One Piece: Grand Battle (PlayStation 2)

One Piece: Grand Battle RUSH!
Also known as: One Piece: Grand Battle (US/EU) Developer: Ganbarion Publisher: Bandai Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: March 17, 2005 Released in US: September 7, 2005 Released in EU: October 7, 2005 This game has unused areas. This game has debugging material.

One Piece: Grand Battle RUSH! is the fourth and final entry in the One Piece: Grand Battle fighting game series, including characters and stages up to the end of the Long Ring Long Land arc of the anime/manga.

For the English version, 4Kids Entertainment and Bandai heavily cut content to prevent spoilers for western One Piece anime audiences, resulting in the English version being retitled to One Piece: Grand Battle (not to be confused with the PS1 game) and having most of its content chopped out as a result. A year later Ganbarion and Bandai would release a revision specifically in the west called One Piece Grand Adventure that restored cut content, alongside a new game mode, potentially to address criticism of lack of content, though this is unclear

To do: Title screen should probably be for Grand Battle RUSH! instead of the English version. Should the page be altered to reflect the Japanese version, rather than the cut-down English one? Does anything removed for the overseas release (models, stages, characters, etc.) still exist anywhere, or has it all been blanked out like the cut audio?

Debug Display

Apply the below code to display memory information. This shows CPU and GFX usage.

USA code:
2042D698 000000??

Replace "??" with one of the below values:
14 = Debug display 1
01 = Debug display 2

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Maps

To do: Make a better code that doesn't cause TLB misses.

Enter Training Mode with one of the codes on to appear in one of the maps in the below sections.

dbg0_0

USA code:
203FE644 62642F65
203FE648 305F3067
203FE64C 6361702E

dbg1_0

USA code:
203FE644 62642F65
203FE648 305F3167
203FE64C 6361702E

dbg2_0

USA code:
203FE644 62642F65
203FE648 305F3267
203FE64C 6361702E

dbg3_0

USA code:
203FE644 62642F65
203FE648 305F3367
203FE64C 6361702E

dbg4_0

This map contains a few exclusive textures, namely the snowman and the company logo embedded on the walls.

USA code:
203FE644 62642F65
203FE648 305F3467
203FE64C 6361702E

dbg5_0

This is just a blank map with no textures, or skybox.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Regional Differences

To do: There are a lot of these, needless to say... Should a subpage be made for just how extensive the localization process was?

As noted above, the overseas release took a hatchet to this game:

• Three characters (Enel, Foxy, and Aokiji) and two stages (Maxim and Sexy Foxy) were cut completely.
• The unlock conditions for Mr. 0 Crocodile and Mr. 2 Bon Clay were changed to be locked behind passwords instead of being starting characters. The password feature is completely absent in the Japanese version, and every other unlockable character in the game can also be unlocked via passwords.
• The Alabasta stage was made into a hidden stage instead of a starting stage, unlocked after completing Story Mode with Crocodile.
• All alternate costumes for Nico Robin (dubbed only as "Ms. Sunday" in the 4Kids English version) were removed, leaving her with only her Alabasta costume and its recolor, to avoid spoiling that she'd later be joining the Straw Hat Pirates.
  • All of her Story Mode cutscenes, in addition to Chopper's, were also completely written to remove any kind of familiarity with the Straw Hat crew, with her portraits all redrawn to accommodate the fact that the costume she used in her Japanese artwork is now absent.
• Every Straw Hat character had their costumes altered, with their "B" costumes becoming their "A"/default costumes, and their "B" costumes becoming color swaps of their "A" costumes (resulting in the loss of the Skypeia arc outfits).
  • Luffy's Afro Luffy costume was also removed, resulting in the loss of his unique "Gum Gum Cannon" secret attack.
• The Mariejois stage (renamed "Eden Rock" in the English release) chopped out all cameos from the Shichibukai (Doflamingo, Mihawk, and Bartholomew Kuma) and the Gorosei, leaving nothing in their place.