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NES
- Do any of the following have debug modes? This follows from my (andlabs') observation that early Now Production games (at least on the NES and Genesis) all have debug functionality left in:
- Athena has minor regional differences and possible unused graphics.
- Armadillo has a special game mode (called "Stone Armadillo" mode, which apparently slightly adjusts physics, palettes, and other things) that can only be accessed when used with the rare "Famicom Battle Box" accessory. The extra menus that can be accessed with the accessory installed should also probably be mentioned on the wiki, as well.
- Mississippi Satsujin Jiken has leftover text from the Commodore 64 version.
- Hello Kitty no Ohanabatake - unused demo recorder/player containing recorded demos for levels 0, 3, and 12, which are totally incompatible with the final versions of the levels (or the level numbers themselves were changed).
- Jangou a lot of code duplicate from early revision, including graphics, check if there is something different.
- Radac Tailor-Made - The ROM in the NES ROM archives included in the 2020-07-24 doesn't match what is on the cart (or at least doesn't match the dump of unknown origin that can be found on the web)
- Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball - The ROM in the NES ROM archives included in the 2020-07-24 doesn't match what is on the cart
NES (Unlicensed)
- Most of Hummer Team's fighting games have unused characters.
- Doraemon has some unused graphics, some of which are Somari leftovers.
- Pocket Monsters Red and Pokemon Gold have some weird unused text.
- Shin Samurai Spirits 2: Haoumaru Jigoku Hen, among other unused stuff and leftovers from Garou Densetsu Special (the whole packed level tilemap library), has an unused fighter select screen inside the hardwired tilemaps only featuring 8 characters.
- Silver Eagle unused name "AMADEUS WANG" for the staff
- Super Contra II
- Unused menu leftover from a 17-in-1 cart by Super Technos.
- There is an unused level select, too.
Game Boy (Color)
- Burai Fighter Deluxe has unused item graphics.
- Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors has unused graphics.
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys has unused text.
- A prototype ROM of the unreleased game Infinity has been released online, along with the source code, by developer Affinix.
- Maru's Mission has many regional differences, mostly consisting of graphics.
- R-Type has a sort-of hidden dev credits in the attract mode] and a special symbol that one of the developers put in "a lot of [his] earlier Spectrum games". See this interview.
- Woody Woodpecker Racing has regional differences. The Nintendo logo goes unused in the Japanese and European versions, and all of the Japanese characters from the name selection screen go unused in the American and European versions.
Game Boy (Color) (Unlicensed)
- Harry Potter 3 has graphics for a...clown?
- Pokemon Jade crashes after the first level, leaving almost the entire game unused. There might be leftovers from Sonic Adventure 7.
- Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Post about possible beta material that Makon Soft / Yong Yong would have probably left in with (Although, this may not have much possible purpose in with the Li Cheng ROM, with them possibly taking out (unused) stuff, keeping from their programming fix to work.) Also, post about the intro differences, between DMG and CGB/GBC. In the DMG intro, Makon Soft / Yong Yong (probably) stole several frames of the intro, from Pocket Monster (SNES), however, in the GBC intro, like every Pokemon game of theirs, except Pokemon Adventure, they, of course, use pictures from the anime. The user, XanverKun, posts a YouTube video of the Li Cheng cart about the DMG intro. It's probably assumed that even probably the original Makon Soft / Yong Yong version has this too, with the intro. However, no proof. But most likely, it probably does, since Li Cheng barely probably would remove anything from the ROM, in their revision ROMs. I, Chowdit1, will probably remake the video in better quality. Also, as a side note, Li Cheng translated the game's name (in Chinese Simplified), as "Digimon (Digital Baby) {Taiwanese name for Digimon} [Shu-Ma Bao-Bei]: Mewtwo (Super (or 'Surpassable') Mew Mew) [Chao Meng-Meng] Strikes Back [Fanji Zhan]. So, it's exceptionally correct, but except for the series name.
- Shui Hu Shen Shou has menu icons leftover from Pokemon Gold and Silver
- Terrifying 9.11 apparently includes an unused Metal Slug logo (the game is an unlicensed, 9/11 themed port of Metal Slug for Neo Geo).
- Thunder Blast Man has a few sprites leftover from Rocman X Gold
SNES
- The SNES PPUs have a partially-working unused testing mode that outputs an RGB signal.
- Energy Breaker contains developer jokes as text according to the fan translation.
- F1 Pole Position has a regional difference. The Japanese version has Ayrton Senna while the US/EU version has Michael Andretti.
- Hokuto no Ken 6: Gekitou Denshou Ken Haou e no Michi has unused character portraits.
- Kablooey has regional differences (Different music, sound effects, etc.)
- A cut down version of Speed Racer in My Most Dangerous Adventures that supports the Life Cycle accessory was bundled with Mountain Bike Rally.
- Super James Pond apparently has regional differences: [1] [2]
- Super Wagyan Land 2 has a test level.
- According to Nintendo documentation, these games have additional anti-piracy checks, what are they?
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SNES (Unlicensed)
- There are several unlicensed SNES games with interesting anti-piracy features.
Nintendo 64
- The 64DD Mario Artist games have debug features, or at least debug leftovers.
- There's partial source code for a Mortal Kombat game in the 2020-07-25 Nintendo leak.
- All-Star Baseball '99 has debug text and a bunch of bin/data file paths scattered in the ROM, but mostly near the beginning, as well as a file/reference to CODE.BIN. (I'm not 100% sure if the later part would qualify for the wiki but I thought I'd note it anyway)
- Killer Instinct Gold has three USA revisions. Check for any revisional differences.
- WCW vs. nWo: World Tour was later released in Japan as Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 and has differences from its American counterpart.
Game Boy Advance
- All of these GBA games have hidden things in the ROM itself, accessible through a hex editor.
- Britney's Dance Beat (dev text)
- Cabela's Big Game Hunter (Game Boy Advance) has a debug menu.
- The Game Boy Advance (and possibly the DS) Legendary Starfy games may have more debug modes, and unused text suggests conversation tests which may be still in the games.
- Drome Racers has several interesting cheat codes.
- James Pond: Codename Robocod has regional differences.
- Power Pro-kun Pocket 4 has a debug mode (apparently by entering "デバッグ"). Video here.
- Rayman Raving Rabbids has been reported to have a severe bug that may only occur in the USA release.
- The King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood seems to have unused win quotes.
- The Sims: Bustin' Out and The Urbz: Sims in the City both have a cheat menu as an invisible option 4 on the options menu. Can't figure out to enter it. Screenshotː [3]. Also, The Sims: Bustin' Out has a few unused item descriptions.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler has version differences, like the European version made the dialogue text more readable. The double pack re-release brought this change to the US, as well as the additional language options.
GameCube
- Ralf of GSCentral has found so much stuff in GameCube games. Pretty much any PAL GC game he's gone through has something wiki-worthy.
- Bust-a-Move 3000 has development text. Also, regional differences. The US version is an earlier build without features like 4-player mode.
- Custom Robo: Battle Revolution removed the hero's headband in the English release, possibly because it clips with everything. Ernest's desk and nearby shelf no longer have bottles (presumably of alcohol) on it. See if the models are still in the game data. The Fukashi/Marv wanted poster is edited to include the character's name change.
- NHL 2004 might contain an unused player called Gabe Metal.
- Pokémon Colosseum Bonus Disc has regional differences. The US version contains unused Jirachi variant(s).
- Unused content in Japanese multi-demo discs
- WWE WrestleMania X8 might have leftovers for removed WWF logos in "fist" SmackDown and Raw (is War) arenas? (The game was developed before "Get the F Out" kicked in on May 5, 2002, but released afterwards)
Wii
- Arc Rise Fantasia
- Ten(!) test rooms that need to be file swapped to work.
- The US version actually added more voice acting for battles.
- Art of Balance (WiiWare) has a few files/folders with 'test' and 'debug' in the name.
- Barbie Horse Adventures: Riding Camp - There are several islands just offshore that are too far for Barbie's horse to swim to. Using hacks we can get over to them. On the biggest one, the interior of the Roberts stables can be found here, but there's also a solid white untextured building here that can't normally be seen. It looks like a house interior of some sort. Appears to be completely unused. (source: Rhythm#6928)
- Blaster Master: Overdrive (WiiWare) has various "test" files in the "sideview" directory.
- Castlevania Judgement
- Initialization test text.
- Leftover menu/HUD graphics from Naruto: Clash of the Ninja - Revolution.
- Early-stage copies.
- Placeholder graphics.
- The Conduit has a test room only accessible through private online multiplayer and cheat devices, as well as an early version of Sanctum, and a debug mode. Also, leftovers from the scrapped LAN multiplayer exist and can be undummied out.
- Doc Louis's Punch-Out!! has music for when Doc Louis is knocked down, which goes unused since he instantly gets knocked out after losing all of his health.
- Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon has an early version of Shirma, complete with a load of animations.
- Jett Rocket has early/testing levels and a crash screen.
- Line Attack Heroes (WiiWare) has unused config files referencing the scrapped US release and the E3 demo (which wasn't WiiWare), internal names and a symbol map.
- Madden NFL 12 (or possibly a different Madden game) displays invisible text on top of its intro video (and maybe in other places); see File:Madden NFL 12 Transparent Text.png.
- Mario Super Sluggers appears to have an unused file named bgm_captain.
- Monster Hunter Tri has many unused icons.
- Nicktoons MLB has Rocko from Rocko's Modern Life as an unused character. All of his data is still there and may still be playable if hacked in.
- The Penguins of Madagascar: Dr. Blowhole Returns has many test levels.
- PokePark2: Wonders Beyond has an unused chase remix theme. It also has a number of debug rooms and associated level parameter files, possibly allowing them to be loaded in-game.
- Sonic and the Secret Rings has some test files and some test videos (maybe not unused). It also has .txt files with developer comments, actitems.txt, actstgdata.txt, actstgdesign.txt, and actstgmission.txt, respectively. Also check for any content leftover from Sonic 06, if any.
- Tales of Graces has dummied-out artes: Sophie's Final Fury and Blast Heart, and Cheria's Innocent Shine and Meteor Storm. Either playable or sound-only, there is a huge amount of them. There also seems to have traces of a certain "DEVD," thought to be a missing character (much like PAT in Vesperia). It has also revisional differences.
- Tokyo Friend Park II Ketteiban: Minna de Chousen! Taikan Attraction supposedly has source code on the disc
- Tony Hawk's Proving Ground has files for a test level and a test video and various remnants from the Xbox 360 / PS3 version.
- WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase has two different games in the Japanese version. "Punch-Out!!" was originally "Card Hero", and "Kid Icarus" was originally "Freshly-Picked Tingle".
- Wii Chess has regional differences.
- Wreck-It Ralph has some test rooms. Check if they work.
- Hidden DS connectivity in some titles?
DS(i)
- This page has more stuff that I (eientei95) found. Stuff needs article-ised.
- Here is a list extracted from the entries in the leaked DS lotcheck sheet that are marked as using the "DSﾌﾟﾛﾃｸﾄ" (DS Protect) anti-piracy library. Here is the same for DSi Enhanced (DSi Exclusive and DSiWare apparently don't use it).
- 7th Dragon has text for a debug room, according to the fan translator. He even translated the text for it too! It also has some unused/debug items.
- Ben 10: Protector of Earth has a debug menu.
- Beyblade: Metal Fusion has a debug menu containing sound test and other functions based on text in the game data.
- Beyblade: Metal Masters has a debug menu containing sound test and other functions based on text in the game data.
- Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day has some unused graphics.
- Bust-a-Move DS has some header text files inside the ROM.
- Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol has development text strewn about all over, as well as text for what appears to be a debugging menu.
- Cid to Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Toki Wasure no Meikyuu DS+ according to some sites has a debug mode, but others refer it as an enemy encounter cheat.
- Dementium II has a test level.
- Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem - the DS debug button displays hitboxes on a black background for moving objects if pressed in-game, pressing the button again returns everything back to normal. (source: Ziella#2992)
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker has unused monsters, PlatinaKing.
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional has an unused monster, PlatinaKing.
- Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero also has a test map (map_test00.pac) and an archive called test.pac.
- Feel the Magic: XY/XX has some unused graphics for an alternate ending. Info here.
- Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift has unused Grenades type weapons from the unused Transmuter Nu Mou Job, which was to combine items for abilities, but with 19 usable items, there were over 300 combinations and therefore was scrapped at the last minute. The job might be in the game, but the Grenades are present and semi-usable.
- Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings has debug menu text but it's no longer readable in non-Japanese versions since it's all replaced with "????". It seems to have options for HP/MP. Also, find a way to re-enable it.
- Flipnote Studio has regional differences and revisional differences.
- Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties has a model viewer.
- Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns has unused items (mostly items like "dummy 86", etc.).
- Henry Hatsworth has strings for a sound test and some unused levels.
- James Pond: Codename Robocod has regional differences.
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth has a test level.
- Kenkou Ouen Recipe 1000: DS Kondate Zenshuu was composed by Kazumi Totaka, but no Totaka's song seems to have ever been documented in this game(?). "トタケ" (totake from his nickname totakeke?) however is a keyword on a password menu. Could there be a hidden method involving this for activating the song?
- KORG DS-10 Synthesizer and KORG DS-10 PLUS have lots of unused graphics. The Limited Edition (at least) of KORG DS-10 Synthesizer has two save files in the filesystem (ds10backup_080425.bin and work)
- Last Window: The Secret of Cape West, the sequel to Hotel Dusk, has a big archive called Main_Debug. Maybe it has a debug menu like its predecessor?
- LEGO Battles and LEGO Battles: Ninjago have an unused level and some unused graphics.
- LifeSigns: Surgical Unit has a file named debug, probably an image, plus the Japanese Win graphic. Figure out how to open them.
- Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck has some unused STRM voices. Most of these voices are only present in the English version, with no modification language-wise for the ones that didn't get removed in the other versions. Most of them were made (and used) for the cutscenes, but some of these are modified when they're heard in them. (An example being "SE_SL_VO_HAPPY_MISER", which was modified in pitch for Diamond Mine, Mine!'s opening cutscene.)
- Love Plus (and its updated re-release) has anti-piracy methods. (although only the latter is listed as using "DS Protect" in the leaked nds lotcheck sheet)
- Lupin Sansei: Shijou Saidai no Zunousen has two lots of test sprites of Lupin.
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games might have several unused/unplayable characters.
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem has a debug menu, some unused graphics, and a dummy sound effect.
- The McDonald's eCrew Development Program has an unused song.
- Medarot DS has a few interesting things, like alternate parts.
- Moon has a decent amount of unused things.
- Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits has references to a debug menu and regional differences.
- My French Coach: Learn A New Language has NitroFS/text/debug.dat.
- Nanashi no Game: Me seems to lack some stuff from it's prequel, but it does have a debug menu.
- Nintendojo has unused text in the msbt files and a version.txt file.
- Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! has some unused graphics.
- Onsei Kanjou Sokuteiki Kokoro Scan Has quite a lot of unused sounds and a few unseen/unused graphics.
- Pac N' Roll has unused level models.
- PictoChat has some different versions: Ones included in different DS firmware versions (though PictoChat may be the same across all of them), the DSi one (PictoChat (World)), and the one included with Kanji Sonomama Rakubiki Jiten DS, a Piece of Japan-only DS software. For example, the rainbow pen is in the DSi version, but not in the DS version. Kanji and character vocalization is in the Kanji Sonomama version, but not in other versions.
- Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (Nintendo DS) had an entire bonus chapter removed at the last minute before it was released in America. The music from that chapter is still in the American ROM data, but who knows what else was left in?
- Scurge: Hive - For the Prerelease namespace: This and the following pages have plenty of Scurge: Hive sprites from one of the makers. There's lot of stuff I don't remember having seen in-game, except during a rare glitch I never managed to reproduce, can someone help me sort it out? Also, some files have a name implying they contain sprites from one of the scrapped enemies, but I can't get them to display properly. Also, graphics in trailers are visibly different; HUD, title screen, etc. See discussion on the old talk page.
- Sonic Rush Adventure has regional and revisional differences (the latter being small file differences between Europe Rev 0 and Europe Rev 1 - maybe text) and probably an unseen tileset for the boss maps, like Sonic Rush.
- Sonic Colors probably an unseen tileset for the boss maps, like Sonic Rush.
- Star Trek: Tactical Assault the DS debug button enables and disables debug information on the screen which shows the FPS and your coordinates. AR code to activate it in all situations in US version: 02222280 00000001(source: Ziella#2992)
- Suikoden Tierkreis has unused items and unused/placeholder characters. I put it on this page here. I'm putting it on here in case I don't get to make a page for this.
- Super Robot Taisen W - could anyone re-enable the debug menu? The patch link was on Megaupload, I think.
- The Oregon Trail has development-related text in arm9.bin.
- Wheel of Fortune has the "bonus category" post-puzzle chimes (previously used as the "rolling doubles" sound on the 1987-88 High Rollers), along with some Pat Sajak lines that are used in the console versions.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia has debug menu text.
- The DSi System Menu contains a file called "bandbrothers_arm7flx_patch.sbin". Presembly this is some sort of fix for one of the DS/i Daigasso! Band Brothers games.
(New) 3DS
- Boulder Dash-XL 3D has differences between the cartridge version and download version, such as menu fonts.
- Dead or Alive: Dimensions has a test map and unused graphics from the E3 version. "menu_icon.bclim (e3 demo)" "menu_icon.bclim (final)"
- Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden received a Japanese-only update to enable crossover battles with One Piece: Dai Kaizoku Colosseum.
- Fossil Fighters Frontier has placeholder Vivosaur(s). It also has unused Paleo Pals and attacks for Nibbles.
- Mario Tennis Open has the menu music from Mario Power Tennis in STRM_SONG_MENU_OLD.bcstm.
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem! has UserInterface_E3Strings.bmg.
- Nintendo Video also has some regional differences.
- Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stones: Wildfire and Thunderflash has passwords that were never officially released, but recently datamined.
- Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon Has quite a bit of debug content. With many script and text files for various debugging features. It may be possible to load them with some simple file replacement. There's some research on the matter at http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?46904-Pokemon-Super-Mystery-Dungeon-And-PMD-GTI-Research-And-Utilities/page2
- Rusty's Real Deal Baseball has regional differences, most notably Rusty Slugger himself looking completely different in Japan (said version, Inuji Darumeshi, is a Trophy in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS).
- Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal has voice clips for Amy being playable. And in cutscenes, Eggman also seems to have voice clips for cutscenes, although he never even appears in cutscenes anyway. Also, unused menu/HUD textures exist as well.
- Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition has some regional differences. As well as some of the character names different between the English and JP versions, the Japanese release only has the Japanese voice-acting, and the US and European releases only has the English voice-acting due to the game's lack of a Dual Audio feature, unlike the other updated versions of SFIV.
- The Mysterious Murasame Castle (previously known as "Nazo no Murasame Jou", fan translated as "Riddle of Murasame Castle") was released in the West for 3DS Virtual Console. Check for differences.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal: World Duel Carnival has lots of regional differences.
- The following (no-intro datted as of 2018-11-10) physical 3DS games have the "DebugPrint" SDK component listed in their "plain regions" sections. This means that they may try to print stuff to an external log: https://pastebin.com/raw/vp9B0H6C
- Zel's CIS-004 unit hard drive dump contains lots of Japanese kiosk demos. Some may be pre-final or contain other interesting differences.
- An early version of the unreleased "3D Challenge" tech demo was dumped.
Wii U
- A way to disable sleep mode is on the external hard drive.
- Miiverse had debug features. The way to access them may have been removed by updating the HTML or by a system update. But there are leftovers (scroll to post #79) of some sort. Not sure if this should go on "Wii U" page or "Miiverse (Wii U)" page.
- GBA Virtual Console Games have code leftover from other projects and Adobe Photoshop. (source: ajd4096)
- Some games have internal names (source: Random Talking Bush)
- To be discussed: updates for download-only games.
- Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune very likely have a plethora of unused images and such for the online gameplay features they trumpeted in promos and even on the boxes but never actually delivered. Also, given that these were THQ's last games before filing for bankruptcy a few days later (probably why they suggested the consumer pay $20 more for inferior products), they might have some other unused stuff that may overlap with those of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.
- NES Remix and its sequel have Famicom-related regional differences and unused graphics. And the emulations are likely to have differences as Virtual Console games do.
Nintendo Switch
- A Dark Room has an outdated ruby-interpreter than can be brought up by plugging in a USB keyboard and pressing the tilde key. It was added as an "easter egg" by the developer and the game was later taken down. (initial discovery: @yourcompanionAI)
- Duck Game seemingly contains Windows exes and dlls.
- Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit has lots of debug strings
- Puyo Puyo Tetris has a debug menu of sorts hiding in it, though it's barely there. The exact key combo was later discovered: Key combo is "right stick pressed down + X + B"
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Switch) has unused level names
- The World Ends With You: Final Remix has an unused song, it is a different version of the Final Remix version of Make or Break, but the file name (re_B04E_R.ogg) suggest that this was at one point a Final Remix of Twister Remix instead.
