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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.


NES

  • Dr. Mario has some unused ending sprites, hopefully some other stuff.
  • Super Contra X has an unused Micro Genius logo and some tiles that spell out a copyright message for TXC Corpoation.
  • Totally Rad has regional differences not yet in the wiki
  • Somari
    • Unused sprites and music.
    • Scrap Brain Zone remnants.
  • King of Fighters '96
    • Unused/leftover music and graphics.
    • Has 13 unused characters and and good number of unused cutscenes.
    • A glitchy JY Company logo can be accessed by pressing: Down, Down, Left, Up, Right, Left, Up,and Down, on the title screen. It is possible that JY Company was going to publish it but didn't.
  • The Panda Prince
    • Lots of unused graphics and unused levels.
    • The Game Genie code AANGAIPA changes the game to a scapped Chinese mode where most in-game text is all in Chinese and the title screen is different.
  • Super Donkey Kong
    • Massive of amounts unused music and sound effects.
    • There is a hidden test menu which can be accessed by entering codes XIXALEXG and GTXEPAGV into a Game Genie. After the title screen it brings up a test menu which has a level select, sound test, demo viewer, level designs viewer. (Using the level designs viewer crashes the game)
  • Super Contra II
    • Unused menu leftover from a 17-in-1 cart by Super Technos.
    • There is an unused level select too.
  • MOTHER
    • Early graphics/version differences with the english prototype. Some info is
    • [1] here and [2] here.
  • Cheetahmen II
    • Unused/Unaccessable levels.
    • Unused graphics.
    • Leftovers from Action 52.
    • Copyright message.

SNES

  • 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
  • Clock Tower
    • Some unused items
    • "Changed" graphics like FTCp2, at least one of which is the hole in the wall where Jennifer's dad is
  • Star Fox 2 I didn't get everything that's been said, but there's supposed to be a prototype or something...?
  • Judge Dredd (SNES) has a preview version from CES 1995, with several stages and other things that were deleted from the final version of the game, as well as various other changes. There is a page detailing this version here.

Genesis

  • Toy Story (may need to have the system name appended)
    • Has a MOD player and a MOD. Not cut, but still interesting trivia
  • Lots of Genesis games in general, thanks drx
  • 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)
    • Galaxy Force II has a test screen for the XE-1AP analogue joypad; not sure if it is unused because nothing emulates it
      • Genesis Plus GX does but I don't have a Wii and when I asked GerbilSoft about it he couldn't seem to get into the screen
    • Powerball/Wrestleball has a bunch of passwords that open debug screens. One (US version sound test) is documented on GameFAQs, but there are more. I can't seem to decode the passwords correctly even though I'm doing exactly what the code ($40DC in the JP ROM) does
    • 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?
    • 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 :/

Game Boy (Color)

Game Boy Advance

  • Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age
    • Debug areas, at least
    • Several unused items in the first game -- even if you can get them in the sequel, they're still unused
    • Could probably use some fine-toothing here too
    • More research in general, the articles need some serious expansion
  • Mother 3 has LOADS of unused stuff.
    • Unused menu the fan english translators undummied
    • Kindness stat
    • More music
    • Levels
    • Sprites
    • Text

Nintendo 64

Sega Saturn

  • Sonic Jam has an unused piece of sidewalk behind the waterfall in Sonic World, and unused music and sound effects.

PS1

  • Tomba (Or is it Tomba!?)
    • Has a lot of unused items.
    • Has a few unused graphics on the CD, I think?
    • Has a map selection utility, too, I think. (It does, right?) Along with some unused map references?
  • Silent Hill. Yes, I know there's a page on it, and I know what I said at the top.
    • There's a whole lot of stuff buried on the disc. Some of it's found, some isn't
    • There are some demo discs floating around that have different layouts for some things
    • Some unused areas on at least the Midwich School map, and probably others knowing this game
      • Some of them are documented in a YouTube video (named "midwich.wmv", I think? It's really badly done though)
      • It would be nice to have 3D models of these areas ripped, since it'd be clearer than in-game

PS2

PSP

DS

PC

Hommlet and the Snake Pit in Nulb. These are restored in the Circle of 8 mod series for the game.

  • Iji
    • An early build of the game was released on March 21, 2011 as part Scrap Pack 2.
  • Plants vs. Zombies (PC) has unused graphics, sounds, and text, and version differences between the original and the Game of the Year Edition.
  • Pingus has lots of unused content, and lots of version differences.
  • SuperTux has some unused content, and lots of version differences.
  • Pretty much every Humongous Entertainment game ever made.
  • 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 the Mega Mine.
  • Eversion has some unused levels, or so people say.
  • Saints Row 2 has unused cribs. Unused images for cribs. There may be more.
  • Saints Row: The Third has a leaked DLC list. DLC List It includes a 'co-op' pack which hints co-op mode originally wasn't to be released with retail.
  • Insaniquarium has unused music, maybe something else.
  • Pretty much every Humongous Entertainment game ever made.
  • Re-Volt Has some pretty interesting stuff in a prototype of it, but I don't know that anyone but me has it, so if you want it, E-mail me at hoodoo456@centurytel.net
  • Crysis & Crysis Warhead both have some unused text (look inside english.pak and search for ">cut<" (w/o quotation marks)
  • Commander Blood has some unused movies and graphics that would later be used in a French-only sequel (I forget the name of it, at the moment)

Mac

Adobe Flash

  • Club Penguin
    • Unused items, graphics, and music/sounds. Check the SWFs.

iOS

GCN

Wii

Arcade

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...)
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?

Amiga

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

Sega Dreamcast

Xbox 360

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