List of Skies of Arcadia beta elements

Early Ideas
Ship buying and selling was originally an early idea. The Value statistic on Ships is a remnant of this idea, but this parameter serves no purpose in the final game.

Early Names

 * In the Eternal Arcadia Tentou-you Demo Movie, Ramirez's Silver Eclipse has a different name in Japanese.

Inventory
A number of items were unused in the final game, as follows:

Armor

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Special Items

 * There is a Silver Crystal in the game data, but it has a dummy description and Vyse never obtains a Silver Crystal.
 * Alfonso's Key can be found in the game data near Golden Man's Eye and Great Bird's Eye, suggesting it may have been an item during Vyse's tenure in Ixa'taka.
 * The Kabal Skewer and Mom's Skewer also seem to have been planned as Special Items at some point but were changed to consumable items.
 * The Final Weapon 3 is listed right after the two Veloriums in the game data, suggesting there may have been three obtainable ingredients for the Vorlik Blade.
 * There are two Magic Cannons in the game files, one classified as a Special Item and one as Ship Equipment. The Special Item version didn't make it into the game.


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Ship Cannons

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Ship Accessories

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Ship Items

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Battle
Battle icons of young Vyse and Aika, along with enemy icons that resemble enemies found early in the game, can be found in the game data: Sentinel, Seeker, Flestik, and Ghastling. The fish enemy doesn't appear to have made it into the final product in any form, though Grouder is an early enemy that is based on a fish. The icons suggest that playable characters were also going to have elemental attributes, with Vyse being Red and Aika being green. There are also unused icons for the status effects.

Art
Some sketches can be found in the game files. They can be found here. One is of Vyse's hair on fire, and there are three sketch versions of Piastol's backstory.

Ship Battle

 * -|Valuan Warship=


 * -|Valuan Destroyer =


 * -|Raja Embla =


 * -|Gaditaos =

Four ship enemies can be found in the game files but are never fought against in the final product. They are the Raja Embla, Valuan Warship, Valuan Destroyer, and Gaditaos. There are also an additional 7 ships interspersed in the list of ship enemies in the game files that have no statistics or names: カット１５, カット１９, カット２０, カット３３, カット３４, カット３９, カット４２. The Japanese in these names says, suggesting these enemies were planned but cut.

Battle Formations
The way enemy formations works in Skies of Arcadia is every scripted encounter also has scripted party formations. For example, there is no data for Fina to be in the fight against the Executioner not because Fina isn't in the party, but because the battle formation doesn't call to spawn Fina. Every possible battle formation is listed in the game data as long as it is possible, such as there are multiple battle formations for specific enemies such as the final boss, wanted battles, and Piastol, dependent on who the fourth character is. However, there are battle formations that call for Drachma or Enrique to be the fourth character in the battle against Galcian, suggesting switching the fourth party member may have been intended to occur as early as before the attack on the Hydra as opposed to before the final dungeon.