Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia/Unused Graphics
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Contents
Portraits
Character Portraits
There is a full set of four archive files for portraits which, judging by the file name, were meant to represent the Creation/Grima in a younger, pre-fell dragon form:
- face/face/monster/ギムレー幼体_adv.arc
- face/face/monster/ギムレー幼体_bu.arc
- face/face/monster/ギムレー幼体_hr.arc
- face/face/monster/ギムレー幼体_tk.arc
Their contents are exact duplicates of the regular necrodragon portrait files. In the final game, the Creation's history before becoming a fell dragon is only mentioned in passing in Forneus's writings.
face/face/player/シルク倒れ_bu.arc
(Regular bust file)
face/face/player/シルク倒れ_tk.arc
(Face crop file)
Silque has a portrait depicting her fainted for when she is first encountered. It is only seen as a zoomed-out "adventure" portrait in-game, but it has unused bust and face crop counterparts. Each also has a pair of blank 32x32 textures which were meant to be blushing and teardrop textures.
face/face/npc/リプリカ_bu.arc
face/face/npc/リマ四世_bu.arc
There are two placeholder archive files for the backstory characters Liprica and Lima IV. Both only contain crops of Rinea's portrait with slightly different coloring and the character's name written on top, but oddly enough, they bothered to make one of these edits for every possible portrait emotion using the matching Rinea expression, which are all included as textures in the respective archive files (the "default" expression is pictured above).
face/face/_カゲマン_adv.arc
("Adventure" portrait file)
face/face/_カゲマン_bu.arc
(Regular bust file; also contains blushing and teardrop textures)
face/face/_カゲマン_hr.arc
(Face crop file; also contains blushing and teardrop textures)
The traditional Fire Emblem placeholder silhouette is back yet again, with a set of three archive files. Oddly, these are the only portraits in the entire game that are left sitting in the root of the face directory, rather than being sorted into the "enemy", "monster", "job", "npc" or "player" subdirectories.
An early portrait of Alm zoomed out to an "adventure" portrait-like size, located in face/face/player/アルム全身_bu.arc. It is very close to the final version, minus featuring a different pose with Alm not having his right hand on his hip, and what appears to be a headband (similar to Alm's original design in Gaiden). Bizarrely, this portrait is at a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels - all other "adventure" portraits have a resolution of 128 x 256, even the placeholder silhouette.
Generic Class Portraits
Female paladin
(face/face/job/パラディン女_bu.arc)
Female gold knight
(face/face/job/ゴールドナイト女_bu.arc)
Female mage
(face/face/job/魔道士女_bu.arc)
Non-Celica priestess
(face/face/job/神官赤_bu.arc)
Pegasus knight
(face/face/job/ペガサスナイト_bu.arc))
Falcon knight
(face/face/job/ファルコンナイト_bu.arc)
Sage
(face/face/job/賢者_bu.arc)
Cleric
(face/face/job/シスター_bu.arc)
Male villager
(face/face/job/村人男_bu.arc)
Female villager
(face/face/job/村人女_bu.arc)
Almost every class in the game has a complete set of all four portrait types for its generic enemy members - "adventure" (_adv.arc; pictured below), regular bust (_bu.arc; pictured), face crop (_tk.arc), and large stat screen (_hr.arc).
Eight of these classes only appear among enemies as Spectres or Death Masks, so their unmodified human portraits and large stat screen versions are never seen, while the female paladin and gold knight both have their portrait sets go completely unused. Blue recolors of the cleric and priestess portraits are encountered as NPCs in certain locations, but the red portraits are never seen.
Only the saint class is completely absent from this collection, although it has a blue recolor for NPC appearances which is used as the basis for its Spectre/Death Mask edit. The blue portrait doesn't have a large stat screen version at all.
Fighter
(face/face/job/戦士_bu.arc)
Hero
(face/face/job/勇者_bu.arc)
Cleric
(face/face/npc/シスター_bu.arc)
There is also one placeholder archive for each of Alm's classes, which are also just Rinea crops. Celica's classes have no corresponding files at all. Oddly, a third Rinea placeholder intended for generic clerics can be found in the NPC portraits folder, right next to the used blue recolor of the actual portrait.
Adventure Portraits
Almost every portrait in the game has a matching "adventure" portrait ([character name]_adv.arc)- smaller, zoomed out, full-body counterpart for use in appearing in "hubs" as characters to meet - but only a tiny fraction of these are ever used. This includes most bosses, all generic classes and monsters in all available genders, and the younger versions of Alm, Celica, Gray, Kliff, Tobin, Faye and Conrad.
The only characters who don't have "adventure" portraits are Lawson, Mueller, Mikhail, Wolff, Magnus, Marla, Hestia, Jamil, Jerome, Zakson, Xaizor, Cerberus, Naberius, Argentum, Aurum, Hades and Gharn (none of whom have "_adv.arc" files at all), and Duma in his dragon form and the Creation (whose "_adv.arc" files are just black placeholder boxes). The only missing classes are the saint (see above), the dagon and the fire dragon (both of which also have black placeholder boxes).
Enemies/NPCs
Young Alm
(face/face/player/幼少アルム_adv.arc)
Young Celica
(face/face/player/幼少セリカ_adv.arc)
Young Gray
(face/face/player/幼少グレイ_adv.arc)
Young Tobin
(face/face/player/幼少ロビン_adv.arc)
Young Kliff
(face/face/player/幼少クリフ_adv.arc)
Young Faye
(face/face/player/幼少エフィ_adv.arc)
Young Conrad
(face/face/npc/幼少コンラート_adv.arc)
Mila
(face/face/npc/ミラ_adv.arc)
Duma
(face/face/npc/ドーマ_adv.arc and face/face/npc/ドーマ人間形態_adv.arc)
Rinea
(face/face/npc/リネア_adv.arc)
Rudolf
(face/face/enemy/ルドルフ_adv)
Desaix
(face/face/enemy/ドゼー_adv.arc)
Slayde
(face/face/enemy/スレイダー_adv.arc)
Fernand
(face/face/enemy/フェルナン_adv.arc)
Barth
(face/face/enemy/ダッハ_adv.arc)
Garth
(face/face/enemy/ガッハ_adv.arc)
Grieth
(face/face/enemy/ギース_adv.arc)
Nuibaba
(face/face/enemy/ヌイババ_adv.arc)
Dolth
(face/face/enemy/ドルク_adv.arc)
Tatarrah
(face/face/enemy/タタラ_adv.arc)
Gazelle
(face/face/enemy/ガゼル_adv.arc)
Blake
(face/face/enemy/ブライ_adv.arc)
Berkut
(face/face/enemy/ベルクト_adv.arc)
Deranged Berkut
(face/face/enemy/異常ベルクト_adv.arc)
Witch Rinea
(face/face/enemy/魔女リネア_adv.arc)
Generic Classes
Female paladin
(face/face/job/パラディン女_adv.arc)
Male paladin
(face/face/job/パラディン_adv.arc)
Female gold knight
(face/face/job/ゴールドナイト女_adv.arc)
Male gold knight
(face/face/job/ゴールドナイト_adv.arc)
Dread fighter
(face/face/job/魔戦士_adv.arc)
Sniper
(face/face/job/スナイパー_adv.arc)
Bow knight
(face/face/job/ボウナイト_adv.arc)
Knight
(face/face/job/アーマー_adv.arc)
Baron
(face/face/job/バロン_adv.arc)
Pegasus knight
(face/face/job/ペガサスナイト_adv.arc)
Falcon knight
(face/face/job/ファルコンナイト_adv.arc)
Female mage
(face/face/job/魔道士女_adv.arc)
Non-Celica priestess
(face/face/job/神官赤_adv.arc)
Male mage
(face/face/job/魔戦士_adv.arc)
Sage
(face/face/job/賢者_adv.arc)
Cleric
(face/face/job/シスター_adv.arc)
Male villager
(face/face/job/村人男_adv.arc)
Female villager
(face/face/job/村人女_adv.arc)
Arcanist
(face/face/job/妖術師_adv.arc)
Cantor
(face/face/job/祈祷師_adv.arc)
Monsters
Gargoyle
(face/face/monster/ガーゴイル_adv.arc)
Deathgoyle
(face/face/monster/バルログ_adv.arc)
Necrodragon
(face/face/monster/ドラゴンゾンビ_adv.arc)
White dragon
(face/face/monster/白竜_adv.arc)
Revenant
(face/face/monster/ゾンビ_adv.arc)
Entombed
(face/face/monster/マミー_adv.arc)
Bonewalker
(face/face/monster/スケルトン_adv.arc)
Lich
(face/face/monster/リッチー_adv.arc)
Witch
(face/face/job/魔女_adv.arc)
Mogall
(face/face/monster/ビグル_adv.arc)
Fiend
(face/face/job/魔人_adv.arc)
Mila's Servant
(face/face/monster/ミラのしもべ_adv.arc) and Duma's Apostle
(face/face/monster/ドーマの使徒_adv.arc)
Dracul
(face/face/monster/ドラクル_adv.arc)
Titan
(face/face/monster/タイタン_adv.arc)
Garuda
(face/face/monster/ガルーダ_adv.arc)
Guardian
(face/face/monster/守護者_adv.arc)
Vestal
(face/face/monster/ウェスタ_adv.arc)
Fafnir
(face/face/monster/ファフナー_adv.arc)
Balor
(face/face/monster/バロール_adv.arc)
Deimos
(face/face/monster/デイモス_adv.arc)
2D Scene Concept Art
A few placeholders exist for the 2D scenes in-game.
effect/Tlp_EV_CrisisSofia
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The model for this scene where Mila's Turnwheel gives Alm a vision contains a hidden layer with a preliminary version of the scene.
effect/Tlp_Ev_Employment
The texture used for the background on Saber's recruitment CG contains an unfinished, unseen drawing of the rest of another doorway and more shelves. In the final game, this portion of the texture is covered up by Saber's torso.
effect/Tlp_Ev_Sofiafreed
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The model for this scene from the end of Act 1 contains a hidden layer with concept art for the final scene. It's at a much higher resolution than the version used in-game, too!
Item Icons
The five swords used by the amiibo characters - Marth's Exalted Falchion, Lucina's Parallel Falchion, Ike's Ragnell, Roy's Binding Blade and Corrin's Yato, in order of appearance in the ui/mat/icon.bin file - all have unique full sized icons, but since these weapons are never displayed on their profile pages, the icons can never be seen ordinarily.
Additionally, numerous items that are only added to the game in DLC already have their icons in the base game, in both the full sizes and the smaller, sepia variants used when mousing over a unit who holds them. In order of appearance in the icon file: the astral shards, the Star Jacinth, the Pitchfork, the Talisman, and the four Japan-exclusive Cipher accessories. Curiously, the icon for the Vagabond's Hairclip is the last icon on the ui/mat/icon.bin sheet while the other three Cipher accessories are placed earlier, before the icons for the memory prism and all of the marks.
Map Sprites
 | This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Many, if not all, head sheets have a suspicious-looking set of frames that are much smaller than usual, as well as head-tilting frames. Look into what their deal is. |
Spectres and Death Masks
Illusion female villager
(unit/Unique/村人女_召喚村人女/)
Illusion boy
(unit/Unique/子供男_召喚子供男/)
Illusion girl
(unit/Unique/子供女_召喚子供女/)
Death Mask fighter
(unit/Unique/村人女_召喚村人女/)
Death Mask hero
(unit/Unique/勇者男_屍兵/)
Death Mask priestess (Celica)
(unit/Unique/神官セ_屍兵/)
Death Mask princess
(unit/Unique/プリンセス女_屍兵/)
Death Mask male mage
(unit/Unique/魔道士男_屍兵/)
Death Mask female mage
(unit/Unique/魔道士女_屍兵/)
Death Mask saint
(unit/Unique/聖女_屍兵/)
Death Mask boy
(unit/Unique/子供男_屍兵/)
Spectre and Death Mask map sprites exist for almost every human class in the game, and while the majority of them are used, there's still a handful which never see the light of day. It is likely that these exist as a fail-safe, in case the game is ever suddenly required to spawn any of them.
The girl class used by Celica and Faye in the prologue is the only class that's missing either of these sprites, and even then, all it's lacking is a Death Mask set.
amiibo Characters
Marth
(unit/Body/幻影マルス/ and unit/Head/幻影マルス/)
Roy
(unit/Body/幻影ロイ/ and unit/Head/幻影ロイ/)
Ike
(unit/Body/幻影アイク/ and unit/Head/幻影アイク/)
Lucina
(unit/Body/幻影ルキナ/ and unit/Head/幻影ルキナ/)
Robin
(unit/Body/幻影ルフレ/ and unit/Head/幻影ルフレ/)
Male Corrin
(unit/Body/幻影カムイ男/ and unit/Head/幻影カムイ男/)
Female Corrin
(unit/Body/幻影カムイ女/ and unit/Head/幻影カムイ女/)
The seven amiibo characters - Marth, Roy, Ike, Lucina, Robin, and the two Corrins - are only ever seen in-game as glowing, vaguely faceless Illusions, but all of them have a full set of map sprites in a clean, non-ghostly state in colors for all three affiliations. The Illusion sprites are kept in a pre-assembled state in the unit/Unique/ directories, while the clean sprites are split up into body and head sheets which are kept in, well, the unit/Body/ and unit/Head/ directories.
No other assets exist for non-Illusion versions of these characters. It is likely that these also exist as a failsafe, as if you hack a character into one of these classes, these sprites are what you'll see.
One of Marth's non-Illusion sprites actually did see the light of day in the non-Japanese limited editions: the pin depicting him uses the second standing frame from this set.
