History Main / DummiedOut

*** Probably not. Remember how Missingno. happens because of there being [[strike:255]] [[PowersOfTwo 256]] (including zero) Pokemon slots? There are seven chaos Emeralds all stored in one byte. Each bit corresponds to a chaos emerald. However, there are ''[[PowersOfTwo eight]]'' bits in one byte. Rather than let the game [[KillScreen kill itself]] if you ever glitched it by accident and got to a bonus stage with all the Chaos emeralds, they made it so it loaded another emerald. Just like how Aeris and Kid Cloud have text in the scenes where every character can talk in FinalFantasy 7, and how Pokemon has a ??? form for [[strike:Ars-something]] that Pokemon with the plates.

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When some feature, level, monster or something else was meant to be put in a game but ultimately ended up getting cut out for whatever reason. Except instead of deleting the data entirely, the programmers just remove all legitimate ways to ''access'' it, leaving pieces of it in the game code (textures, models, sprites, etc.). For instance, setting the game so a particular enemy never actually spawns, or removing all entrances to a level that was never finished.\\
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The remaining bits of data or map could sometimes result in false cases of NoticeThis, and players getting an EmptyRoomPsych out of it. If the fans get talking, a [[MissingSecret mythical access]] to it can become an UrbanLegendOfZelda. In other media this takes the form of WhatCouldHaveBeen.\\
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** A battlefield for Azshara was planned, but dropped during development. The map for the battleground still exists in the game's data, albeit with some incomplete and untextured buildings. The flags for the battleground in Azshara still exist 4 years later. Of course, the entire Azshara zone is a mess of cut content and dead-end quests, so this example is par for the course. Azshara will turn into the starting zone for Goblins in Cataclysm, so perhaps they will return to the battleground in the future.
** Most infamously is the complete Mount Hyjal zone in the center of the Kalimdor continent, that is (supposed to be) inaccessible and has no content for it. Enough people went to Hyjal using the now deleted (doubly so! curse you pillar humpers) method of wall walking that they added signs saying you're not supposed to be here, it's under construction, now go away. Basically, anyway. A past Mount Hyjal was used in The Burning Crusade as a raid instance. It has player's assisting the combined forces of the humans, orcs and night elves during the Battle of Mount Hyjal in {{Warcraft}} 3. Mount Hyjal of the present will finally be opened up and a level 78-82 zone with the release of the third expansion, Cataclysm.
** There also exists a zone called Old Ironforge, basically the beta version of Ironforge which was replaced by its current, much larger form later on. It was possible early on to enter this area by dying in the nearby forge and going through the door blocking the way as a ghost. Blizzard, however, made the door solid even for ghosts.

** At launch, there were plans for two mounts to be available by quests: one in Winterspring for the Alliance, and one in Un'Goro for the Horde. The Winterspring trainer was added at launch, but the Raptor trainer in Un'Goro was added without quests, and then removed years later. Years after ''that'' he was finally added back with his quests as of the most recent content patch in Summer 2009.

* ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Seasons]]'' go a bit beyond most examples on this page: An entire ''game'' was DummiedOut. The Oracle titles were originally supposed to be a trilogy, with a third title based around color-changing puzzles. Making three linked games quickly became too much to handle for the development team though, so they cut it down to two. Remaining evidence in the game code is limited to just the existence of Farore, and Koume and Kotake claiming Ganon's resurrection was initiated due to three bad emotions when only two plot events occurred to cause them (they worked around it by having [[spoiler:Zelda's kidnapping]] cause the third). This situation is given a ShoutOut in ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap Minish Cap]]'', in which all three Oracle girls appear in cameos, but you can only have houses in Hyrule Castle Town built for two of them to live in, and guess which one gives you a charm that has the effect of both of the other two?

* ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Seasons]]'' go a bit beyond most examples on this page: An entire ''game'' was DummiedOut. The Oracle titles were originally supposed to be a trilogy, with a third title based around color-changing puzzles. Making three linked games quickly became too much to handle for the development team though, so they cut it down to two. Remaining evidence in the game code is limited to just the existence of Farore, and Koume and Kotake claiming Ganon's resurrection was initiated due to three bad emotions when only two plot events occurred to cause them (they worked around it by having [[spoiler:Zelda's kidnapping]] cause the third). This situation is given a ShoutOut in ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap Minish Cap]]'', in which all three Oracle girls appear in cameos, but you can only have houses in Hyrule Castle Town built for two of them to live in.

* In ''NeverwinterNights2'', Elanee's side-quest that abruptly ends at Skymirror was originally supposed to have more to it but the developers ran out of time.
** The game has several examples of this. Almost every companion has at least one unused scene that reveals more about them or expands their side-quests. For instance, Qara's side-quest with an elemental trying to kill her was supposed to be much more detailed, and include an implication that she could potentially be a greater threat than the king of shadows.

* ''Super DoubleDragon'', being an ObviousBeta, has quite a bit of dummy content, as shown [[http://doubledragon.classicgaming.gamespy.com/features/sddtruestory.html here.]]

** The Hound, which was featured in the manual and some screenshots, and the Armageddon Beast (a NighInvulnerable {{Juggernaut}} type monster, not to be confused with the actual game Juggernaut), which was in the Marathon Scrapbook. Some third-party map editors have placements for them.

* Even the DarkMechaFawful(and its .5 power up thing) are fightable by the bros. Note, these guys are in the ''deepest'' part of the ''bowser only'' final dungeon, the game works fine. Untill you try to fight Dark Bowser with Mario and Luigi. (Fighting against the peach castle glitches, odviously. Mario and Luigi vs. Dark Fawful and Blizzard Midbus are untested, however.)

** The Byelomorye Dam mission had roughly half of its original objectives scrapped just before release, as the designers believed it would have been too difficult for a first level. The most notable of these objectives was "Tower 1", a remote island with a gatling gun that you can still see a far distance away from the dam overpass. Originally, Bond would have had to take an inflatable boat out to the island, blow up a machine and retrieve bungee jumping equipment needed to leap off the dam. The player would have had to get explosives to destroy the gun from the ultimately rather useless checkpoint with the satellite dish, halfway through the level. Bond also would have had to destroy the truck halfway through the dam mission; when it stops at a depot, you were supposed to plant explosives on it.

** 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.

** Lines spoken by the survivors are also cut out from the game but are still present in the folders for the files. For example, the survivors will shout Smoker when they see one, but they will never say they ''hear'' one if a Smoker is present but hasn't been discovered yet. The audio files that have the survivors say they hear a Smoker are still intact. Same applies to the Boomer.

** Inverted by ''Left4Dead2''. Many people thought that the soldier zombie you can spawn via console command that drops items was DummiedOut. Turns out, they were saving it for the unimplemented MassiveMultiplayerCrossover DLC.

* ''GranTurismo 2'' was planned to have a drag racing mode, but it was removed late in development, making OneHundredPercentCompletion impossible. Some of the drag cars were left in the game, though.

** Ditto for Noob Saibot, who was dummied-out in favor of Reiko, but can still be accessed via cheat codes.

** The level "Fatum Iustum Stultorum" has an inaccessable dummy room in the upper left corner, only visible in a map editor.

** The Hound, which was featured in the manual and some screenshots, and the Armageddon Beast (a NighInvulnerable {{Juggernaut}} type monster, not to be confused with the actual game Juggernaut), which was in the Marathon Scrapbook.

* Thanks to being rushed out the door to meet its release date, ''JurassicPark: {{Trespasser}}'' has a host of dummied out features:
** For starters, the developers originally created a wide range of possible emotions for the dinosaurs in the game so that they could react accordingly with what was going on in the world, but in practice this caused the dinosaurs to stay paralyzed in place because they couldn't decide between moods, so their moods were permanently set to maximum hostility as a quick fix.
** Early on in development, it was proposed that the game would have a third person perspective instead of a first person one, and it's still very possible to enable the third person view with cheats. In practice, however, this not only makes it even more difficult to aim your weapon and grab items, but it also reveals that the player character's model is just a floating pair of breasts and one arm - which is all you'd see in first person anyway.
** The physics system in the game caused a bug with the game's melee weapons, where simply walking around while having your melee weapon unequipped would cause the weapon to knock into the player and deal damage (because it SticksToTheBack). The developers worked around this by removing mass from all the melee weapons, which also made them useless in combat - except for one weapon, which is Nedry's mace.
** There's also an entire level missing from the game, which was supposed to take place between the worker town and docks levels (explaining why the terrain of the two levels is so different and the starting point of the latter looks nothing like the ending point of the former). The actual level was never finished and was removed from game, but people have found some code relating to it, including some unused objects. It also appears on screenshots. The level was going to feature Site B's geothermal powerplant, but the the dinosaur AI didn't work properly in interior spaces (they kept getting stuck in walls) and the physics engine couldn't handle the mechanical puzzles the level was supposed to contain, so the level was unceremoniously cut.