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Soul Edge (1995)

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This is a playthrough using Belti in the PS1 version of Soul Edge (Japanese version). Read on below for more information...

Belti is an unused gameplay character, which means that he is a non-selectable character in the game.

===== ABOUT BELTI =====

Belti is Voldo's master who appears in his bad ending. He is the ghost-like figure who appears in front of and tells Voldo to protect the throne. Despite being 'BELTI' in the game, his genuine name is actually Vercci.

===== UNUSED CHARACTER INFO =====

The unused characters are created just to be used in specific character endings; to act in certain ways for the story/scene. They are created as gameplay character models just like the regular characters, likely built on using a regular character as a "template", which explains why they have other character's movesets.

The reason that they are able to appear in gameplay fights is because the ending scenes use the actual gameplay characters/models in a gameplay environment.

In the game's code, Namco has stored these characters along with the regular characters within the same address (via separate slots/data banks), meaning that by using third party methods, you can access them for gameplay.

It is unknown on whether they were originally further planned to become playable hidden characters or not.

===== BELTI TECHNICAL INFORMATION =====

On the character select screen, his large portrait is the generic hidden character '?' image.

His icon is the generic hidden character '?' image.

In gameplay, he uses the name "SOPHITIA" under his lifebar.

In gameplay, he uses Cervantes' moveset.

In gameplay, his weapon is invisible which means that you can only see the light trails of it.

He has no voices.

As he has no voices, it works in a way where his sound bank has the ability to "copy" other sounds. For example, he copies/uses Soul Edge's voices when fighting him. It is strange on how he doesn't copy other character's voices here.

There can be some glitched sounds/voices that occur when he performs some moves at certain points during fights.

Regarding his voice, he uses/copies the voices of the previously selected character. So for example, in Arcade Mode if you selected Cervantes, then changed your character to Belti, then Belti will use Cervantes' voices. This seems to carry over to other modes in the game.

He has no announcer name voice. Which means that if you win a round/match with him, there will be no voice after the announcer says "The grueling battle ended with the victory of ......". Or if you lost a round/match with him.

If you beat the game with him, the game does not crash. There is no ending and you go straight to the credits. It seems that they have made his status as a "hidden character" status (Sophitia!!, etc.)

He cannot appear in the name entry screen nor can he appear in any rankings tables.

When viewing his Command List, it is named as "BELTI".

He only has the one costume we see in the video.

If you select him in Edge Master mode, it will freeze the game, which you see starting around 22:04 in the video.

In Edge Master mode, on the character select screen, his 'weapon' name on the list is glitched. You can see this starting around 22:04 in the video.

He can lose his "weapon" and operate as a non-weapon character (this is normal function). You can see this starting around 20:13 in the video.

===== CHAPTERS =====

00:00 - Title, Menu and Character Select
00:39 - Regular fights
13:44 - vs. Cervantes (penultimate boss)
16:06 - vs. Soul Edge (end boss)
18:07 - Congratulations and Credits
20:13 - BONUS 1: Belti no-weapon demonstration
21:27 - BONUS 2: Belti Command List viewing
22:04 - BONUS 3: Selecting Belti in Edge Master mode

===== OTHER INFORMATION / TRIVIA =====

In the USA and Europe, the game was renamed as Soul Blade due to copyright issues over the use of the word "Edge".

In the USA and European versions of the game, slight parts of the intro was edited/changed slightly.

In the European version of the game, Li Long's weapon was changed.

===== ABOUT PS1 SOUL EDGE/BLADE =====

The PS1 version of the game is one of the all-time greats on the console, and is one of the best 'conversion/port of an arcade game' for it's time. Aside from the loading times (which are very short anyway) it's virtually arcade perfect. It helped that the arcade original ran on hardware that was already based on the PS1 hardware.

The PS1 version has tons of features that are not found in the arcade original. For example, the port has 2 extra remixed soundtracks, new character costumes, new weapons, cinematic endings for the characters, the superb Edge Master Mode and more.

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