Cave

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Cave
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Inhabitant	Saru
Quadrant	None
Stage Number	04
Designer	Mitsuhiro Shimooki (sk)

Cave is the developer name given to the unused arena of Saru, one of the unused colossi.

Description

From Saru's screenshots, one would assume it had no arena, as the pictures are shrouded in darkness. However, the screenshot showing a test of Wander climbing the colossus shows a bit of the sky at the top, indicating that it was the inside of a pitch black cave, and it had an opening at the ceiling similar to the Gravewind. The opening on the top most likely was planned to shine some light down so the cave wouldn't be completely dark.

Cave has three textures listed in its texture segment: a rock, grass and sea textures. The rock is for the walls and ceiling, while the grass is for the ground. The sea texture is the outlier, but it suggests that the arena had water of some sort.

Location

The location of Cave is unknown, but due to Cave being nulled from the seParam, not having a texture segment and lacking a slow model (lowpoly model for faraway places), it can be assumed that it never went past the test stage and thus never made it into the map.

Trivia

• The arena was originally speculated to have been located at I3 due to having what some people assumed was a cave, but it's not likely as I3 was a flat plain and the 9th Colossus' early arena location.
• Saru's arena and stage number were discovered via translating the debug menu shown in one of Saru's screenshots, which states that the area was "Stage 4 - Cave". Sheet data further confirms this, with the texseg named "st04a_saru_grid".
• The chip data of 'Cave' does not exist in the PS3 sheets.

Gallery

Textures of Stage 4. All of them no longer exist and only the names remain.