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Hi! This is a list I'm making as a sort of dump of things to be added that don't have full pages yet. Sort of a "I know there is something here, but we need to work on it" type of things. These pages don't even have articles; if they did, this would be better with something like Template:Investigate and/or Template:Todo.

If you know of something in a game that's not here but don't have enough knowledge to write about it (and there's no article, or the article really sucks) feel free to add something to the list here and hopefully somebody can look at it.

Items on this list should be removed whenever they've been sufficiently documented and article-ized, with any remaining information put as templates.

Link's Awakening sums it up best: 

Here is your
 clue.
Make all the red
 blue.
Hmmm...
To do:
Remove article-ized content, move content to article pages where applicable

Apple

iOS

Apple II

  • According to programmer Steve Baker, Sporting News Baseball has "hidden secret pics and animations, but it’s been so long I have forgotten the "keys" (to activate them)."

Macintosh

  • Angry Birds has some unused graphics, leftovers from other versions and unused text. Investigate what DebugConsole.lua does.
  • MilkSnake has unused text from here. Breaking the game (how?) gives you a million points.
  • Osmos has some unused text.
  • Quinn - replacing ConnectPanel.nib with DebugPanel.nib will open a debugging window when clicking Connect to Server.
  • Ferazel's Wand has some unused music, possibly more.
  • SimCity 2000 has some unused sprites for a parachute jumper; these are apparently exclusive to the Macintosh version of the game. See here.

Atari

400/1200XL

  • Lots of Easter eggs in various games (mostly developer messages) can be found here.

2600

5200

  • The Atari 5200 BIOS has the message "copyright atari" in the ROM. Is this used?
  • Lots of Easter eggs in various games (mostly developer messages) can be found here and here.

7800

Jaguar

Lynx

Atari ST

  • These pages mention some hidden messages in several Atari ST games.

Commodore

Commodore 64

  • This thread from 2008 mentions a lot of unused things in various C64 games (sprites, hidden messages, other crap). Someone with better knowledge of old C64 games than me should check this thread out (I only code the C64, I don't play it...). The guy who ran The Games That Weren't has a blog post about this, plus more.
  • A tape loader used in various games (Sanxion, Mega Apocalypse, etc.) apparently contains the string "HACKERS FUCK OFF AND DIE" (of course this doesn't show up in most/all of the cracked versions that have completely different loaders). By extension, the string probably appears in a number of different games. I wonder how that should be handled?

Commodore Plus/4

Amiga

  • Ambermoon is the sequel to Amberstar RPG, and you could invite some of the developers into your party inside the cheatroom.

Microsoft

PC

  • Pretty much every Humongous Entertainment game ever made.
  • Every Windows Vista/7 game has a debug mode which can be enabled with registry tweaks. (Todo: check the Windows 8 games [Microsoft Solitaire Collection, Minesweeper, Microsoft Mahjong, Wordament, Taptiles, Adera])
  • Every MSN Zone game bundled with Windows XP and ME has commented out text in the config file. There is also data for a debug menu containing two items: Event Spy and DataStore Viewer.
  • What does changing fDebugWindow="0" in any of the Living Books games' decription file (*.512 or *.LB) do?
  • Age of Empires II may have unused graphics, and there's an alpha version.
  • Anodyne has some demo leftovers within the AIR archive (see ".gitignore", "index.html" (references a "Seen.swf"), and "META-INF\AIR\application.xml")
  • Atari: The 80 Classic Games has several unused games.
  • Civilization II has the unused Plumbing tech, and entries in CITY.txt for the Incas and Arabs, which aren't available civilizations. Also, content available for scenario building (a "Modern Alt." city icon in CITIES.gif, extra unit slots and designs) which aren't used in the main game. (All of this is in at least the MGE version, and probably other releases.) Note that the PS1 version already has a page.
  • Civilization III has unused assets for an Austrian civilization.
  • Colin McRae Rally 2005 has a lot of test files and test tracks to check out.
  • Commander Blood has some unused movies and graphics that would later be used in the French-only sequel Big Bug Bang.
  • Curse of the Azure Bonds seems to have had several changes through it's versions, the most noticeable one I can recall is the removal of music in the title screen on the later versions.
  • Dark Souls has a TON of unused gear and voice recordings. (There's even dialog for the DLC fight with Artorias.)
  • Deus Ex has some scrapped missions. According to DX Wiki - At some point during the Deus Ex development, there was a mission in which JC Denton would have been asked to travel to the moon to confront a rogue, malevolent AI named Ada, but much like the scrapped White House and Texas Border missions, the moon level never made it into the final game.
  • Dracula II: Ascension has a test.sav in the game files.
  • Eversion has some unused eversion levels pre-1.7.3, as seen in this video. Using a level editor shows that there might be one more...
  • Eye of the Beholder was rushed, leaving a clearly unfinished ending, and some items and level sections which apparently were going to be used on the full ending. There is a fan patched version (v1.9) which restores a bit of it.
  • Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel has weapons, missions, perks, and miscellaneous items.
  • Final Fantasy XI has unused spells and levels. Example.
  • Gold Box games in general (these are the old SSI D&D games such as Pool of Radiance). There are several debug line commands as seen here. It is curious that some of them serve to skip the copy protection, yet were left on the commercial versions.
  • Half-Life has differences between the PC and PS2 versions. Also unreleased DC version has some different models and maps. Some of DC changes made it into PS2 version.
  • Half-Life Opposing Force has several unused dialogue in intro and some NPCs like Otis, Grunts and Drill Sergeant have unused dialog as well.
  • The Hall of Tortured Souls (hidden game in Excel 95) has a picture of the developers accessible by doing a 180 degree turn and typing EXCELKFA.
  • Hover! has prototypes.
  • Iji: an early build was released on March 21, 2011 as part of Scrap Pack 2.
  • Island Xtreme Stunts has a cheat mode and a cheat menu.
  • Ishar when played on DosBox 0.74 gets a weird glitch, it shows a language selection screen which shouldn't appear, as far as I know this game is only in English. Were the translations scrapped? Are they just currently lost but the English version contains files for other languages?
  • Jazz Jackrabbit has possibly unused boss levels with definitely unused abusive messages outside the level boundaries.
  • Jazz Jackrabbit 2
    • Lots of unused graphics.
    • "OEM Version" proto.
  • Knights of the Old Republic 2 has lots of unused content in general (the ending's a good place to start) and definitely needs an article.
  • LEGO Bricktopia has some interesting cheat codes.
  • LEGO Chess has unused text, sounds and graphics.
  • LEGO Creator might have some unused voice samples. It also has a mostly unused copy of Superscape 3D Control 5.51, which will only launch as an ActiveX contro.
  • LEGO Racers 2 has some unused sounds.
  • LEGO Rock Raiders has a debug mode.
  • LEGO Stunt Rally has some unused track pieces.
  • LEGO Universe has unused NPCs and music, and possibly more. Document the beta of this game.
  • Lemmings (PC) has lots of demos with a single new level, exclusive to that demo. Also if I'm not wrong, the last level is exclusive to each system, so the PC and Amiga versions have a different last level. Also the version can be checked using "VERSION" as level code, but for some reason the earliest version of the game won't recognize it. Maybe they didn't plan to make newer versions?
  • Lemmings 2: The Tribes (PC) has a demo version that clearly dates to en earlier stage of development and has a number of scrapped features. (There also seems to be an Amiga demo that is slightly further along.)
  • Mario's Game Gallery was rereleased as Mario's FUNdamentals. I also remember a version with a slightly different menu.
  • Mark of the Ninja has debug and test level folders in data-pc\levels.
  • Mega Man 3 has unused graphics.
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance has placeholder texture for Otacon's full-body model (found within *cdrom.img\face\f04a\,"\f04b).
  • Odium (aka Gorky 17 for you crazy Europeans): I've only taken a quick glance at the game files. There was lots of commented-out dialogue and some removed enemies, but I haven't played that game for so long... There's definitely unused goodies to find in there, though.
  • Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (...I think) has an anti-piracy trick.
  • Pac-In-Time has leftovers from Fury of the Furries.
  • Pac-Man: Adventures in Time has unused .tod level graphics.
  • Re-Volt has some pretty interesting stuff in leaked source of it.
  • Ride to Hell: Retribution The game basically is a debug menu.
  • Saints Row: The Third has a leaked DLC list that includes a "co-op" pack, which hints co-op mode originally wasn't to be released with retail.
  • Saw has some unused content, like some unused player characters and Dr. Gordon's scrapped appearance.
  • Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator
    • Unused items.
    • Debugging functions.
  • Shank and Shank 2 have debug and test level folders in data-pc\levels.
  • Shrek 2; being a KnowWonder game; has a debug mode, unused/cutscene-only maps and plenty of placeholder/unused textures.
  • SimCity 3000 has unused music from SimCity 2000.
  • All the Sims titles have unused... bits of everything. See The Sims Wikia and Mod The Sims for user-recreated/found objects, textures, etc.
  • SuperTux has some unused graphics.
  • Sveerz - extracting the .SWF from the game's executable and decompiling it reveals unused logos of several game publishers and unused text. The final frame of the .SWF is a button test.
  • Temple of Elemental Evil: A Classic Greyhawk Adventure: being a Troika game, a number of things got cut in the rush to market on top of general buginess. Examples include the children of Hommlet and the Snake Pit in Nulb. These are restored in the "Circle of 8" mod series.
  • Terrordrome - not finished yet, but demos (v2.5, 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8 as of October 2012) can be found on sites such as Mediafire with differences. Official site here.
  • Tobe's Vertical Adventure has unused enemies and test levels.
  • Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness has lots of unused voices, including some for a tutorial. There are also unused items.
  • Trial version of Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom has version differences.
  • Tux of Math Command has lots of major version differences.
  • Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle
    • A number of things got cut and some areas are unfinished. Partially documented over on The Codex of Ultimate Wisdom.
    • Nakar explored some of this stuff, like the permanently-locked door in Skullcrusher.
  • Unreal Tournament 2004
    • There are a shitload of unused models from a very early Gears of War, back when it was called Unreal Warfare. Models, textures, propaganda poster textures showing early COG designs, you name it; it's there. All of them are viewable in the editor, so it should be easy.
    • An unused Onslaught ladder for SP exists. Check it out and see what levels are in it and how playable it is.
  • Worms 3D has a couple of weapons that only appear in some versions, or don't appear in any version or... or something like that. Examples include the Ming Vase, Concrete Donkey, and Mega Mine.
  • There are some unused soundbank speeches in Worms 2, Worms Armageddon, and/or Worms World Party (needs more research).
  • Poker Night 2 may have unused audio, these unused clips have already been found.
  • X-Com: UFO Defense has at least an early demo showing the original title (X-COM: Terran Defense Force). Also the several versions and releases of the original game may show various changes.

Xbox

  • Halo (Xbox) has an unused enemy, the Covenant Engineer. Also, there's a flamethrower that was later used in the PC/Mac version.
  • Jet Set Radio Future has a katana model left inside the game's files, which Officer Hayashi was originally going to use as his weapon before the developers decided to make him use a pistol instead.
    • There is also a rumor that there are three incomplete characters whose files are left in the Japanese version, but were removed from the localized versions. The characters' names are reportedly Wave, Numa, and Check.
    • The Doom Riders and NT-3000 (the robot designed to look like Yoyo) are named differently in the files, implying that the names used in the files were their beta names. The Doom Riders are called "hellmets", and NT-3000 is called "yoyoB". Also, Rhyth and Boogie are still referred to by their Japanese names in the files. ("bis" and "sugar")
  • Conker: Live & Reloaded have unused text.
  • Futurama has this line in its default.xbe C:\Code\Futurama\Futurama\Build\XBoxMaster\Futurama.exe

Xbox 360

  • Mass Effect 3 has a beta leak?!? Video.
  • Wheel of Fortune has a ton of unused voiceovers that likely also apply to the 2012 PS3 version (due to THQ's bankruptcy in December 2012, these are unlikely to be used in DLC).
    • Puzzle categories that are rare (Headline; Fictional Family shortly before it was merged with Fictional Character{s} into simply "Character{s}"), haven't been on the show in years (Best Seller; What Are We Making?), or never existed on the show (Classic Rock; Where Are We Going?). Among these are eight former categories well-known for offering cash bonuses, including Next Line Please, Where Are We?, Who Is It?, and Slogan. It should be noted that the categories present in the game are taken directly from the show's official category list, given to contestants...which is clearly outdated.
    • Variations on "Sorry. All the consonants are gone and no one solved it. That money will go unclaimed." This is used in the Wii U version if everyone has less than $250 and cannot solve the puzzle, though.
    • Wheel dollar values that either don't exist ($475; $4,000; $10,000) or have not been on the show in decades ($275; $2,000).
    • Intro voiceovers of "Something seems strange. Have we been here before?" and "Well, now this brings back some memories.", labeled PAT_BANTER_INTRO_RETRO. (These might be used in the "1980s set" DLC, though.)
    • All of the above sound files are Pat's. Vanna's sound files contain explanations for a minigame called "Pick One", and mentions both Circle Pads and Analog Sticks; this may indicate that a 3DS version was in the works at some point.

Windows Phone 7

Windows CE

Nintendo

NES

  • Lots of released prototypes from Lost Levels
  • All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. may have leftovers from Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels, as it runs on the same engine.
  • Not known but a request (from andlabs): does the Famicom version of Choplifter contain any removed references to Sega? It's closer to Sega's 1985 arcade version than any of the other versions.
  • Dragon Power had some changes compared to the Japanese and French versions.
  • Doki Doki Panic probably has unused stuff other than the smiley sprite.
  • Excitebike contains two options on the Design menu, Load and Save, neither of which are operable in the NES version. Apparently they were intended to be used with a storage device that never saw the light of day (possibly a tape drive, seen in early NES mockups). Both options are fully programmed and would function as intended if this device were present. The loading and saving system was added to the 3DS 3D Classics version. In addition, the Load and Save options are completely absent in the Animal Crossing version.
  • Jeopardy! has an unused Coca-Cola logo, much like Wheel of Fortune. GameTek's other game show titles might have unused stuff as well.
  • Kid Icarus has a lot of FDS -> NES differences. This has most of em, but there seem to be a lot of different FDS wavetable-enhanced sound/music like with Zelda/Metroid judging by the TAS I watched, assuming the sound effects in the 3DS 3D version are the FDS ones. (Rather likely, since the noise when you put Kid Icarus: Uprising is a jingle that matches the 3D version and not the NES version.) Also, apparently they fucked up the password system on the Virtual Console port?
  • Lunar Ball (NES) - this NSF - is track 15 used? (Pointed out to andlabs in IM by Sik, who "had that game since I was 3 years old".)
  • Mother has some early graphics/version differences with the English prototype. Some info is here and here.
  • NES Control Deck Test has lots of unused graphics. (Note: This is not the same cartridge as Control Deck Test Cartridge.)
  • Solstice has lots of content in two YouTube videos, showing development of the game itself: here and here.
  • Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japan) has a few differences between the original FDS version and the GBA (Famicom Mini) version. Namely, the load times in the GBA version were shortened (such as when loading World 5-1, World A-1, and the ending sequence) and the GBA version requires the player to press B + Start on the title screen to enter World A-1 instead of A + Start as in the FDS version.
  • Totally Rad has a LOT of regional differences not yet in the wiki.
  • Ultima III has some unused NPC sprites, including a jester.
  • Wario's Woods has regional differences and unused music.
  • Yo! Noid has major regional differences.
  • 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:
  • Wrath of the Black Manta has an entirely different soundtrack and graphical style from its Japanese version, Ninja Cop Saizou, among a few other differences.

NES (Unlicensed)

Game Boy (Color)

Game Boy (Color) (Unlicensed)

SNES

  • Aero the Acro-Bat 2 has unused text strings starting at $05CB70: LIVES ON LIVES OFF and ENERGY ON ENERGY OFF, which were used for a cheat in the Genesis version. There isn't any code left that points to these strings, so the functionality probably no longer exists.
  • Aretha - gedowski documented some of the debug mode here.
  • BioMetal has regional differences, including an odd one with the soundtrack (US/EU versions have an SNES-chip version of 2 Unlimited's "Get Ready"...no joke).
  • Clock Tower
    • Some unused items.
    • "Changed" graphics like the below, at least one of which is the hole in the wall where Jennifer's dad is.
  • CutThroat Island PAL version has French, German and Spanish languages, but no language select option anywhere? USA version, too?
  • Famicom Tantei Club: Part II
    • We need to figure out read that text; Tomato told me about it long ago, but I never found it.
    • There's a lot of "changed" graphics using sprites in some places; e.g. a background clock replaced with a sprite one.
  • Judge Dredd has a preview version from CES 1995, with several stages and other things that were deleted from the final, as well as various other changes.
  • Mario Paint has a prototype.
  • Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World may well have unused World and/or All-Stars stuff, or possibly removed some from either half to make room.
  • Wario's Woods has unused graphics.
  • Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom - BMF54123 and gedowski research the cheat code(s) here.

SNES (Unlicensed)

Nintendo 64

  • Command and Conquer supposedly has a debug mode, but I can't get it to work. Anyone with better dexterity wanna give it a try?
  • Conker's Bad Fur Day has two prototypes.
  • Jet Force Gemini is supposed to have some kind of test map. Also, there's a kiosk demo that has some differences from the final.
  • Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber has a bunch of unused stuff; some can be found in this GameFAQs guide.
  • Quest 64 has some unused music. Check the USF rip for a starting point.
  • Superman has a beta, some remnants in the final game from said beta, some textures supposedly taken from GoldenEye 007, and given how much of a cesspool the game is, it most likely has more stuff.
  • Turok 2: Seeds of Evil has an awesome demo version. There's a good article on it here.
  • Wheel of Fortune
    • The Surprise wedge appeared in prerelease screenshots and the instruction booklet, but isn't present during gameplay. It might still be in there, just dummied out.
    • Possibly other stuff; this was GameTek's last Wheel game, released seven months before the company closed down, and there are quite a few weird things with it (likely-incomplete list here) that may suggest the game was released in an incomplete state.

Game Boy Advance

Game Boy Advance (Unlicensed)

  • Digimon Adventure has an unbeatable final boss (is there an unused ending?) and unused graphics for transforming into Greymon.

GameCube

Wii

  • The console itself had some early plans for the Virtual Console. Maybe there's more hidden things in the Virtual Console files?
  • Arc Rise Fantasia
    • Ten(!) test rooms that need to be file swapped to work.
    • The US version actually added more voice acting for battles.
  • 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 a early version of Sanctum, and a debug mode. Also, leftovers from the scrapped LAN multiplayer exist and can be undummied out.
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns supposedly has an unused 4-player mode.
  • Fire Emblem Wii has much more regional differences that I can think of.
  • GoldenEye 007 has unused maps, including an untextured port of the original Dam geometry from the Nintendo 64 game.[2]
  • Kirby's Epic Yarn has plaintext setting files on the disc which suggest a lot of debugging options left in the game.
  • It is said that early in Madworld's development, the second boss, Jude the Dude, was going to be killed in a different way than from how he is killed in the final version. Check to see if the files from the original death are still there.
  • Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games also has several unused/unplayable characters.
  • Mario Sports Mix has lots of unused models and textures.
  • Monster Hunter Tri has many unused icons.
  • No More Heroes and No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle have censored violence in their Japanese and European releases.
  • Pokémon Rumble has text and data for a debug menu.
  • Sonic and the Secret Rings has some test files and some test videos (maybe not unused).
  • 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.
  • Wacky Races has a test track and an errordummy.txt to check out.
  • The Wii series:
  • Wreck-It Ralph has some test rooms. Check if they work.
  • A small number of demo discs (very small, almost definitely under ten) were produced. Some of these are "Activision Exclusive Playable Demo Disc" with demos of Big League Sports, Dancing with Stars: Get Your Dance On, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Monkey Mischief, and Shrek's Carnival Craze; individual discs for Boom Blox, Help Wanted: 50 Wacky Jobs, Monster Hunter Tri, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, Rooms: The Main Building and Sonic and the Secret Rings.

DS(i)

3DS

  • Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion - it's painfully obvious they scrapped the whole Alice in Wonderland world, plus some levels here and there (link). There is bound to be at least unused spritework, but until we can peek inside 3DS ROMs we can't say for sure.
  • Mii Maker has regional differences.
  • Nintendo Video also has some regional differences.
  • Pokédex 3D has version differences (Pokédex 3D Pro)
  • Swapnote has some regional differences and revisional differences from updates. (The SpotPass termination may also count, because the app stealthily removed various SpotPass-related features and references.)
  • Due to the rest of the Paper Mario games having extensive unused content, Paper Mario: Sticker Star should be checked, though that will probably require the as-of-yet-nonexistant ability to look through 3DS ROMs.
  • Same with New Super Mario Bros. 2. It also appears to use the New Super Mario Bros. Wii engine, so it may have leftover objects.
  • Resident Evil: Revelations has two widely-available demos. One is included in Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D and is most likely a prototype. One is a downloadable demo on the eShop and may or may not be a prototype.
  • Style Savvy: Trendsetters has revision differences.
  • A bunch of other games have had updates, but which ones count as revision differences and which ones don't is anyone's guess.
  • Ocarina of Time 3D Save file hacking, glitches for accessing unused content, moel hacking, and unused text, other file hacking? and a text dump
  • Various games have downloadable demos, which sometimes have differences from the final game for the sake of length constraints and simply to show off various aspects of the game. Whether or not these should be covered is debatable, as it's unclear whether or not some of these are actually prototypes.
    • Bravely Default's demo could probably be covered as a whole other game, however, considering the fact that it is a whole other game.

Wii U

  • 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.

Sega

Master System

Genesis

  • Lots of Genesis games in general, thanks to drx.
  • The Sega Channel BIOS has multiple demo carts.
  • Animaniacs has unused music.
  • Aquatic Games might have some region differences. On my Mega Drive, in 100 Metre Splash, Pond makes some splashes on the water, as well as the accompanying sounds when he runs fast. This doesn't happen on Gens with the US version of the game. Region difference, or emulator flaw?
  • Dynoblaze has unused animation frames. See here and here.
  • Ecco the Dolphin and its brethren have loads of stuff in their prototypes.
  • Flicky has differences between the Genesis and Arcade versions. Worth noticing?
  • James Pond: Underwater Agent has two unused themes.
  • Prince of Persia (Genesis) has some unused songs and some regional differences.
  • Sonic & Knuckles has a leftover palmtree sprite from Sonic the Hedgehog 3.
  • Toy Story
    • Has an MOD player and a MOD. Not cut, but still interesting trivia.
    • The MDO file has an unused portion, like a fanfare.
    • Also has an unused song, said to be used in the Roller Bob level in the PC version, like in the SNES version.
    • Looks like there are region differences too.
  • Wimbledon Championship Tennis has a debug mode.
  • World of Illusion (starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck) - lots of stuff here.
  • andlabs's "so I don't forget" list of things to look into:
    • Crusader of Centy's prototype, US final, and SK final has stuff from Beyond Oasis/The Story of Thor, which came out more than 6 months later (wtf)
    • Chase HQ II plays one song in the ending but Super HQ plays two? (region difference)
    • There's that unused item art in Madou Monogatari I that I found long ago but without knowing what the item palette(s) are it looks like a pile of shit (literally) :|
    • Darius II/Sagaia - GameFAQs doesn't seem to have a clear idea of what all the cheat codes are? Super Hard Mode triggers a string SPECIAL MODE, for instance... Also are zones Z1 and Z2 used? Also this
    • Chou Kyuukai Miracle Nine appears to have a debug menu of sorts:
00038A:60     (bypass checksum)
FFED84:30     (set game mode)
0065B6:4E71   (nop out rts blocking the menu)
Not sure if it is used or not or if it has an effect as pressing start after disabling the RAM code just brings you back to the menu, so I have to see if it's supposed to come from elsewhere by disassembling all the game's code :/
    • I'll probably remember this by tomorrow morning but: Final Blow has the red Taito logo; it's loaded to VRAM (also I have to see how strings are stored in that game; it looks like the game can pick and choose characters to load and where?)
    • Feng Kuang Tao Hua Yuan has a block of either unassembled helper code or compiler assembly output, not sure which... but the present dump is not from the original cart, but from a mainland China(?) "rereleasse" so I'll wait until we can get an authentic dump
    • Simple sound test codes... documented in the manual or not?
      • Mahjong Cop Ryuu - A+Start on title screen
      • Party Quiz Mega Q - A+B+C+Start on title screen
    • Crack Down - Japanese characters loaded in title screen? there don't seem to be any in the intro or on the title screen... or anywhere in the game...
    • Rugby World Cup 95 appears to have each of its functions suffixed by the function's name (like a symbol table but scattered throughout the ROM). Also "Dave Was Here!"
      • There's a flag that if set to nonzero, the game loop will enter an endless loop that cycles through each of the big-board animations that can show up; check at $13DA and loop immediately afterwards, checks -$6EA1(a5) where a5 is $69C (yeah it's one of those games)
      • Turns out many, if not all, of the Extended Play Productions games have these symbol setups...
    • Hellfire: "M2612 SOUND REAUEST TABLE "/"ERRORS=0000"/" 0221 END"
bah it's located in the sound driver
      • Also
pietro@pietro-laptop:~/ida_linux$ bgrep '0D 1E 0D 0E' Hellfire*
Hellfire (Europe).md: 000120f5
Hellfire (USA).md: 000120ff
for the hard ending text... but the EU version wasn't Seismic...
While investigating the M2612 thing:
00012BAE  67 76 30 3C 00 E1 22 3C  00 03 E0 00 34 3C 04 06
00012BBE  4E B9 00 00 5F 84 70 02  22 3C 00 03 69 A0 34 3C
00012BCE  03 F2 4E B9 00 00 5F 84  30 3C 24 06 32 3C 23 9A
00012BDE  74 0E 76 0E 4E B9 00 00  65 5C 23 FC 00 01 25 6C
00012BEE  00 FF 00 9A 4E B9 00 00  60 70 30 3C 00 10 22 3C
00012BFE  00 01 25 6C 34 3C 00 40  4E B9 00 00 5F 10 30 3C
this is nonsense for Hellfire (begins with a conditional branch to noncode, calls the middle of functions at non-entry points, and the last call jumps inside an opcode)
...and is only in Hellfire (only in JP version)? something's not right here
not in arcade versions
    • Pac-Attack: are the credits immediately after puzzle mode?
    • shobiz found a lot of stuff in Quackshot
    • Jantei Monogatari has a button code on the main menu that seems to affect the starting state of the game in some weird way that I can't tell
    • Janou Touryuumon has a region check... that reports that it only runs on NTSC Genesis (instead of the correct NTSC Mega Drive)
    • Eliminate Down: A+B+C+Start during the minigame goes back to its title screen... is this documented?
    • Mega SWIV: word $80 is used as a flag to do something when you get hit by a bullet, but what?
    • Rainbow Islands Extra has a title screen cheat code: Up B Down Left C A A* B** C***. The last three buttons are so marked because you can stop at any one of those and only get the effects of the buttons you pressed. I *think* A makes you faster? I don't know... The code is checked on the main menu too. None of them appear to be related to infinite continues.
      • B button: [00:18] <Mister_Argent> Hey, i just tried that RI cheat code. i started off with Double Rainbows, but i don't know if that's normal for extra mode or not.
    • King Colossus: down up up down right left right left on the game over screen continues -- is this in the manual? even if it is, an additional right right is at the the end of the code, but the game stops after eight button presses
    • Mega lo Mania/Tyrants: Fight Through Time:
; not the actual addresses as the data is copied to RAM
[03:06] <andlabs> seg001:00FF0162 aSelect:        dc.b 'select',0
[03:06] <andlabs> seg001:00FF0169                 dc.b '-----------------',0
[03:06] <andlabs> seg001:00FF017B aToPlaceIn:     dc.b 'to place in',0
[03:06] <andlabs> seg001:00FF0187 aBuildingPorts: dc.b 'building ports',0
...
[03:07] <Flygon> I don't recognize the term 'building ports', though
[03:08] <andlabs> I wouldn't know
[03:08] <Flygon> Unused string?
[03:08] <andlabs> it's in the list
[03:08] <Flygon> Indeed
[03:08] <Flygon> Hmm
[03:08] <andlabs> so unless the specific index to get to that string is never loaded, then
[03:09] <andlabs> I would need to find out which bytes are loaded into the code to look up strings
[03:09] * Flygon should consider creating a Mega-lo-Mania fan-forum x3
[03:09] <andlabs> if the one that indexes that port string is never used... that string is unused and we have a mystery
[03:09] <Flygon> Indeed
[03:09] <Flygon> Good thing only one of the developers are dead...
[03:09] <Flygon> They appear quite cooperative to fan questions
[03:10] <andlabs> http://www.gamefaqs.com/genesis/586569-tyrants/faqs/38544 check the author
FAQ has no mention of ports...
      • The Japanese version has bits and pieces of SNASM68K left in it
      • The later European version has, in its ROM header, a serial number field that indicates a CD version was in development? I need to check Sega CD headers
    • Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has an actual symbol table? (as opposed to Rugby World Cup 95)
    • Bonanza Bros. seems to have text for a stage select
    • Mega Bomberman - word at $2D8 in US version - if changed to a nonzero value, the CRAM is altered on every main loop cycle to show something (CPU usage debug?)
    • Socket
[22:54] <GenesisFan64> don't forget the unused song, B G M 19
also various Unknown labels in GF64's disassembly
    • Pat Riley Basketball (at least the JP version) has a Sound and Animation Test; the sound part works but not the animation...?
    • Double Clutch has a cheat code it checks for right at startup! ...but my patch codes to hang the game when it checks the variable it sets when the cheat code is activated don't seem to do anything... does it happen when not in a race? I would need to beat a race to find out...
    • Find FRUITMEISTER I in an earlier Eurocom Genesis game (have t wait for SeanieB to finish changing Sega Retro hard drives before I can get a list)
No luck finding it in The Jungle Book (Genesis), all pause cheats are accounted for. TODO: check RNC (compressed) graphics --JLukas 22:28, 30 April 2013 (EDT)

Genesis (Unlicensed)

Game Gear

Pico

  • Game wo Shinagara Oboe You! Kantan Wakuwaku Keyboard (todo: verify name?) has a keyboard test, but A) is it already documented in the official documentation and B) nothing emulates the Pico Keyboard, so it's useless right now.
  • Tails and the Music Maker has some unused graphics.

Saturn

  • The Sega Saturn BIOS has revisional differences.
  • Spot Goes to Hollywood has a level select.
  • Dragon Force, Battle Arena Toshinden URA, and D-Xhird have debug modes that can be accessed without Action Replay codes. The D-Xhird debug code is accessed via a D-Pad input during the Takara logo, but what is it?
    • Andretti Racing has a rather fantastic hidden menu that allows you to adjust your fuel amount, number of laps, enemy AI and even the centrifugal force to make slipstreaming easier or trigger incredible crashes where your car flips as if there is no gravity!
    • NASCAR '96 has a debug menu that lets you alter many aspects of the game and play in Wireframe mode.
    • Wipeout 2023 (aka Wipeout 2) also has a debug mode which lets you play in Wireframe mode, as well as many other cool alterations.

Dreamcast

Sony

PlayStation

            TombRaider
Lead Coding. Paul Douglas
Additional Coding. Gavin Rummery,Jason Gosling
Additional PSX Coding. Del Leigh-Gilchrist, Dude Howe
Lead Artist/Animator. Toby Gard
Artists. Neal Boyd, Heather Gibson
.....Email the Creators....
paul@nlights.demon.co.uk
del@nlights.demon.co.uk
ataru@dial.pipex.com
www:  http://www.nlights.demon.co.uk
  • Tomb Raider II has the following message in the exe, unreferenced. Dude is Dude Howe from the first game, aka Andrew Howe. There's also an earlier build ID'd as 'Release Version 1.1' from September 1997. It purportedly has all the levels, but the US final has a 'playable.psx' level file that it doesn't have.
Dude greets: Shroomz, Bag, The Menzie, Nagra, K-Comm, Snake & McBain of EZ-o-Ray... Mail me at ataru@dial.pipex.com

PlayStation 2

PlayStation 3

SNK

Neo Geo

Neo Geo Pocket

Misc.

Adobe Flash

Arcade

  • Congo Bongo and Zaxxon, much like Donkey Kong, both have unused Ikegami Tsushinki logos.
  • Dangun Feveron supposedly has several unused music tracks.
  • DoDonPachi There is a 'winners don't use drugs' screen, an image that supposedly looks like this but lacked a proper palette and one unused music.
  • Dragon's Lair has unused animations and a prototype.
  • Gradius has one unused song, and Gradius III has three unused songs (Gradius I level start, Gradius II high-speed level, and a fanfare).
  • Gokuyou Parodius has unused music in the MAME ROM.
    • In fact, all the Parodius ports are usually different from each other. Parodius Da!: Shinwa Kara o Owarai e has the most noticeable of cuts, with two whole levels disappearing in various ports. I can't remember which game, but Konami chose to change the BGM of a level from "That's The Way I Like It" to avoid copyright.
  • Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi has a few unused announcer voices - 'Just a couple more shots!', 'Please continue!', 'Game Over.'.
  • Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter has more unused graphics and voice clips.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom has some graphics and voice clips.
  • The Metal Slug series - so much stuff here.
  • Someone figure out how the Mortal Kombat games compress their graphics so we can sift through them? Please?
  • The Punisher has unused graphics and an unused bonus stage.
  • Samurai Shodown V has extensive regional changes - from cutscenes to proper endings.
  • Street Fighter III: New Generation has unused voice clips.
  • Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact also has unused voice clips.
  • Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike also has lots of unused voice clips.
  • Tapper has revisional differences.
  • Time Crisis has an unused song?
  • Time Pilot has revisional differences.
  • andlabs' list:
    • Borench contains leftover copyright text from Bloxeed; need to see if it contains the full code for the screen
    • Space Harrier also has the bin-chan used too many colors error
      • Dynamite Dux might have a different one: "OBJECT COLOR BANK OVER"? "OBJECT COLOR ENTRY OVER"?
    • Wrestle War has an anti-piracy message in plaintext which is probably used but ("COPIED AND SOLD WITHOUT"...)
    • Dynamite Dux (again): "SELECT COURSE BY LEVER"?
    • Viewpoint has lots of debugging stuff? "H-POS %04x Z %04x" "V-POS %04x X %04x" "WALL-L %04x R %04x" "SHILD %02d" "KEY RECORD FULL"?
      • Racing Hero (same programmers) too; also AB Cop?
    • Thunder Force AC: Is SELECT BY JOY STICK PUSH ANY BUTTON TO RECORD TIME part of the name entry?
    • Crack Down has a sound driver test? "Sound Note Oct Level 0123456789ABCDEF"
    • Shadow Dancer has a round select? "SELECT THE SCENE"/"ROUND STAGE"/"COUNT UP DOWN BY SHOT JUMP BUTTON"/"START BY MAGIC BUTTON"
    • The Irritating Maze: "You are died ! Time Up !! " ?
      • "IDAXAN"? (multiple) This is probably just an opcode but who knows
      • " DENGEKI IRA-IRA BOU"... isn't it Denryu Ira-Ira Bou
      • OH BUT THERE ARE SOUND TEST STRINGS! Since the game never had a home port and the MVS service mode doesn't have a sound test...
      • "COMING SOON"? (multiple)
      • "SILENT@MODE"? "POSITION CHECK ROUTIN"? repeated Stage Select/Course Select strings for when starting a game?
    • System 18 Bloxeed: "SEGA PRESENTS"/"SPECIAL THANKS TO GOD"/"AND EVERYONE ELSE !!"? (consecutive in ROM) "GOOD"/"DESUNE!"/"BONUS"? (together, but not immediately consecutive)
    • After Burner II:
      1. The hidden messages (different ones) are there, and people have gotten them to show up, but we don't have a definite clue as to how written down
      2. Is there a way to play versions of the music with melodies? Some of the home ports have melodies added to Final Take Off (Commodore 64, PC Engine, etc.) but here's a version of the arcade song with a melody that sounds very FM-y?
    • Tetris (Sega) and Flash Point - "OVERFLOW" in the RAM/ROM checks?
      • Flash Point:
NORMAL OJAMA
        TETRIS TETRIS
TIME
NORMAL  
ITEM USE
OJAMA
    • Namco System 2 games (search for Now Production continues):
      • Assault uses " RIDDLE OF RUBY " as a startup check string... is this significant in any way? there is no game by that title...
    • Cameltry: investigate word flag at beginning
    • Hebereke no Popoon: "END_OF_DATA_SECTION." and strings related to cutscenes and character names? and then " CHR TEST" near the beginning of the ROM where there is a copy of the test mode strings?
    • Peter Pack-Rat: in ROMs 146 and 147 (interleaved bytes), stored with the credits:
ALSO BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
MAMIE VAN DOREN, TWIGGIE,
THE EL PASO PHILHARMONIC,
MOTHER, Generic TV DINNERS,
YOUR LOCAL CHEVROLET BOTTLER,
GARRY TRUDEAU, BERKE BREATHED,
FRESH SNOW IN THE SIERRA NEVADAS,
BUT MOST IMPORTANT, MY COFFEE MAKER!
  • used?

BBS Door

ColecoVision

Game.com

Handheld LCD

  • According to the TVTropes page, there's some Dummied Out Tamagotchis on the Tamagotchi ROMs. Look into that, and also document the debug menus on some of the Tamagotchis.
  • TamaTown Tama-Go has unused graphics from a factory test program.

HTML5

J2ME

Magnavox Odyssey2

NCR Decision-V

Nokia N-Gage

Nuon

Panasonic JR-200U

Philips CD-i

Plug & Play

Sharp X68000

  • Gradius has a sound test.
  • Lots of Easter eggs in a lot of games (mostly developer messages, images and sound test). How to access them can be found in Japanese cheat pages here.
  • Metal Sight apparently has an unused song; or at least that's what the description of MDX/System Sacom/Metal Sight/METAL02.MDX in mdxo_mxdrv_complete.ra_ seems to imply. The file doesn't work with either mxdrv or mdxplay... (TODO try the Windows-based players)
  • D-Return - the following in mdxo_mxdrv_complete.ra_ are marked unused:
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET31.MDX matches
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET35.MDX matches
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET36.MDX matches
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET37.MDX matches
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET38.MDX matches
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET34.MDX matches
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET33.MDX matches
Binary file ./NOP/D-Return/D_RET32.MDX matches
  • Genocide 2 - mdxo_mxdrv_complete.ra_ marks the following as unused:
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_29.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_25.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_28.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_27.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_24.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_31.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_30.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_26.MDX matches
Binary file ./Zoom/Genocide 2/GENO2_23.MDX matches

TurboGrafx-16

  • Blazing Lazers and Devil Crush - is sound 40 ever used?
    • Alien Crush, Cyber Dodge, Cyber Knight, Xevious: Fardraut Densetsu - do they have this sound?
  • Lady Sword - hidden developer diary in the script - translation in the readme for the translation hack.

Vii

  • 10-in-1 has some unused text. Check to make sure that it wasn't added in by whoever dumped the ROM.

Watara Supervision

  • Most Thin Chen Enterprises games have unused content, including:

WonderSwan Color

  • Final Fantasy has an unused naked bald guy in with the class select sprites, hinting at a possible use for that dude stored with the orb graphics in the original game.
  • Final Fantasy IV is where the enhanced variants of the unused graphics in Final Fantasy IV Advance originally came from. It might be worth looking into whether the debug features in that port originated in this version, since they only cover the original game.

ZX Spectrum

  • Manic Miner has a cheat mode accessible by typing 6031769.

Multiplatform Games

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