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Although tricoro was the first beatmania IIDX game to not have EXPERT MODE, graphical data for this mode on the MODE SELECT screen can be found unused in tricoro's HDD. However, no further data for this removed mode has been found, so it is currently unknown if it can be forced to work by hacking.

* Sound and HDD data for the song exists in tricoro, but it has no notecharts and was never made playable, being the only unused song with sound data that didn't appear in any of the following IIDX games. This might be attributed to its composers, [[Naoki Maeda|NAOKI]] and [[Junko Karashima|jun]], both leaving KONAMI in early 2013.

* The ''beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Vol.2'' album was never released; the closest thing to it is the second disc of the ''beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK'' containing the remaining tricoro songs, but the release's product page never mentions that it is the second volume of the tricoro OST. The long versions of the tricoro songs that made it to the beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK caused long versions of some SPADA songs to be delayed due to lack of space (some of them made it to the [[beatnation RHYZE vs HARDCORE TANO*C]] album).

* Placeholder graphics for overlays for POINT ZERO can be found on the tricoro HDD. As the dummy images used as placeholders only show numbers, it is currently unknown if POINT ZERO's jacket in [[AC jb saucer|jubeat saucer]] was based on the scrapped overlays for the song.

 

''Spada†leggendaria'' saw an eighth, truly final song being cut. A result banner showing the Spada†leggendaria chamber from above alongside all seven swords (including the usual "Spada†leggendaria - SECRET MUSIC UNLOCKED" text) was left unused in the data. It is assumed that the planned artist alias could have been related to the legendary sword Excalibur, which was noticably absent across the entire theming of the game (even though other swords of legend were mentioned).

 

It was likely going to be a ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song (while SPADA ended up having none, it still had image text for it) but the newly introduced PASELI features in SPADA probably caused issues, and so the idea was dropped, leaving [[Verflucht]] as the final song of the event and last overall exclusive song of the style.

''Chrono Chaser'' was likely going to have a more regular cycle than what eventually happened in reality, as [[Say YEEEAHH]] and [[Reflux]], made available late in June 2015, were instead added in November 2014. Negative reception of Chrono Chaser's extremely vague unlock system was what likely put the event on a long hiatus. After PENDUAL, beatmania IIDX went back having secret extra stage events like ''LIMIT BURST'' and ''Spada†leggendaria''.  

* [[Despair of ELFERIA]]'s boss overlays data contained unused sprites for a second form; they looked identical to the last form of [[Rengoku no Elferia|煉獄のエルフェリア]]'s boss, except colored differently.

* [[Kyoumei yuugi no hana|共鳴遊戯の華]]'s LIMIT BREAK boss attack sequence was going to feature every joker villain, as images showing their names were found in the overlays data. Strangely, the data also contained an unfinished sketch image of ''Lopica'' (共鳴遊戯の華's main boss character).

Even though there were no clear evidences of Mystery Line being unfinished, it was the only IIDX regular event where you couldn't achieve a Platinum Tran Medal since their introduction. It also didn't have any Gold Tran Medals. The event's medal list in the files contained additional, unobtainable medal entries that had the same unlock requirements (unlock three Mystery Line charts) up to nine more songs; the entries felt more like placeholders, as the devteam just added songs to the event until the end.

Compared to any other regular IIDX event in recent styles, Mystery Line also did not have any sort of ending or congratulation message. L.E.D. announced a collaboration song with [[Tomosuke Funaki|黒猫ダンジョン]] before copula's release, but it never saw the light of the day - Tomosuke's only appearances in copula were crossovers, while L.E.D. did not appear in Mystery Line.

* ''SHADOW REBELLION'' is the EXTRA STAGE system of beatmania IIDX 27 HEROIC VERSE. It was originally planned to have eight parts, but it was later modified to have seven instead. After resuming the event in June with [[STOIC HYPOTHESIS]], the next part was originally set to be [[Bad sweets, bad dreams|イリィガル・ベイス・メディスン]]. This song was mistakenly revealed in the game's official website for a short period of time in July 2020, which was when it was scrapped and replaced instead by the seventh SHADOW REBELLION song, [[Miwaku no YUMMY sweets|魅惑のYUMMYスイーツ]]. The reason for this change is unknown.