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Tales of Symphonia |
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Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: September 22, 2004 This game has unused abilities. This game has unused sounds. |
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While successful internationally, the GameCube version's Japanese sales were not satisfying to Namco, and as such they ported it to the PlayStation 2 with various additions, like
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It was originally a Japanese exclusive, much like the PSP port of Phantasia and the PS3 Vesperia, but eventually saw life outside of Japan in Tales of Symphonia Chronicles on the PlayStation 3.
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It was originally a Japanese exclusive, much like the PSP port of Phantasia and the PS3 Vesperia, but eventually saw life outside of Japan in Tales of Symphonia Chronicles on the PlayStation 3.
Unused Artes
Voice Clips
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Many, many unused battle cries for unused Artes can be found in the PS2 remake: Was Namco planning to add content to the extent of PS3 Vesperia? Notably most of Lloyd's unused move callouts reference the same space-time moves as Cless Alvein from Tales of Phantasia and other crossover titles, hinting that Lloyd was going to have a second Mystic Arte and a load of Cless references as well. 'Maou Engekiha' AKA 'Infernal Torrent' is a move used by Stahn Aileron from Tales of Destiny, though whether Lloyd's was a different take or not is unknown.
Colette:
Transcription | Translate | Notes |
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ダンシングシックル | Dancing Sickle | |
グランドフォール | Grand Fall | |
紅蓮 (Guren) | Hell Pyre | |
雹 (Hyou) | Hail | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Colette shouts 'Hail' as the name. |
迅雷 (Jinrai) | Shock Arrow (Thunder Clap) | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Colette shouts 'Thunder Clap' as the name. |
ミラージュセイバー | Mirage Saber | |
殺劇舞荒剣 | Satsugeki Bukouken | rendered as Final Fury in English games, very odd choice to say the least. |
神の栄名において、その御使いをここに賜わらんことを欲す。 我、御身の代行者たらんことを願う者なり。開け、聖界の門、セフィロト! | In the audience of God, I desire that this service be honoured. I wish to become the successor of my Lord. Open, gate to the Holy World. Sephiroth!! | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Let my prayers resound across the heavens. Open your gates and shine light upon the wicked. Sephiroth! |
疾風 (Shippuu) | Gale Shot | |
死天滅殺輪(Shiten Messatsurin) | Annihilation Arc | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Colette shouts 'Annihilation Arc' as the name. |
衝破 (Shouha) | Sonic Bash | |
屠龍 (Toryuu) | Dragon Slayer | |
凍牙 (Touga) | Ice Fang | |
鷲羽 (Washuu) | Eagle Shot |
Lloyd:
Transcription | Translate | Notes |
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玄光破 (Genkouha) | Radiant Field | |
白虎双破 (Byakko Souha) | White Tiger Blade | |
氷牙陣 (Hyougajin) | Glacial Blade | |
次元斬 (Jigenzan) | Distortion Blade | |
虚空蒼破斬 (Kokuu Souhazan) | Chaos Blade | |
蒼破刃 (Kouhajin) | ||
空破絶影撃 (Kuuha Zetsueigeki) | Severed Darkness | |
空間翔転移 (Kuukan Shouten'i) | Lunge | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance,Lloyd shouts 'Eternal Slasher' as the name. |
極光剣 (Kyokkoken) | Aurora Slasher | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Lloyd shouts 'Aurora Slash' as the name. |
魔王炎撃波 (Maou Engekiha) | Infernal Torrent | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Lloyd shouts 'Infernal Torment' as the name. |
冥空斬翔剣 (Meikuu Zanshouken) | Dark Blade | |
雷閃剣 (Raisenken) | Lightning Slash | |
星皇蒼輝斬 (Seiyou Soukizan) | Imperial Destruction | |
粋牙陣 (Suigajin) | Hydro Blade | |
瞬雷剣 (Shunraiken) | Lightning Thrust |
Genis
Transcription | Translate | Notes |
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ヴァンスイング | Bansaienga | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Genis shouts 'Blazing Swing' as the name. |
天に集いし炎よ、恐怖と共に降り注げ! フィアフルフレア! | Gathering heavenly flames, fall with terror! Fearful Flare! | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Fires of heaven, rain down! Fearful Flare! |
大いなるマナよ、ここに集いて敵を滅ぼせ! テトラスペル! | Grand Mana, gather here and destroy the foe! Tetra Spell! | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Mana.. Gather forth to smite my enemy! |
力の違いを見せてやる! インディグネイト ジャッジメント! | Comes with chant. Indignate Judgment |
Kratos:
Transcription | Translate | Notes |
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断空剣 (Dankuuken) | Severing Wind | |
ゲイボルグ | Gáe Bolga | |
氷牙陣 (Hyougajin) | Glacial Blade | |
恐れなき地霊 (Osorenaki Chirei) | Intrepid Earth | |
雷閃剣 (Raisenken) | Lightning Slash | |
蒼炎翔牙斬 (Shouen Shougazan) | Flare Fang | |
粋牙陣 (Suigajin) | Hydro blade |
Zelos:
Transcription | Translate | Notes |
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ゲイボルグ | Gáe Bolga | |
氷牙陣 (Hyougajin) | Glacial Blade | |
恐れなき地霊 (Osorenaki Chirei) | Intrepid Earth | |
雷閃剣 (Raisenken) | Lightning Slash | |
蒼炎翔牙斬 (Shouen Shougazan) | Flare Fang | |
粋牙陣 (Suigajin) | Hydro blade | |
閃光衝 / 閃光翔 (Senkoushou) | Force Spear | |
... (Zelos Flash) | Zelos Flash |
Raine:
Transcription | Translate | Notes |
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フェアリーサークル (Fairy Circle) | PS2 Unused: Banbutsu ni yadorishi, seimei no ibuki o koko ni. Sohite, warera ni kago o. Fairy Circle! (Offer us life essence nurturing all creatures, then bestow us your protection: Fairy Circle!) | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Root of all creation, grant us the breath of life... Grant us protection! Fairy Circle! |
... (Magic Shell) | Magic Shell | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Raine shouts 'Magic Barrier' as the name. |
セイクリッドシャイン (Sacred Shine) | Sacred Shine | No reverb: Comes with chant. |
... (Shine) | ||
シャイニングフレア (Shining Flare) | Shining Flare | |
... (Valkyrie's Javelin) | Valkyrie's Javelin | In Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, all voices for unused techs were dubbed in English. In this instance, Raine shouts 'Valkyrie Javelin' as the name. |
Sheena:
- Aska: 'Keiyakusha no na ni oite meizu! Ideyo, Aska!' (As the Pact Master I order thee: Come! Aska!')
- Corrine
- Kamaitachi (Blade Wind)
- Majou Kousou (Purging Essence?)
- Manjushage (Flare Blitz)
- Raiden
Presea:'Eternal Wind'
Transcription | Translate | Notes |
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爆焔破吼撃(Bakuen Hakougeki) | ||
地龍の咆哮(Chiryuu no Houkou) | Roar of the earth dragon | |
焔師の小躯(Enshi no Shouku) | Blaze of the fire master | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Blazing flight! |
月閃衝吼破(Gessen Shoukouha) | ||
氷気の抱擁(Hyouki no Houyou) | Embrace of the ice spirit | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Glacial embrace! |
大いなる士魂の意思よ、集え!(Ooinaru Shikon No Ishi yo, Tsudoe) | Gather, o will of the great warrior | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: The great elements.. gather forth! |
雷神の断罪!(Raijin no Danzai) | Conviction of the thunder god | Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Lightning edict! |
雷襲砲撃(Raishuu Hougeki) | ||
疾風(?) (Shippu Retsusen) | ||
絶空天牙旋(Zekku Tengaten) |
Regal:
- Hyouryuukou
- Hyuugasen (SP?)
Kvar:
- Indignation
- Judgment Gate (Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Mass Barrier)
Magnius:
- Enshouken
Mithos:
- Stigmata
Yggdrasil:
- Abyss Detonator (Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Abyss Detonation)
- Invoke End (Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Impending Finale)
- Kokuu Souhazan (Tales of Symphonia Chronicles: Chaos Blade)
- Photon
- Tetra Spell
Yuan:
- Lightning
Functional Artes
Artes that can be hacked in the moveset, that are partially functional:
- Colette: Grand Fall still retains its unused state from the GC version. Its description says it drops a giant hammer on enemies, but it just crashes the game.
The Tales series | |
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SNES | Tales of Phantasia |
PlayStation | Tales of Destiny • Tales of Phantasia • Tales of Destiny II |
Game Boy Color | Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon |
Game Boy Advance | Tales of Phantasia • Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 |
GameCube | Tales of Symphonia |
PlayStation 2 | Tales of Symphonia • Tales of Legendia • Tales of the Abyss |
PlayStation 3 | Tales of Xillia |
Nintendo DS | Tales of the Tempest • Tales of Innocence • Tales of Hearts • Keroro RPG |
PlayStation Portable | Tales of Eternia • Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology • Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 • Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X |
Xbox 360 | Tales of Vesperia |
Wii | Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World |
iOS | Tales of Phantasia |
Windows | Tales of Berseria |
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Hidden Palace and The Cutting Room Floor's Sonic Month 2019 has come to a close!
Together, we've preserved and released several amazing finds: early versions of SonicChaos, Sonic CD, Sonic 2, and Sonic 3!
Thank you for supporting Hidden Palace and TCRF! You helped make it happen!
Together, we've preserved and released several amazing finds: early versions of SonicChaos, Sonic CD, Sonic 2, and Sonic 3!
Thank you for supporting Hidden Palace and TCRF! You helped make it happen!
Tales of Symphonia |
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Developer: Namco Publishers: Namco (JP/US), Nintendo (EU) Platform: GameCube Released in JP: August 29, 2003 Released in US: July 13, 2004 Released in EU: November 19, 2004 This game has unused areas. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused music. This game has unused text. This game has debugging material. This game has a hidden sound test. This game has regional differences. |
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Tales of Symphonia was one of the first Tales games to be in 3D and to get a worldwide release. It later got a Japan-only PS2 port which added some of the missing content, like a casino minigame, and some worthless additional techniques, and of course long loading times.
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- 1Unused Graphics
- 2Debug Rooms
- 3Unused Techniques
- 5Regional Differences
Unused Graphics
Unused Cut-ins
Upon performing Hi-Ougi (Mystic Artes) with Loyd, Genis and Colette, cut-ins appear over the screen with that character's face. Oddly enough, there are unused cut-in graphics for the rest of the party members (Presea even gets two), plus Abyssion and Mithos, on the GameCube version disk. They were used in the PS2 port. You can see them here.
Unused Model
One of the character models in the game is that of Rutee Katrea, one of the protagonists of Tales of Destiny. Considering one of the battles at the Coliseum has the party face off against two characters from Tales of Eternia (Farah Oersted and Meredy) and one from Tales of Destiny (Garr/Woodrow Kelvin), this is likely where her cameo would have appeared.
Debug Rooms
On the NTSC version, after enabling the following Action Replay codes, you can press Z when on any area to teleport to the following locations, although there is the risk of your character getting stuck in the scenery. You can also save and load for a quick access to these areas.
Testfield_01
There are two NPCs here, and a bunch of air-ships lacking collision detection. The area 3D model itself arbuptly cuts off at some point. It seems they are here for testing camera angles:
- The female NPC will say 'Meow?' and trigger a cutscene where one of the air-ships take off (but stays suspended at a certain height), then a close-up of you and her. You can move while in the cutscene.
- The male NPC has two options: the first one will trigger a cutscene where the camera pans very far away from the whole area but approaches with a panoramic view. The whole area model, and even the skybox borders are visible. The second option spawns some monsters.
Testfield_02
This is by far the most interesting area! There is here a row of blue NPCs which, when talked to, allows you to freely edit their character's 3D models! The available options are:
- Character: here you can choose from all the PC and NPC in the game, including some dummied-out, and glitchy ones. Most of the values of the other options ('filthy dogs' and 'registered character') crash the game.
- You can change the mouth and eyes, too.
- EN makes manga-style emoticons appear above their heads.
- Motion makes them do a specific option, although you need to go to the loop options to prevent it from arbuptly stopping.
- Bones options enables you to rotate any bone in the 3D model by any angle you wish. Video.
- There are Skin, In-between frame and Option (?) settings.
- The last option enables you to revert the character to their original appearence.
There are also three pink NPCs, one of which is obstructed initially by the camera view, which changes after talking to the blue NPCs:
- The bottom pink NPC has four options: Titles, Techniques (showing 'Under Development'), Recipes, and Weapon Test. While the first and the third options are the most interesting, allowing you to unlock all of the Titles/Recipes, the fourth one simply causes your character's to draw his weapons as if he was in battle mode.
- The hidden pink NPC has the same options as the blue ones, except it changes YOUR character appearance.
- The top pink NPC has options from 000 to 010, which seems to crash the game.
Unused Techniques
Functional
Some techniques are only available with Action Replay codes. Some deal no damage, they often glitch the game, especially when used in Unison attacks, and there are ones which outright crash the game.
- Raine
- Bloody Lance: Dark element palette swap of Holy Lance that is otherwise exclusive to enemies.
- Dark Sphere: Dark element palette swap of Photon.
- Sacred Light: Has its own incantation dubbed in English to boot! ('Life, be thy sustenance and destroy the enemy!') An animation also plays but no damage is dealt. This move was later finished up and used in the PS2 version as Raine's first Mystic Arte, and in the English release of the PS3 Chronicles version which uses the PS2 version as a base, the formerly unused English dub incantation plays when performing it.
- Zelos
- Judgement: CPU Zelos uses this on you in his boss battle but is otherwise unavailable for the player to use. The PS2 version and PS3 Chronicles version later allowed players to use this technique.
- Regal
- Heel Kick
- Dragon Fang: A possible early version of his Dragon Claw tech.
- Colette
- -????-: Non-functional. Colette just remains in casting mode until it is cancelled. The name used for this move is also displayed when triggering her Holy Judgment Mystic Arte.
- Grand Fall: The description claims that it drops a gigantic hammer on the enemy but it simply crashes the game when used.
Sound Only
The Sound Test has some battle cries recorded for scrapped Artes (but most of them were seemingly removed from the English version). Many were implemented in the Japanese PS2 version, but some went ultimately unused.
Raine:
- Fairy Circle: Banbutsu ni yadorishi, seimei no ibuki o koko ni. Sohite, warera ni kago o. Fairy Circle! (Offer us life essence nurturing all creatures, then bestow us your protection: Fairy Circle!) - It's still unused in the PS2 version.
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Kvar:
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- This particularly...lewd callout for minor boss Kvar is found amongst his attack name callouts but is unused ingame. Unless he actually had an attack named Booty Call, this was likely a joke.
- Todo: All PS2 version leftovers
Unused Music
Within the 'sound' directory of the game's files, there are six unused music tracks.
temp1.song
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A single, quiet piano key.
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A very fast-paced, high-energy tune. Sounds like a battle theme.
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A laid-back track that sounds very much like a town theme.
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A somber rearrangement of Zelos' theme.
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Another single piano key, slightly longer than temp1.song.
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Sad-sounding cutscene music.
Regional Differences
Edit Playable Characters Names
In the Japanese version only, you can edit the names for all of your party members. For some reason, this option was made unavailable in localized versions, rendering the naming screen unused in the process. You can still do so in said versions by editing directly the save file.
Voice Acting
All sound files relevant to the voice acting of the Z button skits have been deleted from the localized versions, akin to all Tales games until recently. The timing of the English text is still unchanged from the Japanese version: for instance, Sheena spend a lengthy time saying 'I...' in the English version, accounting for the longer Japanese equivalent of the sentence. Undub versions re-enabled said voice acting.
Sound Test
In the Japanese version, a Sound Test is unlocked upon completing the game. It is available in the title screen. It was dummied in English versions, much like the Phantasia GBA port, but it is still available, with a very early translation retaining Japanese names (Refill for Raine, for example). It can be accessed on Disc 1 in the US version with Action Replay codes, by selecting Customize on the title screen.
Opening Song
The Japanese version's opening song is 'Starry Heavens' by Day After Tomorrow. This was changed to an instrumental song in the international versions.
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Text Fonts
The US and European versions have completely different fonts for dialogue and other text.
The Tales series | |
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SNES | Tales of Phantasia |
PlayStation | Tales of Destiny • Tales of Phantasia • Tales of Destiny II |
Game Boy Color | Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon |
Game Boy Advance | Tales of Phantasia • Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 |
GameCube | Tales of Symphonia |
PlayStation 2 | Tales of Symphonia • Tales of Legendia • Tales of the Abyss |
PlayStation 3 | Tales of Xillia |
Nintendo DS | Tales of the Tempest • Tales of Innocence • Tales of Hearts • Keroro RPG |
PlayStation Portable | Tales of Eternia • Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology • Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 • Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X |
Xbox 360 | Tales of Vesperia |
Wii | Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World |
iOS | Tales of Phantasia |
Windows | Tales of Berseria |
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