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Now that I look at one of the few images we have of the Dokodemoissho Danganronpa crossover theme, I realize the sprite of Hajime being used is 100% a beta sprite that we've never seen before...edited of course.

Here's a picture from an eBay listing of the same art on a file folder. We can see more of it here. I believe that Hajime sprite being used is this one (albeit a beta version):

Here is a comparison gif:

Danganronpa beta sprites are characterized by the lack of line width and undetailed ears. Obviously since this sprite is edited we can't get a full idea of what the beta sprite looked like (especially the face), but we can tell it WAS used as the base.

In general, Hajime's beta sprites seemed to have more detailing on the hair that was lost. If you'll recall on this post I pointed out that the beta Hajime sprite we get a glimpse of in the SDR2 PSP Manual can be seen with outlines in his hair to emphasize the spikiness.

Sadly, it's hard to do much research on this since the theme, as far as I can tell, is lost media. The only things left proving its existence is some online articles and images from those articles at the time. But the theme data itself is not for purchase anymore, and I don't know if anyone ever dumped the data for it. This means I have no clue how many images were a part of the theme. For reference, the 1・2 Reload theme I ripped has 10 background images, changes all the Vita icons, and a start screen image. The image this Hajime beta sprite is from is no doubt the start screen image.

In fact, we can get a glimpse of one of the background + some of the menu icons from this image on the Danganronpa Wiki:

Found a tweet that gives us a glimpse of another background + icons for the theme.

Unrelated, while surfing the now defunct danganronpa.net on wayback machine for information, I grabbed the site's background because it just looks so cool.

Nothing we haven't seen already, but I had no clue buttons were made for the collab.

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