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Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (1994)
subdirectory_arrow_right McDonald's (Collection)
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Attachment A concept document for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 shows that Knuckles was originally going to be able to walk up walls and ceilings instead of just climbing walls, and break down walls with a whirlwind attack rather than his fists. The McDonald's Happy Meal toy of Knuckles included in their Sonic 3 promotion, which is a wheeled toy that pilots a cloud, may be a leftover of this unused character trait.
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Artwork/Illustration, Character Design, Development, Early Idea, Leftover, Merchandise, Theory, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 11, 2024
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
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.
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Regional Difference, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 11, 2024
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Attachment 3 items from Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl were removed before the items update: a fart cloud, the Krusty Krab blimp, and a wrench set. The fart cloud and blimp's use are not fully known, but the wrench set would've created a platform like Toph's down special. They were rejected "because they weren't that fun".

In the files of the game, there is content implying two other potential appearances for the Krusty Krab Blimp: a texture for the Kids' Choice Awards blimp, and voice lines from the announcer referencing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' blimp, which is used in April's up special, as an item.
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Removed Feature, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Items, Update Difference, Voice Acting
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 9, 2024
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Items, wrench set's use is mentioned in replies:
https://twitter.com/diegotzee/status/1534679049007767553

Turtle and KCAs Blimp:
https://tcrf.net/Nickelodeon_All-Star_Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
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Attachment Jellyfish Fields, Harmonic Convergence, and Duck, Duck, Pie! all have unused early level geometry. These are all loaded in when the final stages are played and are simply hidden from view. Harmonic Convergence is very close to its final form; Jellyfish Fields lacks textures, but it can be seen that it has the sign on the base platform instead of the background; Duck, Duck, Pie! was originally a completely different style of pie that has its filling visible, which was likely changed to prevent depth perception issues.
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Model, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 9, 2024
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Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (1994)
subdirectory_arrow_right Capcom Fighting Collection (Game)
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Attachment In Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Huitzil has a fully-functional standing light kick which was never seen in any of the subsequent games. While the CPU never uses it, this attack can be performed by the player, although its slow startup and short range do not make it very useful. It can't be canceled into specials, nor does it have a rapid-fire capability. When Capcom Fighting Collection allowed Huitzil to be playable by conventional means, his animator Shisui said that this move was "so embarrassing that he wished it had never seen the light of day."
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Early Idea, Leftover, Moveset, Release Difference, Unused Content
person ZpaceJ0ck0 calendar_month January 7, 2024
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (2017)
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Attachment In the files of the Donkey Kong Adventure expansion, there are unused files for Rambi the Rhino as a party member, including a model; menu icons; and skills. He would have taken up two spaces on the board and been able to charge through any destructible terrain that enemies are using as cover and destroy it instantly. In the final DLC, Rambi would not appear physically in any form, but would have a gun made in his image. Rambi's model looks closer to his appearance in Rare's Donkey Kong games than his appearance in the Paon and Retro Studios Donkey Kong games, a design change that would also be carried over to Super Nintendo World's iteration of the character after Donkey Kong Adventure's release.
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Downloadable Content (DLC), Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 6, 2024
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Purble Place
Purble Place (2007)
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The matching card game has an unused card called "MatchPointsSadChef". It does not have any attached graphics. While this card doesn't exist, the game does have a happy chef card, using the chef from Comfy Cakes.
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Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Code, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 5, 2024
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Treasure Master
Treasure Master (1991)
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Attachment According to an unused file in Treasure Master, the game was originally going to have a Pizza Hut sponsorship alongside or before the MTV sponsorship.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Early Idea, Product Placement, Sweepstakes, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 5, 2024
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South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (1999)
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South Park: Chef's Luv Shack has an unused minigame called WBALL, where the boys would throw water balloons at passerby from a tall building. It exists in the PlayStation version and a prototype of the Dreamcast version, but it is not currently known to be playable.
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Minigame, Prototype, Removed Feature, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 5, 2024
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South Park: Chef's Luv Shack
South Park: Chef's Luv Shack (1999)
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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".
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Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 5, 2024
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Super Donkey
Super Donkey (2020)
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While Super Donkey is thought to have ultimately evolved into Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, the project was likely tossed around as a Mario or Zelda game at various points in development.

Various development assets associated with Super Donkey, which were uncovered alongside the prototype in the 2020 Gigaleak, include sprites and animations for Link, Mario, and Donkey Kong; the animation files for Link are dated to fall 1990, while Mario's animation files are dated to winter of that year. Additional files for all three characters span overlapping periods in 1991. Link's sprites and animations indicate that Super Donkey was at one point planned to be a side-scrolling Zelda title similar to Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, while Mario's animations imply that the iteration that starred him and Donkey Kong eventually morphed into the 1994 Game Boy title Donkey Kong.
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Development, Early Idea, Leak, Prototype, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unused Character, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person VinchVolt calendar_month January 5, 2024
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Tank
Tank (1974)
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Attachment According to The Cutting Room Floor, a website devoted to archiving unused content in video games, Tank is the first video game known to have unused content. Specifically, the game's score numbers are stored as one sprite even for double digit numbers, with the numbers going up to 63, despite such a score being impossible in the game due to the game's maximum 120 second timer and invulnerability frames.
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First, General, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month January 3, 2024
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Mort the Chicken
Mort the Chicken (2000)
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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.
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Filename, Unused Code, Unused Content, Unused Text
person Kirby Inhales Jotaro calendar_month December 27, 2023
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Star Wars: Monopoly
Star Wars: Monopoly (1997)
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Attachment Star Wars: Monopoly contains a set of two unused lyric music videos, which are both in-jokes welcoming new employees to Artech Studios.
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In-Joke, Music, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 25, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
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Attachment In Garfield's alternate costume texture, there is a portion devoted to Garfello, Garfield's Ninja Turtle alter ego from the Garfield Meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles short comic published in the 1992 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Magazine.
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Customization, Reference, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 25, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
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Attachment There is an unused model of the Statue of David by Michelangelo in Squidward's prop set. This was likely intended for his air down strong, where he slams down with a block of marble, referencing the SpongeBob episode "Artist Unknown", where SpongeBob makes the same statue by accident. The model has a clam on its groin as censorship, just like in the original episode, but does not have the nose Squidward places on it.
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Censorship, Model, Moveset, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 25, 2023
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Star Fox 64
Star Fox 64 (1997)
subdirectory_arrow_right Star Fox 64 3D (Game)
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Attachment As admitted by Mitsuhiro Takano (the original script writer for Star Fox 64) in an issue of Iwata Asks regarding Star Fox 64 3D, the development team had initially planned on including more aquatic stages based around the Blue Marine in the original game, but these were removed because they felt they dragged down the pace too much. In the Japanese version of the Aquas stage in Star Fox 64, Falco says:

こんな物　後にも先にも１回きりだぜ！(This is like the only time in our life we'll ever use this thing!)

English SF64's equivalent to this is "This thing will never hold together."

Apparently, this was the result of Takano feeling bad about there only being one underwater stage in all of SF64's single-player mode.

Going by files pertaining to Star Fox 64 found within the Nintendo Gigaleak, it seems one of these cut Blue Marine stages was known as カトレア (Katorea), which properly translates into Cattleya. Cattleya is a genus of orchids, which adds more credence that this was planned to be a beautiful water planet. The planet's initials (CL) show up in many other other source files, which gives clue to what it would've been like; for example, fox_edisplay references CL_SHIP0, CL_SHIP1, and fish00, whereas fox_boss.h refers to CL's boss as 鯖/saba, or "mackerel.” fox_jyuza.o meanwhile refers to a "saba snake", which heavily implies that the stage's boss would have been a giant fish creature or an eel of some kind.

Most of the other files label CL as "Colony", which implies that Cattleya would have been home to underwater cities. In beta versions of the map, CL is positioned between where Area 6 and Bolse would be, and presumably would have led into the cut planned Venom Normal route where Fox would have battled Andross on-foot with a bazooka.
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Development, Early Idea, Filename, Leak, Regional Difference, Source Code, Unused Content
person Dinoman96 calendar_month December 20, 2023
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Mother 3
Mother 3 (2006)
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Attachment On February 9, 2007, nearly a year after the game's release, director and series creator Shigesato Itoi set up an online quiz for fans who had completed the game, testing their knowledge about it. One question asks which Thief Jujitsu technique Wess uses, with the options being:

• "Super Sunset Miracle Chop Again"
• "Super Chop Miracle Sunset Again"
• "Super Miracle Sunset Chop Again"
• "Miracle Chop Super Sunset Again"
• "Miracle Chop Super Sunrise Again"
• "Miracle Sunset Super Chop Again"

None of this corresponds with anything seen in the final game, and a note attached to the question clarifies that it was based on something that was removed during development, telling fans to ignore it. Because the intended answer was never confirmed by anyone on the Mother 3 development team, it is unknown what the true name of the technique was. Similarly, the question doesn't clarify what the technique would've been used for, though the phrase "Thief Jujitsu" is most similar to the Secret Thief Arts Technique that Wess occasionally uses in battle.
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Development, Mistake, Unused Content, Website
person VinchVolt calendar_month December 19, 2023
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Angry Birds
Angry Birds (2009)
subdirectory_arrow_right Angry Birds (Franchise)
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Attachment In a 2023 leak of unreleased content from different iOS games, an app titled Angry Birds Island - or alternatively Angry Birds Hatchery - was discovered. The prototype was simply a version of the original Angry Birds with two major differences
•A mode called "Hatchery", which shows an overworld map of an island with a row at the bottom of toys and furniture
•The first two worlds of the original game, but with an option to select from a set of birds, all of which appear to be hybrids of the regular birds
This seemingly implies some kind of pet simulator mode with an egg breeding mechanic, not unlike the Chao Gardens from the Sonic Adventure series. It is unknown if this was planned as an update for Angry Birds or a new spin-off.
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Cancelled Release, Leak, Prototype, Removed Feature, Theory, Unsolved Mystery, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 18, 2023
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
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Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2, like the first game, contains unused calls from the announcer. Interestingly, a good chunk of these voice calls are for characters who could be clones or otherwise have a similar body shape to playable fighters, such as DoodleBob, Dark Danny Phantom, Nermal, Abrasive SpongeBob, Squilliam Fancyson, and La Tigresa. Perhaps most interestingly, Lucy Loud's ghost ancestor, Lucille Loud, is the only The Loud House character with an unused announcer line, despite the show's protagonist Lincoln having been cut from the first NASB and the show being based on a large ensemble cast of sisters. Michelangelo and Leonardo are the only cut veterans from the first game with unused announcer voice clips. None of them are from new shows, with a technical exception in the form of the name "Tak", which most likely refers to the Invader Zim character, as she would fit a clone role being an Irken invader like Zim, but could also potentially be for the titular character from the Tak series, though this is unlikely given that the game series had effectively been abandoned by Nickelodeon following the cancellation of its animated series in 2009.

Strangely, before the unused voice lines were dumped and publically uploaded to the internet, an almost entirely accurate list circulated online with Goku from Dragon Ball listed as an announcer call, likely a meme-based in-joke regardless of if it is real or fake, a name which was not included when the voice calls got datamined proper.
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Asset Reuse, In-Joke, Meme, Unused Audio, Unused Character, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month December 16, 2023
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