Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe
Developers: HAL Laboratory, Vanpool Publisher: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo Switch Released internationally: February 24, 2023 This game has unused animations. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused graphics.

Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a remake of Kirby's Return to Dream Land with a notable visual upgrade and a great outline art-style. This 4-player adventure adds new content such as "Merry Magoland", a mode filled with sub-games new and old, as well as the "Magolor Epilogue" where Magolor must atone for his misdeeds. This time, it didn't take 11 years to develop!

To do: Lots. Kirby has several unused animations King Dedede also has some unused animations Merry Magoland has several animations from FL and unused ones Unused Code Leftover code from the original Wii project, comparisons Replace unanimated PNGs with animated GIF versions

Unused Graphics

Landia

In romfs\gfx\Step\Chara\Landia\Model.bfres.cmp, there are textures that are Landia's eye once it goes to phase 2 or angry for both the normal and ex model. However these are unused since the file itself in romfs\gfx\Step\Chara\Landia\Motion.bfres.cmp, the texture animations for them are blank. However giving them a texture animation makes it works again.

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  Angry Landia Eye

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  Angry EX eye

Video showcasing the edit:

(Source: JC Players)

Ability Stars

In romfs\gfx\Step\Item\SuperAbilityStar\SuperAbilityStar.bfres.cmp, there are blank black textures in its files, which are "Icon.00", "Icon.01", "Icon.02", and "Icon.04". These are seem to be the unused test, Super Cutter, and Super Spark textures from the Wii game. These were probably made blank as to keep the ability order the same.

(Source: JC Players)

Unused Animations

Kirby

Kirby has a ton of animations left from the og RtDL but also some new ones. default08 seems to be a weird test 50 frame animation of some sort with Kirby's limbs move far from him. Wait6 is an unused wait animation found in lots of other Kirby games never being used.

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  default08

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  Wait6

(Source: JC Players)

Meta Knight

Meta Knight also has a ton of unused animations like Kirby. DamageElectric is a 12-frame animation one where metaknight stands still with his eyes slanted.

(Source: JC Players)

Internal Project Name

The game's internal name is "Ark". It's probably in reference to the Lor Starcutter, Magolor's ship that resembles a big ark river boat.

(Source: Vyroz)