Beyond Good & Evil

Beyond Good & Evil
Developers: Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Milan (Xbox) Publisher: Ubisoft Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube Released in US: November 11, 2003 Released in EU: November 14, 2003 This game has unused code. This game has unused objects. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has a prototype article

Beyond Good & Evil is an action-adventure that follows Jade, an investigative reporter and martial artist, and her allies. The player controls Jade and allies, solving puzzles, fighting enemies, and obtaining photographic evidence.

Michel Ancel, creator of the Rayman series and this game, envisioned it as the first part of a trilogy. This ultimately didn't pan out, and likely never will since Ancel quit game development altogether in 2020.

To do: Check for more unused content like graphics, see talk page for more info. Investigate the Now-delisted 2011 HD version & the 20th Anniversary Edition. Page in need of a bit more content, maybe a slight cleanup as well. Prerelease or Development page on the game's early scripts, per BG&E Wiki (one can be read here).

Unused Objects and Models

Some unused objects can be accessed through cheating.

Carlson-Peeters

The book ported by Double H is a fixed object that you can't use, transfer, or access the description of. If you try to access the item description through cheating, you can see a very basic and unused model of a book, and no text for the description.

Unused Object 1

This object has no icon, name, or description text. Its model is similar to a taser.

Unused Object 2

This object has no icon, name, or description text. It has two different animated textures.

Unused Audio

To do: There might be more unused sounds, but it's hard to know without mistakes.

An alternate version of the Akuda Bar music.

A cartoony gunshot sound with it audibly hitting a can. Possibly an early checkpoint/new lap sound for races.

Some of the samples from the Spanish dialogues are cut off in-game. Listening to the audio files makes it obvious why they did this, as they contain very loud sounds of the voice actors turning the script pages.

Unused Videos

To do: Actually upload these videos for comparison, if warranted?

There's an unused propaganda video with an early General Kehck model.

Unused	Used

There's also a pre-rendered video with one of the ending cutscenes. The video is shorter than the cutscene, and it has some differences from the final cutscene.

Unused Textures

To do: Find a way to properly dump textures, and look for more unused textures in other levels. Find the crab creature in-game if possible/actually is there.

Crab Creature

Textures for a crab-like creature seen in at least one pre-release screenshot. These textures are loaded in when at Mamma-Go, implying it may have been present there at some point. It's also possible that the creature is present somewhere in the map, albeit off screen and unreachable.

(Source: ZyLogic, Nimitz)

Unused Code Functions

Infinite Items

If you set the quantity of any item, such as turbo, to an extremely high value via cheating, the item counter will disappear from the HUD, and every time you use the item its quantity value won't decrease. None of this functionality is ever used in normal gameplay, and seems to be unfinished as the quantity value still decreases when you transfer the item to your partner.

Command Line BIG File Path

On the Windows version, you can specify the path and name of the BIG packed file with the game resources passing it as parameter on the command line. If no parameter is passed, it defaults to BGE.exe /B sally_clean.bf.

Unused Level

The "Factory Pipe" was to have been used to enter and leave the Nutripils Factory. It's still present, but multiple parts of the environment are missing.

(Source: BGEMyth)