Pikmin 4

Unused content in Pikmin 4

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This article or section is a short summary on unused content in Pikmin 4.
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Pikmin 4 has various unused content left in its game files.

Unused graphics

Green Onion

A section of a spritesheet containing various radar icons from Pikmin 4, cropped to focus on the Onion icons, including an unused green Onion icon.
A cropped image of the radar icons to focus on the Green Onion.

In a spritesheet containing various icons for the radar, there is an unused icon for a light green Onion after the other Onion types. It is unknown what it might have represented.

Save file images

In the folder for the images of areas used on the saved game selection menu, which contains images for all the night expeditions, there are unused images for night expeditions set at The Central Flame and The Maple Bridge in the Giant's Hearth and the Primordial Thicket respectively, which do not have night expeditions unlike most bases. Oddly, these images focus on the Lumiknolls more than the night expedition save file images that are used, which show more of the area around them. The Distant Summit base in the Sun-Speckled Terrace, which also doesn't have a night expedition, does not have an unused image.

Unused parameters

Pikmin type parameters

A page of a notebook handed out at the 2014 Nintendo Game Seminar, featuring concept art for several Pikmin type-related ideas, including ones not making it into any of the games.
A piece of Pikmin 3 concept art, featuring various Pikmin type ideas.

Various parameters for Pikmin types include unused parameters for a "Bean" type. There are no models or other information about this Pikmin type. A piece of Pikmin 3 concept art features a Pikmin shaped like a bean, so it is possible that this type was considered for the game early in development.

Unused text

ObjectName

In the Localizations folder there is an unused localization file known as ObjectName, which contains names for a number of obstacles, tools, and other objects, some of which are not used ingame. While it is localized in all of Pikmin 4's supported languages, the table below will only show the unused names in the en-US folder.

Internal Name Localized Name
GEYSER air geyser
HIBA fire geyser
HIBADENKI electrode
HIBAICE ice geyser
HIBAWATER geyser
HIBAPOISON gaseous spring
HIBABUBBLE bubble spout
YBOX cardboard box
XBOX_Can metal box
DOWNWALL squashable bag
CRACKPOT jug
OOASHIBAKINOKO Bumbershroom
MUSH Kingcap
KOMUSH Spotcap
POISONMUSH Poison Kingcap
POISONKOMUSH Poison Spotcap
BURNING straw
CHARCOAL charcoal
COLDFLOOR chilled air
COLDBOX dry ice
ICICLE icicle
PULLNEKKOHANDLE stem
ZIPLINE wire glider
MOVEFLOOR flying platform
DOOR gate
HANDLEBOARD creaky board
SWITCH switch
SWAMPBOX swamp
BANKCARD hint card
UnknownFruit some kind of bulb
BIGEGG big nectar egg
MEDICINE_Before medicinal elements

See also