Demon's Souls (2009)

Demon's Souls
Developer: FromSoftware Publishers: Sony Computer Entertainment (JP), Atlus (US), Bandai Namco (EU) Platform: PlayStation 3 Released in JP: February 5, 2009 Released in US: October 3, 2009 Released in EU: June 25, 2010 This game has unused animations. This game has unused areas. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused code. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused items. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text.

Demon's Souls is the spiritual predecessor to the Dark Souls series.

A PlayStation 5 remake was released for the system's launch in 2020.

To do: Quite a few things. Add this stuff. There's a debug mode and various unused assets. Some of the unused content have been documented by gibbed at Twitch.

Unused Enemies Beware of demons ahead.

Unused Areas Quite a handfull of them.

Unused Audio Looks like there's unused audio laying around.

Weapons

There are icons for three unidentified weapons that can be found in the weapons & armor texture sheets:

Image	Name
	Unknown Dagger Unknown Hand Axe Unknown Spear

A demonstration of their models can been seen here.

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Upgrade Materials

Several unused upgrade materials can be found. Some of them are clearly for testing purposes while others include "large" versions of existing ores that do not have that size normally. They also have corresponding text for item descriptions but they aren't much more descriptive than the item names:

Item Name	Item Description
Large Clearstone Shard	Large shard of Clearstone
Large Greystone Shard	Large shard of Greystone
Large Bladestone Shard	Large shard of Bladestone
Shard of Bronze_test1	Weapon Material_test
Shard of Steel_test2	Weapon Material_test
Material_test3	Material_test3
Material_test4	Material_test4
Material_test5	Material_test5

There are also icons for unused upgrade materials, but they can't be easily paired to the above titles since there are more images. The Large x Shards do not fit well with their own upgrade paths in that they appear larger than Chunks. However, it is clear that they share the same design of those ore-types.

Image	Name	Game Description	Notes
	Unknown Upgrade Materials 1		Presumably an item used to upgrade your equipment.
	Unknown Upgrade Materials 2		Presumably an item used to upgrade your equipment.
	Unknown Upgrade Materials 3		Presumably an item used to upgrade your equipment.
	Large Clearstone Shard Large Greystone Shard Large Bladestone Shard	Large shard of Clearstone Large shard of Greystone Large shard of Bladestone	Large shard variations of Clearstone, Greystone and Bladestone.

(Source: Demon's Souls Wiki - Unused Content)

Unknown Spell

This icon isn't associated with any particular spell.

Change into Black Ghost (Ghosts N/A)

While the icon above may not be directly tied to this text, the texts for the spells has this unused string in it and it's possible the icon was used for this cut spell at some point. Its name does not survive in the final game.

Unused NPCs

Unknown Woman

#	Model	Translation
c4040	Filthy One	Model name translates to "wandering daemon (unclean)"

An unidentified character called "Filthy One" who is set to load in the first and second areas of the Broken Archstone map. She wears a red dress, wields a serpent staff and has insects crawling on her. She is the most "complete" of the unused NPCs in the game in terms of programming with many of her animations intact.

Video demonstration of model and animations here. (at 2:03:53)

Unknown Man

#	Model
c7090	Unknown NPC with Monocle

An unidentified character, who is set to load in the second area of the Broken Archstone map. He has a sophisticated look to his appearance, and wears a monocle. He also has only 1 animation.

Video demonstration of model and animations here. (at 3:01:20)

Unknown Child

#	Model
c7120	Child

An unused model of a child, who is speculated to be the son of the Filthy Woman vendor from World 5 (Valley Of Defilement). It is unknown why he was cut from the game. He doesn't have any animations.

Video demonstration of model here. (at 3:06:00)

True Death Mode

According to a text dump and some unused dialogue from the Crestfallen Warrior in the Nexus, there was a planned "true death" mode for the game. It is unclear if it is just an optional mode akin to "hardcore mode" in other games or if it was previously planned to be a part of the regular game.

Essentially, dying in soul form would cause something like a perma-death, but instead of deleting your character and starting the game over entirely, the character would automatically re-spawn with all or certain progress lost. Due to how it is worded, it is not clear if everything would have been lost, or if obtained gear would remain but simply got de-leveled. The player would also be bound to a "Stone Monolith" after true death, but nothing more referring to the Monolith could be found in the files.

One key difference however is that upon collecting their bloodstains, the player not only would recover their lost souls but also their body.

This mode was likely cut due to being too unforgiving, if the intention of it was to be a part of the regular gameplay.