Prerelease and unused content in Doubutsu no Mori
- For prerelease and unused content in Animal Crossing, see Prerelease and unused content in Animal Crossing.
The following is a list of prerelease and unused content in Doubutsu no Mori.
Early builds
Nintendo Space World 2000
Doubutsu no Mori was first showcased in a one-minute trailer at Space World 2000,[1] a Japanese video game trade show hosted by Nintendo. Screenshots were also published in an article on Nintendo's Japanese website.[2] The trailer and screenshots show some differences from the final release.
- The game has a tentative logo, featuring a different font, color, and layout from the final one.
- The bulletin board is located to the left of the shrine, rather than in the middle of the player house acre.
- The sprites for furniture, wallpaper, and carpets are all a beige version of the map sprite from the final game rather than a unique sprite for each.
- A blue villager house palette that is not in the final game is shown.
- Signposts have an image of a blue house on them rather than a piece of paper with text.
- The shrine has a green roof and a more red wood color.
- A villager's door has a wreath on it.
- Nook's Cranny uses the Cabin Wall and Old Flooring rather than its own unique wallpaper and carpet.
- Two shirts that are not in the final game are shown. One is light blue and has the character 店 (shop) on it. The character, paired it being worn in a screenshot at Nook's Cranny with Tom Nook asking the player to deliver furniture, suggests it is an early version of the Work Uniform. The other shirt is dark blue with hollow yellow squares on it.
- The Lovely Bed, Lovely End Table, Lovely Lamp, Lovely Vanity, and Mama Bear have different designs.
Partial source code leak
On July 25, 2020, partial source code for Doubutsu no Mori was leaked onto the Internet along with source code several other Nintendo games. The source code contains many assets and pieces of development information that are not in the final game.
Discoveries
- A model for an unused cat villager, referred to as CAT13 in its file names.[3] This ID was repurposed for Ankha, who is introduced in Animal Crossing. (This is not to be confused with Stinky, who has the villager ID cat13 in later games.) Using a custom villager in Doubutsu no Mori e+, CAT13's textures can be seen on a cat model, wearing the Beatnik Shirt present on the body texture:
- The folder containing assets for BEA3 is missing from data, which may possibly indicate a cut bear villager.[4] This ID is missing in later versions of the game as well.
- Textures and a model for Blathers,[3] who does not appear in the final game. The textures resemble Celeste, most notably with the beady eyes, indicating it may have been the inspiration or cause for her creation and design.
- Textures and a model for Wisp,[3][5] who does not appear in the final game.
- A screenshot of a customized title screen which appears to be for use during Space World 2000, a Nintendo-hosted video game trade show.[3]
- Models for two unused human characters: SOLDIER and OBA (Japanese for "aunt").[6] The word oba is short for obaba, which is one of the internal names for Joan, suggesting this character may have been an early version of Joan.
- A leftover in-development dungeon map from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.[7][8]
- An early interior of Nook's Cranny.[7]
- Early models for the interior and exterior of the museum, which does not appear in the final game. For the interior, there are models for the main room, fish exhibit, fossil exhibit, and art exhibit, but not the bug exhibit.[7]
Exterior
Main room
Main room (diagonal view showing the early stained glass window)
Fish exhibit
Fossil exhibit
Art exhibit
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- Shaki, who appears in the final game as an unused character, was used as a placeholder character during development.[7]
- Famicom games were originally meant to be loaded from the 64DD add-on rather than being present in the game itself.[7]
- Icons for 9 unused items: cd, guitar, kusuri (medicine), nuts, pet, seed, nae (seedling), sickle, and ueki (potted plant).[7]
- Early icons for several items that appear in the final game. Some items have multiple early icons from different stages of development.[7]
Clothing
Clothing
Bug[nb 5]
Fish[nb 6]
Fish
Fish[nb 5]
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
Letter
1,000 Bells
10,000 Bells
30,000 Bells
30,000 Bells
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- Textures for 52 unused clothing items.[7]
cloth003
cloth004
cloth007
cloth008
cloth012
cloth013
cloth016
cloth018
cloth025[nb 7]
cloth028
cloth029
cloth030
cloth038[nb 8]
cloth044
cloth054[nb 9]
cloth055
cloth078
cloth079
cloth080
cloth081
cloth082
cloth083
cloth084
cloth087
cloth092
cloth098
cloth103
cloth121
cloth122
cloth142
cloth146
cloth149
cloth163
cloth165
cloth167
cloth169
cloth172
cloth184
cloth193
cloth194
cloth200[nb 10]
cloth220
cloth230
cloth232
cloth239
cloth240
cloth241
cloth244
cloth250
cloth251
cloth254
boy_1_cloth1_TA_tex[nb 11]
- Early textures for 23 clothing items.[7]
The early signpost texture
The early signpost texture (winter)
The early signpost in-game
- An early player house with a thinner roof.[7]
The early roof texture
The final roof texture
- 12 early player house textures with different brick and wood designs.[7]
- 25 early villager house textures, including one shown in the Space World 2000 build, featuring different layouts and color palettes than the final game.[7]
- Text that is not in the final game.[7]
| Unused text | Unused text (translated) |
|---|---|
| ありがとう。 では <Player>ちゃん、 |
Thanks. Well <Player>, |
Unused content
The following unused content does not appear in later releases of the game.
Unused furniture items
The Chest, Modern Den Chair, Nice Speaker, Rack, Unused Dresser, Unused Monkey, and Zabuton are furniture items that can only be obtained through the use of memory editing. The items appear in Animal Crossing with English names, but their models are only in Doubutsu no Mori.
The Unused Monkey is animated and the Modern Den Chair can be sat on. The rest of the items have no functionality.
Chest
Modern Den Chair
Nice Speaker
Rack
Unused Dresser
Unused Monkey
Zabuton
Party Dress and Tuxedo
パーティードレス (Party Dress) and タキシード (Tuxedo) are two fully functional clothing items that can only be obtained through the use of memory editing.
Notes
- ↑ Replaced with the Handkerchief in the final game.
- ↑ Replaced with the Camera in the final game.
- ↑ Replaced with the Cherry in the final game.
- ↑ Likely intended to be a trash item, as the icon is located next to those of the Boot, Empty Can, and Old Tire in the leaked files.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 There are also icons numbered 2–32, and icons with a blue background.
- ↑ Bears a resemblance to the unused "bluefish" item in Animal Crossing.
- ↑ Features an alien from Space Invaders.
- ↑ Similar to the Citrus Shirt.
- ↑ Based on Link's tunic from The Legend of Zelda series.
- ↑ Similar to the Berry Gingham, Lemon Gingham, Melon Gingham, Mint Gingham, and Sherbet Gingham.
- ↑ The text says "Test NPC".
References
- ↑ Adam Washington (May 13, 2013). "Spaceworld 2000 - Nintendo Press Conference and Show Floor Highlights". YouTube. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
- ↑ Nintendo (2000). "どうぶつの森（仮称）". nintendo.co.jp. Archived from the original on July 1, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Reece Heather (July 28, 2020). "Animal Crossing 64 leaked assets reveal early designs, an unused character, and a Spaceworld 2000 graphic". Nintendo Wire. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
- ↑ TV | Dreamers Dev (July 30, 2020). "Unlike CAT13, all data pertaining to BEAR3 was scrubbed entirely. The folder where its textures wouldve been saved was scrubbed as well.". Twitter. Retrieved December 06, 2020.
- ↑ TV | Dreamers Dev (August 4, 2020). "Wade from the N64brew Discord decided to do their own digging and gave me permission to post their findings. Here's early Wisp modeled fully!". Twitter. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ TV | Dreamers Dev (July 29, 2020). "And here they are! The recreated models of SOLDIER and OBA!". Twitter. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 Datamine of the leaked files by Cuyler
- ↑ "Development:The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/File Select Map". The Cutting Room Floor. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
- ↑ TV | Dreamers Dev (August 4, 2020). "A test room. This was likely used to test player room functions.". Twitter. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
- ↑ TV | Dreamers Dev (August 4, 2020). [1]. Twitter. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
