Cut Content in the Virtua Fighter series?

Very cool ! Thanks !
Personally, I'm frustrated with the lack/cut of Lion and Shun in VF2 genesis

 

I seem to remember the Saturn version of VF2 having quite a few unused lines of dialog that can be heard in the sound test. Then again, considering how I played back then it's likely the lines weren't cut, but that I never heard them in game.

 

wowww check out the theme for Lau's stage! I really like it

 

This is an old thread but I think it might be a good place to talk about unused/beta or even unknown content from VF games. I feel like VF is probably the fighting game series with the most cut content and hidden stuff I have ever seen specially in the first 3 entries.

I got an interesting one here. VF2's debug menu aswell as the debug menu in Fighting Vipers and Sonic the Fighters which all share pretty much the same debug tools because all 3 games run in the same engine which was confirmed a few years ago.
These debug menus can be accessed by holding the service button + doing a secret command (VF2 uses a different command compared to FV & StF) also @biggestsonicfan made some hacks to use the debug menu in the old nebula model 2 emulator without having to input the code for all 3 games.

More info about this can be found here:
https://sudden-desu.net/entries/deb...hter-2-fighting-vipers-and-sonic-the-fighters
And here: https://sudden-desu.net/entry/debug...fighting-vipers-and-sonic-the-fighters-part-2

The 2nd part details how these tools can be used on real hardware without the use of any hacks. You'll need to have access to the arcade operator stuff like the service button, I tried to input the code for VF2 "Hold Service, LEFT, P, K, RIGHT, RIGHT DOWN, P, UP, K K" in the Nebula model 2 emulator and the game switched into some kind of no UI mode. here are some screenshots I took, honestly this looks pretty good for taking screenshots of the game. That reminds me these tools were most likely used to make those old VF2 VHS guides which have some scenes where the game had no UI elements along with some fancy camera angles.

 

(Small NSFW content warning)

Here's something else that might be worth posting here, the contents of a ''Virtua Fighter prototype material Macintosh CD-ROM'' from 1996 (probably a supplement to some JP gaming magazine)

Originally found and posted in March 22, 2022 by Twitter user and well known nsfw artist @Z0NE This CD contains a bunch of behind the scenes content like development footage of VF1, design documents, part of an official nude Pai 3D model, among other things. I wish Z0NE had given bit more context about this CD but I'm already grateful that they even chose to share it.


They recorded the contents of the CD and provided a google drive download link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12PoGyBPTL1ngFsdYvEG66TdVDPbMg2ia/view
"for the sake of preservation I would advice people to download this video and save it, just in case this or any youtube reuploads get taken down"

Also here's a video by user @KoriMaru on Twitter covering some of the info found in the CD:
Very interesting stuff.



There's still a lot of things left to translate but even just the images and footage from this CD are very interesting, so yeah let's make sure this thing doesn't get lost.

 

Ok, here's another post, this time we have... Unused song data from Virtua Fighter 1!
These finds were made by user mountainmanjed the same person who discovered the unused characters in VF1's code "I'll make a post about that later" so in total 4 unused songs were found in the code, here are the videos by mountainmanjed showcasing them.

1st video, posted on Nov 6, 2017.

Description by op: The ending is missing. Has the same motif as the Character Select likely an early version of it and how it builds up to an end could of been an early Attract Mode song too.



2nd video, posted one day later on Nov 7, 2017.

Description by op: The 3rd Jingle sounds like an alternate opening to the stage 2 song (it's right before it too). Also at the end, I put the unused song from yesterday in the same loop set up as most songs to show it really doesn't work.



The 3rd jingle is indeed an alternative opening to the 2nd stage aka Jeffry's stage. This opening goes unused in all versions of Virtua Fighter 1 and was only ever used for the version of Jeffry's theme found in the album "Virtua Fighter 最強の戦士 B-univ'' All later album releases of Virtua Fighter's soundtrack would not make use of this unused opening.

Jeffry ~Original Version~



So there you go! another interesting piece of VF1 history unearthed thanks to mountainmanjed. So what's everyone's thoughts on these song? I personally would love see these included in a newer album release of VF1's ost.

 

Virtua Fighters - 1993 AOU Prototype footage.

 

I watched the vid on the Red Scorpions yesterday. The Red Scorpions is a cool idea storywise. They should have kept them, as an opposing group to J6.

 

Honestly It would be pretty cool if VF6 reused those scrapped ideas and characters from VF1.