I found some rather interesting unused sprites in Raincode. MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING.
Looking in the files for Raincode I noticed that a few characters have sprites that are never seen in game but the same expression is shown in a cinematic like this Shinigami sprite.
I'm confident that Shinigami never shows this sprite in the whole game but I distinctly remember a cutscene where she flatted herself onto the ground in chapter 1.
So this gives credence to my theory that the developers made all the sprites and story events first but when it came to making dialogue and cutscenes, the devs decided that certain scene worked better as a cinematic with subtitles rather than an ingame text conversation and the sprites that would have been used in that scene did not show up.
I don't know why these sprites are still in the game files if they are never used but whatever. I took what I believe to be all the unused sprites from Raincode and paired them with the scene that they would have been in. I'm confident that I have pulled every unused sprite but if I did miss one someone can correct me on it.
Also, MASSIVE END GAME SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT. IF YOU HAVE NOT BEATEN THE GAME DO NOT CLICK.
