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Max & the Magic Marker
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The NTSC release of the Nintendo DS version of Max & the Magic Marker has the entirety of the song "Wonderwall" by Oasis in its files, complete with audio tag metadata and the cover artwork of their album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.
Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy
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Earthworm Jim: Menace 2 the Galaxy has unused text pertaining to Game Boy Printer support. It's thought that this feature would have allowed players to print out level passwords.
Killer Instinct 2
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The game's files cointains data of multiple unused alternate endings for various characters such as Maya and Jago. These endings weren't properly implemented due to time constraints.
Virtual Bart
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Attachment The prototype for Virtual Bart shows an ending screen at the end of the credits instead of just the player's score. It is a crudely written "THE END" in cursive with the nonsensical text "You are a true Bart Simpson" alongside the score. The "You are a true Bart Simpson" text is in the final game's code.
Aquaventure
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In the code of Aquaventure are a set of two short text strings, placed one after the other:

looney

hot
Sonic the Hedgehog
subdirectory_arrow_right Sega Top Ten (Game)
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Attachment In Sonic the Hedgehog, there is an unused "PRESS START BUTTON" graphic. This would eventually be used in an exclusive revision of the game included in the Sega Top Ten compilation cartridge for Brazil and Asia. This version of the game is otherwise identical to the original release.
South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
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In the code for the cow stampede mini-game in the PlayStation version of South Park: Chef's Luv Shack, there is text simply reading "this sucks".
Mort the Chicken
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The game’s files have four .txt files titled DEUTCH.TXT, ENGLISH.TXT, ESPANOL.TXT and FRENCH.TXT, suggesting German, Spanish and French versions were planned for the game. In the end, only an English version exists.
GeoSafari
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Attachment If one moves Hank's Microsoft Agent actor file into the the main Microsoft Bob application, he can be used as a main Bob assistant, complete with his own character bio, suggesting that he was meant to be part of the wider Microsoft Bob program. Some of his text is generic placeholders and he does not have a background (instead using a close-up of what appears to be his knee or elbow).
Defender
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Pokémon Puzzle Challenge
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Attachment Pokémon Puzzle Challenge has an unused title screen reading Pokémon Puzzle League, implying that it once shared a name with its Nintendo 64 counterpart.
Simple 1500 Series Vol. 87: The Kyoutei
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There is unused text in Simple 1500 Series Vol. 87: The Kyoutei that simply says "damejann", which translates to "it is not good."
The Addams Family
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Snoopy's Magic Show
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Attachment Based on evidence from the book Video Game Quest and unused graphics within the game's code, Snoopy's Magic Show was likely originally going to be an original IP, with the title of either Death Ball or Heart Attack.
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 24, 2023
Disney's DuckTales
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Attachment In the Japanese version, and prototype US builds, of DuckTales, the ending line of the game was the grammatically incorrect, and arguably out-of-character, Scrooge line "There really is more important treasure than this, that is... dream and friends", which was changed to "I couldn't have done it without you. I really am the richest duck in the world." for the US release. Darlene Lacey, a producer on the Disney side of DuckTales would say of the partially unused line in a Kotaku interview:

"It seemed so earnest and dramatic, I was so tempted to leave it as is, but I knew I couldn’t. So, I changed it to the more polished, but forgettable ‘Right, lads! I couldn’t have done it without you. I really am the richest duck in the world.’ I love that fans found out about the original ending. It was the better line!"
Death Stalker
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Death Stalker contains a long hidden message in its code, which includes calls for hires, promotions for other games by the same developer and publisher, and perhaps most interestingly, a message from the writer about how he had been locked out of his car:

Hello, good evening & wellcome to Qualtan, or Death Stalker in official form!
Brought to you & (c) of course, by TAG computer games.
We at TAG have always wondered why you hackers don't do something contructive like writing games!
If you wan't to talk to us about this subject then ring HULL (0482) 215320 & have a chat.
( do this anyway if you like! we're also after graphic artists , games testers & designers. )
Watch out for 'Ninja Massacre' its beaut!!
Hope you liked '19 boot camp' we did!
Coming soon, Touchlight from Palace.
Hello to Rogue who are writing the CBM version , featuring the first ever 16 colour HW scroll!
More games from Codemasters later in the year!
I am currently stranded in the TAG office because my car is locked in the multi story car park !
, just thought you might be interested.
Thanks to PDS for the wonderfull Pd system, its wonderfull!
TAG - the worlds first vegetarian computer company.
We love Codemasters!
Especially Mark, Tim, Richard & David!
but is it TRUE or FALSE we ask?
Fact is often stranger than fiction! more so where computers are concerned!
Who was Paragon? Who are Tiertex? What is Artic ?
South Hunsley , Britains crappist school!
I know! theres loads more buffer left, but I've 20 miles to walk home!

[The original message contains no line breaks; they were added by The Cutting Room Floor for readability.]
Atari: 80 Classic Games in One!
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Atari: 80 Classic Games in One! contains two unused ROMs created to test the emulators used in the compilation. Interestingly, the .txt file that contains the descriptions of all the featured games also has explanations of what these ROMs are, suggesting that they may have at one point been planned to be included as bonus content on the compilation for regular players:

"[colours]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This ROM
was transferred into a genuine first generation
Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It cycles
through all the available colours in the Atari
2600 palette, displaying the colour's number as a
binary "bar code" at the top. The output of the
Atari 2600 was hooked up to a video capture card,
and each frame was digitised and its colour ID
determined by reading the bar code on the image.
All frames of the same colour were then averaged
together to get an average "RGB" colour value for
that number. This process was used to get accu-
rate colour matches with the original Atari 2600.
[sound]
What is this?
This ROM was created as part of the development
process for ^RAtari 80 Classic Games^0[sic]. This
ROM was transferred into a genuine first gener-
ation Atari 2600 (bought by the lead programmer's
family back in 1977!) via a Cuttlecart. It plays
a sound sequence consisting of a one second low-
volume beep, 1 second of silence, and then 4
seconds of a particular Atari 2600 "voice",
followed by another 1 second of silence. Each of
the available voices is played in turn at a
preset frequency. (Once all voices were played,
the frequency would change and the process would
repeat.) The output was captured via a PC's

^G(more...)
Page 2
^G(...more)

sound card and a program found the sound's
fundamental pattern. These captures were used
to generate accurate sound matches with the
Atari 2600.

Note: The left difficulty must be in the B
position for the sounds to start."
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening
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J. Langston III's original name during development was J. Langston Popsicle III, or "Popsicle" for short, but had to be changed due to Popsicle being trademarked by Unilever. Multiple lines were spliced to remove "Popsicle", though one was removed and one was re-recorded.
Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo
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Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon
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Attachment There are four unused voice clips intended for the Newscaster on Putt Putt's radio that appears to be a developer in-joke. When put together they read:

"A criminal suit was filed against Mr. Firebird. He is accused of purposeful wrong-doing and criminal neglect. It is believed that Mr. Firebird's negligence caused Putt-Putt's unfortunate accident earlier today."
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