 4 music files, as are a lot of Persona 3 tracks - not surprising, considering the games play very similarily to each other. RwZx8QafcdU

Also on the disc is an unused victory theme that sounds like the Digital Devil Saga soundtrack... (Also in the Persona 4 files) a9lBtYk3F1s

And an early version of Master of Tartarus. jvYhnqJk7fs

Also, an instrumental (sort of) rendition of Burn My Dread. (Also in the Persona 4 files) Dv6oVaX5fbA