Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Wii U)

Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
Also known as: Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water (EU/AU) Developers: Koei Tecmo, Nintendo SPD Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Wii U Released in JP: September 14, 2014 Released in US: October 22, 2015 Released in EU: October 30, 2015 Released in AU: October 31, 2015 This game has unused areas. This game has unused cinematics.

Oh wow. Sometimes, you have no idea how morbid the things in these pages can be. This page contains content that is not safe for life, whether it be you or anyone in proximity to you. Such as: Partially censored depiction of suicide.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

To do: There are test maps inside the stage folder, namely TEST0_00, TEST0_01 and TESTH_00.

Maiden of Black Water is the fifth game in the Fatal Frame series, wherein Yuri, Miu, and Ren go to an abandoned mountain in search of their missing friends/family with an old camera that can exorcise ghosts.

The game was sold in a weird way: the first two chapters were free to play, but the rest of the game needed to be purchased. In Europe and Australia, a physical version was released which contained the full game.

The game was initially a Wii U exclusive, but received a remaster for modern consoles in 2021.

Test Maps

TEST0_00

While this entry no longer contains a model, it contains 2 files named TEST0_00.sod and TEST0_00.trd. The purpose of this files isn't known yet.

TEST0_01

TEST0_01 contains some simple terrain, stairs, a pool with 2 levels of depth and some furniture.

TESTH_00

TESTH_00 contains platforms of various heights seperated by walls and a corridor. Judging by the letter H in it's file name and the platforms of vrious heights, this map was likely used to test object/characte heights.

Unused Cinematics

To do: Check if this cutscene is truly unused. It might be used if you buy the DLC while having the second drop cleared on the trial version.

Inside the DLC romfs, in the path content/0010/movie/outline_en.mp4 is an unused cutscene of what may be a brief recap of what happened so far in the story. The last event seen in this cutscene is Fuyuhi Himino's suicide, which happens on the second drop; the game doesn't play any cutscene between the second and third drops.

There are also versions of this cutscene in French and German, at least in the European version.

Internal Name

The game's executable on the WiiU is named Lens5_cafe.