The canceled rider?!

[Deleted]

Big surprise  , yeah true there's a cancelled rider that appear at beginning of development the game.
The rider may be a female *cause her color* and only appear in the old demo's of JM3 only.
Here's some pic's and video:



In urban subway and devil's canyon tracks if see clear you will notes her.




This's my jewel case, if you remove the disc you will see 3 riders Vampeera-spirit and the cancelled rider on the left.



I take it from IGN, here 2 riders right *I belief* angel and lift the cancelled again.

[Enigma]

Woaaah.... Very nice found!!! It's a female character, has flames on her bike and her outfit. It is not in the game's files however, wich is very sad. We should try to contact the main programmer of the game to ask him if he knows who is this!

[OskyCMK]

I'mma take a wild guess that it was Shirow they planned to include (because her number in JM1 was 66).

[Enigma]

Feb 9, 2014 9:04:19 GMT -5 OskyCMK said:

I'mma take a wild guess that it was Shirow they planned to include (because her number in JM1 was 66).

Haha, now that I think about it, it all makes sense!

Shirow : Female Rider, Blue/Red colors, number 66
Cancelled JM3 rider : Female Rider, Purple/Red colors, number 66

Now that we compare them, they're pretty similar! Maybe you just solved the thing CaMacKid!

[Enigma]

You are wrong Emperor. It's not the cancelled rider, it's the cancelled riders! In all of IGN's pictures of JM3, we can see different textured versions of some riders, but some are just not like any other ones!!! The cancelled rider you got is just one in many others! In one of the pics, we even see a rider that is blue, but it's not Spirit since she is in the picture too! Just take a look, there is not just 1 cancelled rider!

[Enigma]

Look at the Volcano Island picture, there is a blue rider leading! Kinda looks like C4!!!!? The shape of the bike, the color! WTF!?

[Deleted]

No I don't think there's a cancelled riders, it's just the color of there texture that you think they are!
And in the end of the demo video, they say that there are 15 tracks and 11 riders, but at the final design
Only 10 riders *Besides 2 secrets of course* and 19 tracks only appear.

[Enigma]

Feb 14, 2014 16:41:32 GMT -5 @emperor said:

No I don't think there's a cancelled riders, it's just the color of there texture that you think they are!
And in the end of the demo video, they say that there are 15 tracks and 11 riders, but at the final design
Only 10 riders *Besides 2 secrets of course* and 19 tracks only appear.

I think some riders got replaced. 11 riders was including a secret character, but they probably added another secret one when they got closer in completion. Your theory is also completly logic.

[Deleted]

Yeah they may be to add another rider in the finally, so it's 12 riders: 6 males 6 females.

[Dark Ermac]

Has anyone checked the prototype to see if these textures are in there somewhere?

[Deleted]

I don't remember where ot get it to be honest, otherwise id give it a look

[Enigma]

I checked the prototype's files, and it isn't in there, unfortunately... The prototype does, however, contain a version of Machu Picchu which loads its image background on the skybox:

[skizzo]

Never saw this thread

Anyone actually found out who that character was?

[Deleted]

Don't think we ever did however if you look in the case art behind the disk AND the purple outfit rider gearing up at the start of the intro, it seems there was another female rider planned to be added. But that's also been mentioned. I like to think like Osky it was Shirow possibly or someone else