Unused content in Pikmin 3

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This article or section is a short summary on unused content in Pikmin 3. The Cutting Room Floor features more in-depth content.

Pikmin 3 does not have as much unused content in the disc as the prequels, but there is still a substantial amount.

Unused enemies

The following enemy data can be found in the /content/CMCmn/enemy, referring to unused enemies.

kakureimo

Unknown purple enemy
Appears in	N/A
Scientific name	Unknown
Areas	None
Attacks	Unknown

Front view.

A model and textures for a leech-like enemy exist under the name kakureimo. It is fat, has a purple body, yellow stomach, stripped yellow back, and three green eyes on each side. Its mouth is circular and filled with jagged teeth, and it has two large antennae on its head. No other information about it is known. Size-wise, it's around the size of a Red Bulborb. かくれみの^? translates to "magical cloak of invisibility", suggesting it may have had abilities similar to the Vehemoth Phosbat.

crystal_maro_frog

Crystal Wollywog
Appears in	N/A
Scientific name	Unknown
Areas	None
Attacks	Unknown

Data for a brown version of the standard Wollywog exists, but with a rock attached to its body. Its internal name is crystal_maro_frog, which implies that the rock is made of crystal. Besides the coloring, it looks roughly the same as the Pikmin 2 Wollywog.

iwadama

Beady Long Legs
Appears in	N/A
Scientific name	Unknown
Areas	None
Attacks	Unknown

There is a model for the Beady Long Legs as it appears in Pikmin 2, size included, but its circular head is replaced with a large version of one of its feet. Presumably, it would've stomped on the ground using its head as well. With the model are two textures, which are the same as the Pikmin 2 one, but one is tinted blue and the other pink. On the image shown to the right, the Pikmin 2 texture was used for clarity. This creature's internal name is iwadama, meaning "rock ball". The Beady Long Leg's old internal name, damagumo, is now being used for the Shaggy Long Legs.

buriko

Male Sheargrub
Appears in	N/A
Scientific name	Unknown
Areas	None
Attacks	Unknown

A fat variant of a Male Sheargrub, around roughly the same size, too. It resembles a tick, and in a sense, the Ujadani. The texture that comes with the model is the same as the one in Pikmin 2. The internal name is buriko, and the used Male Sheargrub's name is ujinko_b, whereas it used to be ujib in Pikmin 2.

moguraimo

Ravenous Whiskerpillar
Appears in	N/A
Scientific name	Unknown
Areas	None
Attacks	Unknown

It appears as though the Ravenous Whiskerpillar from Pikmin 2 was meant to return, albeit different. It can be said that this is the same creature due to the texture being almost exactly the same, just slightly altered in terms of color. The internal name, however, is quite different: moguraimo, when it used to be imomushi. Appearance-wise, it is slightly larger than before, and unless the texture mapping of the model is incorrect, its skin is mostly purple; besides that, its eyes are slightly larger, it has antennae, and its namesake whiskers are gone.

Pikmin 2 copies

The following unused enemies exist in the enemies folder as well, but their model and textures are copies or near-copies of the Pikmin 2 files. They are also roughly the same size they were in that game.

• Honeywisp (clione, 1 HP, value:  × 40)
• Emperor Bulblax (kingchappy, 3000 HP, value:  × 100)
• Wollywog (marofrog, 1500 HP, value:  × 30)
• Breadbug (panmodoki, properties are missing)

Armored Cannon Larva variants

The Armored Cannon Larva and Arctic Cannon Larva share the same archive. Inside it are parameter files for every version of the beetle, including unused ones. It is not currently possible to confirm what file maps to what enemy. The files include an unnamed parameter set (params.txt), a "fixed" version, a green version, a red version, perhaps for the Decorated Cannon Beetle, a "ruri" version, and a "yuki" version. To note is that るり^? means Lapis Lazuli, and ゆき^? means snow.

Other

In addition, the unknown and mostly-empty kokgamiegg "enemy" seems to have been made on accident, created instead of the used kokagamiegg (the Phosbat Pod), the pelplant "enemy" appears to be an incomplete version of the Pellet Posy (pelplant1), with only a texture of a leaf, and tuyukusa is a mostly broken and smaller version of tsuyukusa, the Burgeoning Spiderwort. Finally, the fire geyser has parameter files for a bubble and a gas variant, suggesting the planned return of gas pipes and the addition of water geyser-like hazard obstacles.

Unused enemy parameters

• Instead of having its HP set to 1, like most other enemies that deal damage in a special way, the Nectarous Dandelfly has its HP value set to 15.
• The Nectarous Dandelfly has a Poko value of  × 5.
• The Armored Mawdad and the Vehemoth Phosbat have a Poko value of  × 1, whereas most bosses have it set to 0.
• The Scornet Maestro and Scornet are worth  × 5 each.
• The Shaggy Long Legs and Baldy Long Legs are worth  × 100 each.

Unused music

Two songs exist inside the game, but are unused. They are a "sad" and a "happy" version of the end of day theme, much like the ones in Pikmin 2.

See also

• Pikmin 3 prerelease information
• Music in Pikmin 3
• Region
• Update