Eien no Filerna

Eien no Filerna
Developer: Tokuma Shoten Publisher: Tokuma Shoten Platform: SNES Released in JP: February 25, 1995 This game has unused items. This game has unused music. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has hidden bonus content.

Eien no Filerna (Eternal Filerna, sometimes romanized as Filena) looks like Final Fantasy V, plays like an especially backtracky JRPG, and sounds a bit like a bad hangover. Combine that with the fact that it came out a couple weeks before Chrono Trigger and you don't exactly have a recipe for success. What little chances it had of making it out of Japan were shot down by the sexual themes and unsubtle lesbian overtones, but at least the birth scene is slightly less awkward than the one in Final Fantasy VI.

Music Player

To access the game's hidden music player, highlight the リラのでんしノート item ("Lila's PDA" in the 2009 English fan translation) in the inventory, then press A once to make the cursor start flashing. Hold L + R, then press A again. The configuration menu will appear with a new fourth option, おまけ (Bonus). Selecting it opens a barebones sound player. Up and Down scroll through the game's 35 tracks, and A plays the currently selected one.

(Source: 時の無限回廊)

Unused Music

Some of the tracks in the music player don't seem to be used anywhere in the game.

Music ID	Audio	Comments
08		Happy slappy bass time. Doesn't loop, so it's probably unfinished or meant for a scrapped cutscene.
26		A heavy, ponderous track with the game's ubiquitous poorly-looped string samples on full display.
30		Some short, droning little string thing.
32		A very unfinished piece, judging by the drums that vanish after a few measures, lack of looping, and generally unrefined composition. The battle themes are pretty much the only tracks with percussion in this game, so it was probably meant to be another one of those.

(Source: KungFuFurby)

Unused Items

Quite a few of the game's items aren't used. A few are disabled debugging leftovers, while others are perfectly normal items that apparently just didn't make the cut.

To access these in-game, enter the pair of Pro Action Replay codes given in the tables below to replace the first slot in the inventory with the given item.

Debugging Leftovers

Codes	Name	Description	Comments
7E05AA0D 7E06B701	いじょうかいよび	なし	Considered a status restorative, but it's permanently greyed out and can't be used.
	Spare status recovery potion	Nothing
7E05AA0E 7E06B801	TPかいふくよび	なし	A TP restorative, but it also can't be used.
	TP Refill	Nothing
7E05AA22 7E06CC01	ヂバッグ日記	データをロードする	When used, this opens a menu containing the numbered options "Load 1" through "Load 4", but selecting any option freezes the game. Presumably, this allowed files to be loaded without resetting the game in earlier versions.
	Debug Diary	Loads data

Weapons

Codes	Name	Description	Attack	Defense	Weight	Sell Price	Comments
7E05AA5D 7E070701	コラ	攻げき『切り』	110	0	28	1125 CR	A two-handed blade usable by Filerna and Laris.
	Kora	Attack type: "Slash"
7E05AA61 7E070B01	アークブレード	攻げき『切り』	168	0	43	5250 CR	A two-handed blade usable by Filerna, Nest, and Laris.
	Arc Blade	Attack type: "Slash"
7E05AA6F 7E071901	フラムベルク	攻げき『つき』	105	0	27	1125 CR	A two-handed spear usable by Filerna, Lila, Milika, Laris, and Amanela.
	Flamberge	Attack type: "Pierce"

Helmets

Codes	Name	Description	Attack	Defense	Weight	Sell Price	Comments
7E05AA9E 7E074801	うさぎちゃんはっと	ぼうし	0	64	17	900 CR	A hat wearable by Filerna, Lila, and Milika. Gives bonuses of +5 to stamina, +10 to speed, and +5 to dexterity.
	Bunny Hat	Hat
7E05AAA4 7E074E01	バイキングのかぶと	かぶと	0	115	29	3000 CR	A helmet wearable by Filerna, Lila, Nest, Laris, and Amanela.
	Viking Helmet	Helmet

Accessories

Codes	Name	Description	Attack	Defense	Weight	Sell Price	Comments
7E05AAC4 7E076E01	ローラーシューズ	すばやさが止がる	0	0	5	750 CR	Boots equippable by Filerna. Give a bonus of +40 to speed.
	Roller Shoes	Increase speed
7E05AADF 7E078901	かいのくびかざり	『じゅうしょう』をかいひ	0	0	1	3750 CR	A necklace wearable by Filerna, Lila, Nest, Milika, Laris, Gappy, and Amanela.
	Ocean Necklace	Prevents "Wounded"
7E05AAE5 7E078F01	なし	なし	0	0	0	Can't be sold	A filler entry for the 58 unused slots at the end of the item table. It's considered a necklace, but no characters can equip it.
	Nothing	Nothing

Miscellaneous

Codes	Name	Description	Comments
7E05AA17 7E06C101	キキリキのやくそう	めにききます	Presumably, this was the key item associated with the quest in Little Laritenia to find a Kikiriki herb to heal Filerna's eyes. In the finished game, the herb is used in the cutscene immediately after it's found, so there's no need for this.
	Kikiriki Herb	Heals eyes
7E05AA4F 7E06F901	かいがら	？？？	Possibly meant to be another collectible item that could be exchanged at the black market after gathering ten of them, in which case it would most likely have been associated with the unused Ocean Necklace.
	Shell	???

(Source: 時の無限回廊)

Quick Run

You found "Quick Run"!

While not unused, this useful item is hidden in an incredibly obtuse way, and there's no hint in the game that it even exists. Go to the outside of the Coliseum in Dorah, where there are four statues that look like ordinary background decoration. Numbering the statues from left to right, face the front of each one and press A in the following order: 1, 3, 2, 4. There's no audio or visual confirmation for each press, but inspecting the final statue yields the クイックラン (Quick Run), a pair of boots that quadruples the party's running speed on the overworld when equipped.

Note that this item is the last one in the game's internal ordering before the filler slots of "Nothing", suggesting it was a late addition.

(Source: 時の無限回廊)