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| Condition | Estimated Value (USD) | |-----------|------------------------| | Sealed / Mint | $280 – $400 | | Open / Complete (CIB) | $180 – $250 | | Missing art book or SteelBook | $90 – $130 |
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The Codex’s location entries for Victorian London are worth the price alone. You learn that the “Windibank’s Bakery” background is modeled on a real 1878 shop that was later a meeting place for spiritualists. This has nothing to do with the plot, but it builds a world so dense you can smell the soot. the great ace attorney chroniclescodex exclusive
This is the holy grail. Deep within the game's code (discovered and confirmed by dataminers known as the "Codex Hunters"), there is a single, locked entry titled "Jury of the Dead."
To unlock this Codex Exclusive legitimately (without hacking), you must: Upon doing this, the "Jury of the Dead"
Upon doing this, the "Jury of the Dead" entry reveals a shocking truth: an alternate ending script where a juror recognizes a character from the Professor Killings in a way that implies a sequel set in World War I. This exclusive entry is only 200 words long, but it has spawned thousands of fan theories.
The gameplay in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is divided into two main parts: investigation and courtroom trials. Upon doing this
Chronicles is famously slow. The Codex makes it slower. You will pause a dramatic courtroom revelation to read the updated profile of a guard who says one line. Worse, some plot twists are only foreshadowed in the Codex. For example, the villain’s motive in Adventures Case 3 is hinted at in a Codex entry about postal routes—a detail the game never brings up in dialogue. If you miss it, the reveal feels like an asspull. If you read it, you spoil the surprise.
The first layer of the Exclusive Codex involves testimony contradictions that you almost miss. In The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, the game allows you to present evidence at almost any time. If you present the wrong evidence during a specific “Aha!” moment in Case 3 of Resolve ("The Return of the Great Departed Soul"), the game doesn't give you a game over. Instead, it unlocks a "Failed Deduction" entry in the Codex.
These entries are exclusive because they contain dialogue trees and internal monologues from Herlock Sholmes that are otherwise considered "non-canon." To get the full Codex Exclusive, you must intentionally fail at specific, obscure junctures.