History DummiedOut / ActionAdventureGames

* Only two unused rooms remain in the code, and one of them is blank, which is quite disappointing. The one that remains is an early version of the Snowpeak Ruins miniboss corridor, and it has an interesting feature: object placement is from an even older version of the room. The objects betray that the room was originally a much larger, hexagonal arena similar to a traditional boss room.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime''

** There's also all the stuff that would have been accessed with the N64 Disk Drive. The disk drive was never released outside of Japan, and the extra content didn't come out there either; the "Master Quest" included in later rereleases of the games is supposedly at least part of what was intended for the disk drive content.
** There's also a [[UrbanLegendOfZelda rumour on YouTube]] surrounding the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEIu2t_n1UA Unicorn Fountain]] room found in the coding. Supposedly it was found in a door underwater in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQD3oI1tKPA Zora's Domain]], and was meant to be the location of the Triforce.
** The original models for the female Kokiri. Most notably Fado, who it has been speculated was supposed to be the wind sage (coincidentally, the wind sage in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' is also named Fado, although male), and since her name isn't given in the game itself in the final version her name is only known because it was [[AllThereInTheManual on the Web site for the game]].
** The six medallions are programmed in as equippable items, although they don't work even if you try a GameShark. Originally the medallions were going to fill the niche now occupied by the warp songs. However, this discovery led to something more interesting: the wind and ice medallions. Although no graphics have been found corresponding to them and [=GameSharking=] them into the game doesn't work, it seems they were meant to be in the game at some point. There is evidence that the ice dungeon (which in the final version is merely a detour taken to get the Iron Boots needed to access and navigate the Water Temple) was meant to be larger at one point in development, so there's the ice medallion, but nobody except the developers knows what the wind medallion would have been for, though notably the Forest section of Ganon's Castle seems to be more wind-themed than forest-themed, and coincidentally, the Forest Sage in the final version, Saria, is a Kokiri like both the original female Fado in ''Ocarina of Time'' and the male one in ''The Wind Waker''.
** The Gerudo Fortress has an extra heart piece that is inaccessible except with cheats/hacking.
** More minor than most examples of this game: In Zora's Fountain, there is a cliff behind Jabu Jabu that is completely inaccessible. Reaching it through cheats reveals that it's a one-way shortcut back to Kokiri Forest.

** This must have been rather late in development; a few magazines' strategy guides for ''Soul Reaver'' included the cut content. It's not exactly heartening to know that the people who wrote the guide had apparently [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer never played the game]]...
*** Among the other things missing from the game is a vampire brother boss (leading to a minor plot hole,) and the fact that the Soul Reaver was originally broken up into multiple elemental sabers. Only the fire-elemental sword made it past pre-production, giving it a kind of [[{{Expy}} Master Sword effect.]]

** The Running Man was supposed to be beatable instead of a "Beat your own time" it was just at the time of programming in the game, the team had already distributed all the in game rewards. So, they opted to make the Running Man unbeatable.

*** Magic would have been [[ScrappyMechanic required]] to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform into wolf form]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSzjqXl-ydQ as evidenced by some unused text found on the disk]].

** Also, there are many scrapped areas in the overworld, featured on early promotional videos. Namely, a different forest (the trees used in the demo are still in the final build, but without collision detection), a river near your hometown (the [[ScrappyMechanic kayak]] was supposed to be used more than once, so this was for the better), and the ''Ocarina of Time'' version of the market in the town. Interacting with animals was supposed to have a more important role.
*** Glitching through some of the seemingly {{Bottomless Pit}}s would allow you to access some modeled areas. The TP overworld was supposed to be [[UpToEleven even more massive]].

** Some hackers also found an unusable beta item called Fire Arrows with translated description but no in-game model. Anyways, magic would be [[ScrappyMechanic required]] to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform into wolf form]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSzjqXl-ydQ as evidenced by some unused text found on the disk]].

** Not even in-game Colossi are immune to this. The first Colossi has a bending down animation similar to the fifth Colossi, impyling that the ruins in the area was going to be used in fighting it. The third Colossi's blade was originally flatter, having a sweeping attack instead of a bashing attack, and the area where you battle Malus was suppose to be more complicated, sporting multiple pathways to get to him instead of the one ([[GoodBadBugs intentional]]) path to get to him in game. He was also supposed to move around instead of standing in one static spot in the original.

** That's only the tip of the ice berg. There were once plans for ''[[UpToEleven over forty Colossi]]'' you could fight in-game. A bit too ambitious for PS2 era technology, it was eventually reduced to approximately twenty Colossi. Deadlines and technical limitations persisted, which eventually led to the sixteen Colossi known in-game. Of the original 48 that didn't make the cut, a few of the known ones besides the ones stated above were: a giant spider colossus, a boar, a griffon, an imp, another bird similar to Avion, a monkey, and a sand worm.

** That's only the tip of the ice berg. There were once plans for ''[[UpToEleven fourty something Colossi]]'' battleable in-game. A bit ''too'' ambitious for PS2 era technology, it was eventually reduced to around twenty something Colossi. Deadlines and technical limitations persisted, which eventually led to the sixteen Colossi known in-game. Of the original 48 that didn't make the cut, a few of the known ones besides the ones stated above were: a giant spider colossus, a bor, a griffon, an imp, another bird similar to Avion, a monkey, and a sand worm.
** Not even in-game Colossi are immune to this. The first Colossi has a bending down animation similar to the fifth Colossi, impling that the ruins in the area was going to be used in fighting it. The thrid Colossi's blade was originally more flater, having a sweeping attack instead of a bashing attack, and the area where you battle Malus was suppose to be more complicated, sporting mutiple pathways to get to him instead of the one ([[GoodBadBugs intentional]]) path to get to him in game. He was also suppose to move around instead of standing in one static spot in the original.

** Two unused rooms also exist in the game memory, which appear to be duplicates of the Ice Palace Fairy Fountain and the easternmost room of floor B6. The exits from these rooms, however, lead to different places than the normal versions. There's also several unused graphics, including [[http://www.flyingomelette.com/oddities/zeldaglitch.html one supposed to be used for the statues in Skull Woods dungeon]], though this graphic ended up being used in the Palace of the Four Sword bonus dungeon in the GameBoyAdvance version (though not Skull Woods).

** The original models for the female Kokiri. Most notably Fado, who was supposed to be the wind sage (coincidentally, the wind sage in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' is also named Fado, although male), and since her name isn't given in the game itself in the final version her name is only known because it was [[AllThereInTheManual on the Web site for the game]].

** ''Tomb Raider III'' also had an unused animation that allowed Lara to roll forward while crouched down, hidden in the files. The animation has since been enabled for use in custom levels.

** The game has a "cathedral key" as one of the secret objects. The only cathedral you enter is the bonus level (All Hallows) and you do that at the end and only if you find ''all'' the secrets. The bonus level is basically an underdeveloped mid game level. Interestingly, although the level itself is a bonus stage, the Cathedral Key can still be obtained in the bell tower of Thames Wharf. It does nothing, however, and upon completing the stage, you are transported to Aldwych as usual. This suggests that at one point, All Hallows was intended to take place after Thames Wharf.

* ''VideoGame/TombRaider III'' had a "cathedral key" as one of the secret objects. The only cathedral you entered was the bonus level (All Hallows) and you did that at the end and only if you found ''all'' the secrets. The bonus level was basically an underdeveloped mid game level.
*** Interestingly, although the level itself is a bonus stage, the Cathedral Key can still be obtained in the bell tower of Thames Wharf. It does nothing, however, and upon completing the stage, you are transported to Aldwych as usual. This suggests that at one point, All Hallows was intended to take place after Thames Wharf.

*** Interestingly, although the level itself is a bonus stage, the Cathedral Key can still be obtained in the bell tower of Thames Wharf. It does nothing, however, and upon completing the stage, you are transported to Aldwhych as usual. This suggests that at one point, All Hallows was intended to take place after Thames Wharf.

** At least 27% of the data on the disk goes unused. Some of the data are in a format incompatible with the format used to store the final rooms and models. The room used for the Spaceworld 2001 demo still exists in the final game, but only in an Autodesk Maya text-based format that only stores the collision data. There are also a surprisingly large number of test rooms, all of which are accessible with an Action Replay. As mentioned before, the first room contains transparent water. This first test room is actually a partly recycled version of the test room of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine''.

** At least 27% of the data on the disk go unused. Some of the data are in a format incompatible with the format used to store the final rooms and models. The room used for the Spaceworld 2001 demo still exists in the final game, but only in an Autodesk Maya text-based format that only stores the collision data. There are also a surprisingly large number of test rooms, all of which are accessible with an Action Replay. As mentioned before, the first room contains transparent water. This first test room is actually a partly recycled version of the test room of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine''.

** It's pretty obvious where all three cut dungeons were originally supposed to be ([[WombLevel Jabun's Belly]], [[LethalLavaLand Fire Mountain]], and [[SlippySlideyIceWorld Ice Ring Isle]], in case you were still wondering.)
*** It's very clear that Greatfish Isle was meant to have something on it (probably a town and a dungeon) considering that you never really do anything important there before finding it destroyed and looking at it on the map gives you [[http://www.zeldawiki.org/File:TriforceRevealed.png the shape of the Triforce with the island being one of the points]].
*** With the latter two, it's easy to tell. They're the only islands (with the exception of [[FirstTown Windfall Island]], basically this game's equivalent to Kakariko Village) that don't have true dungeons on them that either are visible as islands on the overworld map or have their names in red.

*** They were probably intended to allow Link to sink into the water, as a test map level layout (with transparent water!) implies, but this was probably canned out because of development deadlines (the final lakes/sea bottom landscapes are featureless).

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' had a bugged item similar to the Somaria Cane dummied out. Similarly, the Fire Rod was planned to be an item in the game. An unused dungeon, and alternative beta layouts for existing ones exist also. Although the three houses sidequest has the third house dummied out as a ShoutOut to the scrapped third ''Oracle'' game (whose remnants are scattered through the two existing ones), the third house indeed exists.

*** Said alternative music is "The Beginning of Hyrule Castle" from ''A Link to the Past''.

** That's only the tip of the ice berg. There were once plans for ''[[UpToEleven fourty something Colossi]]'' battleable in-game. A bit ''too'' ambitious for PS2 era technology, it was eventually reduced to around twenty something Colossi. Deadlines and technical limitations persisted, which eventually led to the sixteen Colossi known in-game. Of the original 48 that didn't make the cut, a few of the known ones besides the ones stated above were: a giant spider colossus, a bor, a griffon, an imp, another bird similar to Avion, and a sand worm.

** Hacking the game has revealed several unused elemental reavers, including a Spirit Reaver and Dark Reaver, and exploring the game's sound files has even revealed what the original, planned ending was to be: [[spoiler:[[http://www.thelostworlds.net/SR1/The_Aftermath_of_The_Chronoplast.html After the fight at the Chronoplast]] (which is where the original game ended), Kain would flee to his mountain retreat, and [[http://www.thelostworlds.net/SR1/The_Death_of_Ariel.html Raziel would have to imbue the Soul Reaver with Ariel's soul]] and chase him there, fighting and defeating Kain for the last time, [[http://www.thelostworlds.net/SR1/Opening_the_Sounding_Pipes.html finishing by opening the sounding pipes of the Silenced Cathedral to simultaneously kill every remaining vampire in Nosgoth]].]] The only normally accessible remnants of this content are the cryptic visions in the Chronoplast, hinting at events to come. Notably, the Chronoplast visions are a dead giveaway that things were cut with the intent to be wrapped up later, if looked at with the benefit of hindsight; they don't exactly ''match'' the events when they happen. Ariel being absorbed by the Reaver is the most obvious, as Raziel is shown striking her with the wraith blade; in ''Defiance,'' he merely takes her hand. After the game was released, Naughty Dog admitted that they made a deliberate decision to scrap their planned ending, which they had time to finish, because they'd come to believe it wasn't in the spirit of the series. As they barely had time to plan out where to make the plot go, it's amazing that the predictions for the future they showed here came true at all.

* Reportedly, the original build of ''VideoGame/LANoire'' was so large that the developers had to cut out two whole department desks and several cases from the ones that they ''did'' leave in just to fit the core story onto ''three'' game disks. However, most of this cut content is apparently being released as DLC.

** The game contains a fully functioning Arwing enemy. Yes, from ''VideoGame/StarFox''. It was lifted straight from ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' put in by the designers as a base for the motion pattern of Volvagia, the dragon boss, as described [[http://tcrf.net/Notes:The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time#Arwing here]]. The only known way to access it is by using a cheating device to make it appear, or to crook the game cartridge at the precise moment a treasure chest is opened.