Development:Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

This page details development materials of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.

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Anonymous Reddit user leaked a bunch of Hotline Miami 2 sprites from Dennis Wedin's Dropbox account on the game's subreddit on November 15th, 2016. There are many interesting sprites, some of which may look like developers wanted to add them in the game, but they either forgot to do it (because of development maintained by just two people), didn't find a use for them, or scrapped them.

Sprites

Cloak

Sprites for a character named Cloak, possibly made just for fun by Dennis Wedin, but it's strange that there are sprites for walking and attacking animation. Dennis Wedin made a similar character named Billy the Kid and uploaded it to his Instagram.

Cing

Cing is possibly another character made for fun. He has walking animation sprite, but only the first frame is done, the rest is Gang enemy with a pipe.

ControlEnemy

Enemies made for control settings menu. Only execution sprites were made.

Cowboy sprites

Various cowboy sprites, including car sprites.

Payday 2 Masks Sprites

Face sprites for Dallas and Hoxton masks from Payday 2. You can clearly see the sprites are unfinished.

sprEveryone

A huge spritesheet of face sprites. Though the filename is "sprEveryone", there are many other characters missing.

Matryoshka

Matryoshka?

Fire Men

These are most likely scrapped NPCs in an early stage of development, because Fire Man 1 looks similar to The Dad. Fire Man 2 is a fat man from The Moviecrew, maybe they were going to make an appearance in Pig Butcher's scenes.

Gang sprites

Various Gang sprites. On sprGangWalkHostage, Gang enemy has Guard taken hostage, it's possible Gang enemies were going to appear on levels with Guards.

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This spritesheet possibly was made to show off the new game's cast.

This spritesheet was made early in development, considering some characters have different designs.

Gang enemies were going to have dogs of a different breed.
Soldiers were going to have vests and no helmets on.
Colombians were going to have a shading on their eyes.
There was going to be two more male victims in Midnight Animal, a fat black man, and a fat man in a jacket similar to Corey's. All female victims go unused except one in underwear. Fun fact: fat black man makes appearance in-game, but in a role of DJ during Martin Brown's interview, making black man from The Moviecrew unused.
Tony was going to have no blood on his mask.
Alex and Ash were going to have duck masks instead of swans.
Mark was going to have an alternative, white bear mask.
Fan's van was going to be tagged entirely in green paint.
The Son was going to have brown hair, black gloves, and a robber mask in a style of US flag.
The Writer was going to have a blue jacket.
The Cop was going to have a mustache.

The spritesheet also shows the internal names for characters.

Gangs - Drugdealers
Soldiers - The Enemy (Hawaii)
Colombians - The New Mafia
The Writer/Evan - The Dad

Hawaii War sprites

Apparently WarPhotographer was going to be included in the dialogue. Soldiers were going to have shotguns, but that idea was scrapped for some reason.

River City Ransom: Underground sprites

To do:
Find if Dennis's cameo and other characters are in the game.

For some reason, there are sprites from River City Ransom: Underground. The game was released on February 28th, 2017, 3 months after the sprites leak, it's possible that developers sent out the sprites to Dennis to create his own cameo for the game, considering the first two sprites are called sprRiverCityDennis. There are two masked NPCs that show up in the background in Oak Hill Dojo, referencing Hotline Miami.

Car sprites

Various car sprites, including cowboy sprites.

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A spritesheet of playable characters and enemies made for Gamer's Edition.

(Source: https://youtu.be/YAmhU3VIxL0 5:26)

Skulls

Various skull sprites, we will never know why Dennis was making them. 4th skull sprite was taken from DeviantArt.

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Level select cassettes

Act 1	Act 4	Act 5	Act 6
			(Same as Act 3)
None
	None	None

Act cassette boxes.

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	Level 8

Level cassettes.

Apocalypse sprites

LSD demon mobster with a shotgun. Only the first frame was done.

Early	Early with Outline	Final

You can notice early versions are more choppy, and Zebra has no red eyes on the outline version.

Tiger has no blood on his hands when he catches the player. There's legs walking animation, even though in the final game body and legs are merged into one walking animation.

Spritesheets of LSD bosses excluding Bear. There is also never before seen giant Zebra's head sprite.

NPCs

NPCGun1

NPCGun2

NPCMelee1

NPCs. Their roles are unknown but it appears they would participate in some gun shooting scene. The first two NPCs have death sprites for a shot kill and a melee kill, meaning the Player could have chosen to kill these NPCs with a fire weapon or a melee weapon. Fat guy's face sprite (sprFaceNPC1) is present in game files.

Fans sprites

Corey was supposed to get shotgun flip animation, similar to Pardo's, but this idea was cut. Apparently Alex and Ash were going to have different gameplay style, but they changed it and some early animations were cut even before being finished.

A unique Fans van with motorcycle. It says "50 BLESSINGS" on the back. The sprite is named sprFansVanDream, maybe there was dream sequence planned for The Fans?

Evan Wright sprites

Cut animation of Evan stretching his arms after typing on keyboard (named sprWriterTypeEnd). There are cut executions for Bat and Club, made for Rage mode Evan while wearing the jacket, Rage mode Evan was remade later on and now he takes off jacket when going rage mode.

SonFace3

Cut face animation for Son. It's similar to Angry face variant, but has different mouth animation.

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NPCs from Down Under outro. It says "DEVOLVER THE END" on top left, no idea what this means. These NPCs may have been created after people from Devolver Digital.