Originally posted by YK
Originally posted by Peardian
Perhaps we could use an icon for "Lost Content"? You know, the stuff that was erased from the game but documented in screenshots and such.
Which reminds me, would something like the concept art for New Super Mario Bros. Wii originally having an entire Airship world count?
I *really* think it'd be best if we stuck with what content was actually *still in* games, rather than putting every early screenshot we can find on the page and declaring it "unused content". (Unless, of course, the screenshot actually shows some content that still exists in the game in some form.) That stuff is interesting, but the big issue is, can we *really* be sure that content was actually going to be *used* anywhere, or if it was just a mockup for magazines and whatnot? What makes TCRF special is that we're only documenting the cold hard facts; if we allow speculation based on very promo screenshots, it's just gonna end up a huge mess.
Plus, I forget who said it, but someone here once noted how irritating it is to visit a site that supposedly features "unused content", and see something listed as "Unused Levels!", only to find that it's nothing but a few scanned images of early promo screenshots in magazines... bleh.
Just my two cents, anyhow.
There was actually going to be a special namespace (there may actually be one, not sure) for "media"*, specifically for that kind of thing -- so there'd be the main article, then all the "only in screenshots" shit could be there.
Screenshots in the main spaces are really just for stuff which is referenced in the game, like Link's Awakening's save file, which was used to take several development screenshots.
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