Persona 3

Persona 3
Also known as: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (US/EU/AU) Developer: Atlus Publishers: Atlus (US/JP), SCE Korea (KR), Koei (EU/AU) Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: July 13, 2006 Released in US: August 14, 2007 Released in EU: February 29, 2008 Released in AU: March 6, 2008 Released in KR: July 13, 2008 This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material. This game has a prototype article This game has a Data Crystal page

To do: Add info about the debug Calendar Portal and Tactics in-battle menu. Document Hachiman, Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne's Cerberus, and Strega's personas. Be sure to document their battle status and moveset if possible. Add in a sub-page for all the unused Persona cut-ins. There are character-exclusive Personas that have card icons when they're not supposed to. Add them in. Document the unused maps and cutscenes. More unseen/hidden details in graphics.

Persona 3, despite the title, is actually the fourth installment in the Persona series (which is in turn part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise). It's also the first to be on the PlayStation 2.

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Prototype Info

Unused Cutscenes Scenes that didn't flash before your eyes.

Unused Voice Clips Listen... Can you hear the many voices?

Unused Graphics Drawings straight from Chidori's sketchbook.

Unused Text How many of these were used in later versions?

Debug Options

Cutscene Debug Menu

To do: Document more of this. There is a lot of stuff to do in these menus. Add codes for other versions of the game.

A fairly elaborate debug menu remains in this game. You can make your own cutscenes, apply sound effects and BGM, apply graphics to appear during cutscenes, and toggle various settings in this menu. To enable it, apply the code below for your version of the game.

Persona 3 JP (SLPM-66445) codes:

Master Code (only needed for cheat devices used on a console)
9050A258 0C14283E
Debug Menu Enable
2035A184 00000000

The file must be named 94A82AAA.pnach, and placed within PCSX2's user-related cheat directory. This is typically located at C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\PCSX2\cheats.

With the above code active, enter New Game or enter any area with a cutscene. When the cutscene is playing, or in New Game, press R2. This will take you to the debug menu. Pressing Triangle while in this menu will send you to the cutscene editor window. Pressing Circle will exit out of an option.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Calendar Debug

An example of this debug menu in-game.

While in-game, set this address 211672E0 to 1 to open a debug menu that allows you to force what state of day you're in, as well as to change the current date.

• L1/L2 to move state of day.
• L2/R2 to move a month.
• Up/Down to move a week forward/back.
• Left/Right to move a day forward/back.

State	In-game text
AZA	Early morning
GOZEN	Morning
HIRAYASUMI	Lunchtime
GOGO	Afternoon
HOUKAGO	After School
YORU	Evening
SINYA	Late Night
25	Dark Hour
SOUCHOU	Late Night

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Extra Navigation Menu

By using this code, you can add a little debug option in the navigator menu that allows you to change floors or go back to the entrance at will.

Tactics Debug (NTSC-U)
2083A418 0000000F

Unused Models

To do: Upload the renders of models and their respective animations.

Early Map Location Names

A set of early map location names remain in the files. Rather than text strings, these names are 2D models contained in data.cvm/FIELD/RMD/M001_003.RMD. The names are accompanied by a compass model, and their placements fit the final game's map quite well. A render of the names superimposed on the map can be seen above. A list of early and final names are listed below for reference.

Early	Final
Ryouseikan High school	Gekkoukan High
Paulownian Mall	Paulownia Mall
Gekkoh island station plaza	Port Island Station
Minatodai shopping street	Iwatodai Station
Kurenomiya shinto shrine	Naganaki Shrine
dormitory	Dorm

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Placeholder Model

An unused placeholder model which can be found in an unused cutscene.

Placeholder Cerberus

By setting your battle Persona to any of Fuuka's Personas, it will show this Cerberus model in battle instead. This is probably because her models are only shown in cutscenes and are not meant to be used in battle, so rather than making battle animations for them the developers just re-used the Cerberus model from Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne as a placeholder instead. This model isn't used anywhere else in-game due to Koromaru's Persona being a different version of Cerberus, more similar to the one from Digital Devil Saga.

If you want to test this for yourself, use one of these codes to put either Lucia or Juno in your Persona menu.

Put Lucia in Slot 1
10836BAE 000000C8
Put Juno in Slot 2.
10836BE2 000000C9

Healing Bulb

FOBJ004.RMD, located in data > FIELD > GRMD with other interactable Tartarus objects. Its purpose was most likely to heal the party, as the texture included is called "heal_a001_01". This device was likely scrapped in favor of the Tartarus lobby automatically healing the player and party.

Early Protagonist Models

Inside BTL/MODEL/NPC/R_DUMMY.RMD is an early model for the protagonist with early animations tied to it. Some were later used for other characters.

Fuuka has a placeholder slot in the battle PAC files. Swapping in BC006.PAC over the normal one-handed sword model for the protagonist reveals unused animations only seen previously in early screenshots, as well as a much earlier Evoker model that looks more like a gun than it already does. In Persona 3 Portable, this was changed to an early version of Akihiko.

Odd Eye Textures For Protagonist

Inside the above battle model's RMD file is the eye textures. The default seems to be the green eyes that then get swapped to gray in-game. The third set of eyes is also never seen in-game; it may have been intended for either the summon animation or the rage status effect.

Early Koromaru Model

Inside BTL/MODEL/NPC/R00500.RMD is an early model for Koromaru with early animations.

Early Winter Gekkoukan NPC

Inside BTL/MODEL/NPC/R00000.RMD is an early NPC with animations.

Oddities

Tartarus Sketch in Chidori's Notebook

This texture, named "s_book_set", is located at the path "BTL.CVM\MODEL\NPC\" in the files N00802.RMD, N00803.RMD and N00809.RMD. While it does appear in cutscenes, only the cover is ever visible to the player in-game due to the camera angles used.

Cheating in Battle

To do: Is this in the Japanese version?

During battle, there are three sets of support voice clips for Mitsuru and Fuuka scolding the player for cheating, triggered when the game detects actions that are only possible via the use of external cheating devices (such as adding dummy items to the inventory, using Personas that aren't accessible to the player, and using party members that aren't supposed to be available at the current point in the story).

Sound File	Line
	Mitsuru: I trusted you, I can't believe you cheated.
	Mitsuru: I'm very disappointed in you.
	Mitsuru: ...You're cheating. I'll have to punish you.
	Fuuka: *gasp* You're cheating!
	Fuuka: Cheaters never win!
	Fuuka: Cheating, huh! I'm disappointed in you!

Unused Music

61.ADX is what appears to be a fanfare track from an unknown game. It sounds very similar to the level-up theme from Digital Devil Saga. Since many prior installments in the Megami Tensei franchise had level-up themes yet Persona 3 lacks one, it is likely that this is an unused level-up theme for the game.

There are three early Dark Hour themes, named 82.ADX, 83.ADX, and 84.ADX. Originally, The Voice Someone Calls was only supposed to play at Tartarus, while these songs would play in the regular Dark Hour event, gaining intensity as the game progressed. This can be seen as the first version plays in the trailer that came with Famitsu 901.

An early version of Master of Tartarus appears in BBGM03.ADX. In FES, there's also a duplicate in 0601.ADX, along with a third copy named 0602.ADX, which is missing the first two seconds of the song. They also use 48000 hz rather than 24000 hz, which is what all the audio tracks normally use.

THEME.ADX is an early and (mostly) instrumental rendition of Burn My Dread. Uses 48000 hz instead of 24000 hz.

ZZZZZZ.BIN is Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne's unused Staff Roll 2 track, and is used to pad out the game disc, with the loop existing 40 times in the bin file. It can be opened using ADPCM Player.

Higher-Quality Duplicates

Duplicates of some used songs exist in higher quality (48000 hz), but unused.

Tartarus Blocks

94.ADX, 95.ADX, and 96.ADX have higher-quality duplicates of Tziah, Arqa, and Yabbashah, in that order. In FES, since more songs were added for The Answer, these were replaced with Interstice Of Time (Malebolge), Interstice Of Time (Cocytus), and Interstice Of Time (Caina), in that order.

Changing Seasons

FBGM03.ADX has a higher-quality duplicate of Changing Seasons, but with a weird loop point. In FES, there are two other duplicates of this, though split into multiple sections, in 0501.ADX to 0556.ADX, and FBGM0301.ADX to FBGM0329.ADX.

A Deep Mentality

FBGM04.ADX has a higher-quality version of A Deep Mentality.

Unused Fields

Early Bunker

Initially, the Full Moon Operations were intended to be longer. There are large remnants of this for the bunker, found at ID 035_005 to 035_016.

Unused Code

There are a few leftover batch files in various parts of the game:

btl\BATTLE\CUTIN\CONVERT.BAT

pakfile per_efc0.seq per_efc0.bin

btl\BATTLE\EFFECT\BTLEFF.BAT

..\..\..\persona3\program\tools\pakfile.exe .\btleff.txt btleff.bin

copy .\btleff.bin ..\..\snd_benc
del .\btleff.bin

PAUSE

data\FACILITY\PAK.BAT

copy msg\msg_souvenir.bmd msg\AGS_msg_souvenir.bmd
copy msg\msg_lot.bmd msg\AGS_msg_lot.bmd
copy msg\msg_elevator_girl.bmd msg\AGS_msg_elevator_girl.bmd


pause

pakfile fcl_combine.seq fcl_combine.pak
pakfile AGS_fcl_combine.seq AGS_fcl_combine.pak

pakfile fcl_accessory.seq fcl_accessory.pak
pakfile AGS_fcl_accessory.seq AGS_fcl_accessory.pak

pakfile fcl_antique.seq fcl_antique.pak
pakfile AGS_fcl_antique.seq AGS_fcl_antique.pak

pakfile fcl_company.seq fcl_company.pak
pakfile AGS_fcl_company.seq AGS_fcl_company.pak

pakfile fcl_drugstore.seq fcl_drugstore.pak
pakfile AGS_fcl_drugstore.seq AGS_fcl_drugstore.pak

pakfile fcl_weapon.seq fcl_weapon.pak
pakfile AGS_fcl_weapon.seq AGS_fcl_weapon.pak


pakfile fcl_elevatorgirl.seq fcl_elevatorgirl.pak
pakfile AGS_fcl_elevatorgirl.seq AGS_fcl_elevatorgirl.pak

pakfile mc.seq mc.pak


pause

Enemy AI

Several enemies have code that is inaccessible as a result of oversights, or is outright unused:

• Takaya's second encounter (dubbed "AI_Takaya2" internally) is supposed to have a second phase once he drops below 50% health, in which he occasionally uses Mahamaon and Mamudoon. However, as a result of several errors (incorrect bit check, unused bit check, and incorrect conditional), he instead stays at his first phase the entire fight. This was corrected in Persona 3 Portable.

The following AI is accessible in theory, but is highly improbable in practice due to specific circumstances:

• Jin's second encounter ("AI_Jin2") will (assuming a weakness is present) target an ally's weakness and use skills of that affinity for the fight. However, he targets these affinities in a set priority (Slash > Strike > Pierce > Fire > Ice > Elec > Wind > Light > Dark), and will not use skills of a lower priority as long as a living ally has a weakness to a higher-priority move. As such, assuming no party member dies during the fight (very likely due to how easy the boss is), he will usually only use two moves out of his entire 25+ move kit.
• Divine Mother in Monad has alternate skill priorities if it detects a party member has the Fear ailment, with a 50% chance to use Ghastly Wail. As no enemy in Monad has any means to inflict Fear, the only way to trigger this would be to use one of the bad status-inflicting items (Muscle Drink, Odd Morsel, or Rancid Gravy) and have it inflict fear.

Fuuka Party Member

If you hack/use the debug menu to add Fuuka to the party, she uses Junpei's battle portrait and the protagonist's model. She also uses an earlier animation for the one-handed sword seen in some prerelease screenshots. Unfortunately, the game crashes when trying to speak to her or when it is her turn in battle.

Unused Social Links

There are 4 unused Social Links, of IDs 02, 03, 09, and 15. Originally, all romancable characters(Yukari, Fuuka, Mitsuru, Aigis, Yuko, and Chihiro) had the Lovers Arcana. Changing this so that every character had a different Arcana required removing some incomplete Social Links. 02 was Elizabeth of the High Priestess, 03 the antique shop owner of the Empress, 09 Aigis, and 15 was Koromaru of the Strength. All event files relating to them got replaced by dummys, but they still do have remnants. Elizabeth(as her dates), Aigis, and Koromaru(as his walks)'s Links got restored at least to some extent in FES.