Scribblenauts

Scribblenauts
Also known as: Flash Puzzle: Maxwell's Mysterious Notebook (JP) Developer: 5th Cell Publishers: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (INT), Konami (JP) Platform: Nintendo DS Released in JP: January 27, 2011 Released in US: September 15, 2009 Released in EU: October 9, 2009 Released in AU: September 30, 2009 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has regional differences.

In Scribblenauts, you play as a boy named Maxwell who can summon physical objects via a notepad. In addition to the main puzzle mode, the game also features a sandbox mode and a level creator, where you can summon tons of different objects to mess around with.

Unused Music

To do: Big Tiny seems to have an audio glitch near the end of its loop. Should we-rip?

Four unused level select tracks go unused for levels Big Tiny, New Frontier, Shoreline, and Zoo. In the final game, only one level select track plays.

New Frontier

Big Tiny

Shoreline

Zoo

Unused Graphics

Merit Icons

To do: The Pi merit is technically unused in the original game due to its requirements not being achievable. Document it here?

Eight Merit icons go unused. The corresponding Merit names are also still in the game's text:

"BOGEYMAN"
"JOKER"
"LONG YAWN"
"NO VEHICLES"
"RECYCLER"
"WELLREAD"
"WORLD UNDER PAR"
"YAWN"

The descriptions of these merits have all been removed, having been replaced with "MERIT WAS CUT."

Female Maxwell

This unused character, who resembles a female Maxwell, can be found in the game's data. Her graphics can also be found in the sequel, Super Scribblenauts. There is no known way to summon her in-game. In Scribblenauts Unlimited, the girl version of evil Maxwell resembles her.

Regional Differences

In the Japanese version of Scribblenauts, several Konami characters can be summoned via the notepad. They include:

Solid Snake, Old Snake and Big Boss (Metal Gear). They carry a Dart Gun, Assault Rifle and Gun object respectively. All of them get removed in Super Scribblenauts.

Goemon and Ebisumaru (Ganbare Goemon). Like the Metal Gear characters, Ebisumaru is oddly absent from the sequel.

Alucard (Castlevania).

Pawapuro-kun (Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu/Power Pros). Comes with a Baseball bat but don't bother trying to pitch at him. In the sequel, he does not spawn with a bat and his sprite has angry eyebrows.

Shiori Fujisaki (Tokimeki Memorial).

Manaka Takane (LovePlus).

Vic Viper (Gradius). Maxwell can fly it; tapping anywhere on-screen will make the craft drop fireball objects in a trajectory similar to missiles in the Gradius series.

Mimi and Nyami (Pop'n Music).