Bayonetta 2/Unused Images
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Contents
UI Textures
ui_test.dat in the ui folder is a goldmine of early/test content.
A font used for the text in messtest.mcd.
A render based on the first game's Alfheim introductions, depicting Bayonetta fighting Affinities, with the number 10 in the background.
A work-in-progress render of the Results screen background from the E3 demo.
A repeating screenshot of a test room.
A location name texture that translates to "Ruins of Chaos - Völuspá".
A texture of a red and green swirl, accompanied by normal and specular maps.
An early title logo that can be seen in the E3 2013 trailers. The magic circle is a darker shade of blue, and is more detailed. There are no demonic letters inside the word "Bayonetta", making it look more similar to the first game's logo.
A screenshot of Tag Climax in development, and a ton of early health bar concepts. There is also what seems to be an early location name, which reads "Giant military transport plane Valkyrie - Graveyard of Remembrance".
An early scoreboard or save menu, depicting the world map from Bayonetta in the background.
A picture reading, "AaaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAaaa" over and over.
An early options menu, using a whole mixture of languages, and black dots in place of the button icons.
Another location name texture, translating to "Underground Graveyard - Cathedral of Cascades". The text is in multiple different styles.
An assortment of angel and demon names, and the PlatinumGames logo.
An inverted picture of an Acceptance, along with more angel names and a halo.
A group of HUD icons of the various items found in the game-- of note are early designs for Takemikazuchi and Undine, as well as a completely unused weapon.
ui_credit.dat, also in the ui folder, has some textures unused in the final called "credit_img". They were probably going to be displayed on the Verse Card that precedes a credits battle as it rotates into place on-screen. The final simply freezes the environment and player/enemy model positions as the card rotates, then unfreezes as the battle begins. The "credit_img" textures also have some minor differences compared to the final.
The camera is further away from Bayonetta. There is no circular angelic barrier behind the Accolade, and the pattern seen when nearing the battlefield's barrier is visible even though Bayonetta is a distance from it.
The camera is more zoomed in.
The camera is zoomed out, and the angle is shifted to the right. Rosa is farther away from Bayonetta.
The camera is farther away and more eye-level with Bayonetta. The red lines on Insidious's back are already glowing, whereas in the final they start off dimmed.
The camera is closer to Bayonetta and Jeanne and is at a slightly different angle.
The uisptex folder has some concept art pieces that are not shown in the game's Gallery. A few of these unused works ended up being printed in the Bayonetta 2 artbook, "The Eyes of Bayonetta 2", each captioned with a title.
- The works that are artbook-exclusive will have their respective title beneath them. Any image without a title beneath it is in neither the Gallery nor the artbook.
- An alternate version of used concept art, with an added blimp and angels.
- A picture of some taxis driving on a metal bridge.
- A picture that seems to be sequential to the one before it, with taxis and other cars now escaping explosions.
- Some more chaos from the Prologue, as blimps above the city catch fire during the parade.
- A picture of the railway in the Prologue.
- The Prologue's cityscape, after Gomorrah goes berserk.
- Noatun's main square, containing a different central building and the elevated walkway on the left rather than the right.
- An image of Noatun's boats, along with with a yacht looming in the background.
- Two pieces that depict Chapter I's courtyard, each with differences such as a statue instead of a door, a pond, additional greenery, and benches.
- An image of Bayonetta activating Witch Time with help from the wave summoned by Loki.
"The City - Platinum Stars"
"Battle on the Tracks"
"The Water Capital - The Port Square"
"The Church - Courtyard"
"Witch Time - Jetstream"
These concept pieces also have thumbnails that would have been shown when scrolling through the Gallery.
Luka's journal has some unused textures that reveal the identities of his "lovers" Claire, Ammy, Trish, and Silvia. Bizarrely, there is also a picture of his father in his death throes, with a peace sign and a man's face superimposed over him. The second image shows more unused textures: a picture of Noatun, Bayonetta, and the world map from the first game. The Japanese text on the left says "ファンタズマラネア" ("Phantasmaraneae") and "首なし天使マーク2" ("Headless angel mark 2"). Valor's concept art also labels it as "kubinashi" (首なし, "headless"), so this may be an early or temporary name for it.
When an enemy is first encountered, a screen appears that displays their name, halo, and title, with a few exceptions. These identifiers, along with a render of the enemy, can then be viewed in Lemegeton's Guidebook and the Hierarchy of Laguna.
Labolas one such exception-- it is only fought in a secret Tag Climax verse, and gets no introduction. However, placeholder textures for it still remain in the game. They include an early title ("Fate Destroyer" instead of "Destroyer of Fates"), and renders of an Acceptance. The Japanese version also gives it an additional name: "グラシャ・ラボラス" (Glasya-Labolas). In the final game, it is simply known as "ラボラス" (Labolas).
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Wii U uisptex Textures
The Wii U version's uisptex folder contains more unused introduction/Guidebook textures.
- Two versions of Gomorrah's unused Lemegeton's Guidebook entry, in Japanese and English.
- Placeholder names for Bayonetta's summons, including "snake" for Hydra, "wild horse" for Diomedes, and "frog" for Baal.
- Textures intended for Malphas and Hekatoncheir's entries.
- A texture translating to "Queen Sheba", who is not summoned in this game.
- A single early render of an Acceptance. There are four sequential files that share this texture, labeled "DemonName_23", "DemonName_24", "DemonName_25", and "DemonName_26".
- Two textures that contain unused renders of Pride and Hideous-- two Demons that did not get a unique enemy intro in the final.
- An odd compilation of different Hierarchy of Laguna textures. The text at the top reads "Horse angel" and "Third Sphere Powers". Underneath is the Second Sphere halo, a render of Golem, and the name "Belief".
Gomorrah
"Snake"
"Wild horse"
"Frog"
Malphas
Hekatoncheir
Queen Sheba
"Horse angel" - Third Sphere Powers
The Wii U version also contains additional unused location names.
- Location_00.dat translates to "Ruins of Chaos - Völuspá". Notably, the Japanese characters for "Ruins of Chaos" match ones found on a soundtrack title-- "ST02 Noatun, Ruins Of Chaos". This may mean Völuspá was an early name for Noatun.
- The Ark would have been a separate location, perhaps leftover from the scrapped puzzle sequence.
- Five scrapped locations in Inferno-- "Stygian Swamp" would later be referenced in Bayonetta 3.
- A number of unused and undisplayed Vigrid locations.
- Two location names intended for the final Chapter. "Fimbulventr" is spelled "Fimdelventr" in these images.
Ruins of Chaos - Völuspá
Crushed Bridge - Holiday City
Ark - Lake Bottom
Road of Entrails - Demon Beast Interior
Chapel of the Deep - Ruins of Lost Memory
Before the Gates of Hell - Ruins of Lost Memory
Limbo - The Depths
Johnson Forest - The Depths
Malebolge - The Depths
Stygian Swamp - The Depths
Cocytus - The Depths
Training Grounds Back Garden - Medieval Vigrid
Pilgrimage Road - Medieval Vigrid
Underground Pilgrimage Road - Medieval Vigrid
Underground Caves - Medieval Vigrid
Witch's Training Chamber - Medieval Vigrid
Start of War - Medieval Vigrid
City Area - Medieval Vigrid
Stone Bridge of Demons - Medieval Vigrid
City Square - Medieval Vigrid
Over the City - Medieval Vigrid
Falling Things - Medieval Vigrid
In Front of the Clock Tower - Medieval Vigrid
Crescent Valley - Medieval Vigrid
Training Grounds - Medieval Vigrid
Jetstream - Over Noatun
Approaching the Summit Shrine - Fimdelventr
Sovereign Quarters - Fimdelventr
Triumphal Flight - Holiday City
Some Bewitchment icons from the first game were left over.
Other miscellaneous leftover textures can be found scattered throughout the folder as well.
An placeholder Alfheim intro render.
An early Tag Climax character select screen. Weapons from the first game can be seen.
A placeholder concept art texture for the Gallery. The text below Resplendence is taken from the game's Records of Time narration.
The same placeholder texture as the previous image, tinted red.
Weapon renders for each character. At the bottom are unused weapons such as a demonic chair, a blue version of the early Takemikazuchi seen in ui_test.dat, a pair of gatling guns, and Durga from Bayonetta.
A Blue Witch Heart, which goes unused as Angel Attack does not return in this game.
A Gold Moon Pearl, which goes unused as Angel Attack does not return in this game.
A blurry picture of a Mandragora Root. This is used as a placeholder image for the files "ItemGet_16", "ItemGet_22", and "ItemGet_23".
An Arcade Bullet, which goes unused as Angel Attack does not return in this game.
Umbran Elegance #4 from Bayonetta. It is used as a placeholder image for the files "ItemGet_24" through "ItemGet_34".
Miscellaneous
Within pf0f.dat in data002\phf is an unused screen meant to be displayed at the end of a demo. The text at the bottom says "This is all you can play in the demo version. Please enjoy the rest of the story in the full version."
One of the character select screen textures contains leftover graphics for Xbox 360 controller buttons.
A background extracted from bm00062.dat, which contains a low resolution model of a portion of Noatun. It shows a blocky, unfinished version of Noatun's main plaza.
A render of the Arwing guns equipped when using the Star Mercenary costumes.
A placeholder image of a missile found alongside the satellite and missile models used in Aesir's battle.
es1201.dat contains a copy of the world map shown in Chapter I with the kanji for "temporary" (仮) written over it.
An image with columns of colors and coordinates, titled "colorgrid".
"Arrow"
"Arrow_attraction"
"Arrow_repulsion"
"Paint_arrow_camera"
"Paint_restart"
"Waterarea"
"Sharch"
"Yougann_atari"
An assortment of small placeholder images-- their filenames are the only clues as to their use.
ev2010.evn, which holds data for the cutscene where Enzo and Bayonetta take a plane to Noatun, contains a large render of Urbane's Angel Arms without any flame effects. There are also three images labeled "portal_test" (likely early textures for the Muspelheim portals), and an image of a plus labeled "mipmap".
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An alternate, less-demonic version of Rodin's signature displayed when scanning amiibo.
Cutscene Placeholders
Within the game's data are two sets of placeholder images for event cutscenes, most of which appear to be intended for Chapter XIII. Some pictures use concept art as a background, while some use in-game screenshots. Many of these screenshots display Rosa's model from the first Bayonetta, indicating that her design may not have been finalized at this point of development. She is also referred to in these placeholders simply as "mama" (ママ).
6st arrival - Bayo arrives in the past through the dimensional portal
Encounter with Mama - After encountering mama, Fortitudo appears, burning down the mob witches
Fortitudo battle ends - Fighting off Fortitudo with mama
Entering the underground passageway event - Mama materializes the portal to the hidden underground
Beloved's hand breaks through a wall and takes out a mob witch - Beloved's hand breaks through the wall and takes the mob witch away
Beloved swings around the passage - Beloved swings Bayo around the passage
Witch Time with mama over the falls - Activate Witch Time with a gimmick and cross the waterfall
Two Beloveds in pursuit - While demolishing the passage, two Beloveds chase you
Two Beloveds battle begins - Jump out of the passage onto the floor and go straight into battle
Giant Beloved battle begins - A giant Beloved breaks through the ceiling and appears
Giant Beloved battle ends - Climax attack with mama
Mama murder event - Mama is murdered by the Prophet in the witch's building. Pursuing the Prophet
Iustitia battle begins - Overcoming the onslaught of ship angels, enter into battle with Iustitia
Iustitia battle ends - After defeating Iustitia, now landing on the cliff
Temperantia's cliff punch - The entire scaffold's bedrock is blown away by Temperantia's onslaught
Arrival at the clock tower - Arrival in front of the clock tower after overcoming Temperanti's [sic] onslaught. Prophet disappears to the upper floor of the clock tower
The clock tower collapses - At the Prophet's signal, angels attack the clock tower en masse
Prophet battle ends - Prophet escapes. Bayo and the others cross the dimensional portal and return to the present day
Event under production
Simple event under production
Enemy introduction event under production
The second set of images remain the same as the previous placeholders, except Rosa's name has been changed from "mama" to "Rosa" (ローサ), and their size has been altered a bit.
Unused Gate
Inside bm100a.dat are several images called "gatepart", each surrounded by words and letters in the in-game angelic language. There is also a piece of background concept art where the exact design of the "gate" in the first image can be seen.
In the same file as the above "gates" is a simple image of a white keyhole. There are also singular angelic words, titled "keyhole_word".
Model Textures
Greed's model, em00d0.dat, contains a single effect model of the gibs that appear when it dies. This effect model contains full textures for a slightly earlier design of Greed's.
Its body is a lighter shade of black, and the purple designs on its skulls are lighter as well. While the final model's horns and shoulder spikes are half grey and half red, the early model's are simply solid red. The black portion of its lower legs are more matte-looking, as it uses a cubemap called "cubemap_leather", rather than "cubemap_iron" in the final.
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An early texture for the Noatun merchants' flower carts. Details on the top of the canopy are missing, and the prices on the labels have not been translated into Noatun's alphabet.
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Effect Textures
There are two effect textures seen in many files-- an image of an arrow titled "testtex", and a placeholder image with Japanese text on it.
Data for the Chapter select screen is found in rf02.dat, which includes a leftover image of a pawprint called "beyoneko". It was used on the first game's Chapter select map.
rc98.dat contains a stage model used for the Aesir battle in Tag Climax. It also contains effect data for the background of Aesir's second phase, which consists of images of various locations Bayonetta travels to throughout the game.
The screenshots seen in rc98.dat's effect data are from an unfinished build of the game. As the area used for Aesir's second phase is never utilized in Tag Climax, it's likely the developers didn't bother updating this file with the final screenshots.
The Platinum Stars jet is grey instead of blue, as it is in the E3 2013 trailer.
The Resting Place on the upper right walkway has a Lumen counterweight and is solid red.
Valiance uses the lesser-ranked Angels' HP bar. The battle is also Verse 4 of the Chapter, when in the final it is Verse 7.
The lighting appears unfinished and is less saturated. The Gates of Paradiso's model is a placeholder or unfinished; it lacks the angelic text upon it. There is also a strange pillar on the right side of the image. Lastly, the floating islands are missing from the background.
The top portion of Insidious's fin has a different design. There are green and pink lines radiating outward from the eye, which is wrapped in cyan tentacles. Smaller eyes are also visible behind its translucent skin.
The lighting appears unfinished. The spiral "tunnel" of Scolopendras is already rendered in the distance.
The logo above the portal is purple and has "The Gates of Hell" rendered in text under it.
The lighting is darker and unfinished.
Rosa's model uses her first game design.
Multiple Umbran Armor mechs are visible, implying the player would've fought alongside witches other than Rosa during this Chapter. Witch Apprentices can be seen running on air on the right side of the image, perhaps indicating a change of level geometry at one point.
r340.dat holds data for the Insidious fight in Chapter VII, "The Ark". There is an unused render in this file of a skeletal Scolopendra, presumably related to em0313.dat and the unused phase inside Insidious involving "centipede"s.
