As with many video games, the creators often leave unused files in the game after production is complete and the game is released. These files can range from images, scenarios, character models, icons, sounds -- all kinds of unused items. This is common in games where the developers have many ideas that weren't featured in the game for reasons such as someone changing their mind, limits of the console, etc.

In ANUBIS: Zone of the Enders (The 2nd Runner in America/Europe), many files found on the disc are voice clips of main characters such as ADA, Dingo Egret, Ken Marinaris or Taper either replying to the push of the L3/R3 button, making comments, or giving hints to Dingo to help complete the mission. Some of the phrases sound hilarious, unfitting, or give hints at would-be scenarios that were nowhere to be found in the final version of the game.

Below are some selected examples of these sound clips (in WAV format).

ADA

"Be serious. Please." (143 KB)
"Simply, you are no good." (166 KB)
"Are you doing this intentionally?" (169 KB)
"This is the last warning. Stop your slaughter right now..." (585 KB)
"Sorry. Goodbye." (146 KB)
"Do you like the female body?" (167 KB)
"I think you have more important things to do." (217 KB)
"Spider destroyed." (130 KB)
"Better destroy the battery first." (190 KB)
"Attack Scanner first." (153 KB)
"Attack Harpoon first." (162 KB)
"Jehuty wins." (128 KB)
"Nephtis wins." (123 KB)
"Ardjet wins." (120 KB)
"Inhert wins." (121 KB)
"Vic Viper wins." (138 KB)

Taper

"A light green container." (141 KB)
"A gray container." (112 KB)
"An orange container." (122 KB)
"I can see a blue light in the room." (173 KB)
"I can smell food." (116 KB)
"It's sooty." (078 KB)
"The container's almost broken." (155 KB)
"It's a Mummyhead!" (110 KB)

Dingo Egret

"Plus two hundred." (103 KB)
(To ADA) "Shut up!" (101 KB)
"Mummyhead." (085 KB)
"NARITA." (088 KB)
"Leopardo." (094 KB)
"Next!" (096 KB)
"You're not my match." (167 KB)
"That's all you know?" (119 KB)
"It's only an unmanned frame." (167 KB)
"Just shut up, will you?!" (164 KB)

Ken Marinaris

"You're so annoying." (152 KB)
"Well, still, you did well." (168 KB)
"This is only the beginning." (144 KB)
"Just a moment, I'm checking now." (163 KB)
"Don't go past, go back a little." (210 KB)
"No, don't move about nervously." (201 KB)
"No, don't do it -- never!" (163 KB)

Nohman

"Damn!" (165 KB)
"No!" (163 KB)
"Stop it!" (165 KB)
"Dingo..." (166 KB)

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While these findings are not particularly extraordinary, it reminds us how, as great of a game as Zone of the Enders is, several concepts and ideas from the developers were either scrapped or changed in the final product.

For more early ideas such as concept art, visit the content gallery!