Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Developer: Spike Chunsoft Publishers: Spike Chunsoft (JP/US), Reef Entertainment (EU) Platform: Nintendo Switch Released in JP: January 25, 2024 Released in US: February 27, 2024 Released in EU: February 27, 2024 This game has unused graphics. This game has regional differences. This game has a prerelease article This game has a notes page

This game is receiving new content, by way of Expansion Packs and/or Downloadable Content. Be aware that any unused content you find may become used in the future. If this does happen, please specify as such!

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

To do: Some stuff to document. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX leftovers, it uses the same engine and code (if there's any) Check if the unused dungeons from said game are still there in Shiren's code, using the dungeon modifier code here. The game uses Unity version 2022.3.0f1 which certain Unity ripping programs such as AssetStudio do not support, a modified build for it is required, the .bundle files for the game do not open up using it however due to being encrypted, there's a quickbms script available that is provided by a user on the UnityPK Discord server that can be used to decrypt some of the files, another way to get the sprites is using Ryujinx's texture dumping feature. Unused eye and mouth textures that can be found in every character model in the game, a lot of the characters do not appear in the cutscenes or have other emotion portraits, as such these face textures do not show in-game.

Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is a huge comeback for Shiren and his partner Koppa 8 years after their previous game Shiren the Wanderer 5: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate, this time being the 3rd Shiren game in 3D, and the first Shiren game to use the Unity engine.

A Windows version of the game was announced to release on Steam around Winter-2024.

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Prerelease Info

Notes

Unused Graphics

A tile with some Japanese text on it

Debug Menu Leftovers

Also found in the files are graphics related to a Debug Menu.

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Unused Portraits

Shiren has a happy and a pain portrait, however you can only see his neutral portrait on the top menu screen when you are selecting your file.

Shiren does not talk in the cutscenes, so these portraits never get displayed anywhere.

Story Completion RNG Skip

If the player had a good RNG for the items that were needed to beat the final boss at the beginning of the game without fail, the player can beat the whole main story in only 5 minutes or less. (As shown on the completion screen in the video)

Additionally with the skip, some parts of the beginning of the game are skipped over, making some of the cutscenes inaccessible.

Normally, you have to fail this boss fight for the main story to progress.

It's possible to get the required items for the skip, however the player would need to be very lucky.

Additionally, doing this skip will show unique dialogue for Kantenbo that is never normally shown without the skip, he would get upset at Shiren for ransacking the island, instead of getting upset for challenging Jakaku.

Obscured Graphics

One of Suzuma's portraits has some unseen chunks that can be found outside of her portrait box

Oddities

The rescue request system's translation is swapped for the English version, in which "off" is the "on" option vice versa.

Region Differences

The Japanese version has two language options, Japanese and Chinese.

The title screen logo is different.

Japanese/Chinese	United States

The screen for the weapon menu tutorial is different in each version

Japanese	United States	Chinese

Internal Project Name

The internal project name for the game is ShirenTheWanderer6