Lumines: Electronic Symphony

Lumines: Electronic Symphony
Developers: Q Entertainment, Rocket Studio Publisher: Ubisoft Platform: PlayStation Vita Released in JP: April 19, 2012 Released in US: February 14, 2012 Released in EU: February 22, 2012 This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused graphics.

Lumines: Electronic Symphony is the fifth major entry in the Lumines series. As per the other titles, the goal is to just make squares. It doesn't sound fun on paper, but the outstanding presentation is where most of the appeal is held.

Unused Graphics

Placeholder Graphics

Throughout the game's files are several placeholder screens:

data\screens\screen_ci.zip\CI_003.dds

data\screens\screen_template.zip\template.dds

data\screens\screen_viewer.zip\bg.dds

(Source: tikal.)

Early Menu Graphics

The directory data\images\title.zip\title contains many menu graphics from an early build of the game.

title.png is the title screen from the TGS 2011 demo of the game. This image can also be found in data\screens\Title_Alpha.zip\title.dds.

release.png is likely part of a demo end screen from the TGS 2011 demo, though it's hard to say for certain, since little footage of the TGS 2011 demo exists.

gameover.png is likely the background of a game over screen from the TGS 2011 demo, but again, it's hard to say for certain.

welcomeback.png is an early main menu design.

connectlist.png is likely an Ad Hoc connection screen of some sort.

createchallenge.png looks to be an menu where players could create specific challenges for others to try.

trychallenge.png looks to be a menu where players could accept said challenges.

list_connect.png looks like a box for text to be laid on top of.

clear.png is just some text saying "Clear".

connectlist_milkey.png contains just some text saying "Milkey". Given the filename, it is probably related to connectlist.png in some way.

list_accept_1.png, list_accept_2.png, and list_accept_3.png look to be graphics for confirming a challenge to try in the previously shown Try Challenge menu.

list_send_1.png, list_send_2.png, and list_send_3.png look to be graphics for confirming the challenge to be sent to other players.

Unused Avatars

data\avatar\ch(ID).zip is the directory for the many avatars in the game. While IDs from 00 to 63 can be found, many of them are unused.

Other/from Puzzle Fusion
00	09
An unused playable version of the question mark avatar, an icon of which is seen when an avatar is locked.
11	12
14	19
21	29
32	34
36	44
46	50
51	52
55	56
57	58
59	63

Unused Icons

Several placeholder miniatures for icons and avatars can be found in the directory data\near, along with other miniature images of the many avatars and skins featured in the game.

Avatars

Can be found in data\avatar_thumbnail.zip\avatar_thumbnail. Appears 22 times, with 13 unique variations.

ch09	ch11, ch12, ch50, ch51, ch52, ch55	ch14, ch57
ch19, ch58, ch59	ch21	ch29
ch32	ch34, ch36	ch43
ch44	ch46	ch56
ch63

Avatars (Miniatures)

Can be found in data\near. Appears 22 times, with the IDs of the avatars previously mentioned, sans 00.

Skins

Can be found in data\banner.zip\banner. Appears 29 times, with 15 unique variations.

skin10, skin11, skin12, skin13, skin15	skin14, skin17	skin16
skin18, skin19	skin21	skin22, skin23, skin24, skin25, skin26, skin27
skin28	skin29, skin33	skin30, skin31
skin32	skin116	skin118
skin119, skin120	skin130	skin139

Skins (Miniatures)

Can be found in data\near. Appears 96 times, with the same IDs as the above skin icons, and the addition of IDs 034 to 100.