Tear Ring Saga

Tear Ring Saga
Also known as: Tear Ring Saga: Yutona Eiyuu Senki Developer: Tirnanog Publisher: Enterbrain Platform: PlayStation Released in JP: May 24, 2001 This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused text. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: Are there any other unused characters? Unused "Search" skill (does it have any effect?) Unused Sierra conversations Unused classes (confirm which ones are used for cutscene characters; do they have any data besides their names?)

Tear Ring Saga is a totally-not-a-Fire Emblem-game tactical RPG. Shouzou Kaga, the mastermind behind the first five Fire Emblem games, left Intelligent Systems to create his own Fire Emblem clone after the planned Nintendo 64 entry was cancelled.

Needless to say, Nintendo wasn't happy.

Mechanically, it reintroduces many features from Fire Emblem Gaiden. It later got a more original sequel for the PlayStation 2 that retains its Japan-only status.

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Prototype Info

Prerelease Info

Unused Graphics

To do: Lots of graphics to rip. Distinguish exactly which portraits are unused. Check for unused battle animations.

Promotional Title Screen

Used	Unused

A promotional screen showing the game's release date and its original title: Emblem Saga, which was hastily changed late in development to avoid a lawsuit.

Nintendo sued anyway.

Unused Portraits

Over half the character portraits (roughly 30!) go unused, also due to the name change.

Early Runan

Runan's hair color was changed very last-minute to avoid the incoming lawsuit, though this proved ineffective. Runan's original blue-haired portraits remain in the game in both promoted and unpromoted form. The unused portraits have slightly different posture and clothing as well.

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Unused Portrait Animations

It seems at some point all characters may have been planned to have blinking and talking animations. A good handful of character portraits in the game have unused graphics for blinking animations, though only Miradona blinks in the final game. Julius, interestingly, has frames for mouth movement as well.

In the final game, no one moves their mouth when talking during cutscenes aside from Miradona.

Battle Map Sprites

A very, very unrefined map sprite of a human with a sword and cape. It technically seems to have animations, but all the frames are the same, so it doesn't look like it's moving.

World Map Location Icons

Some of the location icons seen in prerelease images for the game still exist unused in the final game. The final game's world map is entirely brown, like a paper map, and is not in color like these icons and the prerelease world map.

Prerelease World Map	Final World Map	Unused Icons

Runan Artwork

Artwork of an earlier design of Runan, the main protagonist of the game, with blue hair. In the final game, his hair is brown. For whatever reason this art is just hanging around with the skill icons and map sprites. The image labels him as "Ryunan".

Unused Characters

Two unused characters named Boyce (ポイス) and Teppster (テップスター).
Judging by their recruitment conversations, they would've been among the soldiers available to recruit from Count Marlon's troops between Chapters 1 and 2.

Speaker	Dialogue (JP)	Dialogue (EN)
Runan	君は…… ヴェルジェの正規兵ではないな	You... aren't an official Verje soldier, are you?
Boyce	オレはポイス 雇われ者の傭兵です スピードを活かした剣の技が ご所望なら、ぜひこのオレを！	I'm Boyce. An hired mercenary. If you need quick sword arts, I'm definitely your man!
Runan	傭兵……	A mercenary...
Eugen	彼らは金で雇われる 戦闘のプロフェッショナルです 少し守りが弱いのは気になりますが 素早い動きから鮮やかに 繰り出されるその剣の技は 重装備を常とする 騎士たちには真似できませぬ	Money hires him. He's a professional of the battlefield. His low defenses are somewhat worrying, but his quick movements and skillful sword strokes cannot be imitated by knights always wearing heavy armor.

Speaker	Dialogue (JP)	Dialogue (EN)
Runan	君は…	You are..
Teppster	スピアナイトのテップスターと申します 槍での攻撃と守りの技には 多少の自信がございます きっとお役に立ってご覧にいれますよ	I am Teppster, a Spear Knight. I have confidence in my offense and defense arts with the spear. I shall prove myself useful to you.
Runan	そうだな……	I see...
Eugen	リュナン様 槍は総じて命中率が高 ここぞという時に安心して 攻撃を任せることができます また彼は前衛での守りを 任せられるだけの体力と 相応の技術も持っておるようですな 同行させれば あらゆる局面に対応できる 頼もしい存在となってくれましょう	Lord Runan. The spear has high accuracy in general, entrusting attacking to it will never let you down. Further, his body build allows him to handle the front line's defenses. It also appears he possesses apt technique. If we bring him along, we acquire a reliable soldier useful in any situation.

Of the two, only Teppster has surviving unit data left in the code:

Gender	Class	Level	HP	Strength	Skill	Agility	Defense	Magic	Luck	Wlv.	W.P.	Skills
♂	Spear Knight	3	28	7	5	6	5	0	2	7	76	Big Shield, City Fighter

(Source: Matthew TRS (portraits), (script), Pegasus Knight (stats))

Unused Items

Books

A type of item that teaches a particular skill to a unit once. In the final game, the only books available are Guilty Heart (teaching the Mug skill) and Move Again Book (teaching the Move Again skill), but many more unused books exist, listed below. (Note that the skills themselves are all used in-game.)

Book	Skill
Soul Blade	Earth Saint
Dancing Soul	Dragon Saint
Life Saucer	Heaven Saint
Armour Kill	Geomancy
Initiative	Gale
Power Shield	Big Shield
Indeed	Awareness
Vitality	Life or Death
D Crash	Continue
Flying Soul	Rising Dragon
Thieves Book	Steal
Warp Book	Warp
Picklock Book	Picklock
Charge Book	Charge
Elite Book	Elite
Demon Tome	Anti-evil
Forest Secret	Forest Fighter
Mountain Secret	Mountain Fighter
Sea Skill	Sea Fighter
Frontier Secret	Frontier Fighter
Desert Secret	Frontier Fighter
City Secret	City Fighter

Emblems

These were removed for obvious reasons. According to their description and various pre-release interviews, the army having these would be recognized as an official squadron of their kingdom, allowing for an increase in income each turn. However, all of their functionality was left out in the final.
There is a generic "Emblem" and four other emblems for each one of the royal families: Canaan, Reeve, Salia, and Leda.

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  Emblem

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  Canaan Emblem

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  Reeve Emblem

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  Salia Emblem

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  Leda Emblem

(Source: Fire Emblem WOD (item icons))

Unused Text

Old Opening

To do: Original Japanese text and maybe more details on where this is located, exactly?

What appears to be a version of the opening monologue from much earlier in development. Some names appear to have been swapped around or changed, and some major events occurring in the final go unmentioned.

Japanese

Translation

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The troubadour Lewyn singeth: Fortheria, land of the sleeping gods, a land unable to escape from war. For so long as people are human, the sins of history are doomed to repeat… Long ago, war was fought for generations between two sides: the aboriginal Canaanites of the island continent Fortheria, and the immigrant Jugudi of the mainland continent. Because of this long-standing opposition, or perhaps in spite of it, the Canaanites founded the Empire of the Dark God, while the Jugudi built the Kingdom of Reeve. The Kingdom of Reeve was whittled away by the Empire, who had obtained the favor of the Dark God. After years of successive blunders and disaffection of the corrupt royalty, the Reevan capital of Lieberant finally capitulated. In response to this, an alliance of small countries dotting the Senay coastline–Mahl, Wellt, and Blaad–rose up against the Empire. At the site of Fort Valt, they faced Achtullus, a reknowned Canaanite commander, and Kranion, the demonic dragon who truly controlled the Empire. In the face of these enemies, the alliance suffered a great defeat. And so, two years have passed since the fall of the Kingdom of Reeve…

(Source: Matthew TRS)