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On March 12, 2019, Nintendo released a Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn wallpaper, ton the My Nintendo rewards program. The preview image erroneously included a logo for the game Fortnite. The reward was quickly discontinued and replaced with a corrected version.
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Some unused Return to Dreamland animations. Note the idle for Chilly is used but only for a split second.
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Old screenshot from HALLABS website showing what apears to be a development screenshot of the Pop up style Kirby prototype.
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The Marx boss battle featured in the credits of Heroes in Another Dimension in Kirby Star Allies has unused code that creates a named health bar and plays the game's remix of "Vs. Marx".
Defeating Marx results in nothing. If he is set as a Mid-Boss, he respawns indefinitely.
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Character sheets from Kirby: Right Back at Ya!
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IT'S BEEN MADE OFFICIAL: Kirby has no bones and no teeth by extension.
see below: twitter.com/kaialone02/sta…
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This is what the unused (GCN) Snow Mountain model would look like as a background in Kirby's Return to Dreamland.
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High quality footage of Kirby Air Ride from when it was planned for the Nintendo 64. (Ripped by @hard4games)
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Cool concept art for Kirby's Dream Land. Kirby was originally supposed to basically vomit instead of spitting out stars.
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Development screenshot of Kirby Super Star. Game was being developed on the famicon for internal testing.
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A lost Kirby game which used the connection between the gameboy advance and gamecube for gameplay. Demonstrated here by Satoru Iwata, we see how the gameplay shifts between the two platforms.
"Game over? No! Not even close!"
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Despite being removed from Fire's moveset after Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Spinning Fire Breath is fully programmed and finished in Kirby Planet Robobot, but goes completely unused. The move can be re-enabled by changing only 1 byte in the game's code.
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The Japanese version of Kirby's Dream Course has a special intro that the other versions unfortunately don't include.
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Kirby's Adventure has a particularly difficult puzzle room that was cut from the game. It is cleared by doing this:
Hit the stake with stone/hammer -> ditch the ability and inhale Laser Ball to earn laser before it's destroyed -> shoot the laser at the slope -> enter the cannon.
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Early Kirby 64 screenshots appear to have King Dedede, Adeleine and Waddle Dee as playable characters at one point during development but was unfortunately cut from the final release.
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In the Japanese version of Kirby's Dreamland 3. The Boss Butch has a extra title that says "Nintendo 16" refrencing the Nintendo 64. However this is not present in the North American release.
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Kirby Super Star's Japanese pause screen text for the Hammer ability implies Kirby's hammer wielding skills were taught to him by Dedede. See below: twitter.com/Dededaio/statu…
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A Japanese Prototype for Kirby and the Amazing Mirror includes leftover art and references to a removed enemy which was labeled トッコーン (Tokkōn) in the prototype's health bar data entries.
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Kirby Mass Attack was originally going to feature Blipper as an enemy. Attached below is the single sprite that remains in the game.
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The enemy "Dale" only appears in Kirby Air Ride. Despite never appearing in any other game after that, he was present in Kirby GCN.
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