Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition

Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition
Also known as: Xenoblade Definitive Edition (JP) Developers: Monolith Soft Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo Switch Released internationally: May 29, 2020 This game has unused areas. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article This game has a bugs page

To do: Leftovers from the Wii version and from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which shares the same engine.

Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition is an updated port of Xenoblade Chronicles to the Nintendo Switch. They brought in HD textures, redid the in-game models to match the art style of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (whose engine it reuses), added quality of life tweaks, and most importantly, added an epilogue story called Xenoblade Chronicles Future Connected, in which players can finally fight alongside twelve Nopon at once.

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Prerelease Info

Bugs

Wii Leftovers "What a bunch of Wii leftovers!"

Unused Enemy

To do: Try to mod this enemy into the game, also is there more unused enemies?

The sole unused enemy listed in the population list and enemy table for the base game's unused Bionis Shoulder map is a Sureny Telethia... which is named Leg Antol. It has the same stats and Arts as it does when fighting it on Junks. This enemy entry does not exist in the Wii or 3DS versions.

Unused Models

Playable Characters

To do: Get images of these, which are at pc##2700, pc##2800, and pc##2900. Not all characters have all of them.

Most of the character reference models from the Wii version are gone, but in their place are new reference models that appear to have been used for creating the "updated" version of heavy armour sets. They are complete combinations of the five armour pieces plus the character's face, and use slightly different (older?) texture formats.

NPCs

This page or section needs more images. There's a whole lotta words here, but not enough pictures. Please fix this. Specifically: Make renders of these characters, specifically the Reyn, Fiora, and Sharla reference models.

Inside the chr/np folder, there are updated reference models based off the Wii game's player models. These are np020000 (Reyn) and np030000 (Homs Fiora, with her Wii prototype twin-tailed design). np050000 is very likely a prototype model of Sharla, as it has extremely similar textures to Sharla's Wii model. Additionally, the textures are named "Karu" and Sharla's Japanese name is "Karuna".

Most of the story-important NPCs in the chr/np folder have the Wii models ported over verbatim. This includes but is not limited to: Mumkhar (np620101), Vanea (np630101), Gadolt (np650101).

(Source: TCRF)

Unused Textures

To do: Actually crop and upload the textures and make this section not bad. Archive of menu textures is here -> https://www.mediafire.com/file/ez94btefzl75srg/B-RIPPED.zip/file

To do: There might be more than just the menu textures.

Menus

Future Connected

Tyrea leftovers

Some icons exist within the files that are commonly claimed to imply that Tyrea is a scrapped Future Connected playable character. However, this is not necessarily the case - these files are all used in some way or another for Quiet Moments, where Tyrea does participate.

icon_chara_change_0

icon_chara_change_0 is head icons for QM participants in the Event Viewer. Used elsewhere for head icons of character equipment/arts/skills/etc.

icon_face_0

icon_face_0 is the head icon for QMs when activated in the field. Used elsewhere for tension icons.

Tyrea quiet moment thumbnail duplicates

To do: Where? and what are the filenames?

• The two Tyrea quiet moment thumbnails have duplicates.

Other

icon_face_skill_0

The top left is a early image of Shulk's model and the bottom right is a blank greyed out image, the rest of the images are the same as the top left image but darker and they have Japanese text.

Dunban Assault

Early	Final

icon_face_0 has a early version of Dunban's battle portraits with green Dunban Assault text on top and a purple highlight around the him.

icon_weather_0

Placeholder sprites of a scrapped Xenoblade Chronicles version of the weather indicator from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Japanese	Translation
朝昼	Noon
夕	Evening
夜	Night
晴れ	Dawn
雨	Rain
雷雨	Thunderstorm
雪	Snow
吹雪	Blizzard
熱帯	Tropics
霧	Fog
濃霧	Thick Fog
砂塵	Dust Cloud
流星	Falling Stars
襲撃	Attack
冬眠	Hibernation
嵐前	Before the Storm

(Source: [1])

Unused collectopaedia images

• Notes about the collectopaedia images: Named like [WorldNumber][SubworldNumber]_[ImageNumber]_0. Subworlds are considered part of another area but still get their own page on the Collectopaedia (i.e. Ether Mines being a subworld of Colony 6). Oddly, Prison Island is listed as World 12 Subworld 2, yet W12 Subworld 1 is just black placeholder images. Worlds 8 and 18 images just don't exist at all. img2201_3_0 is an image of Memory Space that both a) wouldn't fit on the page and b) lacks the gradient border that all the other images here have. (world 22 is the "other" page on the collectopaedia).

World 23 is also just blacked out placeholder images.

Additionally, img0401_3_0, img0402_3_0, img1201_3_0, img1202_3_0, img1401_3_0, img1501_3_0, img1701_3_0, img2001_3_0, are unused as they wouldn't fit on the page. All except the first one listed here are placeholder, with the first one being an image of the gate at Colony 6's entrance.

kizunagram_town0X_0

kizunagram_town0X_0 image IDs 01 and 03 to 05 seem to be placeholders for town icons with Japanese text. All of them show Colony 9, although each piece of text represents a different area.

Japanese	Translation
コロニー９周辺	Colony 9 Vicinity
巨神中層部	Bionis Central Section
巨神上層部	Bionis Upper Section
隠れ里周辺	Hidden Village Vicinity

Image ID 02 appears to have no Japanese text.

placeholder mnu text

• mnu003_cont01_2, mnu004_cont01_0, mnu004_cont04_4, mnu004_cont12_6, mnu004_cont014_1, mnu004_cont020_1, mnu004_cont020_2, mnu004_cont21_4, mnu009_cont01_0, mnu009_cont02_2, mnu009_cont04_4, mnu039_cont01_1, mnu039_cont01_5, mnu040_cont02_5, mnu042_cont01_1, mnu042_cont01_3, mnu042_cont01_11, mnu046_cont01_6, mnu046_cont01_7, mnu046_cont01_8, mnu046_cont01_9, mnu050_conto2_0, mnu056_cont01_1, mnu056_cont01_2, mnu056_cont01_3, mnu056_cont01_4, mnu056_cont01_5, mnu056_cont01_8, mnu056_cont01_10, mnu073_cont03_5 are all placeholder(?) Japanese text. The number and English images in this section of files might also be placeholders.

Early Mechonis silhouette

Early	Final

mnu039_cont01_6 is an early version of the Mechonis silhouette shown when entering a new location. It is not identical to the Wii version or the final Definitive Edition version (located at mnu50_img01_0).

button_0

button_0 might be a remnant from Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Test files

The 8 images with "test" in their name are probably unused. The biggest one, artsicon_image_0, is all the unedited Wii art icons in a single sheet (in the Wii version they are separate files).

Test Map

To do: Find textures that are never used in the map.

A test map with 3 robots of 3 different sizes, possibly used for collision testing.

(Source: Turk645)

Unused Future Connected NPC Data

There is no affinity chart in Future Connected, but there are still several entries in the FLD_npclist table that correspond to all its NPCs (starting with row 925), containing things like race and age data that are never seen due to the lack of affinity chart. While some of these look legit, most of them are evidently placeholders (e.g. most of the High Entia have ages of exactly 150/200/250) or duplicates of other rows.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Leftovers

References to Xenoblade Chronicles 2 are found throughout the game data of Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Specifically, the file structure and file types in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition are more akin to Xenoblade Chronicles 2 than they are Xenoblade Chronicles 3D or Xenoblade Chronicles on Wii. There are a few leftovers from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 in Definitive Edition's game data.

Identical Parameter File

The file "wind.prm", located in the "param" (parameter) folder in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, is byte-for-byte identical to the version in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. There's even a reference to "T:\BF2\param\param\wind\_tmp" in both files. "BF2" is the name of the archive that Xenoblade Chronicles 2 stores all of its non-streamed files in.

(Source: Robotortoise)

Blade References

In param/battle.pad, there are a few strings relating to Blades in combat. Specifically, these strings are:

• blade_change_00
• blade_change_01
• blade_change_02

Since Blades (the playable character type, not the sword) are not in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition, these go unused.

(Source: Robotortoise)

Leftover Game Settings

Two settings were most likely hidden from the Game Settings as they appear to be non-functional. These options can be shown by changing any priority columns set to 0 in bdat_common.bdat -> MNU_game_option_item.

Vision Animation

This option would presumably disable any Vision that could occur during battles.

Auto Camera Interpolation Speed

Japanese: オートカメラ時の補間速度 (caption: オートカメラ時の補間速度の説明)

This option would allow control over the interpolation speed of the camera when tracking the player.

(Source: Nenkai)

Oddities

Kino and Nene Asset Displacement

Playable character assets are named according to a numerical system (Shulk is 01, Reyn is 02, etc.). However, Kino and Nene don't fit in very well.

• Some of Kino and Nene's models/textures are in both the 12 and 13 folders as well as the 14 and 15 folders. In the 12 and 13 folders, they're incomplete, with no alternate costumes and XC2-style normal maps (they're BC5 format, while XC1DE generally uses BC7 instead). In the 14 and 15 folders, they're complete, but the textures are still named 12 and 13. It appears that Kino and Nene were going to be characters 12 and 13, but then it was realized that Prologue Dunban occupies those slots, so they were moved to 14 and 15 with some things left behind.
• Weapon assets only have 1 digit available, and they're all taken (1-8 for existing party members and 9 for guests). Kino and Nene's weapons are put in Riki's 6 bucket.

Alvis' Old Key Leftover

Alvis's design was changed in Definitive Edition, replacing the key on his necklace with an Easter egg from the sequel. However, the key is still in his body texture, and was up-qualitied to match.

Revisional Differences

Version 1.1.0

Released on May 29, 2020, the same day that the game was released. This fixes a few bugs within 1.0.0.

(Source: Nintendo)

Version 1.1.1

Also released on May 29, 2020, the same day that the game was released. This fixes two bugs within the previous version.

(Source: Nintendo)

Version 1.1.2

Released on July 8th, 2020, this fixes a few bugs (such as the Tephra Cave clip glitch), voice clip errors, and English subtitle errors.

(Source: Reddit)

Changed English Subtitles

Several English subtitles are fixed to match the English voice clips used within the game.

Nene

1.0.0-1.1.0	1.1.2
He wanna help people who in trouble! That way, can make lots of friends!	He see opportunity to help people who in trouble! That way, can become friends with people everywhere!

(Source: Zatch)