Unused content in Pikmin
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Pikmin has a fair amount of unused content left inside the disc. Most of it is in the form of debugging tools, although unused models, textures and other resources exist as well.
There is a leftover menu with several debugging features present in the game. Each option has a value, and pressing A will activate the option, with the specified value. The options, in order, display the following:
- Title screen. 0 means the Challenge Mode option won't be visible. 1 means that option is present.
- A set of voyage log entries. Set #19 is untranslated for some reason.
- Saved game screen. Its value doesn't seem to do anything.
- A weird screen with sprites, effects and buttons, possibly used to test their features.
- Memory card warnings. 0 and 1 don't do anything, 2 warns that the card cannot be used. 4 warns that it must be formatted.
- Ship log selection screen.
- Unlocked voyage logs. Acts weirdly.
- End of day screen.
- Pause menus. 0 is during a regular adventure, 1 is during challenge mode.
- Final Analysis.
- Title screen without background.
Unused voyage log content
- Main article: Olimar's voyage log.
There are some unused voyage log entries, some unused untranslated second pages, some Japanese entries that don't relate to regular logs, and a function to display the text "1 day" in some messages that can never do that.
Unused monolog content
- Main article: Olimar's monologs.
There is an unused monolog, an unused function to write a singular or plural word, and a set of files in Japanese.
Unused areas
The following unused areas have been found inside the game's files:
Unused bomb-rock textures
Some unused textures have been found on the game's disc, portraying Red and Blue Pikmin with bomb-rocks. This hints to the fact that, initially, all Pikmin types were designed to carry bomb-rocks.
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Red leaf Pikmin.
- Rp bb64.png
Red bud Pikmin.
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Red flower Pikmin.
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Blue leaf Pikmin.
- Bp bb64.png
Blue bud Pikmin.
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Blue flower Pikmin.
Iwagen
Iwagen is the internal name for an unused object in the game. The name is a Romanization of "rock generator" and, as its name indicates, it spits out boulders, much like an Armored Cannon Beetle. It lacks a health counter, meaning it was possibly planned to serve as an obstacle. Its removal from the game could've come from its odd appearance, and how it does not match the surrounding elements in the Pikmin franchise. It can be found in some unused stages, like testmap.
Unused Pikmin animations
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There are a few animations for the Pikmin that aren't used.
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Others
- There are 2 test blo files found inside
dataDir\screen\eng_blo, "test.blo" and "test2.blo" account.blocontains some weird strings that don't seem to be used. They are "The sun has gone down, today's job is finished.", which appears twice, "starting pikmins", "pikmins now", "dead pikmins", "enemies defeated" and "collected items", which all appear twice, grouped.account2.bloseems to contain the real text for the results screen.