Parasite Eve II

Parasite Eve II
Developer: Square Publishers: Square (JP), Square EA (US), Square Europe (EU) Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: December 16, 1999 Released in US: September 12, 2000 Released in EU: August 25, 2000 This game has unused areas. This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused items. This game has regional differences.

To do: Get some more of the graphic rips Kuro-chan did up here.

Parasite Eve II goes the Resident Evil route and is an excellent source of "subtle" Coca-Cola advertising.

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Unused Backgrounds The game developers left out a lot of background images. Some complete and some... not quite.

Daytime Rooms

All the day versions of the locked rooms are (normally) inaccessible. You are not supposed to get a key for them until after dark, though it is possible to use cheats/hacks to obtain one and get early access to the rooms.

• All of the rooms can be entered and exited.
• All of the rooms use a daytime version of pre-rendered backgrounds, though one room has incomplete visuals (Motel room 5).
• They all have some form of basic path structure, allowing Aya to move around the room.
• None of the rooms are named. The game's internal data includes a set of room names with each area. Given Dryfield, daytime is Area 2 and Dryfield, nighttime is Area 3, they have 2 separate sets of names, despite the overlap.

Room 3

The day and night versions of this room have some different angles used for the bedrooms. A green door is pretty visible here. There is no layer separation here, so it is easy to walk on top of beds and through walls.

Room 4

As with Room 3, there is no layer separation. The bed light is in a different position and a lamp is added to the desk for the night version.

Room 5

The least complete of all the inaccessible areas. Not only does this lack anything besides simple shapes, but there is also a model representing the exit/entrance. The lighting in the room is poor. Most of the time, Aya appears as a black blob on the screen with a shadow underneath.

Motel Loft

Bizarrely, the door exit trigger is not at the door, but near the left side of the laundry cage. The Jerry Can can be picked up here in nearly any spot in the room and counts towards triggering the Zebra Stalkers crashing through the glass ceiling, though this will not happen until Aya enters the room at night.

Motel Lobby

This area cannot be accessed from the game map; it will crash the game. Most of the flavor text was included, except for the register puzzle. Saving in this room results in a save file which leaves the player trapped in a loading screen with nothing to do but read some flavor text.

(Source: Kuro-chan)

Unused Items

Unknown Weapon, Item #133
The weapon looks like a P229 without the silencer and flashlight. It is possible the silencer and flashlight were intended to be add-ons, much like the Snail Magazine for the P08. It has no attached ammunition, stats or attacks, making it ineffective in combat. It uses the P229's reload animation if you manage to win a battle while it is equipped.

44 Poison, Item #168
Only the Mongoose can equip this ammo. This has the same critical rate as the 44 Magnum / 44 Maeda SP ammo and shares the 44 Maeda SP's unique properties (Poisons targets, knocks No.9 back, etc.).

Paralizer (sic), Item #175
The M4A1 (With any attachments) and the M249 can use this. It has the same critical rate as 5.56 Rifle Ammo. While not in the specifications, the Paralizer does inflict PARALYSIS on a single target.

Flashbomb, Item #176
The M4A1 (with any attachments) and the M249 can use this. This tends to knock down targets, but many are immune to its effect.

Clipboard, Item #200

Agent Baldwin always carries this.

In a way this item is used since it is handed to Aya in a cutscene, but what appears in your KEY ITEM page is all the stuff that was attached to the clipboard, not the item itself.

Going unused are items 51-53, which have the letter R for their picture, and item 230 which has the letter Z. Both the Japanese and North American versions use this, though the R is in different positions.

(Source: Kuro-chan)

Unused Icons

Unknown Status Effect
Aya has eight status effects, six are used in the game. The effects are: Blindness, Paralysis, Poison, Unknown, Silence, Unknown, Confusion and Berserk.

• #4 appears to be an empty effect that turns Aya's HUD red, but does not appear to have any effect on the player's HP/movement/abilities.
• #6 behaves like #3, but it also attaches a status icon underneath the HUD. This one could be related to the IMPACT effect.

Tonfa Equipment
There is an unique icon for the Tonfa that remains unused. The palette for this icon is unknown but it is possible the grey icon palette would have been used, given that Tonfa's final icon is a grey gun.

Unused Inventory Slots

Parasite Eve II has 256 slots available for inventory. Aya normally only uses 120 of them:

#0-19 - Personal equipment
#20-29 - Shooting Gallery 
#50-79 - Aya's Sedan
#80-89 - Bronco Rm. 6
#90-109 - Mine Entrance Truck
#130-149 - Sterilization Room
#160-169 - Laboratory

The other 136 slots remain unused. Slot #s 30, 31, 40 and 41 have a Recovery1 and Slot #32 has a Stim. They remain unavailable during the game and are removed from your inventory when the player starts their trip to Dryfield.

Unused Enemy Encounters

Several rooms in all areas of the game contain unused combat data. These can be accessed through memory editing, but are never enabled within the game. Many of the enemy compositions are similar to enabled encounters, but their layouts will be different and never include any item drops.

AKROPOLIS TOWER
Location	ID	Enemy	EXP	BP	MP
Patio	0x05	Lesser Stranger x2	84	164	8
Cafeteria	0x05	Bone Suckler x5	30	100	15
	0x07	Rook GOLEM (Gun) x1	250	400	8
Hallway	0x02	Odd Stranger x1	34	34	3
	0x03	Odd Stranger x1	34	34	3
Forked road	0x09	Odd Stranger	34	34	3
	0x0A	Moth x5, Rat x6	34	222	11
	0x0B	Green Amoeba x3, Red Amoeba x3	84	1518	114
	0x0C	Scorpion x6	120	48	6
	0x0D	Maggot x4	64	272	4
	0x0E	Bat x6	30	108	6
	0x0F	Mind Suckler x2	24	72	4
	0x10	Beetle x6	90	318	6
	0x14	Scavenger x1	10	62	2
	0x15	Skull Stalker x1, Sucklerceph x1	8	44	4
	0x16	Slouch x1, Creeping Stranger x1	27	84	2
Observatory	0x0B	Lesser Stranger x1	42	82	4
	0x0C	Bone Suckler x1	6	20	3
	0x0D	Bone Suckler x6	36	120	18
	0x0E	Blood Suckler x2	16	56	8
	0x10	Odd Stranger x1	34	34	3
	0x11	Grinning Stranger x1	42	48	4
Fire exit	0x02	Lesser Stranger x1	42	82	4
	0x03	Lesser Stranger x1	42	82	4

DRYFIELD, DAY
Location	ID	Enemy	EXP	BP	MP
Gas Station	0x09	Mad Chaser x4	80	160	4
	0x0A	Chaser x1	75	50	4
General Store	0x0A	Blood Suckler x5	40	140	20
Back Street	0x0A	Mind Suckler x2	24	72	4
Motel room 1	0x0A	Bone Suckler x2	12	40	6
Saloon G & R	0x02	Mind Suckler x2, Bone Suckler x5	54	172	19
Water Tower	0x0A	Chaser x1	75	50	4
Breezeway	0x0A	Chaser x1	75	50	4
Garage	0x0A	Chaser x1	75	50	4
Driveway	0x03	Chaser x1	75	50	4
Junkyard	0x0A	Chaser x2	150	100	8

Dryfield, Nighttime has no unused encounters.

ABANDONED MINE
Location	ID	Enemy	EXP	BP	MP
Mesa	0x04	Mind Suckler x3, Scorpion x3	96	132	9
	0x0B	Bat x3, Scorpion x3	75	78	6
Cavern	0x03	Stalker x2	212	72	10
	0x11	Unknown Enemy Type x1
Tunnel Entrance	0x02	Scavenger x5	50	310	10
	0x0B	Stalker x2	212	72	10
Tunnel	0x02	Scavenger x5	50	310	10
	0x0B	Bat x3, Scorpion x3	75	78	6
Gorge	0x04	Mind Suckler x4, Moth x8	64	288	16
Forked Tunnel	0x04	Mind Suckler x3, Scorpion x2	76	124	8
	0x0B	Bat x2	10	36	2
Secret Entrance	0x02	Stalker x2	212	72	10

SHELTER
Location	ID	Enemy	EXP	BP	MP
Elevator Hall (B1)	0x04	Watcher x10 (Red Laser #1)	150	0	0
North Maintenance Walkway (B1)	0x04	Brute x1	152	102	5
Pod access tunnel (B1)	0x02	Watcher x4 (Red Laser #1)	60	0	0
Control room	0x02	Watcher x3 (Red Laser #1)	45	0	0
	0x03	Watcher x3 (Red Laser #1)	45	0	0
Control room access tunnel	0x03	Brute x1	152	102	5
Elevator Hall (B2)	0x02	Brain Stinger x2	210	316	16
South maintenance walkway (B2)	0x03	Creeping Stranger x2, Skull Stalker x1, Mad Chaser x1	52	168	4
Operation Room	0x02	Green Amoeba x4	48	344	32
Pod access tunnel	0x02	Brute x2, Watcher x2 (White)	334	204	10
Reservoir	0x02	Creeping Stranger x2, Mad Chaser x2	54	168	4
	0x03	Green Amoeba x1, Slouch x1, Sucklerceph x1	30	134	12
Water supply	0x02	Creeping Stranger x2, Slouch x2	54	168	4
	0x03	Green Amoeba x3	36	258	24
Pod Bottom	0x02	Brahman (All Parts)	5000	20000	200

NEO ARK
Location	ID	Enemy	EXP	BP	MP
North promenade	0x02	Brain Stinger x2	210	316	16
Forest zone	0x0A	Horned Stranger x1	115	200	5
Pavilion	0x02	Beetle x3, Bog Diver x2	185	335	9
Garden	0x04	Green Amoeba x4	48	344	32
Power plant 1	0x03	Beetle x7	105	371	7
Savanna zone	0x04	Chaser x1, Scorpion x5	175	90	13
South Promenade	0x04	Beetle x6	90	318	6
Shrine	0x02	Scorpion x4	80	32	4
	0x03	Scorpion x4	80	32	4
Bridge	0x04	Bog Diver x2, Mossback x1	344	328	12
	0x0C	Rook GOLEM(Blade) x2	500	800	16

Placeholder Text

Inside SLUS_010.42 at 0x57B00 is the string "Where am I?", which is set for a handful of rooms, but never displayed in them. This was likely a piece of placeholder text before the name was entered into the game. It's also not located with the regular resource files.

(Source: Kuro-chan)

Unused Text

In the inventory commentary, two lines are not used when handling inventory:

I don't no how to use this.
AS12 required.

"I don't no" is spelled incorrect and the AS12 does not have any attachments.

Unused Graphics

Parasite Eve 2 uses their version of a GPS system to show areas the player has explored. On some occasions, the player can access a map of the area and fill it in with areas which have yet to be explored (They will appear dark). However, some rooms cannot appear dark since the player must explore certain areas before they can update the whole map.

The game engine handles which areas are explored by adjusting multiple address values. A single address value (per map) handles all the unexplored areas. It appears the game engine first checks the single address, then replaces unexplored areas with explored ones where appropriate.

Below is a list of rooms that will never appear dark during normal game play:

Unused Video

On both discs, there is a really odd video of sorts. Its file name is DUMMY.DMY and is physically at the end of both of the discs. It's very primitive visually and appears to be a DOGA animation contest entry. It also plays twice.

(Source: Kuro-chan (video rip))

Regional Differences

Japan	North America

Changes made from JP to NA Version:

• Some changes were made in the naming of the two hardest difficulty modes in the game: Supportless and Deadly became Scavenger and Nightmare.
• The selection page saw a change from stars to circles marking the difficulty level plus changing SICKNESS to SICK in the CONDITION category.
• The Supportless page was re-labeled, image quality was reduced slighty, edges appear sharper, Aya's head was made a little wider and a 'touch' more of the source image can be seen along the bottom (You can see a little more of Aya's foot).
• The Deadly page was re-labeled, image quality was reduced slighty, edges appear sharper and tint is slightly less red.

Japan	North America

The JP version of 1st-level Recovery is misspelled "Pain Reliver" and is smaller in size than the NA version.

Japan	North America

The JP version used a bottle of Perrier, rather than a generic carbonated water bottle like the NA version uses.

Japan	North America

The JP version uses a full-blown medkit with a syringe and two bottles. The NA version loses the case and syringe. This may account for (In the NA version) the item being called a Medkit when it has not yet been identified as Penicillin.

Japan	North America

The JP version of purchasable spells all use the same inventory image, which happens to look like the Medkit image, but with different colored labels. The NA version uses color-coded vials to indicate what element the spell is.