Published On Jul 3, 2024
With the release of the new 20th Anniversary edition of Beyond Good & Evil, Ubisoft included an Anniversary Gallery that gives players an extensive look at the development of the game. For the first time in 20 years, players can view an incredible amount of footage of various cut maps. However, these are just videos. Or are they? Digging into the data of this new Anniversary Edition, we found that these maps and more are in fact playable as well!
▶︎ How to play
1. Back up your save files
2. Navigate to the game's configuration file.
- On PC, this is a file named BGE.player.ini. You can find it in "C:\Users\USERNAME\Saved Games\Beyond Good & Evil - 20th Anniversary Edition"
- On Switch, you can find BGE.ini in "romfs:/Config/"
3. At the following lines at the end of the file:
[Cheats]
Enabled=true
[Infos]
SkipBootUpMsg=1
4. Start up the game, load your save file and enter the options menu via the in-game inventory menu. The new top "Load game" option leads to the level selection!
▶︎ Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:58 - How to play
02:29 - Rayman's cave
04:00 - Testing the level selection
07:09 - Other cut content
07:42 - Snowy graphics test map
09:26 - Oasis
11:27 - Hammam
12:47 - CasaArena
13:46 - Art Gallery
15:11 - Collector
15:18 - The Moon: Stalactites
19:26 - The Moon: Toy'l's Cell
23:33 - The Moon: Moon Cruiser
25:36 - Cyclope_fire
26:29 - PSX2 to the limit
26:45 - TestGamePlay_FRED
27:02 - Hover04
28:16 - Minimap Slaughterhouse
29:03 - TestGamePlay_BELUGA
29:19 - Outro
▶︎ Credits
@ByvarRayman - Reverse engineering, video footage
@PokGOT4N - Reverse engineering, testing
@kandras1987 - Reverse engineering, testing
@Nimitz3d - Incredible BG&E knowledge