..........Tofu?
Well, I was surfing the net, hunting down some of the more obscure Resident Evil pages (like mine), when I found something rather interresting: Codes for playing as Tofu in RE3.
Accompanying these codes were a few fairly convincing screenshots, and the story of how Tofu supposedly fits into RE3. Here's the explaination:
"During development, Tofu was a playable character in the Mercenaries Mode. He could be unlocked by beating the Mercenaries game with all 3 characters, getting "S" grades with each of them. Tofu was eventually left out of the game's final edit. With the code enabled, when you rescue civillians, you'll get the items that Tofu would have got. After completing his mission, the game will credit the player as "Tofu"."
Oh, well, I suppose it's up to you as to whether or not you believe this story; Or, you can find out for youself if you own a Gameshark. Here they are:
Tofu for Resident Evil 3:
US: 800D1F86 000F
JAP: 300D162E 000F
Tofu for Mercenaries:
US: 800D3D3E 000F
800D3D54 000F
Well, I now own a Gameshark, and I can guarantee 100% that the Tofu codes DO work. With some help from GeoMancer, I've compiled a short list of things that are... odd about playing with Tofu. Here's what I've observed:
- Even though Tofu floats above the ground, you can hear footsteps as he "walks".
-Since Tofu's shape is so irregular, it's fairly difficult to turn corners until you get used to the wide turns.
- When you equip a weapon, it is invisible.
- During the Carlos part of the game, you look like Tofu; have Jill's picture in your menu instead of Carlos'; and you get to keep all the weapons that were in Jill's inventory before she was infected with the T-Virus. Due to the fact that you keep all your items, you don't even have to bother with going to the hospital. Once Jill gets infected, just grab your lockpick & continue as if you'd done the Hospital part already. When you get back out of the saveroom, the Hospital will be destroyed. This saves about 20 mins. of gameplay!
-During all of the cut-scenes (not FMV's), Jill is replaced by Tofu. This also goes for the little "gameplay-demo's" at the main menu.
-Apparently, Tofu has his own voice. (Like, when he gets hurt & stuff... but not during the cut-scenes.) Actually, his voice sounds amazingly similar to that of Brad Vickers.
-As with any Gameshark code, the Tofu code may confuse your PSX a bit, causing it to play the sound-clips at the wrong time. (This happened to me, and whenever I opened a door, you'd here fire noise instead of a door creaking, ect.)
This background image is a picture of Tofu from the extra game in Resident Evil 2; and is (c) Capcom.