Luigi's Mansion (GameCube)/Unused Areas

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To do: Look more into the files within map0’s path folder and figure out what they do. Get Action Replay codes for map7 and map8 in NTSC versions.

Test Map (map0)

General Overview

The following Action Replay codes spawn Luigi in this map upon loading a save file:

Version	Encrypted	Decrypted
NTSC	NV1J-UY4R-E8E2V Z5GB-DQ0V-FFE37	044D80C8 00000000
PAL	5UX5-0NVW-JC3K6 M5W6-9Q8J-A0PZH	044C578C 00000000

map0, commonly referred to as the test room, is perhaps the most interesting unused map in Luigi's Mansion. The map contains a total of four rooms: the main room Luigi spawns in and three rooms adjacent to it. All of these rooms are separated by doors despite the fact that Luigi can simply walk through the doors (though they still can be opened like normal).

In the main room is the painting of Mario after Bowser and King Boo are defeated (which does nothing when you get close to it), Shivers the Butler (if you haven't already captured him on the save file you're using), Toad (who does nothing), King Boo without his crown, submerged into the floor, and Luigi's arm used for the grabbing Mario's painting cutscene after beating the final boss. The fire near of Luigi can be put out with water element shots (use an element modifier code since there are no water elements around), as it's the same fire used to block the Boneyard door in the Kitchen.

The left room is big yet empty, and it only contains one thing: one of the Floating Whirlindas (more specifically, the man). Entering the room also triggers the Floating Whirlindas’ theme to start playing, and it will continue to play until the player quits out of the map entirely. Mr. Whirlinda functions how he does in the final game except for the fact that he never exposes his heart due to the missing rotating dance object--thus making him impossible to suck up on this map. Mr. Whirlinda will also not be present if played on a file he was already captured on (nor will his theme play). Scanning his heart also results in a softlock.

The back room is full of circular and rectangular tables that lack collision everywhere except their legs. That is all the room has visually, but it also contains an invisible generator. Among the entries of the generatorinfo JMP is an entry named "goldrat1" which, as the name implies, is a spawn point for a golden rat. This spawn point is located in the middle of this room, but it cannot be activated in any known way.

The room on the right contains another copy of the Foyer stairs with two ladders leading up to the center platform. These ladders are fully functional and can be climbed from the top and the bottom. It also contains another crownless King Boo in the center of the room albeit this one is above ground. Getting too close to the King Boo or interacting with it in any way causes the game to crash because the cutscene's event forces Luigi out of bounds. This cutscene, King Boo's confrontation, forces Luigi's position to the coordinates X 2293, Y -550, Z -6027, which are normally in the mansion's Secret Altar, but since these coordinates are out of bounds in this map (and because this conflicts with the game forcing Luigi to stay in bounds), the game crashes.

Early Gallery Maps

Three earlier versions of the Gallery still exist within the game's files.

Leftover Early Gallery (map5)

The following Action Replay code spawns Luigi in this map upon loading a save file (works on NTSC):

Version	Encrypted	Decrypted
NTSC	0AK5-AQ1U-MRCT6 UE63-D6EX-YPA7J	044D80C8 00000005
PAL	F1GC-HB97-CKDDP Q91V-15K5-JQ1ND	044C578C 00000005

This map is without any illuminating lights. One of the main differences clearly evident with this map is the unicorn statues, which look almost exactly the same as the ones on the Balcony. However, their horns are smaller than those of the statues in the final. The room where King Boo's picture hangs is much duller and bland, compared to the final. Unlike the regular Gallery, this one appears shorter than the final version's Gallery.

If the final gallery is replaced with this one, there will be a few missing ghosts. They are the Clockwork Soldiers, Biff Atlas, Slim Bankshot, Sir Weston, Bogmire, Uncle Grimmly, Vincent Van Gore and Boolossus.

Leftover Early Gallery #2 (Map7)

This map can be accessed by an Action Replay code (see below). This looks relatively similar to the other early gallery, except the hallways are much longer. This could have meant that at one time they may have had more portrait ghosts planned, which would have made the game longer. The doors, however, seem to be in the same position as the previous map, despite this map having its own file for objects.

Using another replacement code to replace the original with this gallery, all ghosts are present.

Version	Encrypted	Decrypted
PAL	K9WM-N4B1-B973A EHVN-PJW2-JG6RY EP6Q-M8T6-KYG96 2MXP-MFK6-NNQXB 086K-B3N9-CUZZD Q91V-15K5-JQ1ND	00725EC9 18000000 00000000 803089D0 00000037 0004001C 00000000 803089D5 00000035 0004001C 044C578C 00000005

Even Earlier Gallery (Map8)

This is perhaps the earliest version of the Gallery leftover on the disc, even earlier-looking than the other early galleries accessible via Action Replay, or "Map7". The textures are massively different. This gallery is a slight bit longer than Map7's gallery, and no statues are present in the room, unlike the Boolossus unicorn statues that are in the two previous leftover gallery maps.

E. Gadd appears on this map, but you can't talk to him, as he does nothing. The doors are in the same position as the last two maps, and the room with the King Boo painting is the same from its appearance in the other galleries (map7 and map5). Because of the lanterns and the texture of the wall, this map might originally have been intended to have more of a crude and 'underground' look, rather than structured and visually looking concrete. Some of the textures, such as the brown dirt wall, can be found in the training room. During that time, the training room was compiled 18 days after this map was created. The model of the holes with dirt inside them, not shown in the photo, is also found in the training room.

Strangely, the map's eventinfo contains a setup to load event 14, which is Lydia noticing the window's open by saying, "Oh dear... Such a draft..."
You can access this map through the Dolphin emulator but you have to disable MMU so it doesn't crash.

Version	Encrypted	Decrypted
USA		044D80C8 00000008
PAL		044C578C 00000008

Alternatively, using another replacement code to replace the original with this gallery without disabling MMU, the ghosts Vincent Van Gore and Boolossus are not present.

Version	Encrypted	Decrypted
PAL	9E9Q-3356-9PDKQ EHVN-PJW2-JG6RY 6H2X-YMGT-AZ97D 2MXP-MFK6-NNQXB NG04-GRD6-F2QNE Q91V-15K5-JQ1ND	00726ABD 18000000 00000000 803089D0 00000038 0004001C 00000000 803089D5 00000036 0004001C 044C578C 00000005