A situation at least curious that is living in the world of video games. A player was responsible for find the hidden prototype of a Bloodborne level. Although the interesting thing is that it was not in this game, but was among the data of Dark Souls Remastered. In itself, this situation is strange. But the thing is going to more.
Because the player himself has achieved run this level of Bloodborne in GTA V. So you go through the level aboard a sports car. How could the level of this game slip into another?
The person responsible for the find is a modder named Dropoff. He is in charge of explaining how this could have happened. According to account, I had been examining the code for Dark Souls Remastered for some time. It was doing this because it was looking for files that start with the sequence m99. For those who do not know, they are usually test files.
Here's a look at the early prototype of Bloodborne's "Upper Cathedral Ward" map that was left behind in the Dark Souls REMASTERED files. It was created a long time ago back when Dark Souls was in development. It's not new work by the REMASTERED team. pic.twitter.com/BKBVGl1o8t
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In his search he came across one of these files, in this case m99_99_98_00. The surprise was that in this code a schematic of the upper level of the cathedral in Bloodborne. While there were some modifications in the final version. The theory is that the level was intended for Dark Souls Remastered but the company dismissed it and ended up using it in Bloodborne.
It seems the most probable, although this hypothesis has not yet been confirmed. The other funny part of all this is that he managed to run it in GTA V. It was possible because he discovered that the best way to access this file was to import it from a 3D design application and then export it in another format compatible with GTA V.
Without a doubt, a most curious situation lived by this modder. And that allows us to know something more about him development of games like Bloodborne or Dark Souls Remastered.