ME designers have mentioned in the past that the starting section on the Normandy was originally longer - presumably this was the audio for it. Kaidan has some dialogue about showing his biotic abilities off, maybe this would serve as a kind of tutorial to help teach the player about those abilities too. Some Normandy-related audio that went unused, was probably meant for the prologue since Pvt. In addition to the miners, there's also dialogue with a group of assassins that were hired by Saren, which it seems would be encountered here in a triggered event. The audio files here include dialogue for those miners - even though this dialogue was never actually shown during the demo! LAV is the codename for Therum (aka the planet you find Liara on), but during the X06 demo the same planet (then known as Caleston) was showcased in a mission where some miners had to be rescued instead. Some of this audio is described below, note that there's still a ton more audio still yet to be mentioned here:Īlmost all the audio for the X06 demo is here, from music to dialogue to sound effects, even audio which was never heard on the released demo videos. Included in the PS3 port are not just the sounds & dialogue audio used in the X06 demo (including audio from the different Ashley VA), but also audio from some areas/missions that never made it into the released game! Sadly those two files only consist of some combat sounds, but luckily 5 years after release Bioware finally ported ME1 to the PS3, where they forgot to remove a lot of the unused audio that was previously stripped from the PC/X360 versions! These filenames indicate they were probably for the demo presented at X06, which featured an entirely different face model for male-Shepard, different VA for Ashley, controllable squad-mates, and a ton of other small changes (remember, this was more than a year before release!)

The PC version includes two files that don't seem to be used by the game: x06_player_final.isb & x06_garrus_final.isb. The extracted unused audio from the PS3 version can be found here: The level-select data also includes some earlier names/descriptions for maps, listed below (changed names in bold):Įmbed some interesting audio files. MIN_02 - Light Content: mining Template 03 MIN_01 - Light Content: mining Template 02

MIN_00 - Light Content: mining Template 01 Similarly, some template maps for the FRE (Freighter?) & MIN (Mine) map types are mentioned in the level-select:

Find the developer's post, it included even more info about cut content IIRC.Īs stated by a former ME developer on reddit, Mass Effect had a lot more planet maps created for it to be driven around in the Mako, the level-select data seems to agree with a huge amount of commented-out maps included:

Mass effect 1 maps