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Phantasy Star 3 - Unused NPC sprite

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Channel: Adrastia · 2017 · Gaming

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I'm pretty sure this has been discovered before. But I don't think there's a lot of info out there about it.

Normally you cannot get to the staircase in the tech shop in the beginning of the game. You need to begin the wedding then get rescued from the dungeon by Lena. You'll exit out through these stairs. But you won't be going back down there until the second generation during Ayn's quest because the NPCs will once again be blocking the way after Lena rescues you. But with walk through walls you can access this dungeon at any time. Even before the wedding.

If you enter this dungeon from the tech shop you will see these two NPCs dressed in yellow. Normally the two soldiers who take Rhys into the dungeon would be standing there after they lock him up. They'll be facing the wall for some reason. But you'll notice in the scene when Rhys is taken down there that the soldiers will appear in the same positions as the two unused NPCs.

Phantasy Star 3 is unfinished and I'm assuming that both the direction the soldiers are facing and the presence of the unused NPCs when the dungeon is accessed from the tech shop in the first generation are just oversights that were never corrected. The unused NPC may have been used as a place holder and just wasn't fixed because without a code Rhys can't enter the dungeon from the tech shop anyway. The unused NPC is very similar to the little boy NPC and appears to be his female counterpart. Since she can't be interacted with at all I have no idea whether or not she has any animations. She may be unfinished and therefore ended up scrapped. But it's interesting that there's a way to get her to show up.

Also, it appears as if the king's default dialog is the little quip about having to reset if you use an escapipe. Normally you only see this if you bought the escapipe and used it instead of being rescued by Lena. When you use the escapipe the wall facing soldiers will be facing outward.

Codes used
Walk through walls:  006D9E:6000

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Here are the unused and used NPCs side by side. I think that they are both dressed more in line with the clothing style of Phantasy Star 2.

The girl NPC has a smaller shadow. I think her leg gap is two pixels  shorter because of the dress. Her sleeves look rather odd. I don’t know whether that’s because she is unfinished or what. The boy has a sleeveless shirt but the girl seems to have both yellow and skin color intermingled on her arms.

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I just wanted to add that if you use an escapipe before being rescued by Lena then exit and re-enter via the tech shop the unused NPC sprites appear again. I never noticed this before.

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