All secret characters are selected by moving off the end of the line of normal characters. Secret player's icon will appear as a giant '?'.

1. To play as Soul Edge- you must simply beat the arcade mode on normal setting or greater with all the characters. This becomes pretty easy as you acquire more weapons in Edge Master Mode. Note: You can also access Soul Edge by playing for 18 hrs.

2. This is an obvious one, but some people have missed it, so.... Weapons gained in Edge Master Mode can be used in arcade mode by moving the cursor over a character and hitting up and down (if you have no additional weapons for a selected character nothing will happen)

3. Han Myong- this one is hard, you need to get all 70 weapons in Edge Master, Hwang's secret ending and Seung Mina's secret ending. Good luck... OR-First beat the arcade mode with Hwang, then right after that beat the arcade mode with Sueng Mina.

4. Sophitia!- to play Sophitia in her civilian garb, just get her ultimate weapon in Edge Master Mode.

5. Sophitia!!- to play Sophitia in her stylish swimsuit from the opining movie you must find all 70 weapons in Edge Master Mode

6. Ultimate weapons can be almost impossible to find if you don't know how to look for them in Edge Master Mode. After you beat Soul Edge and your ending book thing plays, you will be in Spain. Move to one of the adjacent locations, as you move the blue display will say " " continues his search for the ultimate weapon, or something close to that. The ultimate weapon must be only one travel distance from Spain, depending on the character, you may have 2 locations you can move to, it is at one of them. If you go to the next location (that the ultimate weapon is at) and win, the weapon is yours. If you lose, the blade will move to yet another adjacent spot, it cannot move back to Spain, however. If you lose at a location that the Ultimate Weapon its not at, it will not move. Just keep using the process of elimination until you find it.

7. Siegfried!- To play Sieg in his evil armor with Soul Blade, find his Ultimate Weapon

Alternate Endings

If you have already beaten Soul Edge you know that the endings are pretty bleak as most characters die or get possessed by Soul Edge and turn to evil... what you may not know is that many characters have an alternate (and more uplifting) ending.

Secret Endings:

HWANG: Hwang stands on the pier looking at the Soul Blade, he picks it up and the black letterbox stripes fade out from the top and bottom of the screen. As this happens quickly hit A+B repeatedly until the letterbox comes back...this should trigger the different, non-possessed by Soul Edge, ending.

ROCK: Rock stares at the swords and images of his parents being attacked by a pirate ship appear. Rock is then standing on a cliff, the letterbox will disappear. When this happens hit Down, Up+B until they come back....

SOPHITIA: As Soph is walking through the woods the letterbox, yet again, disappears. Quickly hit Up, Down until the letter box is back to see a...more revealing ending.

SIEGFRIED: The letter box will begin to fade soon after the movie begins quickly tap Up+B to see Sieg break the evil sword and weep on a mountain.

VOLDO: Voldo enters his lair caressing Soul Edge, as he rubs the sword against his neck hit Down, Up as fast as you can (you control his blade rubbing).....the blade will shatter and Voldo will collapse in tears

LI LONG: Li drops to his knees and, right away, the letterbox disappears. Rotate the Direction pad 360 degrees and hit all 4 buttons at the same time, the letter box should return...

SEUNG MINA: The letterbox disappears mid way into the video, when it does hit Up, Down until it returns

MITSURUGI: This, in my opinion, is the best ending. Mitsurugi will return to his village and promptly gets in to an argument with the gun holding Tanegashima. The camera will spin into a first person view from Mutsurugi. Tanegashima will fire his rifle, hit left or right to dodge the bullet. Hit Up twice and wait for him to fire again, dodge to the right or left again hit Up twice and then hit A or B to hit Tanegashima. You only get one shot at this and the ending changes if you win or lose.

CERVANTES: The letterbox disappears right away, hit UP+B until the letter box comes back. Cerv hits the swords together and the power destroys him.

TAKI: Taki is stunned, the letterbox disappears. Tap Down+Guard, when the letterbox returns Taki will decide to keep the Soul Edge and not destroy it. In the final animation instead of battling the demon for a few seconds, she will strike it down immediately.