Behind the scenes…

Various bits and pieces that were left behind which give us a window into the development process!

Not pictured; massive inconsistencies in naming convention for both Japanese and Romanized names e.g. ゲンバー (Genbā) & ゲンヴァー (Genvā) for Gember, and ‘ZIGG’ & ‘JIGI’ prefixes for files belonging to ジギタリス (Jigitarisu), a new character introduced in game. (I’ve gone for the spelling ‘Ziggitalis’.)

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Unused battle result images ‘win’, ‘draw’ and ‘lose’.An alternative set of battle results, this time also featuring ‘retry’, ‘settings’ and ‘quit’ buttons.A dummy image that was used as a placeholder for backgrounds, from the NDS game ‘Cinnamoroll: Ohanashi shiyo!’ by Namco Bandai.A set of speech bubbles containing text from the game’s intro as images rather than text, suggesting that it may have been planned to be more cinematic at one point.The hidden debug map, where you can speak to different characters to jump to content. (Battle debugger pictured.)Post time-skip sprite of Kiyal.(Left) A previous version of the armour chip menu slots. (Right) The final version as it appears in game.‘Fire A’, one of many unused automatic skill images, some contain completely original names, others divide the skills into classes ‘A-C’ and ‘S’.