History DummiedOut / WideOpenSandbox

** The Illusionner, an Illager which attacks the player using spells and a bow and can summon duplicates, was added in 1.12 (17w16a) but can only spawn using commands.

** Several characters were dummied out. There were a pair of adults named Nate and Flynn, it's believed that they were for the cancelled platform/{{Xbox}} version of Bully and would have been involved in uploading songs to the game.

** Text files in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' reveal that over half of the game's radio stations originally had much more content; in extreme cases, over half of the original playlist was cut in the final release. In addition, there are leftover files that suggest that Vinewood Boulevard Radio, an alternative rock station, was originally intended to be a 90's rock station called P.M.R, and that its conversion to VBR was a last-minute change (its icon for the station-select wheel is even still in the game's files!). Some of the cut songs were brought back in the enhanced versions for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne & [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows PC]].

** Several characters were dummied out. There were a pair of adults named Nate and Flynn, it's believed that they were for the cancelled UsefulNotes/XBox version of Bully and would have been involved in uploading songs to the game.

** Unused parts of certain maps, most notably in Level 7, where a chunk of the map that existed in Levels 1 and 4 was cut due to time constraints on the art team. This area included inside the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, the Stonecutters' Tunnel, and an area where mansions are located. The remains of it (which includes a small portion of the map, some unused sound effects for the Power Plant, and two music tracks can still be reached via cheat codes, glitches, or modifications.

* The manual for ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' mentions a type of Privateer called "Beheaders", and even [[https://i.imgur.com/aTrEAs6.png features an image of them]], but these machete-wielding enemies never actually appear in the game.

* Both ''[[VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA True]] [[VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity Crime]]'' games feature large, unused areas of their maps that were cut due to deadlines. In ''Streets of L.A.'', this included a large chunk of South L.A., Los Angeles International Airport and vicinity, and some of the San Fernando Valley. In ''New York City'', these areas included Governors, Roosevelt, Randalls and Wards Islands, as well as parts of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. In both games, attempting to enter these areas teleports the player back to the nearest street in the playable area, though these barrier checks can be bypassed or removed through glitches, cheat codes, or modifications.

* Both ''[[VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA True]] [[VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity Crime]]'' games feature large, unused areas of their maps that were cut due to deadlines. In ''Streets of L.A.'', this included a large chunk of South L.A., Los Angeles International Airport and vicinity, and some of the San Fernando. In ''New York City'', these areas included Governors, Roosevelt, Randalls and Wards Islands, as well as parts of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens. In both games, attempting to enter these areas teleports the player back to the nearest street in the playable area, though these barrier checks can be bypassed or removed through glitches, cheat codes, or modifications.

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'' has a large amount:
** A ton of unused graphics for various purposes.
** Unused parts of certain maps, most notably in Level 7, where a chunk of the map that existed in Levels 1 and 4 was cut due to time constraints on the art team. This area included inside the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, the Stonecutters' Tunnel, and an area where mansions are located. The remains of it (which includes a small portion of the map, some unused sound effects for the Power Plant, and two music tracks can still be reached via cheat codes, glitches, or modifications.
* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series has several:
** An infamous example is the "Hot Coffee" ([[DontExplainTheJoke by which we mean sex]]) minigame from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto: [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]''. Apparently, some of the resources used in the {{Hot Coffee minigame}} actually were used in other parts of the game, which is why the data is on the final version of the game disc. It's also (most likely) thanks to Hot Coffee that the ESRB now asks game developers to see any dummied data when rating games.
** ''San Andreas'' is also missing the interior for the San Fierro Police Department (which is why you respawn on a nondescript street corner near the building and you can't enter it, unlike the other ones,) presumably because entering it crashed the game or they didn't have time to clean up the programming for release, and hospital interiors as well. There is also text data for a skateboard hidden in the game's main files as well (which is why Los Santos has a skatepark.) The skateboard was scrapped for the presumably much easier to program and animate bicycles.
** Don't forget the normally-inaccessible Andromeda plane, tons of building interiors, and a substantial chunk of Liberty City.
** The area of Liberty City where the opening of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' takes place is not seen anywhere in-game. Unless you can fly the Dodo, that is.
** The airport ATC tower in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' features in-game as a low LOD model, which can only be seen from the first island. It disappears upon entry to the second island, when its buildings are fully loaded and properly rendered. The "ghost tower" is also present in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'' and [[UpdatedRerelease remasters]] of ''Vice City''.
** ''GTA IV'' has several vehicles that are inaccessible by normal means, which later appeared in the DLC episodes.
** Text files in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' reveal that over half of the game's radio stations originally had much more content; in extreme cases, over half of the original playlist was cut in the final release. In addition, there are leftover files that suggest that Vinewood Boulevard Radio, an alternative rock station, was originally intended to be a 90's rock station called P.M.R, and that its conversion to VBR was a last-minute change (its icon for the station-select wheel is even still in the game's files!). Some of the cut songs were brought back in the enhanced versions for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne & [[UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows PC]].

* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite'' has an EasterEgg where you move the mouse in a certain way and phoneboxes appear. Unfortunately, if you try to actually do anything with the Easter Egg, you get a message saying "sorry, the boss removed this cheat".

* ''[[VideoGame/{{STALKER}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl]]'' has a huge amount of cut content, [[http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/Build_1935 of which this is only some]].
** These included an entire area called "Dark Valley Escape" South of Dark Valley (explaining the odd transition from Dark Valley to Cordon, where you walk through a gate and come out of a tunnel), a second mobile lab associated with the Americans and guarded by Freedom (see next point for a particularly obvious relic of this system), the swamp level that ended up in ''Clear Sky'' control bindings for cars and a helicopter, and a number of barely dummied-out weapons, equipment items (including useless anomaly detectors), and even several enemies. Early versions of the game also had mounted guns (the leaked Beta included a minigun).
** Many players were puzzled by a glitch in one of the Yantar lab's missions, where Kruglov would wake after a blowout and become hostile to the player. This is because the Yantar lab is still Duty-affiliated, and the player's reputation can cause Kruglov to think they're an enemy.
** The infamous "Chernobyl Dog" in Red Forest probably wasn't supposed to be in the game at all, given that it only appears once and the game crashes if you kill it. It's a strange Pseudodog with a Controller's screen-blurring attack and the ability to spawn clones of itself that attack normally but vanish if shot even once.
** Red Forest also includes a strange door, likely to a missing area; a combination lock leads to a small room with another door and nothing much inside.
** Several [=NPCs=] carry useless items; it's possible to get hold of a guitar, a harmonica and a pair of goggles called "hand_radio."
** The original game's artifact descriptions name one called "shell" that never actually appears. Descriptions of cut anomalies called "lift" and "time" are present in the game files; respectively supposed to create the artifacts Pellicle and Mama's Beads.
** Several weapons were also cut from the game, the most notable ones are the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter TOZ-34]] and the Browning Hi-Power, which can still be found in the game code, be brought in via game mods, and are even fully-functional additions to ''Clear Sky'' and ''Call of Pripyat''. For reasons unknown, the TOZ-34 and Hi-Power boast abnormally higher damage than all other pistols, shotguns, or assault rifles, making them the best weapons to use if you're willing to mod your game. Unfortunately, other weapons like the MAC-10, P90, and several others don't have fully completed code.
* In the ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'' game, jump from boat to boat until you get to one that's farthest southeast from Manhattan. Now take a fully-charged leap as far as possible into the sea further southeast. Right before you hit the water and get teleported back to shore, you'll see the words "Governors Island" show up as if you were entering a new area, but there's nothing but water there. This indicates that Governors Island was going to be visitable but it was cut.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' has leftover traces of the radio stations from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'' that were replaced.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' had several plot threads, alternate endings and story ideas scrapped during development, which explains why the game feels a bit rushed story-wise. You can read the details [[http://www.saintsrow.com/community/go/thread/view/136781/28694993/Story_Changes_-_Development_History_*MASSIVE_SPOILERS* here]].

* A handful of excised sprites exist in the files for ''VideoGame/YumeNikki''. They include such things as Madotsuki's window but with cracked glass, another window with the reflection of the city on it, and an older model for the "Triangle Kerchief" effect. There are also some huge inaccessible islands in the east part of the Famicom World.

* ''VideoGame/CubeWorld'' had an EXP system during alpha, which allowed players and their pets to level up and get stronger. The final release did away with the EXP system due to the core system being changed to a different style of play, but the old system is still within the game files and can be accessed through a cheat program.

** The locked chests of April Fools 2011 (Beta 1.4) were removed from normal gameplay on April 5, 2011 (Beta 1.4_01), but they remained in the code until 1.7.2 in 2013 under the longest ID in Minecraft history: "chest_locked_aprilfools_super_old_legacy_we_should_not_even_have_this". During that time, the original chest texture was removed and their place taken by those for blocks of emerald and redstone, so the locked chests as of 13w01a (1.5) had an emerald top and bottom, redstone sides and a purple placeholder front. When the textures were moved to separate files in 1.5, a placeholder texture had to be introduced for the locked chest to use in order to avoid a game crash due to missing textures.

** When horses were introduced in 1.6.1, a Zombie variant (which acts like a normal horse, except it drops rotten flesh instead of leather upon death) was included, but so far it's only spawnable using commands and their spawn egg.

** Unused parts of certain maps, most notably in Level 7, where a chunk of the map that existed in Levels 1 and 4 was cut due to time constraints on the art team. This area included inside the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, the Stonecutters' Tunnel, and an area where Mansions are located. The remains of it (which includes a small portion of the map, some unused sound effects for the Power Plant, and two music tracks can still be reached via cheat codes, glitches, or modifications.

** The airport ATC tower in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' features in game as a low LOD model, which can only be seen from the first island. It disappears upon entry to the second island, when its buildings are fully loaded and properly rendered. The "ghost tower" is also present in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]'' and [[UpdatedRerelease remasters]] of ''Vice City''.

** The area of Liberty City where the opening of ''GTA 3'' takes place is not seen anywhere in-game. Unless you can fly the Dodo, that is.
** The airport ATC tower in ''Vice City'' features in game as a low LOD model, which can only be seen from the first island. It disappears upon entry to the second island, when its buildings are fully loaded and properly rendered. The "ghost tower" is also present in ''Vice City Stories'' and remasters of ''Vice City''.

** The airport ATC tower in ''Vice City'' features in game as a low LOD model, which can only be seen from the first island. It disappears upon entry to the second island, when its buildings are fully loaded and properly rendered. The "ghost tower" is also present in ''Vice City Stories''.

** Several weapons were also cut from the game, the most notable ones are the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter TOZ-34]], and the Browning Hi-Power, which can still be found in the game code, and be brought in via game mods. For reasons unknown, the TOZ-34, and Hi-Power boasts abnormally higher damage than all other pistols, shotguns, or assault rifles, making them the best weapons to use if you're willing to mod your game. Unfortunately, other weapons like the MAC-10, P90, and several others don't have fully completed code.

** GTAIV has several vehicles that are inaccessible by normal means, which later appeared in the DLC episodes.

* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' got a fair bit of griping on release for [[SuperPrototype having graphical effects in the E3 demo]] that turned out to not be in the actual game. Shortly afterward, it turned out that those effects were still there (at least, on the PC version), they'd just been turned off for no obvious reason, since they didn't cause any insurmountable performance issues; rumour has it that they were removed at the insistence of Sony and/or Microsoft so that the PC version wouldn't make the console ports look bad by comparison. One of the most common mods for the game is one that turns them back on.

** When horses were introduced in 1.6.1, a Zombie variant (which acts like a normal horse, except it drops rotten flesh instead of leather upon death) was included, but so far it's only spwanable using commands and their spawn egg.

** The first ever mob to be added to the game was the Human. Looking identical to Steve?, it would run around endlessly in circles. It initially spawned randomly in Pre-classic, then would only spawn on command by pressing G in Classic; this was disabled in 0.24 Survival Test, but it could still be spawned using third-party tools. It was split into two variants in Infdev: "Mob", which kept the old AI, and "Monster", which would pursue the player and attack them like a zombie. The existence of the mob, especially the "Monster" variant, fueled the "Herobrine" rumors, which was helped along with changelogs which would include "Removed Herobrine" both as a running gag and to indicate the removal of remains of the Human mob.

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitandRun'' has a large amount:

''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitandRun'' has a large amount:

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' had several items that were present in the game during alpha and beta and it took years for most of the items to have any purpose. The most well known dummied out item is the quiver, which probably would have allowed the player to hold more arrows than normal, but even to this day, the item is never used and still exists in the game's files... only to pop up again in development screenshots for release 1.9's "Combat Update", before once again being removed.
** The Ender Dragon and the Wither were implemented into the game before they had any purpose. The Ender Dragon appeared in the 1.9 beta, but it could not be spawned at all unless you used a mod to do it for you. Likewise, the Wither was planned for version 1.4 and was going to be in one of the test versions for players to try out, but the developers had to dummy out the mob since spawning him would [[GameBreakingBug crash the game.]] The next test version of version 1.4 rectified it.
** The game also had several status effects implemented once potions were introduced, but many of them went unused and buried in the game's code. Several of the unused effects were eventually put back into place, but a few others still remain dummied out without mods.
** The Giant, which is basically a gigantic Zombie, can only spawn when the light level is more than 11 AND less than 8. Obviously, this is impossible. If spawned in through other means, it basically just stands there.

** Although skateboard and bike tricks weren't included in the final version of the game, there's a skate park that serves no purpose except for one mission, and lines of dialouge for watching someone screw up a trick in the data files.

** Don't forget the normally-inaccessible Andromada plane, tons of building interiors, and a substantial chunk of Liberty City.