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Right, so I got an Xbox cheaply recently, and now I'm wanting to run Metal Wolf Chaos on it...

So, have been looking around, but have had little success finding information- does any currently-existing softmod disable or circumvent the region lock?

Information is of course difficult to find because there's not much worth bothering to circumvent the region lock on the Xbox for, but Metal Wolf Chaos looks awesome and I'd like to try it.

Link.



Not quite complete yet, but god damn.

Imagine what could be done with this.

So, I've been combing through Metroid Prime 3. I noticed that, while I can't decrypt the STRG files, they're legible to an extent. Very garbled, particularly as you go on in them, but you can tell what you're looking at.

So, I've been looking at these, and this game has a shitload of unused scan data:

For example:



Etecoon (typoed as Endocoon) scan data...



I have no idea how this would work; presumably the Ship Grapple was once used very differently.



"Salamander" scan data. Presumably the lizard things in Prime 1's Impact Crater.



"Phase Sprite" doesn't appear anywhere in the game.



"Mantha" sounds like it might have been an early Warp Hound, perhaps?

But, in sheer weirdness, none of these compare to these:



(Weltraumpirat = Space Pirate)

I can't get anything from this... Yes, it is in German. And it is unused. (Used scans actually have all the languages in the same file.)



...but this suggests that the Federation knew about Urtraghus from the start.



...and this is about an "Aurora Unit 068" that is nowhere to be found in the final.



Something about AU 313...



"Basis Up Bryyo"? I have no idea.



The Federation knew about the Leviathan Battleship?



"Urtraghus Lost", meaning that the Pirates were encoding lore AFTER the Homeworld is taken. Perhaps an active presence on Phaaze?



Since it isn't much of a secret.



GF data on a (presumably Pirate) ship that doesn't appear in the final.



And a similar entry on the Stiletto skiff that DOES appear.



Some kind of Federation data on Phazon mining?



And on Samus.



A bit of unintelligible Pirate data.

I'd try to decrypt these, but I don't know where to begin...

Just more proof that this game was completely unfinished:

All of these goal card files are unused. A couple are just redundant, but most of them suggest a far meatier game.



Chase/10 food before the editor? I don't get it.



Lots of these...



This is simply redundant, but the phrasing is different.



You could start as an omnivore... explains why the proboscis is so hard to get. Also, a typo. I don't believe these were supposed to be included!



More redundancy.



Unused cells are plentiful here. And the shells weren't just scenery. (Also, somebody should have been fired over Cell stage; not only are those VERY DEFINITELY NOT UNICELLULAR, but an accurate version probably would have been more fun to play.



Puffish? Seems you could lure predators to other cells, presumably scavenging off the meat they produced when killed. That actually would have been a nifty mechanic.



Um, yeah. The ability to injure parts? NOT present. Grammatical mistakes suggest that these are VERY early.



Puffish! Cell stage was never accurate, it seems, but it might have been fairly fun at one point. Now, it's just boring.



More discussion of specific weaknesses. Would be FAR better than the armor = health thing in the final.



A placeholder. Lots of these; unless there's something interesting, I'll be leaving these out after this.



I NEED X MORE THINGS. There are several of these.



Part leveling, perhaps?



For poison...



So, more proof that at one point Cell had gameplay.



Posse? Presumably the weird multi-species pack thing. Somewhere, a biologist is crying.



More 10 food to use the editor crap. Also, a brilliant grasp on microbiology, here.



More part-based missions. Presumably, the 5 pages of unused parts date back to the meaty Cell stage.



...I don't get it either.



so I herd u liek spikez?



Stabber. Brilliant name. Wonder what it did?

This is just the tip of the iceberg. More later.

EDIT: A random message which makes me angry.



Fuck, you mean my allies were good for something when I was on the other side of the galaxy and my colonies were under attack?

Been combing through an ISO. Found out that the model format is unknown and currently not cracked, but I recall seeing some text dumps, and I've found a debug menu I want to look at.

Can't find the info on its text format; anyone know?

EDIT: Sidenote: There is a model for something called 'casino_colo'. Huh. Until the model format is opened up, it could just be an existing Colosseum, but...

EDIT2: ffffff it looks like it's the menu proper, not just text, so good luck getting an idea of what's in it. I wonder if it still works?

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