Editing List of Mario Party 8 pre-release and unused content

{{italic title|List of ''Mario Party 8'' pre-release and unused content}}
This is a list of pre-release and unused content for the game ''[[Mario Party 8]]''.
==Early Boxart==
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MP8 early box art.jpg|Early box art (showing different images for Luigi, Princess Peach, Toad and Bowser, and also has a different background)
MP8Box.png|Final box art
</gallery>

==Early menu==
[[File:MarioParty8DemoTitle.png|200px|thumb|The early title screen]]
*The original title screen for ''Mario Party 8'' was just a white screen with the veteran playable characters running after a [[Star (Mario Party series)|Star]].
*[[Blooper]] and [[Hammer Bro]] selecting panels were blank with a question mark, instead of arts of themselves, as it is in the final version.
*Duel [[Minigame]]s were called "Two-Player Minigames" in the demo version.
*When selecting Blazing Lassos or Ion the Prize, the demo jumps straight into the minigame. In the final version, players have to select P1's opponent.

==Unused data==
===M809 - ''Hammer de Pokari''===
[[File:MP8 Unused Hammer Minigame.png|thumb|200px|''Hammer de Pokari'' minigame]]
''Hammer de Pokari'' is an unused 4-player [[minigame]] from ''Mario Party 8''. It takes place on a giant sand castle in a beach inhabited by [[Goomba]]s, which does not appear anywhere in the game. In this minigame, players must swing the {{button|wii|Wiimote}} sideways to swing hammers. Its objective is to get most whacks in. After a player is whacked five times, the minigame ends. Every player has a [[Coin]] counter on their tallies. However, they are not used for anything in the state of the minigame, or even are changed during gameplay. It was replaced by [[Speedy Graffiti]].
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===M813 - ''Guruguru Kataduke''===
[[File:MP8 Unused Ribbon Minigame.png|thumb|200px|''Guruguru Kataduke'' minigame]]
Another unused minigame found in the debug menu is the 4-player minigame ''Guruguru Kataduke'' (literally translated as "Round and Round Finish"). In this minigame, the players must spin their {{button|wii|Wiimote}} in a clockwise fashion to roll up their ribbons, colored according to ''Mario Party 7''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s player colors. In the background, there are many present boxes and two [[Shy Guy]]s on a table. To win the minigame, it is necessary to roll up the ribbon completely. It was replaced by [[Rudder Madness]].

===M853 - ''Ochiruna Rodeo''===
[[File:OchirunaRodeoMP8.png|thumb|200px|''Ochiruna Rodeo'' minigame]]
There is an unused duel minigame in ''Mario Party 8'' called ''Ochiruna Rodeo'', that takes place in a farm, inside a pen where the competitors ride two mechanical bulls. The players must tilt the {{button|wii|Wiimote}} in the direction of the bulls, or they can fall. The last player standing on their mechanical bull is the winner. It was replaced by [[You're the Bob-omb]].

==Debug menu==
Like the last three ''Mario Party'' games, ''Mario Party 8'' contains a debug menu that is visually identical to ''Mario Party 4'''s debug menu, once again with the minigame names being changed. This is the last ''Mario Party'' game to reuse this debug menu.<ref>[https://tcrf.net/Mario_Party_8/Debug_Menu Mario Party 8 debug menu - ''The Cutting Room Floor'']</ref>

==Characters==
===Toadsworth===
[[Toadsworth]]'s unused voice clips are found in the brsar file that stores all the sounds of the game. It is unclear what role he was going to take in this game, if he was even planned at all, as he has only two voice clips: happy and sad.

==Models==
===Ztar model===
[[File:MP8-ztar.png|thumb|Unused Ztar model]]
There is an unused model for a [[Ztar]] in the game's files, suggesting they were cut from the game.

==Music==
===Ztar fanfare===
There is an unused, "bad" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVjjKSosiFo version] of the "You Got A Star!" fanfare seemingly intended for collecting a Ztar before they were scrapped from the final game.

==Unseen geometry==
The garage in [[Bumper Balloons]] contains objects such as tires and crates, which are never seen in-game since the garage door never opens.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbmtNSxxkzU&t=2m28s Mario Party 8 - Boundary Break]</ref>

==Gallery==
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MP8UnusedSandcastleMinigame.png|[[Hammer Bro]] winning in Hammer de Pokari
MP8UnusedPresentMinigame.png|[[Toad]] winning in Guruguru Kataduke (using his ''[[Mario Party 7]]'' winning animation)
MP8UnusedRodeoMinigame.png|Toad winning in Ochiruna Rodeo (using his ''Mario Party 7'' winning animation)
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
*[[tcrf:Mario_Party_8#Unused_Mini-Games|Mario Party 8 unused content]]

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