Unused Animations For Custom Moves Found!

[LiteralGrill]

It seems that for Smash 4 it was once planned for each character to have four customs moves! Someone has hacked into the game and shown that incomplete animations of every character's 4th customs move exists on the disc. The videos below document what these moves look like.

Mario's moves are the only ones to have hitboxes implying they were the furthest developed. Many of the moves seem to have very unique properties, some very wacky compared to the others. It will be fun to speculate what all of them may have done, and why they were not completed during development.

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[Capybara Gaming]

Ooh, this is interesting! I'll have to watch these later.

 

[Fluggerson]

Good. Less unlocking.

 

[Jucchan]

Sakurai has already said in an interview that he originally intended for there to be 4 customs and that they were cut down to 3 because customs moves take a lot of resources to create. Cool nonetheless.

 

[Blargg888]

I really wish that there had been 4 Custom moves, but 3 is fine.

Meta Knight's down B looks really interesting.

So does Luigi's

INFINITE FIRE HYDRANT.
Pac-man is weird.

I wonder what other Robot master weapons they would have used for Megaman.
Maybe the rolling cutter? Perhaps the triple blade.
Maybe even Item 1.

Erm. Palutena? You alright?

Whoa, Pikachu has a weird up B. It's very floaty.

Sonic's side B is weird.

"Mario's moves are the only ones that have hit boxes" Dr. Mario has one on his cape.
Also, Dr. Mario with Luigi's sliding tornado and Jump Height? WANT, no wait... NEEEEEEEEEEEEED

Apparently looking at Wario makes Ness really angry. He just shakes in fury, and then crashes the game.
And his down b is... The same?

What was with WFT's Up b?

CALL AN AMBULANCE, FOX IS HAVIN A SEIZURE.

 

[Beta_Smash]

So this is what it's like to be here early...

 

[Cthulhu_MD]

Interesting. Although, I wonder how the game would have fared with 4 custom move sets. It'd probably change nothing to the metagame, but who knows.

 

[Anthon1996]

Welp, DLC time.

 

[drsusredfish]

and so it begins. Project MU baby steps right here.

 

[Cthulhu_MD]

Welp, DLC time.

I doubt it. If it took up a lot of resources when the game was being made, it'll still be a pain to do for every character and I doubt they'll be able to do it as DLC. I might be wrong, but we'll see.

 

[ILOVESMASH]

I find it odd that bowser jr's clown car stays in the ground and does not make any noise when he uses the side b yet wario's does.

 

[L9999]

So they removed them becuase they could make Luigi wavedash half the stage.

 

[Claire Diviner]

Inb4 "Future DLC."

 

[2ndComing]

SInce they managed to look this deep in the game.... I wonder if they can find any data on Ice Climbers since Sakurai confirmed they worked fine in the game

 

[NightRaid|tAmA?]

These are pretty odd but fun to mess around with. The only tournament viable set looks like alll of Diddy's

 

[AnchorTea]

xglares at Mega Man and Palutenax

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

Interesting.

 

[Glottis]

Kinda hard to get an impression on most of them since they are so unfinnished. Most of them just look like the standard specials without graphical effects and hitboxes. Cool find though.

 

[AnchorTea]

Oh look! Something unused in the files! That TOTALLY means future DLC!

 

[KenboCalrissian]

Yoshi Egg 4 OP

 

[Haloedhero]

A lot of the weird momentum/ground sticking/sliding properties on these moves (like Luigi's down special) simply look like unfinished air/ground state changes like you'd see in bad Brawl Vault PSAs, not intentional properties. Probably because the attacks were abandoned very early on, so their coding isn't even fully implemented.

Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but the finished moves likely would've been VERY different from what is seen here. (Even the ones that aren't obviously busted.)

 

[[Obnoxshush/Dasshizer]]

SInce they managed to look this deep in the game.... I wonder if they can find any data on Ice Climbers since Sakurai confirmed they worked fine in the game

Sakurai better make a DLC announcement before we start finding the cut veterans.

 

[EmblemCrossing]

Honestly I wouldn't mind paying for extra moves, but I'm probably in the minority there.

 

[MarioMeteor]

Mega Man could've have even more moves from his games? Kinda disappointing that these got cut. I'd love to see maybe Triple Blade, Magnet Missile, Jewel Satellite, and **** like that.

 

[Deleted member]

The more options, the merrier!

 

[adamlon1]

Is it possible to make a project M type mod for smash 4 to include these Custom Moves with Hitboxes

 

[Sir_Zedd]

Invisible jetpacks?! Invisible bananas?! Nerf the non existent custom Diddy already Sakurai!

Spoiler

better than thunder banana

 

[ToastedWigz]

Why doesnt mario have a custom Fludd that lets him jet pacl

 

[Tino]

Meh, 3 custom moves are fine as it is, honestly.

 

[ZomBiehn]

I don't even bother with the custom move set's, most tournaments don't allow them anyway

 

[PokÉmblem]

I was predicting custom moves dlc and I'll stick with that prediction!

 

[DougX]

So Mario was gonna have an Ice Ball move too, huh? Guess they decided to only let Luigi have it when they cut it down.

Luigi's unused down B would have been the best custom special in the game if it would also have been able to hit people. Then again, it's possibly like that due to wonky unfinished properties.

 

[fogbadge]

most of them are to unfinished to tell us anything

 

[Munomario777]

Wait... Sonic had an unused spinball animation?

Classic Sonic alt confirmed intentional.

Seriously though, why isn't that a thing?

 

[FieryRebirth]

I am glad they cut that Ike Up B variation - that looks to be the most pointless of them. Who wants a FLOATY Aether?

 

[Quillion]

I'm more curious about how this guy hacked Smash U. I'd love a fan-balanced Smash U like SDR and Balanced Brawl myself. And NOT a Project M equivalent.

 

[JBRPG]

I'm more curious about how this guy hacked Smash U. I'd love a fan-balanced Smash U like SDR and Balanced Brawl myself. And NOT a Project M equivalent.

I agree with him and wondered the same thing. We cannot expect such Wii U hacks to go widespread soon because only a few people managed to bypass the security features.

 

[Quillion]

I agree with him and wondered the same thing. We cannot expect such Wii U hacks to go widespread soon because only a few people managed to bypass the security features.

The Mario Kart 8 hackers only managed to hack the Wii U by using an outdated firmware. This hacker may have done the same. So yeah, it's not going to be widespread.

 

[Space Stranger]

Whoa cool, wavedashing almost confirmed guys!

 

[RoxburyGuy58]

Having 100+ more of these to unlock and hope that the RNG doesn't give out duplicates? No, I'm glad these were cut.