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'''Beta Elements''' are components of the [[Super Smash Bros. series]] that, for whatever reason, are removed or altered before that game is released. Known info about beta elements usually comes from one of two sources. The first is information released about a game, by its creators, before the game is complete. The second is data found within the coding of a game that serves no purpose, but could have been implemented into the game at one point.  

==''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''==

''Super Smash Bros.'' was initially developed by [[Masahiro Sakurai]] and [[Satoru Iwata]] in their downtime, in a form titled 格闘ゲーム竜王 (''Kakuto-Gēmu Ryūō'', or ''Dragon King: The Fighting Game''), which lacked Nintendo characters. Sakurai, however, felt that the game could not provide the proper atmosphere on a home console without Nintendo characters, and they were soon added and the game was renamed.<ref>[http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks/ssbb/vol7_page1.jsp Wii.com] (Accessed on 9-18-08)</ref>

 

 

 

==''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''==

Through an Action Replay, a large, gray stage with the background appearing to be some kind of pub, is accessible. The music is the same as used on [[Fox (SSBM)|Fox]] and [[Falco (SSBM)|Falco]]'s stage [[Lylat System: Corneria|Corneria]]. This is assumed to be a test stage because of its name, which on the debug menu is [[Test (stage)|TEST]]. There are also four stages, named [[AKANEIA]] (a possible predecessor to [[Castle Siege]] from ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', a homeworld for the [[Fire Emblem (universe)|''Fire Emblem'' series]]), [[10-2]], [[IceTop]] (a possible precursor to the [[Summit]] stage from the sequel, which belongs to the Ice Climbers), and [[DUMMY]]; all four freeze when accessed normally, though 10-2, IceTop and DUMMY can be accessed with other cheats, while AKANEIA remains inaccessable to this day. In addition to this, the entire [[Debug Menu]], which was used in pre-release testing, can be used when the game is hacked, allowing for complete editing of anything in the game. [[Giga Bowser]], both male and female [[Fighting Wire Frames]], [[Master Hand]], [[Crazy Hand]], and even [[Sandbag]] are all playable (to a limited extent) via the Debug Menu.

 

Early screenshots showed the [[Motion-Sensor Bomb]] to be much different; these screenshots actually showed it to be a Proximity Mine from ''[[wikipedia:Perfect Dark|Perfect Dark]]'' rather than the Motion-Sensor Bomb from "TOP SECRET" (actually ''[[wikipedia:GoldenEye 007|GoldenEye 007]]'') that appeared in the final game. A screenshot of this Proximity Mine's [[trophy]] has also been released, and this screenshot shows that (in an almost cheap manner) the text in the Proximity Mine trophy was only tampered minorly (with only a few removals of references to ''Perfect Dark'') for the final Motion-Sensor Bomb trophy. Why the ''Perfect Dark'' Proximity Mine was changed to a ''GoldenEye 007'' Motion-Sensor Bomb remains unknown to this day and is rather ridiculous, especially considering that the games from which the items originated were even made by [[Rare|the same company]], although the fact that Nintendo hides the Motion-Sensor Bomb's trophy's debuting game entry with the words "TOP SECRET" in the final game suggest that the item change may very well have had to do with copyright infringement. The [[Hyrule: Temple|Temple]] stage originally had an elevator that led to the bottom of the stage, as well as two strange platforms. These platforms strangely appear in the game's "Special Movie", when Peach is introduced. Players could also could walk through the laboratory in Great Bay. Stages [[Yoshi's Island: Yoshi's Island|Yoshi's Island]] and [[Mushroom: Kingdom|Kingdom]] had different designs altogether; the former was larger and had more blocks, while the latter looked more similar to the Mushroom Kingdom of the [[Super Smash Bros.|previous game]]. Early images of [[Kanto: Pokémon Stadium|Pokémon Stadium]] shows different element icons in the background screen, which looked more alike the icons of the Pokémon Trading Game Cards. [[Eagleland: Onett|Onett's]] music also sounded different.

 

 

==''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''==

Some of the game world icons were initially the same as in the previous two games, but they were revised as time went on (Mario's Mushroom icon was refined and given spots, the Poké Ball icon has the top half colored in to properly represent how it is usually red, etc.). Also, the description for the My Music options originally said, "Adjust how often a song will appear on this stage." It has since been revised in a general tone to say, "Adjust how often songs appear on stages." Along with this, one piece of music that was planned for the Delfino Plaza stage was later moved to Luigi's Mansion. [[Solid Snake]] was also meant to be more muscular, and was to have a gray suit rather than blue; along with this, his down smash mine looked different. [[Wario Bike]], [[Drill Rush]], [[Summit]], [[Halberd]], Rainbow Cruise, and "The Flowers That Bloom in the Echoes" were originally called Wario Chopper, Triple Dash, The Summit, Battleship Halberd, Rainbow Ride, and, "Flowers Bloom on the Notes" respectively. It's unknown why they changed these names, however, they likely changed Rainbow Ride because it was a ''Melee'' stage, in which it was misnamed Rainbow Cruise (although it remains Rainbow Ride in the PAL regeions, mostly because it was called Rainbow Ride on the PAL version of Melee). Lastly, there were scenes taking place before the events of [[the Subspace Emissary]] where the Subspace Army takes over the Halberd and King Dedede unintentionally stalls Meta Knight from preventing it from happening. [[Masahiro Sakurai]] confirmed that he decided to cut this out and an update was made to confirm this together with how various events and characters in the Subspace Emissary comes together. Also [[Mario]] instead of [[Kirby]] was the one seen fighting [[Petey Piranha]] in one of the ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' TV spots. 

 

 

Also, unused files for [[Dixie Kong]], [[Toon Zelda]], [[Toon Sheik]], and "Pra_Mai" (speculated to be Plusle & Minun of Pokémon fame) were found as scrapped newcomers. There were also files for [[Dr. Mario]], [[Mewtwo]], and [[Roy (SSBM)|Roy]], possibly meaning that they were planned to be brought back at one time, or that their data was imported for some reason(another reason could have something to do with the newcomers: [[roy]] [[dr. mario]] and [[mewtwoe]] would be clones of: [[marth]] [[mario]] and [[lucario]], they were probbaly implemmented to have an easier time createing marth, mario, and lucario) . A scrapped [[Assist Trophy]] for [[Ridley]] was also found. It was most likely scrapped in favor of a boss version of Ridley.<ref>[http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/photo-m.phtml?post_key=68272&photo_key=29687 Source]</ref> Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong had different trophy designs before they had the final in-game versions.<ref>[http://www.spriters-resource.com/nintendo/ssb/ssbb/display.php?file=ssbb_trophies3.png Source]</ref> In the E3 2006 Trailer, Many minor differences to the final version were seen. One of which was Mario's Up-A, being slightly faster than the old version.

 

Image:Subspace Army Unknown3.jpg|A less gloomy version of [[Battlefield Fortress]].

 

*[[Kirby Beta Stage 1]]

*[[Kirby Beta Stage 2]]

*[[Test (stage)]]

*[[IceTop]]