Mighty No. 9

Prototype Info Bugs

Unused Animations#

Pl01_Walk#

A slow-paced walking animation for Beck. In the final game, whenever Beck is shown moving from one place to the other, his running animation is used no matter how short the distance is.

Npc03_Walk#

A walking cycle animation for Dr. Sanda that goes unused, as he's never actually shown moving from one place to the other in the game. A variant named "Npc03_WalkToX" also exists, with the only difference being a 90° z-axis rotation.

Unused Graphics#

A "widescreen" button icon left over from the 2014 beta's settings menu.

A placeholder stage select thumbnail leftover from the beta and demo to obscure unavailable stages.

Two progressively fading versions of Dr. White's dialogue mugshot, likely to represent a weakening communication signal (probably would have been used in the Mine stage).

A dialogue mugshot sprite that says "No Data".

Dr. Blackwell's dialogue mugshot goes unused since in the game character mugshots are only used whenever a character is speaking through the communications link (which Blackwell never does).

An empty version of the dialogue mugshot sprite, likely used as a template.

Texture Oddities#

Npc02Mouth00	Mockup 1	Mockup 2

Dr. Blackwell's mouth texture includes some unused expressions, although they don't seem to match the shape of his mouth.

CallEye00	CallMouth00	Mockup 1	Mockup 2	Mockup 3

Call's eyes and mouth texture includes some unused expressions.

In-game

T_Demo_Paper01	T_Demo_Paper02	T_Demo_Paper03	T_Demo_Paper04	T_Demo_Paper05
T_Demo_Paper06	T_Demo_Paper07	T_Demo_Paper08	T_Demo_Paper10	T_Demo_Paper11
T_Demo_Paper12	T_Demo_Paper13

A cutscene inside Mr. Graham's office will play after 5 out of the 8 Mighty Numbers are defeated. In it, it's possible to spot some scattered papers from a secret document. On closer inspection it is revealed these are the actual design documents for the final boss' attack patterns.

Trinity's eye texture appears to have reused never-seen-before concept art of the character, including a cropped screenshot of Windows Photo Viewer.

Unused Voice Lines#

An alternate voice line for when Beck defeats a boss; it can be heard on the Sound Test.

Unlike its spiritual predecessor, bosses aren't destroyed by the protagonist but instead are "brought back to their senses". However, within the Sound Test there are unused voiceover lines for each Mighty Number that suggest their actual demise was planned.

Mighty No. 1 - Pyrogen

Mighty No. 2 - Cryosphere

Mighty No. 3 - Dynatron

Mighty No. 4 - Seismic

Mighty No. 5 - Battalion

Mighty No. 6 - Aviator

Mighty No. 7 - Brandish

Mighty No. 8 - Countershade

Various unused voice clips for Call.