Fire Emblem Fates/Unused Graphics & Models
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Unused Critical Cut-Ins
Human Lilith has two critical hit portraits, yet she isn't an actual unit. Notice how her shoulders are missing a frilly thing on the second portrait.
In the DLC mission Before Awakening, Lissa has two critical hit portraits for use when getting, well, a critical hit. However, in the DLC proper she's a Cleric, a class that can't attack, rendering these portraits unused. Like all of the other Fire Emblem: Awakening art, Lissa's portraits were redrawn to fit the art style in Fates.
Blushing Portraits
The capturable characters, with the exceptions of Kumagera and Tarba (theirs are completely transparent), as well as several story characters, have blushing graphics for their character portraits. However, there are no scenarios in-game where these graphics could have been used.
Candace
Nichol
Haitaka
Daniela
Daichi
Senno
Zhara
Garon
Hans
Iago
Zola
Omozu
Mikoto
Placeholder Portraits
Similar to previous Fire Emblem games, Fates has a placeholder portrait. Unlike older entries however, said portrait has 5 variations displaying varied emotions.
Normal
Nervous
Happy
Sad
Serious
Unseen Eyes
Niles has an eye hidden underneath his eyepatch on his Private Quarters model. It is not rigged to any animations, nor is there anything underneath, and so remains perpetually closed.
Peri also has a hidden eye underneath her bang. It is also not rigged to any animations, though unlike Niles it can actually be moved using Live2D Viewer. This is the only instance in which Peri is shown to have heterochromia, as both of her eyes are red in her 3D model.
Debug Title Screen
effect/Tlp_DebugTitle_4ULCD.bch
This "Debug Title Screen" has an early Fire Emblem logo on it.
Einherjar Test
effect/Tlp_MahuTest.bch
A test Einherjar that features everyone's favorite incompetent maid! The textures for the card, her portrait, the background, and the textbox are all separated on the texture. The model's texture is called "mahu2014 Test" internally.
Dummy Castle Models
There are 45 unused dummy models located in /castle.
 | To do: Upload renders of the following:
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ObjCastle_Arena_1
A dummy model of the first Arena.
Unused Weapon Models
| To do: Provide screenshots for the models in question. A few of them can be found here. |
There are 6 unused models meant for the following weapons: Bamboo Yumi, Caltrop, Harp Yumi, Rinkah's Club, Sidelong Yumi, and Robin Primer. Due game's ROM1 file assigning these weapons non-existent IDs, the game by default gives them the models of bronze/brass weapons rather than the correct ones.
Magic Textures
| To do: This page suggests there is a third texture used for Brynhildr. Is there a rip of it? |
The textures used for the casting of Nohrian spells contain actual text, using a mix of the same cipher as the "Ancient Texts" in the Record Hall and regular letters. If that didn't seem odd enough, they decode to real words in Romanian.
This is used in the air and decodes to "WU platesc deșertul de la ai si provin dintr o distanță și am suficient si arata un bloc stil Chinezesc de caracterul meu la față", which roughly means "I pay desert from you and I come from a distance and enough style and shows a Chinese character block my face", or not much. Note that the font is slightly different to the "Ancient Texts" one and also contains uppercase variants of some letters.
This is used on the ground and decodes to "Răspunde mi apel Răspunde mi Răspunde mi apel", which means "Answer my call Answer me Answer my call" or, less literally, "Hear my cry Hear me Hear my cry" (note that Anankos also uses these textures when attacking in Heirs of Fate).
