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Sonic Unleashed Install Screen

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The Install Screen is a cut feature from Sonic Unleashed that would've been used to install the game's contents to a PS3's hard-drive. It is fully functional in the PS3 version of the game, but it is inaccessible without modifying the game's executable; some of the files used for this installation process are present in the Xbox 360 version of the game and in the PC version of Sonic Generations, although in that game the install screen doesn't work anymore.

The leftover contents are in these locations on the PS3 version of Sonic Unleashed:

USRDIR
├── Install
│   ├── install_001.dds
│   ├── install_002.dds
│   ├── install_003.dds
│   ├── install_004.dds
│   ├── install_005.dds
│   ├── install_006.dds
│   ├── install_007.dds
│   └── install_008.dds
├── Install.ar.00
├── Install.arl
├── install.files.xml
└── install.mounts.xml

In-game

A person by the name of "Gael" was able to trigger the Install screen on the PS3 version of the game, this is how the install screen would look like in-game.

Install Folder

These 8 images are present in a folder named Install, and whenever the installation reached a certain milestone, they would get switched randomly alongside a new text message. These are also present in Sonic Generations inside bb2.cpk.

Text

The game displays the 8 images from before alongside some text, seemingly whenever a specified percentage of the installation process was reached, this text is present in Languages/English/Install/Install_list.fco:

Welcome to the world of
SONIC UNLEASHED!
The quintessential Sega
series, the Sonic the
Hedgehog games have
thrilled gamers for over a
decade.
Now a new title joins the lineup:
SONIC UNLEASHED!
Dr. Eggman's latest plot causes
a sudden mutation in Sonic's
body
and rends the very world apart!
It now falls on Sonic to restore
it:
by day, he races across the
planet as Sonic the Hedgehog,
tearing through stages at a
blinding pace.
By night, he transforms into
the feral Sonic the Werehog,
pummeling anything that
stands in his way!
Push both of Sonic's forms to
their utmost limit as he fights
day and night to stop the
nefarious Eggman!
Combining the exhilarating high-
speed action only Sonic can
deliver with a brand new sort of
acrobatic combat guaranteed to
please,
this latest title will leave you
breathless like no other Sonic
title before!

Alongside these messages, there's also 3 other messages that would show up with the installation process:

Preparing to create game data.
Creating game data...
Please do not turn off the system.

PlayStation 3's ICON0 and PIC1

In install.files.xml there's information for the game to take icons/hdd_icon0.png and icons/hdd_pic1.png, and rename them to ICON0.png and PIC1.png respectively.

<System Name="icons/hdd_icon0.png" To="ICON0.PNG"/><System Name="icons/hdd_pic1.png" To="PIC1.PNG"/>
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