The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Windows)/Afterbirth

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Afterbirth is the first expansion pack for Rebirth and features a variety of improvements.

Unused Graphics

Characters

Old Man Keeper

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Using Cheat Engine, the Keeper was playable since the initial release of Afterbirth. However, he was invisible as he had no sprites and he started with zero health. These graphics were added in later patches and remained in the game until they were replaced by the real Keeper sprites after the ARG had ended. These sprites ended up being used during the daily run on April 1st, 2016.

Maw of the Void Charge

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The costume for Maw of the Void has sprites for it charging up. The laser Maw of the Void allows Isaac to fire is automatically charged up alongside firing tears, with no need for a special animation for charging it.

Enemies & Bosses

Mom's Dead Hand Alt

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An alternate version of the dead hands exists without showing the skeleton. It is never shown in-game.

Dank Death's Head Death Animation

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The Dank Death's Head enemy has a death animation similar to the Death's Head death animation. This is never shown in game as Dank Death's Heads are required to be killed before clearing a room.

Black Gazing Globin

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The spritesheet for the Black Globin enemies have unused recolors of the Gazing Globin enemies, likely a leftover from recoloring the Globin spritesheet for the new enemies, as both they and Gazing Globins share the same spritesheet.

Unused Drowned Hive Face

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An unused Mulligoon-esque face for the Drowned Hive enemy. The Hive enemy from the base game has a similar unused sprite.

Unused Brownie Expression

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Just an unused facial expression for Brownie.

Frail's Spinning Head

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Like the skeletal version of The Frail, the normal version also has sprites for its head in all directions. However, it never uses the attack that uses the sprites.

Miscellaneous Unused Hush Sprites

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There are some other unused sprites for Hush, mainly for its face.

Skinless Hush

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A really unfinished sprite sheet for a skinless Hush boss. This was originally stated by Edmund to be "a red herring for dataminers.". But Tyrone Rodriguez later showed concept art for a skinless Hush phase of the fight that was later scrapped. Edmund would later confirm that. In Afterbirth+, using the debug console allows you to spawn Skinless Hush. It he has no AI other than sliding around when you hit it.

Bearded Ultra Greed

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In early screenshots, Ultra Greed had a beard. No files for it were found in Afterbirth. However, in the DeliriumForms folder of Afterbirth+'s files, the entire spritesheet oddly shows up.

Early Ultra Greed

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In the same files with Bearded Ultra Greed, an early Ultra Greed between the Beard version and the final. Main differences include a fatter Ultra Greed and incomplete sprites.

Items & Familiars

Dead Spider Mod

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The Spider Mod familiar has sprites for it dying. Spider Mod is unable to be damaged in any way, let alone killed, so these go unused.

Miscellaneous

Generosity Achievement

Before ARG	Since ARG

The Steam achievement for Generosity was changed as part of the ARG. Counting the pixels (difficult when the image is a JPEG) in the lines and spaces revealed an Imgur link. The achievement image remained the same after the ARG was over, so the old image is now unused.

Coin

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A character select sprite for a large penny, possibly meant for a locked icon for The Keeper. The Keeper is considered a secret character, much like ??? and The Lost, so he does not appear on the character select screen until unlocked, leaving this sprite unneeded.

Unused Animations

Dukie Death Animation

(Click to Animate.) Dukies have an unused animation for them dying in a similar fashion to Death's Heads. In the final game, Dukies die the way most enemies do: exploding into blood with no unique animation.

Unused Audio

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: The Unused Dead Womb Layer. It might actually be used after all

Audio tracks here are either obscured or completely unused.

Unused Dead Womb Layer

An unused layer for the Dead Womb's track, 'Nativitate.' This implies that it was going to be a bigger floor. This track can be heard in the game's latest DLC, Repentance, either via the Red Key or Blue Key or by entering a Crawl Space with an enemy in the Dead Womb.

Unused Hush Battle Outro

An oddly unused ending to Hush's fight. It uses normal boss endings instead.