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Unused Ludger and Julius lines from Tales of the Rays. (Not my tl.)

Ludger: My tomato cooking will give you a 100x energy boost! Julius: Haha! I couldn't agree more.

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Unused Form Change Ludger line from Tales of the Rays.

Ludger: Elle, get back, it's dangerous! Elle: I know, I know!

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After Ludger makes a new pot of soup for Elle, she says that Ludger's soup is good, then has an unused line.

Elle: But… I still like my daddy's soup better.

エル「でも、やっぱり…… やっぱりエルは、パパのスープのが好きだな」

This was kept in the manga adaptation.

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datamining program credits

tales of xillia and xillia 2:

quickbms by aluigi

xillia decryption script (original by chrrox, rewritten by aluigi)

quasi-detective's bnsf truncation script

nubext by manakoat

foobar2000

vgmstream

full text datamine provided by temple of tales translation

tales of zestiria:

quickbms by aluigi

xillia decryption script (original by chrrox, rewritten by aluigi)

foobar2000

vgmstream

tales of berseria:

ps4 pkg viewer by l-man

berseria tools by rangerrus

foobar2000

vgmstream

tales of asteria:

toadump by kurimu with code from suyo

ninjaripper + nox emulator

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TIL from @ofstarsandskies that there is an unused model/texture of Rideaux turning into a Divergence Catalyst, which is visible if Alvin is set to Rideaux's model during the Catalyst!Rowen chapter. i definitely missed that going through files.

the game doesn't really address this so finding that it DID intend on addressing it is pretty neat. maybe we were supposed to see rideaux sacrificed after all?

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I have been excited for this for DAYS. Datamining the game’s sound files revealed an alternate version of the Bad Ending.

MANY thanks to @yume-x-hanabi for translating it for me and withstanding my ensuing emotions about it, and my friend yevabeva for automating the decryption stuff <3

09/2022 edit: Made some minor edits! Thank you to @lastthroes​ for upscaling! 

For reference, bolded are the missing lines from the animated scene:

Ludger, you... You threw away everything for me? But... Bisley’s true goal... So this was all in vain. Ludger... Or maybe... this is the world I wanted too.

Notes: “Tomato sauce pasta” was localised in the English game as “pasta margherita”, and I reused one of Ludger’s grunting clips to fill the pause in Julius’ dialogue at the end, but otherwise all the voice lines after the fade-to-black are unused in-game.

Tools used: aluigi's Xillia QuickBMS script based off of Chrrox's script, Quasi-Detective on Zenhax's BNSF truncation script, NUBExt by manakoAT, foobar3000, vgmstream, Waifu2x GUI, and Yevabeva’s hex editing script.

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didn’t know if i should really bother making this edit but mauro did point out there is a really long pause in elle’s response and the unused voice line fits perfectly in it

(for reference, the unused line is “promise me” before elle says “i promise”. cheers, i’ll add that to my interpretation of the story!)

also after victor transforms and the camera cuts to the clouds, there’s voice files for the agents screaming, probably as he murders them all. i didn’t add them back in bc i couldn’t make it sound natural when there’s only two people screaming and there’s like a dozen agents…

(decryption scripts: aluigi, quasi-detective, yevabeva. programs: nubext by manakoat, vgmstream, foobar3000)

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if you ever wondered what the deal was with that Exodus terrorist who had beef with Milla, turns out there’s an unused scene explaining that

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And Elle who shares her status art with Ludger

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I went back and wrapped up the last Julius sidequest a few days ago and it made me so hecking sad I went and replayed the Bad Ending fight just to make myself feel a bit better except I forgot to unequip the Devils Arms from the party so I kept wiping the fuck out </3

That got me curious and I tracked down all the quotes the party have if they manage to defeat Ludger and… gosh I wish there are another ending for losing this fight…