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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom (2003)
subdirectory_arrow_right Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights (Game)
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Inside the files of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, you can find a video from Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights, an earlier game by the same studio, Heavy Iron. It is unknown if this is a leftover from building Bikini Bottom off of 100 Frights' engine, or a cross-promotion that was veto'd by either Warner Bros. or Nickelodeon.

What some may find more interesting, however, is a now-deleted YouTube upload of the unused cutscene colloquially known as the "Cursed YouTube Video" which was based on a corrupted video file and as such featured disorientating, lagging sound; an inaccurate timer for video length; visuals that cut out; and a buffer that would begin at an exact point and continually play regardless of the viewer's internet speed.
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Glitch, Leftover, Meme, Social Media, Technology, Unused Audio, Unused Content
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 13, 2023
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Article on the "cursed" upload:
https://boingboing.net/2019/06/13/cursed-youtube-video.html

Replica video, albeit with multiple glitches fixed:
https://youtu.be/ieP4C6BkphY
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
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Attachment Patrick's Super move was originally going to feature a unique squashed model for each character. These were ultimately scrapped for unknown reasons, with Patrick simply slamming down his rock on the opponent without any transformations or unique animations attached.
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Model, Removed Feature, Sprite/Graphical Animation, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Zoop
Zoop (1995)
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The DOS version of Zoop has unused text from a scrapped online multiplayer mode.
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Online Play, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Unused Text
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. (1985)
subdirectory_arrow_right Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet (Game), Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Game)
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Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet has unused graphics from Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, which can be activated by a Game Genie code, allowing one to play SMB1 levels with The Lost Levels graphics, albeit with some glitched tiles in different parts of the game.
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Cheat, Glitch, Release Difference, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Cheggers' Party Quiz
Cheggers' Party Quiz (2007)
subdirectory_arrow_right Alan Hansen's Sports Challenge (Game)
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Inside the code of Cheggers' Party Quiz and Alan Hansen's Sports Challenge, there are two unused test videos, unusually taken from the 2006 direct-to-DVD movie Bratz: Passion 4 Fashion Diamondz.
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Placeholder, Test, Unused Content, Unused Cutscene
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 11, 2023
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Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration (2022)
subdirectory_arrow_right Warbirds (Game)
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Attachment Warbirds was intended to be included in the base version Atari 50, but was cut at the last second - physical Switch releases of the compilation include Warbirds on the cartridge, but a day one update removed the game. Warbirds has since been reinstated.
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Emulation, Removed Feature, Unused Content, Update Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 10, 2023
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Sonic and the Secret Rings
Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007)
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An unused voice clip has Sonic wishing the player happy birthday based on the Wii's birthday data.
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Unused Audio, Unused Content
person SonicNicholas1995 calendar_month November 10, 2023
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Yoshi
Yoshi (1991)
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Attachment The Game Boy version of Yoshi has an unused Bullet Bill piece. It is not present in the NES version.
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Early Idea, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Items, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 9, 2023
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Platform: Nintendo Switch
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Attachment Among the material uncovered in the 2020 Gigaleak, a large-scale data leak from Nintendo's internal servers, was a series of documents surrounding Project INDY, an early iteration of the Nintendo Switch co-developed with ST Microelectronics. Project INDY was envisioned as a successor to the Nintendo 3DS and was halfway between it and the Wii U in terms of processing power.

The system would've carried over many of the 3DS' features, including dual-screen functionality, touch controls, stereoscopic 3D, motion sensors, augmented reality functionality, and StreetPass support. The system also would've featured backwards compatibility with 3DS game cards, Bluetooth connectivity (including support for wireless speakers and headsets), GPS functionality, a videotelephony app, the ability to wirelessly project games to a TV screen via Miracast, and support to quickly convert a commercially released unit into a developer system, easing development costs for independent studios. Many of these features would be carried over to the Switch in modified forms.

Technical documents for Project INDY show that while prototype software was developed for the system, Nintendo were unsure about its specifications and came up with various alternative options, such as support for 120 fps video, an 800p display, and a design with a single, oblong touchscreen that spans the full face of the device save for two joysticks near each end. The latter design was the final iteration that Nintendo came up with before ceasing work with ST Microelectronics in late 2014. By this point, Nintendo had devised the Switch's final name, listing it on the design's blueprints.

An earlier iteration of this oblong design would also become the basis for a hoax image created in the interim between Nintendo president Satoru Iwata's announcement of the Switch's development in March 2015 and the company's first public reveal of the device in October 2016. The image is a 3D-printed mockup of the Switch based on a patent filed earlier in 2014, which itself reveals that Nintendo was still considering stereoscopic 3D, backwards compatibility with 3DS games, and videotelephony support.
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Backwards Compatibility, Corporate Affairs, Development, Early Idea, Hoax, Leak, Patent, Prototype, Real Life, Removed Feature, Unreleased Hardware
person VinchVolt calendar_month November 9, 2023
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Tetris: The Grand Master
Tetris: The Grand Master (1998)
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Attachment Inside the files of Tetris: The Grand Master, there are multiple unused backgrounds of micro-organisms seen through an electron microscope.
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Early Idea, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 8, 2023
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Game & Watch Gallery 3
Game & Watch Gallery 3 (1999)
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Attachment Game & Watch Gallery 3 has a crude unused placeholder title screen with Wiggler on it. This already unused piece of content itself has unused sprites of its own that don't show up when the screen is activated - including Fly Guys, flowers, a crocodile, sleeping men, and - very morbidly - Mario and Luigi roasting a whole rotisserie Pikachu.
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In-Joke, Leftover, Placeholder, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 8, 2023
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Game & Watch Gallery 2
Game & Watch Gallery 2 (1997)
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Attachment Inside the files of Game & Watch Gallery 2, there are graphics for an unused Peach version of Modern Ball to go alongside the light blue Yoshi, Mario, Wario, and Bowser versions.
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Hidden Level, Removed Feature, Unused Character, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 8, 2023
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Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000)
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Spherical worlds were prototyped during development and were also going to have skateboarding gameplay, but were ultimately cut due to a lack of development time. Insomniac liked the idea enough to bring it back for Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando.
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Development, Early Idea, Unused Content
person KBABZ calendar_month November 7, 2023
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The source is a questionnaire I sent to Insomniac for Spyro's 15th anniversary, and to my knowledge is the only time the cut spherical levels have been mentioned. The DYKG team is more than welcome to contact Ted Price and John Fiorito to verify this information!:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PGTTdtRCXcY9Tad8qjqHo-8oUYBVh1qw/view

Insomniac Forums Spyro thread from 2014 in which this questionnaire is mentioned (source found and added by VGFacts moderator to verify authenticity):
https://web.archive.org/web/20141119171525/http://www.insomniacgames.com/community/showthread.php?56601-Spyro-the-Dragon-15th-anniversary
Pizza Tower
Pizza Tower (2023)
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Attachment Pizzahead's third phase was originally going to be, instead of a boss rush, Pizzahead growing desperate and starting to violently attack Peppino directly through kicks and punches rather than cartoon gags. This was scrapped as the development team didn't want Pizzahead to be perceived as an angry character as much as just an evil clown.
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Development, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 6, 2023
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Franchise: Yakuza: Like a Dragon
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Starting from Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, most games in the Yakuza franchise have featured destructible environmental objects, even extending to stores and businesses. However, real-life businesses like Yoshinoya that were put into the series have never been able to be destroyed in-game even when fictional stores are breakable. You also cannot enter a real-life store when in combat, and any aggroed enemies that chase after you will suddenly no longer want to fight you should you enter a real-life store in the game.
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Advertisement/Commercial, Inaccessible Area, Product Placement, Removed Feature
person Kirby Inhales Jotaro calendar_month November 5, 2023
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Taz: Wanted
Taz: Wanted (2002)
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Attachment There is an unused cheat in Taz: Wanted that gives Taz a mask believed to be based on programmer Christopher P. Wilson, with "ACME Goth Mask" written on the back.
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Cameo, Cheat, Development, Easter Egg, In-Joke, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 5, 2023
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Um Jammer Lammy
Um Jammer Lammy (1999)
subdirectory_arrow_right Um Jammer Lammy Now (Game)
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Stage 1 of Um Jammer Lammy was incomplete in the original PlayStation version, not being accessible in either multiplayer or PaRappa's story. With a GameShark code, a US player can access an unfinished version of PaRappa's stage 1, which has no animations and only uses triangle buttons. Stage 1 would eventually be finished for Um Jammer Lammy NOW!, released 9 months after the PlayStation version, with Rammy and PaRappa support.

Stage 1 is the only PaRappa stage to use the instrumental of the Lammy version.
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Cheat, Console Difference, Hidden Level, Music, Release Difference, Removed Feature, Unused Audio, Unused Content, Update Difference, Version Difference
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 5, 2023
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The Simpsons Game
The Simpsons Game (2007)
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Attachment The Zero Wing parody image in Invasion of the Yokel-Snatchers was originally going to be a Simpsonized version of CATS, rather than Kang and Kodos dressed as CATS.
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Early Idea, Meme, Prototype, Reference, Unused Content, Unused Graphic
person Rocko & Heffer calendar_month November 5, 2023
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Suikoden II
Suikoden II (1998)
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Attachment According to Suikosource user JiN88, the Japanese demo of Suikoden II contains two debug/testing rooms.

The first test room claims to be in Radat Town, despite seeming to be in Kyaro Town. The room contains various warping and unfinished textures, out-of-place objects like barrels, and two non-functioning Warp points. Of the warp points, one can be found down near a river and loads nothing, while the other can be found near a bridge with an Anita NPC and some invisible objects. While this test room seems to be empty, except for one small area featuring several invisible objects, a pushable tree that you can talk to, and a row of NPCs that can be pushed, but cannot be interacted with without crashing the game. There are also two Gabocha NPCs, one of which can warp you back to somewhere else in the test room, while the other has some dialogue and acts like a shopkeeper. Finishing the conversation with the shopkeeper Gabocha will cause the game to crash. Interacting with any Anita NPC will cause the game to crash.

The second test room contains several repeating groups of Anita, Gengen, and Old Man NPCs in a sort of army formation. The name of this second debug room is "神様の村" which means "Village of God"/"God's village". Talking to the Anita and Gengen NPC groups will have them say a single line of dialogue (the Anitas however will have no text), and once finished will cause the game to try and load something, which results in the game crashing. It's thought that they would try to warp you somewhere with a cutscene. Raww Le Klueze, global admin of the Suikosource forums, has translated this room's dialogue as such:

"The Gengens each say:
• "I am the sound change god"
• "I am the sound test god"
• "I am the window change god"
• "I am the unit change god" (for this phrase, he uses the same word as Apple does when you rearrange war units)

Some of what the Old Man says follows the same format "I am the god of !" in the middle row
Library, Suggestion box, Restaurant, Cooking Battles, Guardian Deity and Peeping...? (He also laughs after that one. Bath scenes maybe?)

Top says "The detective god is here!"
Bottom "Fishing god here!" "I'm the god of tablets" (same word as the plates found in the Sindar ruins, presumably tests that?)

Last one on the bottom I don't know, he just seems to be making noise cause it just says BABANBABANBANBAN - HAAPIBANONO."

This latter piece of dialogue might be a reference to the song "Nice Hot Water", a 1966 song in the "Nihon no Uta" Japanese local song series that was famously covered by the Japanese comedy rock band The Drifters. The first line before the hyphen is the same as the song, and the second line after the hyphen is almost the same as the song.
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Debug, Demo, Easter Egg, Hidden Level, Music, Reference, Suggested, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Unused Text
person Jom12 calendar_month November 6, 2023
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Suikosource thread:
https://www.suikosource.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=14842

Second test room images:
https://imgur.com/CMtRBJw
https://imgur.com/YUxf3iF

Translated rows of dialogue in second test room (pertinent to Raww Le Klueze's translation):
https://imgur.com/P4ekv1T

First debug/testing room (the second debug/testing room covered in the above three Imgur links are in the attached image):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3sSmi2G2Y8

The Drifters - Nice Hot Water (Vivanon Rock):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzXnucKfHEE
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/いい湯だな
Suikoden II
Suikoden II (1998)
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Attachment According to Raww Le Klueze, global admin of the Suikosource forums, there are three unused sprites found in the PC version that appear to be part of an unused Blue Gate summon or something similar. The three sprites are supposed to appear in different spots on the screen which would explain why they are looking in different directions.

To support that idea, in the Gensou Suikoden II 108 Stars Character Guide (published only in Japan by Konami), within a section detailing a scrapped idea to summon spirits of other elements, there are a few characters resembling the three unused sprites if they were mixed together.
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Artwork/Illustration, Similarities, Theory, Unsolved Mystery, Unused Content, Unused Graphic, Version Difference
person Jom12 calendar_month November 6, 2023
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Suikosource thread:
https://www.suikosource.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=158715#p158715

Gensou Suikoden II 108 Stars Character Guide (Konami Official Guide) JP, pages 71-72. Pages self-sourced by user in lieu of archived digital copy which as of this submission date can no longer be found online:
https://archive.org/details/gensousuikodenii108starscharacterguidekonamiofficialguide
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