Unused content in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon

Numerous pieces of unused content have been found within the game data of Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon.

Text

System strings

These strings are found in the text file "system" in the Japanese version and "en_system" in the North American version.

Order-related

String name	Japanese text	English text
MC_SV	命令	Orders
MCH_SV	命令コマンド使用の有無を設定します	Turn orders on or off.

Game option for the Order feature. This would have been akin to the feature from Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MUM_命令	㍑㍗㌍㌦	Order
MUMH_命令	自軍ユニットに、操作しなかったときの行動を命令します。	Tell a unit how to behave when not given a command.

Unit menu command for Order and associated help text. The Japanese text for the command name uses a secondary font that has nonstandard code points. 命令 is drawn in the glyphs assigned to those code points.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MUM_号令	ВГДЕ	Order All
MUMH_号令	自軍ユニット全員に、一括して命令をくだします。	Issue orders to all units at once.
MD_号令	自軍ユニットへの命令を変更しますか？	Change orders to your units?

Another unit menu command with an associated help text and confirmation prompt. The Japanese text for the command name uses a secondary font that has nonstandard code points. 号令 is drawn in the glyphs assigned to those code points.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MCM_回避	回避	Avoid
MCMH_回避	指示がないときは敵の攻撃をさける場所に移動するよう命令します。	Order units to stay out of enemy range unless otherwise instructed.
MCM_護衛	護衛	Protect
MCMH_護衛	指示がないときはマルスを守って戦うように命令します。	Order units to protect Marth unless otherwise instructed.
MCM_攻撃	攻撃	Attack
MCMH_攻撃	指示がないときは近くの敵を攻撃するよう命令します。	Order units to attack nearby enemies unless otherwise instructed.
MCM_待機	待機	Wait
MCMH_待機	指示がないときは動かないよう命令します。	Order units to stay put unless otherwise instructed.
MCM_追従	追従	Follow
MCMH_追従	指示がないときはマルスに付きしたがって移動するよう命令します。	Order units to stay with Marth unless otherwise instructed.

Different kinds of orders and their associated help texts.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MMMINFO_命令	㍑㍗㌍㌦	Orders

Judging by the string name, this would be displayed in the system menu alongside the "Free Units" text (MMMINFO_未行動) if an order was active. The Japanese text uses a secondary font that has nonstandard code points. 命令 is drawn in the glyphs assigned to those code points.

Class names

String name	Japanese text	English text
MJID_DUMMY	ダミー	DUMMY

Dummy class name.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MJID_KNIGHT	ナイト	KNIGHT

Name of the Knight class from Mystery of the Emblem, which was the class that mounted lance users turned into when dismounting.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MJID_FIREDRAGON	火竜	F. Dragon
MJID_GODDESSDRAGON	神竜	D. Dragon
MJID_MAGICDRAGON	魔竜	M. Dragon

Class name strings for the Fire Dragon, Divine Dragon, and Mage Dragon. These classes are only used when a Manakete transforms and attacks, and the class on the unit's status screen stays as "Manakete", rendering these strings unused.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MJID_WSHOP	武器屋	Armory
MJID_ISHOP	道具屋	Vendor
MJID_FSHOP	闘技場	Arena
MJID_SSHOP	秘密の店	S. Shop

Class name strings for the shops. These are separate from the identical strings used for the shop tiles and the unit commands.

Character names

String name	Japanese text	English text
MPID_DUMMY	ダミー	DUMMY

Dummy character name.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MPID_NEHRING	ネーリング	Nehring

This is the name of a boss from Mystery of the Emblem Book 2. Nehring would not appear in Shadow Dragon, but he would appear in its sequel, New Mystery of the Emblem.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MPID_RFC	増援	Reinf.

This name is similar to the name that was used for some of the reinforcement enemies in Chapter 21 of Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, ぞうえんぶたい (spelled in kanji as 増援部隊). Shadow Dragon instead calls them "Dragoon".

String name	Japanese text	English text
MPID_P_ARCHER	アーチャー	Archer
MPID_P_ARMORKNIGHT	アーマーナイト	Knight
MPID_P_BERSERKER	バーサーカー	Berserker
MPID_P_BISHOP	司祭	Cleric[sic]
MPID_P_DARKMAGE	ダークマージ	Dark Mage
MPID_P_DRAGONKNIGHT	ドラゴンナイト	Dracoknight
MPID_P_FIGHTER	戦士	Fighter
MPID_P_GENERAL	ジェネラル	General
MPID_P_HERO	勇者	Hero
MPID_P_HORSEMEN	ホースメン	Horseman
MPID_P_HUNTER	ハンター	Hunter
MPID_P_MAGE	魔道士	Mage
MPID_P_MAMKUTE	マムクート	Manakete
MPID_P_MERCENARY	傭兵	Mercenary
MPID_P_PALADIN	パラディン	Paladin
MPID_P_PEGASUSKNIGHT	ペガサスナイト	Peg. Knight
MPID_P_PIRATES	海賊	Pirate
MPID_P_PRIEST	僧侶	Curate
MPID_P_SAGE	賢者	Bishop[sic]
MPID_P_SHOOTER	シューター	Ballistician
MPID_P_SNIPER	スナイパー	Sniper
MPID_P_SOCIALKNIGHT	ソシアルナイト	Cavalier
MPID_P_SOLDIER	ソルジャー	Freelancer[sic]
MPID_P_SORCERER	ソーサラー	Sorcerer
MPID_P_SWORDFIGHTER	剣士	Myrmidon
MPID_P_SWORDMASTER	ソードマスター	Swordmaster
MPID_P_THIEF	盗賊	Thief
MPID_P_WARRIOR	ウォーリアー	Warrior

Character name strings for most of the game's classes are present. The English version has a few errors in it.

Miscellaneous

String name	Japanese text	English text
MP_RACE	分類

Unit status menu string. This would have been used to show a unit's race, like in Radiant Dawn. The string is blank in the English version.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MP_COND	状態

Unit status menu string. This would have been used for the condition system, which was shown on a unit's status menu from Thracia 776 to Radiant Dawn. However, there are no status effects in Shadow Dragon. The string is blank in the English version.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MS_TER_CHECKROOM	預り所	Storage

Terrain label. The Japanese string is the same name as the convoy shop from Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, Genealogy of the Holy War, and Thracia 776. The final game has the convoy accessible at any time by Marth or units standing adjacent to Marth, and not as a shop.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MS_LAVA	溶岩	Lava
MS_SAVEPOINT	セーブＰ	Save

Uncertain purpose.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MW_残り	残り　#	# remaining

Would be used to display how many units remain in a rout map. The only rout maps in the game are in multiplayer battles, which have a fixed amount of enemies. Note that the actual string does not use a number sign and uses command codes to display the number, but a number sign is used here for readers' convenience.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MW_防衛	終了時に拠点防衛	Defend base

Used for a defense objective. The final game only has seize, defeat boss, and rout enemy objectives.

String name	Japanese text	English text
ML_マ死	マルスの死亡	Marth dies

A defeat condition. The final game only shows the victory condition.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MCT000	９９章　デバッグマップ	Ch. 99 - Debug Map
MCT000AF	９９章	Chapter 99
MCT000SM	９９章　　　デバッグマップ	Ch. 99 Debug Map

Chapter label strings for a debug map.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MMM_ログ	ЫЬЭ	Log
MMMH_ログ	これまでに行動してきた内容を表示します。	Review the actions you have taken so far.

A system menu command and its associated help text. The Japanese text for the command name uses a secondary font that has nonstandard code points. ログ is drawn in the glyphs assigned to those code points.

String name	Japanese text	English text
ML_S	Ｓ	S

A string for S-level weapons in weapon descriptions. The final game only goes up to A. No equivalent icon for the unit status menu exists.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MG_BLUE	青軍	Blue Army
MG_RED	赤軍	Red Army

Unused unit factions.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MIID_TORCH	たいまつ	Torch
MI_H_TORCH	使うと周りを明るくする。効果はターン毎に弱まる	A helpful item that lights the surrounding area. Its effect lessens with each passing turn.

Name and description of the Torch, an unused item.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MNI_平仮名	ひらがな	Hiragana
MNI_片仮名	カタカナ	Katakana
MNI_漢字	漢字	Kanji

These are used in the Japanese version as selectable character sets when inputting the name of a forged weapon or a multiplayer team, but the option to use those character sets was removed in the English version, leaving these strings unused.

Tutorial strings

These strings are found in the text file "tutorial" in the Japanese version and "en_tutorial" in the North American version.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MTUT_019	命令	Issuing Orders
MTUTB_019	マルス以外には、ユニットコマンドの 「命令」で勝手に行動するよう指示することが できます。命令を受けているユニットは 自軍フェイズ終了時、プレイヤーが動かして いなければ、自分の判断で行動します。	You can issue orders to any unit but Marth, telling the unit how to behave when not otherwise instructed. They will take action after you end your turn.

Guide text for the order command.

Class descriptions

These strings are found in the text file "intro" in the Japanese version and "en_intro" in the North American version.

String name	Japanese text	English text
MSJI_EARTHDRAGON	未使用	UNUSED
MSJI_FALCONKNIGHT	未使用	UNUSED
MSJI_FIREDRAGON	未使用	UNUSED
MSJI_GODDESSDRAGON	未使用	UNUSED
MSJI_MAGICDRAGON	未使用	UNUSED
MSJI_SOLDIER	未使用	UNUSED

"Chapter 0" strings

There are several strings found in the text file "000" in the Japanese version, featuring some dialogue scenes used for testing dialogue scene features. They are not present in the North American version.

Prologue IV strings

Sixteen copies of dialogue from Anna can be found in the text file "204" in the Japanese version and "en_204" in the North American version.

Japanese text	English text
このメッセージは削除されました。 ゲーム中に表示されていたら ご報告下さいね。	This message has been REMOVED. If you see this while you're playing, make sure you report it, okay?

The string names are MS204_EV3, MS204_EV4_1_1, MS204_EV4_1_2, MS204_EV4_2_1, MS204_EV4_2_2, MS204_EV4_3_1, MS204_EV4_3_2, MS204_EV4_4, MS204_EV5_1_1, MS204_EV5_1_2, MS204_EV5_2_1, MS204_EV5_2_2, MS204_EV5_3, MS204_TK1_2 (name indicates it would be related to Gordin's talk conversation), MS204_TK2, and MS204_VIL1_1 (name indicates it would be related to the Steel Bow village).

Items

There is only one known unused item in Shadow Dragon: a Torch. It was presumably cut because fog of war makes no appearances in the main story mode, but if the game is altered to put it in a unit's inventory, it works properly in multiplayer battles where fog of war is in play.

Icon	Item name	Uses	Worth	Description Notes
	Torch	5	500	A helpful item that lights the surrounding area. Its effect lessens with each passing turn. Increases the user's fog of war vision range by a 5-tile radius. The boosted vision decreases by 1 tile every 2 turns. (Internal name: TORCH)

Graphics

Character portraits

Not counting repeated files, there are seven unused portraits. Internally, portraits are stored separately in two sizes: the full size portraits used for cutscenes, and the smaller size used in unit profiles in gameplay. Usually, a cut portrait will only have one or the other.

File name: DUMMY	A placeholder portrait; the writing on it reads 制作中 Under construction. In addition to its own file, it is repeated frequently through the portrait files as a placeholder for missing or incomplete portraits, including being the full size counterpart for every generic class portrait.
File name: S_MIDIA	A version of Midia's portrait without her armor. Only exists as a full-sized portrait; the profile version is only the dummy portrait.
File name: S_MINERBA	A version of Minerva's portrait without her armor. Only exists as a full-sized portrait; the profile version is just a copy of her regular portrait's.
File name: S_SHEEDA	A version of Caeda's portrait without her armor. Only exists as a full-sized portrait; the profile version is just a copy of her regular portrait's.
File name: MAGE_BLUE	A portrait for a generic magic user. Only the profile version exists; the matching full-sized portrait file only has the dummy portrait.
File name: NEHRING	A portrait attributed to Nehring, a boss from Mystery of the Emblem who does not appear in any version of Shadow Dragon. It is an exact duplicate of Zharov's portrait, likely because they shared a portrait in Mystery. When Nehring appeared in New Mystery of the Emblem, he received a completely new portrait. Has both full-sized and profile versions.
File name: CANARIS	An earlier version of Kannival's portrait, which differs in proportions and shading. The final version is at the file name CHANARIS. Only exists as a full-sized portrait, and does not have a file for a profile-sized portrait at all.
File name: MULAC	An earlier version of Merach's portrait, which differs in proportions and shading. The final version is at the file name MULARK. Only exists as a full-sized portrait, and does not have a file for a profile-sized portrait at all.
File name: TORMAS	An earlier version of Tomas's portrait, which differs in proportions and shading. The final version is at the file name THORMAS. Only exists as a full-sized portrait, and does not have a file for a profile-sized portrait at all.

Miscellaneous

	An unused tutorial slide which suggests that a Radiant Dawn-style Order feature was planned for the game but was cut, even including a screenshot of the feature in action. There is no known unused functionality for what the tutorial slide describes left in the final game.
	An unused label that reads "My Unit Registration", this image suggests that Shadow Dragon may have originally been planned to have an Avatar character, as Avatars are called "My Unit" in Japan.

Classes

---

This section has been marked as a stub. Please help improve the page by adding information.

---

There are four unused classes in Shadow Dragon. All of these are classes returning from Mystery of the Emblem, such as the dismounted versions of the Cavalier class.

Dismounted Cavalier

Main article: Knight (Mystery of the Emblem)

Data for male and female dismounted Cavaliers much like in Mystery of the Emblem was planned to feature at one stage.

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Shadow Dragon	18	5	0	2	6	0	7	0	7	--	E

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Shadow Dragon (player)	40/0%	5/0%	-10/0%	25/0%	10/0%	0%	15/0%	-5/0%	--	--	--	--
Shadow Dragon (enemy)	80%	35%	0%	20%	20%	0%	30%	0%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Transformed Dragons

Main articles: Fire Dragon, Mage Dragon, and Divine Dragon

Fire Dragon, Mage Dragon and Divine Dragon exist as separate classes, but without fully working map animations; their statistical data is actually used when fighting a manakete when transformed using their respective Dragonstones: Firestone, Magestone, Divinestone.

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Shadow Dragon (Fire Dragon)	18	8	0	5	5	0	10	5	6	--	--
Shadow Dragon (Mage Dragon)	18	0	7	2	0	0	12	11	6	--	--
Shadow Dragon (Divine Dragon)	18	10	0	8	5	0	16	12	6	--	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Shadow Dragon (Fire Dragon)	60	30	30	30	26	30	30	30	32	--	--
Shadow Dragon (Mage Dragon)	60	30	30	30	24	30	30	30	32	--	--
Shadow Dragon (Divine Dragon)	60	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	32	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Shadow Dragon (Transformed Dragon)	50/0%	20/0%	10/0%	30/0%	20/0%	0%	20/0%	-10/0%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Other

Several copies of this placeholder icon can be found at the end of the item icon spritesheet. This icon was previously used in The Sacred Stones, and would also be used in New Mystery of the Emblem and Awakening.

Maps

Debug map

Access

---

This section has been marked as a stub. Please help improve the page by adding information.

---

By activating the following Action Replay codes, the player will be taken to the debug map when they start a new game.

Japan	USA	Europe
0202113C E59F0010 02021140 E5900000 02021144 E53F1014 02021150 E12FFF1E 02021154 02247720	02021134 E59F0010 02021138 E5900000 0202113C E53F1014 02021148 E12FFF1E 0202114C 02249080	02021428 E59F0010 0202142C E5900000 02021430 E53F1014 0202143C E12FFF1E 02021440 02255D20