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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jun 28, 2023 23:16:07 GMT violet, mishachu, and 5 more like this

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Post by polychrome on Jun 28, 2023 23:16:07 GMT

What are some of the coolest pieces of cut content and/or glitches you’ve seen or heard of?

One of my favourites is probably the mysterious cats from the Korean version of Super Paper Mario!

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jun 29, 2023 0:19:37 GMT forest, polychrome, and 1 more like this

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Post by Ducky on Jun 29, 2023 0:19:37 GMT

I always love talking about stuff like this :3

One that comes to mind is the pre-release version of Pokemon Snap. While by default a prototype is bound to be much different from the final version, I always find it fascinating to see early builds of games. Here's a glimpse of some screenshots ft. the early build

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{Spoiler}{Pre-release Pokemon Snap images}

The area looks more like a realistic forest compared to the final environments. I imagine it's because the original iteration of Snap didn't initially involve Pokemon. One of my favorite things about these images is the presence of Ekans (middle left image) I wonder why it got cut out from the final version :c As bare bones as it probably is, I think it'd be so neat to actually play and see what it was like. Another thing I should mention is that there's a cut level from the game, specifically themed around ghosts/horror. There's a song for it that ultimately went unused.

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jun 29, 2023 1:11:45 GMT Ducky, polychrome, and 1 more like this

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Post by forest on Jun 29, 2023 1:11:45 GMT

one of my favorite tcrf articles is pokemon masters arena, which has cut content that is so bizarre and unrelated to the actual game that i feel it's worth a mention.

because. well. not only are there leftovers from a blues clues game, there's leftovers of ......... a beta version of a veggie tales game? (the article used to say it was unreleased but i think the information was corrected since i last saw it.)

get ready for level!!

another favorite of mine is the prototype debug version of pokemon ruby/sapphire, as well as this debug beta of pokemon diamond... honestly i do a deep dive of all the pokemon articles on tcrf every year or two because having memory problems means i can read this almost like it's new...

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jun 29, 2023 11:30:44 GMT polychrome likes this

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Post by frantizek on Jun 29, 2023 11:30:44 GMT

Jun 28, 2023 23:16:07 GMT polychrome said:

One of my favourites is probably the mysterious cats from the Korean version of Super Paper Mario!

I LOVE these cats so, so much. I quietly hope that one day we'll learn what they were doing there.. Some assets from a scrapped, unrelated game being built off of spm's engine? Maybe a kind of "signature" from the korean localizers? They're just so cute and full of character and I'll think about them forever.

I think most of my favorite cut content requires knowledge of the games in question, or it's something pretty common/not worth really mentioning like a pallette swap glitch I.E. the asura glitch from sonic 2. Asura itself isn't too thrilling, but the fan-lore around it fascinates and endears me!

Hmm.. I'll probably come back to this thread later with bigger thoughts but for now I'm excited to see what others share

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jun 29, 2023 15:47:50 GMT hexedbug, Ducky, and 3 more like this

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Post by y2k9 on Jun 29, 2023 15:47:50 GMT

This is such a cool thread! I love browsing The Cutting Room Floor now and then to see all the interesting cut and behind the scenes content in games I like, and even in some I've never played just because it's fascinating.

But also, in the spirit of this thread I want to say a few words of appreciation for the cutest scrapped pokemon design ever, Kotora.

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Post by polychrome on Jun 29, 2023 19:46:16 GMT

Jun 29, 2023 15:47:50 GMT y2k9 said:

This is such a cool thread! I love browsing The Cutting Room Floor now and then to see all the interesting cut and behind the scenes content in games I like, and even in some I've never played just because it's fascinating.

But also, in the spirit of this thread I want to say a few words of appreciation for the cutest scrapped pokemon design ever, Kotora.

himb....

KOTORA MY BELOVED!!! I love the spaceworld mons so damn much I need to talk about them more lol

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Post by goldenwings on Jun 30, 2023 20:41:03 GMT

i like checking in on the shadow of the colossus community occasionally for any new discoveries they still make about this old ps2 game to this day. its such a big empty world but with so much mystery, and especially cut content. i think most people outside the community have already heard about how there were a handful of colossi cut from the final game. most of what we know about them comes from interviews and screenshots from the artbook. only very small remnants of them exist in the code of the original and ps3 versions of the game, just as textures and file names. someone found animations in an earlier build that mightve belonged to sirius. theres a few seconds of roc in motion found in a promo disc.

the community has also managed to get their hands on earlier and earlier versions of the game, the most recent find being the E3 demo build, which was found just a few years ago. while these early builds have their own neat little differences, and help to provide a timeline of just what each stage of development was like, its probably not gonna be likely at all to find an early enough build that actually has the cut colossi in them. still, a lot of extremely dedicated fans continue to research and theorize. so much so that theyve managed to figure out where on the map each cut colossus wouldve been located after looking over all the evidence. you can check out this youtube channel if interested.

as for glitches, i know these are well known pokemon glitches, but i personally have done the gen 1 mew glitch and the gen 4 tweaking/void glitch. there was also a time when it was believed you could only reach darkrai, cresselia, and shaymin with the void glitch, however a route to arceus was found later on.

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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2023 23:17:48 GMT

ever since this thread was made, i was thinking about what exactly i wanted to share here! but i FINALLY have a good idea of what to share!

VOLUME WARNING! this song is found in the files of pokemon red and blue! as u can tell, its uh.. kinda messed up LOL the main theme is super high pitched and some of the song data was overwritten with part of the viridian/pewter theme but played in the wrong channel(?) so it sounds very loud and buzzy. people wondered for years abt what this song was, or what it was meant for! i remember hearing parts of it in old youtube videos about pokemon r/b/y unused content. but... then the SOURCE CODE of pokemon r/b and crystal leaked, and it was there!!!

and now, we know what it was meant for! it was meant to be the theme for trading pokemon with a friend, and the song would have 2 slightly different versions, one for each player! they would make a duet when trading!

what you hear here is both versions together! or at least, i think thats how it is!

ill also share this video, as it shares a lot of early restoration attempts over the years as people tried to figure out just what this song was meant to be!

honestly, i still find the broken, loud, corrupted original version in r/b to be kinda charming! the loud deep buzzing is a little spooky, and i think helped play into the creepy ~mystique~ that the gen 1 games had!

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jul 10, 2023 17:18:31 GMT polychrome likes this

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Post by mishachu on Jul 10, 2023 17:18:31 GMT

perhaps not cut content per se... but rather more of "locked content not made available officially" i.e. shiny locked pokemon with coded shiny forms!

Can you believe its been 10+ years and we still never got an event shiny victini.... TPC free my boy T_T

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jul 15, 2023 4:11:14 GMT polychrome likes this

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Post by violet on Jul 15, 2023 4:11:14 GMT

learned recently of a couple backgrounds that were cut from the monochrome desert area in yume nikki... thought it was kinda interesting given the Mystique of the creation of the game and because like. to me it seems like, if i were making yume nikki, i wouldnt cut anything, u know... it just seems like the sort of project where u could stick basically anything u make into and itd add to the sort of labyrinth-y charm of it... so the fact that they made the decision to cut a couple of things from it here and there is. interesting

anyways here they are... spoilered because they're a little weird and have got some fleshy / bloody lookin bits

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jul 17, 2023 4:23:57 GMT mishachu and polychrome like this

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Post by THE CATERWAUL QUEEN on Jul 17, 2023 4:23:57 GMT

JUST found out about it but apparently Club Penguin was orginally going to have lavender as a color you could use for your penguins, but it got cut out of nowhere...

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interesting cut content/glitches in games? Jul 18, 2023 0:33:59 GMT THE CATERWAUL QUEEN and polychrome like this

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Post by Ducky on Jul 18, 2023 0:33:59 GMT

Jul 17, 2023 4:23:57 GMT THE CATERWAUL QUEEN said:

JUST found out about it but apparently Club Penguin was orginally going to have lavender as a color you could use for your penguins, but it got cut out of nowhere...

It's true. Club Penguin Rewritten eventually made lavender a usable color at some point, tho sadly CPR got shut down :c
(There's Club Penguin Legacy now. Not sure if that version offers lavender as a color tho.)

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Post by Ducky on Jun 29, 2023 0:19:37 GMT

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Post by frantizek on Jun 29, 2023 11:30:44 GMT

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Post by goldenwings on Jun 30, 2023 20:41:03 GMT

Post by sail on Jul 9, 2023 22:46:17 GMT

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Post by mishachu on Jul 10, 2023 17:18:31 GMT

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Post by violet on Jul 15, 2023 4:11:14 GMT

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