Caverns of Hope

Ecco the Dolphin Message Listings

Home Bay

Charge small fish to feed and gain strenght
Sing to shelled ones and they will heal your wounds
Ecco, if we breathe air why do we live beneath the waves?
The marks on your head look like the stars in the sky
How high in the sky can you fly?

Medusa Bay

...suddenly great winds of water...
Something terrible has happened... ...Something very powerful
I am sorry for you... I know not of your pod
Search for the Key - Glyph
I know not what has happened to your pod
Perhaps the Big Blue will help you
You must travel past the Undercaves to find him...

Undercaves

A deep maze of caverns with no surface to the dry side. Songs of the sea sing of great danger in this place.
You may not pass yet
Swim slowly past eight arms

The Vents

Giant cracks in the ocean floor have strong upward currents of warm water. After the storm, songs of three trapped dolphins are heard here...
Wild currents trapped my pod below... Please save them... I am too weak from the storm
You may not pass yet
Help me, Ecco!
Swim closely in front of me and I will follow you...
Your journey is long and dangerous
Always look beyond your eyes with your song
Swim slowly to keep control
Swim fast for your breath
Remember your way and think ahead
Thank you, Ecco - sing this song when you charge your enemies...
Thank you Ecco !

The Lagoon

The songs of the sea sing of the stone eating stars that live in this place. A dolphin sings for her trapped pod.
I do not know about your family but I know I have lost mine...
Help me, Ecco!
Swim closely in front of me and I will follow you...
You saved my family - the deepest seas will echo our thanks friend singer
Sing this song and it will confuse the hungry ones...
Ancient songs of wisdom are songs of the Big Blue
The Big Blue swims north to die... Swim fast young singer
Thank you Ecco !

Ridge Water

Two cold water ponds connected by a maze of shell and stone. To pass Ridge Water one must have great knowledge of the sea.
Big Blue is very old... Very wise... Go north!

Open Ocean

The Open Ocean is cold and dangerous

Ice Zone

Dark cold waters with few places to breath. Strange cold water creatures live in this place. Distant songs are heard but not understood.

Hard Water

Water turns to slippery stone from the dark cold. There is great danger when the water stones move. The distant songs continue...

Cold Water

Quiet songs of wisdom sing about the hard water called ice. The Big Blue is near.
You are very brave little Ecco - I have listened to the songs of the storm...
I am sorry about your pod - I will try to help you...
We know that these violent storms occur every 500 years...
When they occur all traces of life vanish at the eye of the storm
I do not know why or how this happens
Do not give up little singer... There is one older and wiser than I
It is called the Asterite - we think it is the oldest lifeform in the sea
We feel great energy of thought from the Asterite but it will not sing to us...
If you can communicate with it perhaps it could help you...
The Asterite is located in the Deep Water Zone

***Open Ocean (only in the Sega CD/PC version)

The Open Ocean is cold and dangerous

Island Zone

Seven islands in warmer waters
The storm that has taken your pod shook the entire ocean
I know not what has happened to your pod
Perhaps the Big Blue will help you
You must travel past the Undercaves to find him...
Your journey has just begun, Ecco
Sing to shelled ones and they will heal your wounds
All life in the sea is frightened - this makes the sea a very dangerous place

Deep Water

Ancient breathless passages run so deep that no songs of this place have yet been sung.
I remember you!
...of course it was you... ...and it was I who sent you...
Now it is clear
I can help you by giving you powers and knowledge but... first you must help me...
You must help me regain my full strenght - you must travel into the past
To the west is a sunken city called Atlantis
Its people built a machine and used it to travel in time...
Use the machine to travel to the distant past before your kind existed
You will go back 55 million years! There you will find my missing globe...
You must return it to me... Only then I can give you what you need to save your pod

***Volcanic Reef (only in the Sega CD/PC version)

The sunken city is through the mountain of stone. Glyphs open passages in this place.
The bones are very old...
They are from the sunken city
Light from the sky made them rest here
You may not pass yet
Access granted
Access granted Search for the Key Glyph

***Ship Grave Sea (only in the Sega CD/PC version)

Bones of strange floating whales are found here, they are infested with dangerous fish

***Wreck Trap (only in the Sega CD/PC version)

Dangerous caves with fierce currents. The turtles may help but not willingly.
Access granted

***The Sea of Silence (only in the Sega CD/PC version)

Access granted

***Deep Gate (only in the Sega CD/PC version)

Very few songs by singers who guard the entrance to the Marble Sea
The Marble Sea is beyond
The Marble Sea is a beautiful place...
But it is frightening there I hear
Very few singers have the songs of the sunken city
Collect air in something that is empty
Strange shells hold air and ascend

The Marble Sea

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The Library

We are losing a war with the planet Vortex
Atlantis is in ruins after a beam struck from space
We have escaped into the past with our technology
Glyph: Crystals containing encoded messages. Certain sounds reflect the message back
Created to help a dolphin of the future travel to Vortex.
Planet Vortex: Third planet in the star system Cassandra.
Located in the head of the constellation Pegasus.
Note: The nearest constellation to Pegasus is Delphineus.
(picture of Delphineus constellation is shown)
Vortex Lifeforms: We suspect that Vortex is dying and can no longer produce food
Every 500 years, when the Earth and Vortex have a clear path, the Vortex feed upon the Earth
Each feeding increases in size - the Vortex are getting hungrier!
We, the people of Atlantis, have made these glyphs for you
Vortex is feeding on the seas of our Earth - eventually all life will be harvested
All life will end! The Vortex must be stopped
Access granted

Deep City

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City of Forever

Access granted
Search for the Key - Glyph
Time Travel Sequence intiated - Traveler: Ecco

Jurassic Beach

Sing this song in the air to call the pteranodon

Pteranodon Pond

Sing this song in the air to call the pteranodon
Ecco, if we breathe air why do we live beneath the waves?

Origin Beach

We hear song in the ocean!
We hear our kind in the sea!
Never have we heard songs in the sea!
You sing our song under the waves - who are you?
Could we sing in the sea? Could we live in the sea?
Perhaps we will try!

Trilobite Circle

Dark Water

Deep Water

Ancient breathless passages run so deep that no songs of this place have yet been sung.
Now I am whole again with all my power - thank you Ecco!
Now I will help you - I will give you new powers...
Use the Atlantean time machine to swim back in time to the hour of the storm...
You will be taken with your pod... You will see the unseen enemy
Use this song to return to your home bay just before the storm
With your new powers perhaps you will save your pod

City of Forever

Access granted
Search for the Key - Glyph
Time Travel Sequence intiated - Traveler: Ecco

Home Bay

Charge small fish to feed and gain strenght
Sing to shelled ones and they will heal your wounds
Ecco, if we breathe air why do we live beneath the waves?
The marks on your head look like the stars in the sky
How high in the sky can you fly?

The Tube

Welcome to the Machine

The Last Fight

Ending Scenes

Your song will echo throughout the vast ocean...
Thank you Ecco !
We will sing of you forever...
You have saved us - You are great...
Do you think the Vortex are destroyed?

Credits

Producer: E. Ettore Annunziata
Design: E. Annunziata, L. Szenttornyai
Project Manager: L. Szenttornyai; Main Programmer: Molnár József
Great Art: Balogh Zsolt - Talent -
Basic Programmers: Brudnyák Mihály, Fox
Music: Magyari András, Spencer N. Nilsen, Brian Coburn
Marketing: Al Nilsen
Testing: Casey Grimm, Mark Lindstorm, David Forster
Special Thanks:
Clyde Grossman, Stephen Friedman, Andras Csaszar, Imi, Cassandra, Eszter, Brigitta, Balázs
Thanks for playing Ecco

Canned Messages from Debug

Great winds of water pulled me here - now I am lost...
Please help me to pass the current below
Thank you... I will give you a song to confuse the jelly fish
The Hungry Ones will not let me surface for air...I am afraid
Some shells will eat through stone
The Asterite is very deep...
Fill your lungs - swim fast
I will see you again young singer - Good luck!
I give you a song to open the next glyph

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