| Game name | Native language name (if available) | Company/Group/Developer name | Year of announcement | Players | Platform | Original media/distribution | Original platform or ports | Retail/Indie/Doujin | Commercial/Freeware | Comments/Notes | Playable? |
| 25D_Fit | SepM | 2021 | 4 | Windows | Download (zip file) | N/A | Indie | Freeware | Also known as “2.5D Fighter”. 4 players 2.5D fighter (doh). Has an alpha demo but the game hasn’t been updated since january 2022 and the dev deleted the game’s social media accounts, so for me the full game release was cancelled. At least as for 2026 the demo is still up | Demo | |
| Advanced Variable Geo FX | アドヴァンスト ヴァリアブル・ジオ FX | TGL | 1995 | 2 | PC-FX | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Also known as “Advanced V.G. FX”. A PC-FX version was announced in the October 1995 issue of the magazine “PC Engine FAN” but the very next month the same magazine announced that the game was cancelled… that was fast lol. Cancelled probably because the PC-FX was doomed from the start | No |
| Advanced Variable Geo Saturn Tribute (Xbox One port) | アドヴァンスト ヴァリアブル・ジオ サターントリビュート | City Connection | 2025 | 2 | Xbox One | Download | PS4, PS5, Switch, Steam | Retail | Commercial | The Xbox One port of AVG1 was cancelled because, according to City Connection, Xbox didn’t allowed the adult content of the game. If you ask me sounds more like the Xbox One port was not profitable at all. Released on PS4/PS5/Switch/Steam | No |
| Alice//Extend | naska | 2006 (09/25) | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | 2D Fighter Maker 2nd game. 1v1 2D based on the visual novel of the same name and made by dev of Emblem of Red. Cancelled and pulled out from the website but had a demo that wasn’t saved by Archive.org, it is lost? Someone did a combo video that wasn’t saved either | Maybe? | |
| Angelic Duet | Princess Plant | 2000 | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | A 2D fighting game based on Air. Cancelled around 2003 without any notice. Archive.org only saved a Geocities redirect URL but the official website wasn’t. The CD front cover is on Surugaya. There was supposedly a technical benchmark demo but it wasn’t playable or something like that. Need more info | Maybe? | |
| Art of Fighting 4 | 龍虎の拳4 | SNK | Second half of the 90’s | 2 | Arcade (Neogeo MVS) | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Not to be confused with the (supposedly…) new entry that was announced at Evo. SNK was working on a fourth entry but was cancelled because Art of Fighting 3 was a commercial failure. According to Kakuge.com the game was set in Japan and the “ki gauge” was removed. No prototypes leaked | No |
| Asuka 120% Limited (Arcade version) | あすか120% リミテッド | Family Soft/Kaneko | 1997 | 2 | Arcade (Kaneko Super Nova) | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Asuka 120% Limited on arcades using the same board of the “Gals Panic” series, but it was not just a “port” but more of a remake with larger sprites and revamped graphics. Was cancelled, which is really a shame. exA-Arcadia made an Asuka 120% game for arcades in 2025 but it’s not this project | No |
| Bash | バシュ | Oriental Soft | 2000 | 2 | Arcade (rumored Hyperstone based hardware) | Unknown, probably ROM board? | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter with anime style designs, yet it seems the game was developed in South Korea. Revealed in December 2000 issue of Arcadia magazine. Info was from an arcade coin op expo, made by Oriental Soft. Only a single screenshots survives. Honestly very intriguing | No |
| Battle Tryst (Panasonic M2 port) | バトルトライスト | Konami | 1997 | 2 | Panasonic M2 | CD | Arcade (Panasonic M2 based) | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 3D fighter released on Arcades by Konami. The M2 port was cancelled because the console was unreleased too. Arcade version has a MAME driver that boots and show graphics but it's still pretty much unplayable | No |
| Bikini Karate Babes 2: Warriors of Elysia (Android version) | Travis Riggs | 2017 | 2 | Windows | N/A | N/A | Indie | Freeware? | Was announced and in development at some point, but the dev choose to skip this version and make the third game exclusive to Android devices instead | No | |
| Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. (Arcade version) | Midway | 1997 | 2 | Arcade (Midway Seattle) | HDD | PS1, N64, Win | Retail | Commercial | The first version that Midway actually worked on, but it was cancelled and the game only got console and PC ports. Galloping Ghost Arcade got a prototype that was dumped and now it's emulated on MAME decently. It seems to be very buggy and not the most optimal version of the game. Use Parsec for netplay | Yes | |
| Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon SailorWars | 美少女戦士セーラームーン SailorWars | Famicom Runners High | Unknown | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | A doujin fighting game based on Sailor Moon, probably running on 2D Fighter Maker 95. Made by the devs of Blader Crisis. They had a website with screenshots but it was sadly not saved by Archive.org. Officially cancelled (labeled as “unfinished project” on the group website) | No |
| Black Salt Coreuption (Switch port) | Ratti Entertainment | 2019 | 2 | Switch | Game Card | Steam | Indie | Commercial | Switch port of this 1v1 3D arena fighter was announced in 2019. The Steam version is the only one playable on eternal “early access” since 2019 and it was clearly abandoned, so let’s say the Switch version is dead for now | No | |
| BloodStorm (PS1 and Saturn ports) | Incredible Technologies | 1995 | 2 | PlayStation, Sega Saturn | CD | Arcade (original IT/Strata 32-bit version) | Retail | Commercial | Both ports announced on Electronic Gaming Monthly number 69. Strata, the publisher, went bankrupt so it never happened. No info if there’s an alpha/beta build | No | |
| Bloody Cross (Windows / Arcade version) | 혈십자 FC (Hyeolsipja FC) | Byulbram / Dogma-G | 2003 | 2 | Windows, Arcade | N/A | GP2X Caanoo, iOS, Android | Indie | Commercial | Released as Asura Cross on a butchered version for GP2X Caanoo in 2010 and mobile later. Korean 1v1 2D fighter. Planned as a GP32, Windows and Arcade release. Win and Arcade versions were both cancelled. 2003 Windows demo (originally not a public release) is on Archive.org, 2006 demo is lost. Use Parsec for netplay | Demo |
| Burning Fists: Force Striker | KAZe | 1994 | 2 | Sega CD | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighting game. There are two versions: the leaked beta that is supposedly “80% completed” and the 2006 Good Deal Games bootleg that fixed the FMVs and reworked the menu. It's still a bootleg without the devs permission so it's still unreleased to my eyes. Use Mednafen or RetroArch for netplay | Yes | |
| Burning Street | Tecmo | 1995 | 2 | Arcade (Unknown platform) | Unknown, probably ROM board? | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to unMAMEd: “a team fighting game like the 3 vs 3 KOF series. The main difference is that ALL characters fight at once. There are 8 teams to choose from, and you can only directly control the leader character. The 2 sub characters are optional”. Only a photo of the cabinet exist | No | |
| Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder | カプコンファイティングオールスターズ | Capcom | 2002 | 2 | Arcade (System 246?) | Unknown, probably DVD? | PS2 | Retail | Commercial | One of the most documented and well known cancelled fighting games of all time. Work started after CVS2, and was cancelled in 2003 after a disastrous location test. The game has been acknowledge by Capcom even in Street Fighter 6. Would kill for a beta leak. PS2 port was also planned | No |
| Capcom vs. SNK 3? | Capcom | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to this interview with Toyohisa Tanabe, at the time when he was working on Capcom Fighting All-Stars “there was another fighting game that got stopped during development” and “was the discussion to reuse assets rather than making something from scratch”. Some people think it’s CVS3 | No | |
| Cara de Cocou & Pirin Fighter | Locoarts | 2004 | 2 | Flash | Download | N/A | Indie | Freeware | 1v1 2D fighter based on the cult classic argentinian animated show “Alejo y Valentina”. Only a demo with two characters were released but the full game was never completed | Demo | |
| Cardinal Syn: Genzai no Sigilrum (japanese localization) | カーディナル・シィン 原罪のシギルルム | Kronos Digital Entertainment / Spike | 1998 | 2 | PlayStation | CD | PS1 (US and Europe) | Retail | Commercial | A japanese localization of Cardinal Syn was in the works by Spike. Cancelled, supposedly because the game was “too violent for the japanese market”… yeah… just play the US version | No |
| Chaves Arena | CyberGambá | Unknown (late 2000s?) | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Indie | Freeware | 1v1 2.5D fighter. Sequel to “Street Chaves”, a brazilian fangame based on the mexican show “El Chavo del Ocho”. A beta was released with two characters but the game was cancelled. The beta is easy to find. Same dev started to work on a new El Chavo fighting game in 2026 | Yes | |
| Chou Dainafighter 2 | 超ダイナファイター2 | Daina | Unknown (before 2007) | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | 2D Fighter Maker 95 game. 1v1 2D fighter. Sequel to Chou Dainafighter, still as fucked up as the first one. Only the demo exist, the full game was never released. Demo was saved by Archive.org (check Demo section) | Demo |
| ClayFighter (2016) | Interplay | 2016 | Unknown | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | They tried to reboot the Call of Putty project and failed again. There’s some leaked images of the characters from a 4chan post, but no one knows if they are legit | No | |
| ClayFighter (Atari Jaguar CD port) | Visual Concepts | 1994 | 2 | Atari Jaguar CD | Cartridge | SNES, Gen, Wii (Tournament Edition) | Retail | Commercial | Was announced in GameFan and Mega Fun magazines. Never happened. Don’t know if it was based on the vanilla or Tournament Edition versions, probably the second | No | |
| ClayFighter 2: Judgment Clay (32X port) | Interplay Productions | 1994 | 2 | 32X | Cartridge | SNES | Retail | Commercial | Announced in magazines, cancelled a year later. A very early prototype was leaked and a ROM dump is playable, released by Hidden Palace. Use PicoDrive, Ares or Kega Fusion for emulation and Parsec for netplay | Yes | |
| ClayFighter 2: Judgment Clay (3DO port) | Interplay Productions | 1994 | 2 | 3DO | CD | SNES | Retail | Commercial | Announced in magazines, cancelled a year later. There’s no info if the development even started | No | |
| ClayFighter Extreme | Interplay Productions | 1997 | 2 | PlayStation | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Based on ClayFighter 63⅓ but with a different gameplay in the style of what Interplay did with Sculptor's Cut later, cancelled around 97/98. A prototype ISO was leaked in april 17 2021. Playable on Duckstation but it's very prone to freezing, also there’s no health bars so matches are eternal | Yes | |
| ClayFighter: Call of Putty | Interplay | 2010 | 2 | Nintendo DS, Wii | Cartridge, DVD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Announced by the guys who got the rights to the Interplay name in early 2010s. According to the devs the game was gonna be “the MK Trilogy of ClayFighter”. Only screenshots of the DS version exist. According to a 4chan post the game was cancelled because “no one was paid a cent for a year of work” | No | |
| Cyberstorm | Atari | 1993 | 2 | Arcade (dedicated board) | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A 1v1 2D fighter with robots. Developed and cancelled in 1993. An ex-wife of one of the devs had the prototype at her home and decided to sell it in 2008. Emulated via MAME in 2017. Feels inspired in Time Killers but it plays much better and has some interesting juggles (probably a bug?) | Yes | |
| Daemon Bride (PSP port) | デモンブライド | Examu | 2009 | 2 | PlayStation Portable | UMD | Arcade (eX-Board) | Retail | Commercial | A PSP port of the game was announced and I SWEAR the devs released a short teaser video that I can’t find. It was cancelled pretty fast and I don’t know if the development of the port started at some point. Daemon Bride vanilla never escaped arcades, but the update was finally released on Steam in 2025 | No |
| Dark Rift (Saturn port) | Kronos Digital Entertainment | 1997 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | N64, Win | Retail | Commercial | Announced by Kronos but never happened. It's unknown if the development of this port truly started at some point | No | |
| Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (32X port) | ヴァンパイア ザ ナイト ウォーリアー (Vampire: The Night Warriors) | Capcom | 1994 | 2 | 32X | Cartridge | PS1, PS2, PS3 (PS2 Classics), Win, PS4, Xbox One, Switch | Retail | Commercial | Commented on Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine in November 1994. Honestly don’t know if this is true or not, sounds almost impossible to believe, but who knows | No |
| Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Sega Saturn port) | ヴァンパイア ザ ナイト ウォーリアー (Vampire: The Night Warriors) | Capcom | 1995 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | PS1, PS2, PS3 (PS2 Classics), Win, PS4, Xbox One, Switch | Retail | Commercial | Was announced with the PS1 port but was cancelled later. Supposedly this is the reason why the SS port of “Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge” has extra content | No |
| Dead or Alive (Nintendo 64 port) | デッドオアアライブ | Team Ninja / Tecmo | 1997 | 2 | Nintendo 64 | Cartridge | Arcade, SS, PS1 | Retail | Commercial | The only two sources of this port is an article from IGN (N64.com at that time) and a very speculative article on the official Nintendo magazine in the UK, and their sources is someone undisclosed from Acclaim. Sounds like bullshit to me | No |
| Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters (Xbox 360) | デッドオアアライブ5 Ultimate Core Fighters | Team Ninja / Tecmo Koei | 2013 | 2 | Xbox 360 | Download (Xbox Live) | PS3 | Retail | Commercial | When this F2P version of DOA5U was announced for PS3, Team Ninja devs said a Xbox 360 version was “possible”, but at the end it never happened. Even if someone found a prototype I don’t think it would work anyway | No |
| Dead or Alive Code: Chronos | デッドオアアライブ コード:クロノス | Team Ninja / Tecmo Koei | 2006 | 2 | Xbox 360 | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Also known as “Cronus”. According to Tomonobu Itagaki (RIP) Code Cronus was a spin-off/prequel of DOA. Yosuke Hayashi commented in 2010 that “the development of the project never really took off” (info taken from this interview). I don’t even know if this was a fighting game or not | No |
| Deadly Sport | デッドリースポート | Sammy (Scarab?) | 1993 | 2 | Arcade (Unknown platform) | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Also known as “Street Brawl”. It was thought to be a spiritual sequel to Survival Arts until composer Sizlla Okamura denied it. Screenshots were shown on japanese magazines of that time. A prototype board was on auction at some point and some asshole buy it without wanting to do a ROM image dump | No |
| Divekick (Demo/beta for events) | One True Game Studios | 2013 | 2 | Windows | No public distribution | N/A | Indie | Unknown (for that time) | Before it was greenlighted and distributed by Iron Galaxy the game was playable as a demo/beta on events like PAX East. Don’t know if this build has ever been released on public | No | |
| Double Heart | N-R-Y | 2001 | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter with characters from visual novels. It was at some point the direct rival of EFZ in early 2000s. Had at least three demos. It was sadly cancelled around 2002. Demo is on the “Fast Food” compilation CD. Pretty close to lost media if you ask me. Runs on modern Windows! | Demo | |
| Dragon Ball Z: V.R.V.S. (3DO port) | ドラゴンボールZ V.R.V.S. | Banpresto | 1994 | 2 | 3DO | CD | Arcade | Retail | Commercial | Port was playable on a japanese event in 1994 and there’s pictures of that in Weekly Shonen Jump issue No. 11 1994. Name was gonna be changed to, supposedly, “Dragon Ball Z: Cell To Kogeki Da” | No |
| Dragon Ball Z: V.R.V.S. (Jump Multi World 1993 version) | ドラゴンボールZ V.R.V.S. | Banpresto | 1993 | 4 | Arcade (probably Sega System 32) | ROM board | Arcade | Retail | Commercial | The original version was playable on the Jump Multi World 1993 event. The biggest differences with the final release was that the game supported link up to 4 players and used some type of infrared controllers. No leaked ROMs for now, probably never | No |
| Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (3DO port) | Virgin Interactive Entertainment | 1995 | 2 | 3DO | CD | Genesis, Jaguar, SNES | Retail | Commercial | Originally released on Genesis and SNES. Port announced as “also available soon on” in Computer and Videogames and Joystick magazines in 1995 along with a Jaguar port. The Jaguar port was indeed released, but there’s no trace of the 3DO port | No | |
| Dragon’s Heaven | Face | 1997 | 2 | Arcade (Neogeo MVS) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | An early prototype of a 1v1 2D fighter with a medieval fantasy setting that was saved by a Neo-Geo.com forums user in 2016. It's barely playable, has a lot of software freezing glitches and no sound at all. It was gonna be named “DarkSeed” but the prototype has this original name. It's on Fightcade | Yes | |
| Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter | Sega of America | 1995 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | The third entry of Eternal Champions, this time for the Saturn. According to Sega Retro: “The game only made it past the first 20 pages of concept art before being forcefully canceled by Sega of Japan, seeing the game as competition for the Saturn version of AM2's Virtua Fighter” | No | |
| Eternal Successors | Michael Latham | 2017 | 2 | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | Indie I guess | Commercial | Michael Latham, the creator of “Eternal Champions”, tried to revive the franchise by himself with this project. News were posted on SRK forums by Latham. Sadly Michael Latham passed away in 2021 and the project was halted. There’s some concept art and screenshots on the SRK Forums Archive | No | |
| Eye of Typhoon, The (original Neogeo MVS version) | 극초호권 (Kyoku Cho Gou Ken) | Viccom | 1996 | 2 | Arcade (Neogeo MVS) | Cartridge | 3DO, DOS, Neogeo MVS (2022 unofficial homebrew port) | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter made in South Korea. The spiritual successor to Fight Fever, announced for MVS at the AOU Show in February 1996. Cancelled, but got ports on 3DO and MS-DOS (both very different). Not to be confused with the homebrew fan-rebuilt version released for MVS in 2022 (I still prefer the 3DO version) | No |
| Fighters Kyodotai Flash | ファイターズ共同体FLASH | Alicuu | 2003 | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Indie | Freeware | Wanted to be the sequel to Fighters Kyodotai but only a beta was released and the game was never finished, so it has much less content than the first one. Jumped to 2D Fighter Maker 2nd. Two characters. Probably cancelled because the devs started to work on Super Cosplay War Ultra | Yes |
| Fighting Simulator: World Champ (Hiryū no Ken Special localization) | Culture Brain | 1991 | 2 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A localization of “Hiryū no Ken Special: Fighting Wars” was announced with this name based on the Game Boy localization, but was cancelled. Just play the japanese version | No | |
| Final Fight Revenge (Dreamcast port) | ファイナルファイト リベンジ | Capcom Digital Studios | 2000 | 2 | Dreamcast | GD-ROM | Arcade, SS | Retail | Commercial | A Dreamcast port of this classic kusoge was announced on the official Dreamcast Magazine in Japan on december 2000. Nothing happened because it's Final Fight Revenge + late DC doomed fate. I highly doubt development even started | No |
| Fist of the North Star 10 BIG BRAWLS FOR THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE | Banpresto | 1995 | 2 | Arcade | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | The only source I’ve found about this is Kakuge.com: an arcade 1v1 2D fighter based on the game of the same name on Game Boy, with the US name used as a reference. Sounds fishy | No | |
| Force Five (Jingi Storm: The Arcade prototype) | フォースファイブ | Anchor Inc. | 2003 | 2 | Arcade (Atomiswave) | Cartridge | DC (unofficial port) | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 3D fighter made by Fighter’s Destiny staff. Location test had a negative reception and was cancelled. Bought by Atravia and transformed into Jingi Storm but has some heavy differences. ROM was leaked in 2021 and is playable on emulators. Has an unofficial Dreamcast port. It's on Fightcade and Arkadyzja | Yes |
| FX Fighter (PC-FX game) | FXファイター | Hudson Soft | 1994 | 2 | PC-FX | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | NOT to be confused with the Argonaut game. 1v1 “””3D””” fighter in the style of VF that was shown in 1994 and had some controversy because some people thought it was running on real time but it was actually using FMVs. Cancelled but Battle Heat is a similar idea (a title that I don’t consider a FG, sorry) | No |
| FX Fighter (SNES port) | Argonaut Software | 1995 | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | MS-DOS | Retail | Commercial | Also known as “Fighting Polygon”. Now you will see how much of a boomer I really am because I WAS DESPERATELY WAITING FOR THIS GAME IN 1995. SNES answer to Virtua Fighter, using the Super FX 2 chip. Cancelled, no leaked prototype ROMs, moved and released to MS-DOS and… it's… meh? | No | |
| G1 (full version) | Nano☆bit | 2007 | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | 2D Fighter Maker 2nd game based on a RPG made by the same doujin group. According to the website the group was working on a full, commercial version for release on CD at Comiket with two new characters. Never happened, so the prototype and the website is the only thing left | No | |
| Garou: Mark of the Wolves sequel on Neogeo MVS | SNK (Playmore?) | First half of the 2000s | 2 | Arcade (Neogeo MVS) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | In 2005, after SNK bankruptcy and in the SNK Playmore era illustrator Falcoon confirmed the existence of this game that was “70% complete”. Some spritework was revealed at an interview in 2016. Some ideas were used in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. Prototype was “lost”, I would kill for a miraculous leak | No | |
| Genseishin Justirisers | 幻星神ジャスティライザー | Konami | 2004 | 2 | PlayStation 2 | DVD? | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A 1v1 3D (or maybe 2.5D) fighter based on the tokusatsu of the same name for PS2. Was cancelled, but a GBA game was released (it’s not a fighting game though, it’s a 2D action/platform game that is surprisingly decent). There’s four screenshots of the game at Game WATCH | No |
| Godzilla: Great Monster Battle (US “Kaijū Daikessen” localization) | ゴジラ 怪獣大決戦 | Alfa System | 1994 | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge (24Mbit) | N/A | Retail | Commercial | An english localization of the cult classic “Godzilla: Kaijū Daikessen” for SNES was previewed in the May 1995 issue of Nintendo Power. Never happened, sadly. The western community still uses this name from time to time for talking about the japanese game | No |
| Guilty Gear: The Missing Link (Saturn port) | ギルティギア ザ・ミッシング・リンク | Arc System Works / Team Neo Blood | 1996 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | PS1, PS3/PSP/Vita (PSN), Switch, PS4, Steam | Retail | Commercial | Announced in October 18 1996 issue of the japanese magazine “Saturn Fan”, scheduled for release in July 1997. Nothing happened, sadly. There's a part of me that would have loved to see this game on Saturn, just out of curiosity | No |
| Guts (Switch port) | Flux | 2017 | 2 | Switch | Unknown | Steam | Indie | Commercial | A Switch port of this gory 1v1 2.5D fighter originally from Steam was announced in 2017. Almost a decade has passed, the game hasn’t been updated since 2018 and the website is down, so… yep, it's dead. Just play the Steam version | No | |
| Hanzo Ninja The Dark Hero | ADK | Late 90’s | 2 | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | The only source I’ve found about this is Kakuge.com and, according to the site, it was a spin-off and crossover of “World Heroes” and “Ninja Master's: Haō Ninpō Chō”, with an older Hanzo as a protagonist. I definitely need more info about this | No | |
| Hapibato! -HAPPY BATTLE 2- | はぴばと！-HAPPY BATTLE 2- | TEAM Volcanic Blaze | 2012 | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | Sequel of the 2DFM2nd game. Has two versions: Demo 1 and 2, the second one has more stuff but it's much more buggy and prone to crashing. No website, but it's surprisingly not that hard to find. The full game was never released | No |
| Heroine Spirit's ~Akiko Kourin~ | ヒロインスピリッツ ~秋子降臨~ | Heilige Abenddaemmerung | 2000 | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter with characters from Tactics and Key games. A beta/demo was released in 2000, but the full game was never released. At least the demo is moderately easy to find online | Demo |
| Heroine’s Tournament | Fillet Creation | 2001 | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | A very ambitious 1v1 2.5D doujin fighter made by the same devs of AirForce. Announced in 2001. 2D sprites on 3D stages, with characters based on 18 videogames, probably most of them visual novels. Only a screenshot exist on the website (dead but saved by Archive.org). Devs disbanded around 2004 | No | |
| International Karate Deluxe | System 3 | 1987 | 2 | Atari ST/Amiga | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Also known as “IK++”. A second update for this classic Karate Champ clone was announced this time for Atari ST and Amiga. According to Archer Maclean (RIP) in Retrogamer magazine issue 63 the game “was ready” but was never released. Not to be confused with the unofficial Genesis port | No | |
| Iratan Supremacy | Level 7 Software | 1995 | 2 | Atari Jaguar | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 3D fighter supposedly inspired in Virtua Fighter and Killer Instinct. Only concept art and a screenshot that was probably taken from a PC exist (source of that screenshot is from the french magazine PC Consoles issue 13 January 1996) | No | |
| Ironblood (Panasonic M2) | Take-Two Interactive | 1996 | 2 | Panasonic M2 | CD | PS1 (as “Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft”) | Retail | Commercial | Originally a M2 exclusive, the game jumped to PS1 as “Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft” when the console was cancelled. Two prototypes were in fact leaked by the german website Virtuelles Computer Museum but there’s no M2 emulator for Windows (MAME has Konami M2 emulation, but only supports that) | No | |
| Isanzōzoku, The | ザ・遺産相続 | Aorn | Late 90’s | 2 | Arcade (ZN-2 maybe?) | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A 3D fighting game made with some of the staff of the “Power Instinct” franchise working for Aorn (Rabbit), in fact it seems that the game was kind of a spiritual sequel to that but in 3D. Had a location test in Konami game centers. Was cancelled and Aorn went bankrupt. There’s not even screenshots | No |
| Istanbul Beyleri | Istanbul Beyleri Team | 2006 | 2 | Windows | DVD | N/A | Indie | Commercial | The full version of this goofy fighting game made in Turkey was never released, so the “0.8 Demo” is officially the latest version. I don’t think the development of the game continued after the 0.8 Demo, but who knows | Demo | |
| Istanbul Beyleri 2 | Istanbul Beyleri Team | Unknown | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Indie | Commercial | When the first game was STILL ON DEVELOPMENT the official website announced that they were working on the sequel. Of course nothing happened and I don’t think the development even started | No | |
| Justice Heroines | ジャスティスヒロインズ | A Thorn Tread A Thorny Path | 2011 (or even older?) | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | 1v1 2D fighter with only “female warriors” including guest characters Escalayer from the Alice Soft game of the same name and Mighty Yukiko from the card game Wrestle Angels, made by the dev of “X Burlesque”. Only a preview of the sprites exist saved by Archive.org. 99% chances of being a 2DFM2nd game | No |
| K-ONE | けーわん | Negotiation Cat | Unknown (2000s decade) | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | According to Tanoshii Game no tanoshimi-kata it was a “2D fighting game with characters from ONE, Kanon, and MOON that emphasizes reading each other's moves, with risks even when attacking”. A trial version was planned, didn’t happened and the game was cancelled. Haven’t found the official website | No |
| Kaiser Knuckle 2 | カイザーナックル2 | Taito | 1996 | 2 | Arcade | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to an interview with Kaiser Knuckle main programmer Hiroshi Aoki a sequel was scrapted and the team moved to make Psychic Force instead. “The idea of making a 3D version of Kaiser Knuckle, it should be said, never even crossed our minds” said the dev… was a true sequel or was just Dan-Ku-Ga? | No |
| Kakutō Game Ryūō | 格闘ゲーム竜王 | HAL Laboratory | Before 1999 | 2 | Nintendo 64 | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A project by Masahiro Sakurai and Satoru Iwata that was cancelled and later revived as “Super Smash Bros”. Smash Wiki has a detailed entry about it. Fun fact: the main protagonist of this game was added to the romhack “Smash Remix” as a playable character | No |
| Kamen Rider Hibiki (Gamecube port) | 仮面ライダー響鬼 | dIGIFLOYD | 2005 | 2 | Gamecube | Gamecube Game Disc | PS2 | Retail | Commercial | The Kamen Rider Hibiki fighting game was announced in 2005 for both PS2 and Gamecube in sites like IT Media or Game WATCH. Nothing happened on Gamecube. Play the PS2 version | No |
| Kasumi Ninja 2 | Hand Made Software | Confirmed in 2016 | 2 | Atari Jaguar CD | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to Jim Gregory from Hand Made: “We hired a host of actors and had a new 3-D engine set up for a superb CD version of Kasumi 2. It was a fantastic storyline and was WAY ahead of anything else. Many thousands of pounds were to be lost on that project when they were closed down by Time Warner” | No | |
| KenJu | 拳獣 | DreamFactory / Sammy | 2004 | 2 | Arcade (Atomiswave) | Cartridge | DC (unofficial port) | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 3D fighter with a cel shading style. The game was almost completed but was cancelled in 2005. A prototype from a location test was leaked in 2021 and is now playable on emulators. Has an unofficial Dreamcast port. Very interesting and cool game. It's on Fightcade and Arkadyzja | Yes |
| Killer Instinct 2 (SNES port) | Rare | 1996 | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | Arcade, N64 (as Killer Instinct Gold) | Retail | Commercial | If you were into SNES when it was current you know this was coming, but sadly it was cancelled because the Nintendo 64 was too close to be released. The Stamper brothers has the prototype ROM and even showed the cartridge on Twitter some years ago, crazy bastards | No | |
| Killer Instinct 3 | Rare | 1997 | 2 | Nintendo 64 | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to Rare employees a third sequel exclusive for Nintendo 64 was in the works, this time with full real time 3D models. Only rough models of Jago and Fulgore were made until some of that team jumped to Free Radical Software and the rest were sent to finish Perfect Dark. KI was revived in 2013 | No | |
| Killing Bites | キリングバイツ | Nex Entertainment | 2016 | 2 | PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A 3D fighting game based on the anime of the same name, probably more close to the arena fighter genre. Was cancelled because Nex Entertainment was closed in July 29 2016. The Trailer was preserved and it’s on YouTube | No |
| King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout, The (Xbox port) | ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ’94 RE-BOUT | SNK Playmore | 2004 | 2 | Xbox | DVD | PS2 | Retail | Commercial | The only big difference with the PS2 port is that supports online matches via Xbox Live. Was cancelled but an ISO was leaked in 2014 by an Assembler Games user. Also has two prototypes leaked that are available for download at Hidden Palace. Works on Xemu but ask for a high-end CPU in some stages | Yes |
| King of Fighters R-3, The | ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズ R-3 | SNK | 1999 | 2 | Neogeo Pocket Color | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A third entry of the NGPC spin-off of KOF was in the works. Was cancelled because SNK was going down at that time. There’s screenshots of the game in some japanese magazines. It seems that some of the sprites of this game were moved to “SNK Gals' Fighters” | No |
| King of the Streets ‘14 | Field Magic | 2014 | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Another sequel to “King of the Streets” made from scratch. According to the dev “this version was sadly lost in a hard drive failure and unfortunately will never see the light of day”. There’s some footage on the dev’s official website. Dev made a total reboot for Steam, and was released in 2020 | No | |
| King of the Streets 2 | Field Magic | 2012 | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Sequel to “King of the Streets”. According to the dev this sequel was abandoned “due to outdated engine which I felt had hit its limit”. There’s some footage on the dev’s official website. Dev moved to “King of the Streets ‘14” that was also cancelled (see above) | No | |
| KOF: Maximum Impact 3 | KOF マキシマムインパクト3 | SNK Playmore | 2007 | 2 | Arcade (unknown platform, probably Type-X) | Unknown (probably HDD) | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Another update for KOF MI and for arcades was announced at Tokyo Game Show 2007. It even had an official logo. Falcoon resigned later and the KOF Maximum Impact project in general was halted, probably forever | No |
| KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation “A” 2 | KOF マキシマムインパクトREGULATION”A”2 | SNK Playmore | 2007 | 2 | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | Blu Ray / DVD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A new KOF MI made from scratch was announced for PS3 and Xbox 360. Falcoon resigned later and the KOF Maximum Impact project in general was halted, probably forever | No |
| Kōkoku Kansō Kyoku | 皇国間奏曲 | EX-ban ha kuchu gaado funo | Unknown (after 2006) | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | A spiritual sequel of “Senko no Ronde”… no, not THAT Senko no Ronde but a doujin clone of the same name made in 2DFM2nd, using a different kanji for the title, released in 2006 (see the letter “S” for more info). The official website has two screenshots. Was cancelled, I don’t know at what year | No |
| Ksana | 크사나 | Ioris / Eolith | 1997 | 2 | Arcade (Indigo 2 Extreme System) | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A very ambitious 1v1 3D fighter for arcade made in South Korea that wanted to compete against VF/Tekken. According to korean sources it was 80% completed until was quietly canceled. There’s some screenshots on internet and someone at Naver wrote an article that includes an interview with one of the devs | No |
| Kung Fu Story | Just Add Monsters | 2003 | 4 | Unknown (probably Xbox) | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Sequel to “Kung Fu Chaos”, an Xbox exclusive 4 players 3D platform fighter. Developers cancelled the sequel, changed their names to Ninja Theory and started to develop Heavenly Sword instead. Probably the best decision | No | |
| Legend of Raven | PDW:Hotapen / Nicalis | 2013 | 2 | Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita | Unknown | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | A 3DS port of the classic doujin game “Yatagarasu” but in hands of Nicalis (eww) and with this new shitty name. Later the project jumped to Vita but was quietly cancelled. There’s a trailer with new stages (and those stages never jumped to any update later). No beta ROM leaks (that would be cool though) | No | |
| Lightsaber Duel | JAKKS Pacific | 2006 | 1 | Dedicated JAKKS Pacific TV Game | Internal memory | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Game included on the unreleased Plug and Play “Star Wars: The Original Trilogy”. Crappy 1v1 2D fighter that at least has supers. You need to unlock the rest of the characters by playing it. Was saved by MAME but has issues in graphics/audio. ROM name is jak_swot.zip. One player game only! | Yes | |
| Lobo | Ocean | 1996 | 2 | Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Atari Jaguar | Cartridge (24Mbit) | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter based on the comics. Had an extensive coverage on magazines. A prototype ROM of the Genesis version was leaked in 2009 and the SNES proto in 2014. it's crappy, with only six characters. Both versions are on Fightcade. Nothing with the Jaguar version yet (was development even started?) | Yes | |
| Mace: The Dark Age (PlayStation port) | Atari Games | 1997 | 2 | PlayStation | CD | Arcade, N64 | Retail | Commercial | A port of this 1v1 3D weapon based fighter was announced for PS1 but nothing happened. According to this source the port was cancelled because “it just wasn’t capable of looking good enough on the PlayStation”. The N64 port is pretty good anyway, and the arcade version runs nice on MAME | No | |
| Martial Arts: Capoeira (a shitton of ports) | Twelve Games | 2011 | 2 | NDS, Xbox 360, PSP, PS2, PS3, Wii, iOS, Android | Various formats | Win, Steam | Retail | Commercial | Ports for this 1v1 3D fighter were announced for Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 (both on DVD and XBLA), PSP, PlayStation 2, Wii, PS3 (via PSN?), iOS and Android. Only the Windows version on DVD and later the Steam digital version were released | No | |
| Marvel Chaos | Electronic Arts Chicago | 2006 | 1 | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | Blu Ray / DVD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A sequel to “Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects” was announced for PS3/360 around 2006. Cancelled because the first game had a mediocre reception. A prototype of the 360 port was leaked and it's playable on Xenia. It's on a VERY early alpha state and 1 player only, but it works. Barely a fighting game | Yes | |
| Mighty Fight Federation (Xbox One port) | Komi Games | 2021 | 4 | Xbox One | Unknown | Steam, PS4, PS5, Switch | Indie | Commercial | This 4 players platform fighter was announced for all the current platforms of that moment. All ports were released… except for the Xbox One version, for some unknown reason | No | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam (third arcade fighting game) | Allumer | Unknown | 2 | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to Kakuge.com and the japanese Wikipedia entry of the “Mobile Suit Gundam” arcade fighting games a third game was in the works and Kunio Okawara designed an exclusive mobile suit for the game called “Gershwin”. The source of this is a doujinshi with an interview with the producer | No | |
| MONSTER Ancient Cline | 8105graphics. / Examu | 2008 | 2 | Arcade (ex-Board) | HDD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Sequel to the doujin game. Sprites remade from scratch. Announced in february 16 2008, later cancelled. A prototype called “TRF version 1.11a” from a test was leaked and runs on Windows without the need of Jconfig/Teknoparrot. Really cool game, I strongly recommend it. Use Parsec for netplay | Yes | |
| Mortal Kombat (Atari Jaguar port) | Unknown | 1995 | 2 | Atari Jaguar | Cartridge | Arcade, Amiga, GB, MS-DOS, Sega CD, GG, Genesis, Master System, SNES, Plug-and-Play, PSP, PS2, Xbox, PS3, Xbox 360, Steam | Retail | Commercial | According to the spanish magazine Hobby Consolas issue 41 “Mortal Kombat” was one of the upcoming games for Jaguar. Sounds like they were actually speaking about MK3. NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the fan-made conversions that have been taking place for Jaguar in recent years | No | |
| Mortal Kombat (Neo Geo Pocket Color) | Atari | 1999 | 2 | Neogeo Pocket Color | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Also known as “Mortal Kombat Pocket”. According to a Tokyo Game Show 99 SNK booklet Atari was working on “Mortal Kombat” for the NGPC. Sadly cancelled and the mere thought of imagining a Mortal Kombat game running on SNK hardware blows my mind. Beware: there’s lots of fake screenshots | No | |
| Mortal Kombat & Mortal Kombat II (Sega Saturn compilation) | Acclaim | 1995 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | MS-DOS | Retail | Commercial | Compilation of MK1 and 2 for Saturn. Was announced on magazines (the flyer is in Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection), only the MS-DOS version was released that is basically the old DOS ports of both games on a single pack. I’m super curious about how MK1 would be on Saturn, oh well | No | |
| Mortal Kombat 3 (3DO, Atari Jaguar and Saturn ports) | Williams Entertainment | 1996 | 2 | 3DO, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn | Cartridge | Arcade, Genesis, SNES, PS1, GB, GG, MS-DOS, Windows, R-Zone, Master System, PS, GC, Xbox, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360, Steam | Retail | Commercial | According to a Sega spokesperson Sony paid Midway $12 million for timed exclusive rights on CD based hardware, and that affected the other ports (this is from GamePro No.88 January 1996). Jaguar port was advertised as “89% complete” in Ultimate Future Games magazine issue 14, January 1996. No leaked beta builds. 3DO has a MK2 homebrew port | No | |
| Mortal Kombat HD Arcade Kollection | Other Ocean Interactive | 2011 | 2 | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Steam | Download? | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Other Ocean Interactive was working on a total HD remake of MK1, 2 and UMK3. Was cancelled probably because WB was like “nope, this is too expensive”. There’s some concept art and pictures of the new actress for Kitana doing the motion capture. No leaks for now | No | |
| Mortal Kombat I II III Remastered | Blind Squirrel Games | 2018 | 2 | PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, Steam | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | ANOTHER “HD” remastered project for MK1, 2 and 3 was in the works by Blind Squirrel Games. Was also cancelled and seems that no one knows for sure why. Only some screenshots of the menu/UI survives | No | |
| Mortal Kombat Nitro Edition | Acclaim | Unknown | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Sounds like a hack but no: as most people know the SNES version of MK1 sucks ass and people at Acclaim knew that. They wanted to release an “improved” update but Midway said no because MKII was on the way. A prototype was showed on YouTube by an ex-Acclaim employee, but no public ROM build yet | No | |
| Mortal Kombat Returns | Eyeballistic | 2017 | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A remake and fangame of MK1 that was considered by WB Games for a legit commercial release, but later cancelled. Two leaked versions: the “GameMaker” build with Scorpion, Sub-Zero and only 2 players VS mode and the “Unity” build with only Sub-Zero but CPU matches | Yes | |
| Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (japanese localization) | モータルコンバット デッドリーアライアンス | Midway / Koei Tecmo | 2003 | 2 | PlayStation 2, Gamecube, Xbox | DVD (PS2, Xbox), Gamecube Game Disc | On the same platforms in the US and Europe | Retail | Commercial | A japanese localization of Deadly Alliance was announced and published by Koei Tecmo in 2003. Was cancelled in the same year | No |
| My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic | Mane6 | 2012 | 2 | Windows | Download (zip file) | N/A | Indie | Freeware | 2D Fighter Maker 2nd game. 1v1 2D fighter based on “MLP: Friendship is Magic”. Game was leaked and Hasbro shutdown the project. Has some unofficial forks like Tribute Edition (recommended) and Aurora (shitton of controversy). Devs made “Them's Fightin' Herds” later | Yes | |
| Mythic Blades (Macintosh port) | Vermillion Entertainment | 2005 | 2 | Windows | CD | Win | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2.5D weapon based fighter with a greek/ancient setting, developed in Russia. The Windows version was released, but there’s no proof that the Mac port is available. Just play the Windows version | No | |
| Namco Wonder Fight | Hiro | 2020 | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Doujin | Unknown | Okay, this is a weird one: an update of the doujin fangame “Namco Super Heroes” that has been shown in various events in Japan yet the dev refuses to make it public or give a release date, in fact it seems he doesn’t want to release it at all. The game had an official website (now dead) and tons of YouTube videos… oh well | No | |
| Ninja Gaiden II (Neogeo) | NINJA 外伝II | Tecmo | First half of the 90s | 2 | Arcade (Neogeo MVS) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Not a port of the NES game but a sequel to the arcade beat ‘em up, this time on Neogeo and as a fighting game. The game has been mentioned in some interviews (for example, this about Touki Denshou Angel Eyes). No leaked prototypes | No |
| Nitroplus Kakutou Game | ニトロプラス格闘ゲーム | Nitroplus / Milestone | 2009 | 2 | Arcade (Sega NAOMI) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Prototype name for an update of “Nitro+Royale: Heroines Duel” that was announced at “Nitroplus 10th Anniversary Project Presentation” in 2008 for NAOMI. Sprites would be remade and got Saber from Fate/Stay Night. Nitroplus give up and contracted Examu, so they started from zero and made Nitroplus Blasterz | No |
| Noshuku Kanon 120% | 濃縮かのん120％ | Trip Machine | 2000 | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | 1v1 2D game with characters from Kanon and ONE. According to japanese sources it was cancelled because “Eternal Fighter Zero stole the show”. OST was released on CD. Demo is in the “Fast Food” compilation CD (you need to configure the exe file in 16 bit color) | Demo |
| Nostalgia | ノスタルジア | Addict | 2015 | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Doujin | Unknown | 1v1 2D doujin fighting game made by the same dev of Addict Kakuge. Only a single screenshot and concept art is on the website. The dev is (supposedly still?) searching for help, but almost 10 years has passed without any news or updates about it. The dev is still very active on social media, just in case | No |
| One Must Fall: 2097 sequel | Diversions Entertainment | 1996 | 2 | Unknown | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A sequel to this classic MS-DOS fighter was announced in Computer Gaming World Issue 133 in 1996 but was later cancelled. Years later, in 2003, the same team tried again and released “One Must Fall: Battlegrounds” which is supposedly NOT the same project but I need more info about that | No | |
| Oneachanchan | おねえちゃんちゃん (it reads “OneEchanchan” but the dev uses “OneA” instead) | Daromeon | 2016 | 2 | Windows | Download (zip file) | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | 2D Fighter Maker 2nd game. 1v1 2D fighter with bizarre characters designed by Daromeon, well known for his manga/anime “Kengan Ashua”. Playable demo with two characters released on Evo 2016, and has been totally radio silent since then. Killscreen article | Demo |
| Outfoxies, The (PS1 port) | アウトフォクシーズ (Outfoxies) | Namco | 1995 | 2 | PlayStation | CD | Arcade | Retail | Commercial | The only source I’ve seen about this PS1 port is at Gamefan August 1995 issue (page 100). It was also mentioned by Suda51 in an interview, but take this one as just a vague mention. It’s also on the list of cancelled PS1 games on the japanese Wikipedia but it has no sources | No |
| Phantom Breaker (US Xbox 360 port) | ファントムブレイカー | 5pb. / 7Sxity | 2012 | 2 | Xbox 360 | DVD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A US release was coming published by 7Sixty (a subsidiary of SouthPeak Games). It was quietly cancelled, probably due to it's negative reception in Japan. The original japanese version doesn’t work on Xenia so just play the updates | No |
| Pit-Fighter II | Polygames / Tengen | 1993 | 2 | Sega Genesis | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A Genesis exclusive sequel to Pit-Fighter using characters from the Atari arcade game “Guardians of the 'Hood ”. The game was cancelled in late 1993. An early build ROM was leaked by the Video Game History Foundation in december 2025. It’s… Pit-Fighter. It’s NOT on Fightcade | Yes | |
| Primal Rage (Macintosh port) | Atari Games | 1995 | 2 | Mac OS | CD | Arcade, GB, GG, Genesis, SNES, MS-DOS, 32X, 3DO, PS1, Jaguar CD, Amiga, SS, PS2, Xbox, GC | Retail | Commercial | A port of this classic 1v1 2D fighter with dinosaurs was announced for Mac OS in Macworld's January 1996 issue. Nothing happened, which is weird considering the game was released on almost everything (even the fucking Jaguar CD) | No | |
| Primal Rage II | Atari Games | 1995 | 2 | Arcade (Sony ZN-1 + custom Atari top board) | ROM board + HDD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | This highly anticipated sequel was announced in 1995 and suffered a notorious development hell until it was cancelled in 1997. Proto was leaked and it's finally on MAME in 2025 without the need for a modified build. Chris Tang made an amazing talk about it at GDC 2018. It’s on Arkadyzja with rollback! | Yes | |
| Project Cerberus (Arcade version) | プロジェクトケルベルス | Milestone / Hobibox | 2010 | 2 | Arcade (Sega NAOMI) | Probably GD-ROM | PSP | Retail | Commercial | This 1v1 2D fighting game was originally coming to NAOMI, but this version was cancelled and the game was released exclusively on PSP. There’s footage of the location test on YouTube. No leaks for now but I hope it will happen in the future (has happened with other NAOMI/Atomiswave protoypes) | No |
| Psychic Force (Sega Saturn port) | サイキックフォース | Game Bank / Taito | 1996 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | PS1 | Retail | Commercial | A Saturn port was in the works by Game Bank but in reality the port wanted to be an upgrade with more characters and special moves, in between “Psychic Force” and “Psychic Force EX” or something like that. Was sadly cancelled | No |
| Rabbit (ST-V version?) | 羅媚斗 (ateji for “Rabito”) | Aorn | 1997 | 2 | Arcade (Sega ST-V) | Cartridge | Arcade (custom PCB board), SS | Retail | Commercial | Take this with a grain of salt: according to japanese websites Rabbit was originally a Sega ST-V game but it was cancelled after the location test was a failure, so the Saturn port was “easy” to make because of this. Was released on arcades anyway outside Japan but with another arcade platform | No |
| Ranma ½ Anything Goes Martial Arts (“Chougi Ranbu Hen” US localization) | DTMC | 1995 | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | SNES (japanese version) | Retail | Commercial | A US localization of “Ranma ½ Chougi Ranbu Hen” was announced in magazines and some events. I saw an article about it in the mexican Club Nintendo magazine at that time. It was cancelled bacause DTMC went out of business. The japanese version now has a 60FPS patch and an english fantranslation | No | |
| Rise of the Robots (Arcade) | BFM/Mirage | 1994 | 2 | Arcade (Bell-Fruit/ATD RasterSpeed hardware) | ROM board + HDD | Amiga, CD32, MS-DOS, Genesis, Game Gear, SNES, 3DO, CD-i | Retail | Commercial | No, really: This crap tried to have an arcade version but was cancelled because… well, maybe because it’s Rise of the Robots. Two prototypes were leaked and are playable on MAME. Is this version the best one? I’ll say yes for now. Because it’s a somewhat newish MAME entry I recommend to just use Parsec | Yes | |
| Rise of the Robots (Atari Jaguar CD port) | Art Data Interactive | 1995 | 2 | Atari Jaguar CD | CD | Amiga, CD32, MS-DOS, Genesis, Game Gear, SNES, 3DO, CD-i | Retail | Commercial | The Atari Jaguar CD was blessed with this piece of crap being unreleased. Announced on a lot of european magazines, cancelled for unknown reasons (I mean, if it was released on the fucking CD-i why the hell not) | No | |
| Rise of the Robots (Game Boy and Master System ports) | Art Data Interactive | 1995 | 2 | Game Boy, Master System | Cartridge | Amiga, CD32, MS-DOS, Genesis, Game Gear, SNES, 3DO, CD-i | Retail | Commercial | The same story as above, but obviously it would be a totally different port. Considering the Master System was still kinda big in europe and Brazil they just needed to copy&paste the Game Gear port and call it a day, so it's slightly weird that this version was cancelled imho | No | |
| Rise of the Robots (Sega CD port) | Unknown (Art Data Interactive?) | 1995 | 2 | Sega CD | CD | Amiga, CD32, MS-DOS, Genesis, Game Gear, SNES, 3DO, CD-i | Retail | Commercial | Same story as the Jaguar CD port | No | |
| Rising Thunder | Radiant Entertainment | 2015 | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Indie | Freeware | 1v1 2.5D fighter with robots. Cancelled because devs were hired by Riot to make “2XKO”, a fanmade “Community Edition” developed from the alpha with the bless from the devs was released in 2018. Rollback via GGPO. For some time it had a small but faithful community, don’t know if that’s the case anymore | Yes | |
| Robinidou Fighters Remix | ロビニドゥファイターズREMIX | Nise Robin | 2003 | 2 | Windows | CD? | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | A commercial update for “The Robinidou Fighters Inu”. Only a preview with two characters was uploaded and the full game was never released, so has less content that the first entry. Gameplay was drastically changed though, is much more combo friendly. A true cancelled entry and not just the “final version” | Yes |
| Robot Gladiators | Eric R. Smith | 1994 | 2 | Atari Jaguar | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Only a proposal document made by an Atari programmer exists. A 1v1 3D fighter inspired on Virtua Fighter but with robots. Probably the development never started and this is vaguely acceptable for the list, but I’ll leave it here just in case for historical purposes | No | |
| Rotten Core | Team Aiduzzi | 2016 | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Indie | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter developed by a team led by Jeremy Patterson, a MUGEN character designer well known for being the creator of the character “Ella”. Launched a crowdfunding campaign in 2016 and even had the blessing from Elecbyte but failed to achieve the goal and has been radio silent since then | No | |
| Sammy vs. Capcom | Capcom | 2004 | 2 | Arcade (Atomiswave) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Basically Darkstalkers vs. Guilty Gear. Rumours on japanese sources says that was cancelled because of a controversy surrounded a Gundam game that had source code stolen by Sammy from a Capcom game. Probably never passed a very early stage of development, such a shame | No | |
| Samurai Spirits Rokuban Shōbu (japanese PSP port) | サムライスピリッツ六番勝 | Terminal Reality / SNK Playmore | 2008 | 2 | PlayStation Portable | UMD | PSP (in the US and Europe), Wii, PS2 | Retail | Commercial | Known in the US as “Samurai Shodown Anthology”. For unknown reasons the japanese version of the PSP port for was cancelled but was localized and released on the same platform in the US and Europe. Really weird if you ask me | No |
| SD Hiryū no Ken (US SNES release) | Culture Brain | 1994 | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Supposedly a US release of “SD Hiryū no Ken” was in the works but nothing happened. It probably would have had another totally random and confusing name, like this whole franchise in the United States. Just play the original japanese version | No | |
| Seiryuu Densetsu Gaiden: Ougi Keishou e no Michi | 聖龍伝説 ~奥義継承への道~ | Vap | 1996 | 6 | PlayStation | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 6 players 2D fighter based on the TV drama series of the same name. Was cancelled for unknown reasons. There’s footage of the game at YouTube from a commercial VHS. Looks more like a competitive PVP beat ‘em up game… it’s hard to explain, but looks fine and it’s a shame it was cancelled. No leaks | No |
| Senko no Ronde (PlayStation Vita game) | 旋光の輪舞 | G.rev | 2012 | 2 | PlayStation Vita | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | An exclusive version of Senko no Ronde for Vita was announced on Famitsu in 2012. Nothing happened | No |
| Shadows Fight | Evgeniy Dyabin | 2001 | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Indie | Unknown | Also retroactively known as “Shadow Fight 0”. 1v1 2D fighter using shadows/silhouettes. It was never released but the dev later took the same concept and created the popular (on mobile) “Shadow Fight” series. Screenshots are available at this Fandom entry. The game hasn’t been leaked | No | |
| Shokendo (Slam Dragon US localization) | Pre-Stage / Jaleco | 1996 | 2 | PlayStation | CD | PS1 (Japan only) | Retail | Commercial | The name of the US localization of Slam Dragon, published by Jaleco. The game had ads in some magazines of the era, but nothing happened (some people will say this was for the best). Just play the japanese version | No | |
| Sonic the Fighters (Saturn port) | ソニック・ザ・ファイターズ | Sonic Team | 1996 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | Arcade, PS3, Xbox 360 | Retail | Commercial | Known in the US as “Sonic Championship”. Privately shown at E3 1996. Cancelled around 1998. According to Yojiro Ogawa of Sonic Team the port was cancelled because “it was difficult to reproduce a similar experience to the arcade version” but has been rumoured for decades that the port was completed | No |
| Spirit Fighters 2: Milimeter Fighters 2001 | IS-Soft | 2001 | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | Entry of “The Spirit Fighters” between “The Spirit Fighters 2000” and “The Spirit Fighters XI”. Seems that the game was just abandoned (the last update on the website saved by Archive.org says “we didn't manage to finish our new release in time”). See also “SVF Chaos: Spirit vs. Fighters” | No | |
| Square vs. Enix | スクウェアVSエニックス | Famicom Runners High | Unknown | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | Fangame. Probably a 2D Fighter Maker 95 game made by the devs of Blader Crisis. They had a website with screenshots but it was sadly not saved by Archive.org. Officially cancelled (labeled as “unfinished project” on the group website) | No |
| Street Fighter (NES port) | ストリートファイター | Capcom? | Unknown | 2 | Nintendo Entertainment System | Cartridge | Arcade, ZX Spectrum, C64, Amiga, CPC, Atari ST, PCE (as “Fighting Street”), MS-DOS, Wii (PCE port), PS2, Xbox, Windows, PSP, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Steam, Mobile | Retail | Commercial | Frank Cifaldi, who worked on the “Museum” part of “Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection” revealed a screenshot on Twitter. No leaked prototype ROMs | No |
| Street Fighter Classic | ストリートファイター クラシック | Capcom | 1994 | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to this interview with Hideaki Itsuno this was a Super Famicom exclusive (hence “SFC”) using characters from the first Street Fighter and new art by Bengus. Cancelled because the concept jumped to arcades and morphed into “Street Fighter Zero/Alpha” (see also “Super Street Fighter Zero”) | No |
| Street Fighter V (Linux port) | ストリートファイターV | Dimps / Capcom | 2016 | 2 | Linux | Download | PS4, Steam, Arcade (updates for “Street Fighter V: Type Arcade”) | Retail | Commercial | A native port was announced by Capcom in 2016 but nothing happened. SFV Windows (Steam) port works on Proton, just in case | No |
| Strip Fighter V Arcade Edition | ストリップファイター5 ARCADE EDITION | StudioS / Hawt Pink Club | 2020 | 2 | Arcade (exA-Arcadia) | USB FLASH | Windows? | Doujin | Commercial | An arcade port of this StudioS NSFW fighting game was announced in 2020 for exA-Arcadia. Was showed in an event and after that has been radio silent. It’s 2026, I think this is completely dead. Play the original Windows game instead (which, honestly, this so called “arcade port” looks like exactly the same) | No |
| Subscribe & Punch! | Hashieve / IronEqual | 2018 | 2 | Windows | Download (Steam) | N/A | Indie | Freeware | 1v1 2D fighter with a cast of “parodies” based on popular YouTubers. Demo was released with two characters (parodies of Pewdiepie and Cinnamontoastke) but the full game was never released. Steam entry has a Trailer with characters that were never released. No online | Demo | |
| Super Dragon Ball Z sequel | Arika / Crafts & Maister | 2006 | 2 | “Next generation hardware” (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) | DVD/Blu-Ray | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A sequel to the Arcade/PS2 game Super Dragon Ball Z (known as “Chou Dragon Ball Z” in Japan) was announced in an interview with the original game producer in 2006 for “next generation hardware” (PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii at the time). Nothing happened, development probably never truly started | No | |
| Super Street Fighter Zero | スーパーストリートファイターZERO | Capcom | 1996 | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to the book “Game Clip VI” released in August 1996 (also the source for the japanese Wikipedia entry of Alpha 1) originally the SNES port of Alpha 2 was gonna be a port of Alpha 1 with extra stuff, but Capcom was greenlighted with the use of the S-DD1 chip and ported Alpha 2 instead | No |
| Survival Arts (Genesis and SNES port) | サバイバルアーツ | Scarab | 1994 | 2 | Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo | Cartridge | Arcade | Retail | Commercial | A Genesis and SNES port of this legendary arcade fighting game was announced at the February 1994 issue of GamePro magazine. Nothing happened and it's a shame because I’m super curious about seeing this game on those platforms | No |
| SVF Chaos: Spirit vs. Fighters | IS-Soft | 2003 | 2 | Windows | Unknown | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | Another entry of “The Spirit Fighters” between “The Spirit Fighters 2000” and “The Spirit Fighters XI”. There’s some screenshots in the official website but I haven’t found a single clue that the game was released as some point, also everything was deleted from the website some time before the release of XI | No | |
| Sword Master, The / Sword Master EX | ザ・ソードマスター / ソードマスターEX | Ohira Giken | 1993 | 2 | Arcade | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A 1v1 2D fighter with a medieval fantasy setting. The game had a location test in Japan and was cancelled. Later the game was revived as “Sword Master EX” as an upgrade with more stuff. Had a location test… and was cancelled too!!. Someone wrote detailed information about the game here | No |
| Tattoo Assassins | Data East Pinball | 1994 | 2 | Arcade (Data East 32 bit ARM) | ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | What can I say at this point? it’s a classic thanks to MAME. Another prototype was found some years ago and was added to MAME as the base version but I don’t know if it has too many changes (the music has less bugs, that was noticeable). exA-Arcadia version that wants to “complete” the game is coming | Yes | |
| Tekken x Street Fighter | 鉄拳 X ストリートファイター | Bandai Namco Studios | 2010 | 2 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Retail | Commercial | Announced by Bandai Namco in 2010. According to Harada the game was 30% completed and was cancelled in 2016. It is speculated that the game was cancelled due to the negative reception of Street Fighter x Tekken. Some of that work was used in Akuma on Tekken 7. A beta leak would be amazing | No |
| Tenrin no Syo Chicago / Crystal Legacy (Breakers prototype) | 天麟の書 死嘩護 | Visco | 1993 | 2 | Arcade (Neogeo MVS) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Prototype of Breakers. It was actually a totally different game, more close to Art of Fighting, that shows the development hell that it was at some point. A motherfucker has the proto and even ROM dumps that he showed running on NeoRageX and yet he doesn’t want to release this to the public :( | No |
| Thea Realm Fighters | High Voltage Software | 1995 | 2 | Atari Jaguar, Atari Jaguar CD | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter with digitized characters like Mortal Kombat… so like MK that both Ho-Sung Pak and Daniel Pesina are in the game. Cancelled because Jaguar was dying. Has several ROM prototypes on internet, the oldest is an unplayable glitchfest and the latest somewhat passable. Use BigPEmu for emulation | Yes | |
| Thrill Kill | Paradox Development | 1998 | 4 | PlayStation | CD | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 4 players 3D fighter that made some buzz because of it’s violence. Cancelled when it was almost completed but was leaked immediately. Engine was used for “Wu-Tang Shaolin Style”. Has a mod called “TKPlus” with all unlocked from the start and versus mode highlighted. Both versions are on Arkadyzja | Yes | |
| Time Killers (SNES port) | Malibu Games | Unknown | 2 | Super Nintendo | Cartridge | Arcade, Genesis, iiRcade | Retail | Commercial | A port of Time Killers, originally from arcades in 1992. Malibu Games released the Genesis port waaay later in 1996. A SNES port was announced but cancelled, no one knows how complete the development of this version was | No | |
| Tokyo 2059 A.D | Team Shuriken | 2011 | 2? | Xbox 360 | Download (XBLA) | N/A | Indie | Commercial | Sequel to the Xbox 360 indie fighting game “Tokyo 2029 A.D” (see “Unplayable on PC”) that has a “coming soon” screen of the mentioned game. Only a simple concept art image exist | No | |
| ToonFighterZ | Mental Drink | 2010 | 2 | Nintendo 3DS | Nintendo Game Card | N/A | Indie | Commercial | 1v1 2.D fighter, spin-off of Fight'N'Jokes using the same characters but with 3D stages and a zoom in/out effect. Announced at GDC 2010, there’s a Trailer on YouTube from the official Mental Drink channel. Nothing happened after that, but at least Fight'N'Jokes was released again in 2021 with rollback netcode | No | |
| Toy Fighter (Dreamcast port) | トイファイター | Anchor, Inc. | 1999 | 2 | Dreamcast | GD-ROM | Arcade | Retail | Commercial | According to some japanese magazines and even on the US magazine “GameWEEK” a Dreamcast port of this game was in the works. Never happened and it’s a shame because the game rules. Play the original NAOMI game | No |
| Trajes Fatais | Onanim Studio | 2016 | 2 | Windows | Download (zip file) | N/A | Indie | Freeware? | Also known as “TRAF”. 1v1 2D fighter made in Brazil. Spritework is great. Cancelled because of a conflict between the devs. Has two versions: beta from 2016 and a “Liar Day 2024” leak that you need to download from fucking Telegram, but it’s real. I don’t recommend to stream, toxic devs stuff going on here | Yes | |
| Triangle Force | とらいあんぐるフォース | EXs-sama | Unknown (probably 2001) | 2 | Windows | CD | N/A | Doujin | Commercial | A 2v2 2D fighting game with characters from Triangle Heart. A super early demo was released on a compilation CD called “Fast Food 3” that I haven’t found online. Nothing happened after that. There’s a video on YouTube and the CD is still available on Surugaya or Yahoo! Auction if someone wants to save it | Maybe? |
| Tzompantli (Xbox One and Mac ports) | Deathly Ideas | 2016 | 2 | Xbox One, OSX | Unknown | Steam | Indie | Commercial | According to the official website (now dead but saved by Archive.org) both Xbox One and Mac OS ports were in the making. Nothing happened. Just play the Steam version (it’s an “early access” game but was abandoned, so that’s your final product now) | No | |
| Ultimate Domain (Heaven’s Gate prototype) | Racdym | 1996 | 2 | Arcade (Sega Model 2) | ROM board | Arcade (ZN-1), PS1 | Retail | Commercial | According to CVG #181 and Mean Machines #51 the prototype of Heaven’s Gate was called “Ultimate Domain” and runs on Model 2, not ZN-1 as the final game. CVG showed two very low quality screenshots. No prototype ROMs | No | |
| Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (3DO) | Williams Entertainment | 1995 | 2 | 3DO | CD | Arcade, Genesis, SNES, SS, GBA, NDS, PS2, Xbox 360, Win, PS3, Arcade1Up, Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | Retail | Commercial | Was announced in some magazines at the time. Cancelled because the project supposedly moved to M2. A disc with assets from the 3DO port was found but there’s no way to make a build of it | No | |
| Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (M2) | Williams Entertainment | 1996 | 2 | Panasonic M2 | CD | Arcade, Genesis, SNES, SS, GBA, NDS, PS2, Xbox 360, Win, PS3, Arcade1Up, Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S | Retail | Commercial | Port jumped from 3DO to M2, and M2 was later cancelled too. There’s no evidence that the development of this port was even started | No | |
| Ultraman Fighting Evolution (Arcade port?) | ウルトラマン Fighting Evolution | Banpresto | 1998? | 2 | Arcade | Probably ROM board | PS1 | Retail | Commercial | An arcade version of Ultraman Fighting Evolution that was released on PS1. Had a location test. Cancelled probably because the reception was not good. Just play the PS1 game or the sequels | No |
| Ultravore | Beyond Games | 1995 | 2 | Atari Lynx | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter and a spin-off of “Ultra Vortek”. Announced in 1995 as a Lynx exclusive, was cancelled because 1995 was a really bad year for trying to release something for the Lynx. Source code was adquired by Songbird Productions and will be released as “Ultravore Zero” in 2026 (see “In development”) | No | |
| Unknown fighting game 'BB' | Unknown | Unknown | 2 | Arcade | ROM board | N/A | Unknown | Unknown | A very mysterious ROM board found by the MAME team. It's on a super early stage of development and it's borderline unplayable. Some people think it's a very early prototype of Martial Champions but no one knows for sure. The name used here is the official name on MAME romset. Good luck trying to “play” this | Yes | |
| Untitled Luefilka fighting game | Luefilka | 2001 | 4 | Windows | Download | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | A 1v1 2D doujin game with characters from Air and Kanon. Announced in 2001, around 2003 it switched to a 4 players action game more close to a beat ‘em up. Website disappeared in 2005. Had a demo that wasn’t saved by Archive.org and without an official name is almost impossible to search elsewhere | Maybe? | |
| Vanguard Princess Prime | ヴァンガードプリンセスプライム | Suge9 | 2011 | 2 | Windows | Download | N/A | Doujin | Freeware | The first -real- big update for Vanguard Princess. A new character called Rikako was announced with some screenshots. Sugeno disappeared from the face of earth and this never happened. This was NOT added to the arcade exclusive update “Vanguard Princess R” | No |
| Verdict Guilty Clash (Saturn homebrew) | 유죄 평결 CLASH (Yujoe Pyeong-gyeol Clash) | JoshProd | 2019 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | DC | Indie | Commercial | Announced in the website “Dreamcast Talk” in 2019. Update of “Verdict Guilty” that added characters from “Breakers Revenge”. Game moved exclusively to Dreamcast and was released in 2025. The Saturn port is probably dead | No |
| Vicious Circle | Atari | 1996 | 2 | Arcade (CoJag hardware) | HDD + ROM board | N/A | Retail | Commercial | It’s basically Atari’s answer to “Killer Instinct”. Announced in 1996. There’s still debate about why this was cancelled but maybe was because Midway got Atari and cancelled it. A prototype is playable on MAME. It’s incomplete (enjoy the “Not yet!” messages) but it’s playable. Haven’t tested any online option yet | Yes | |
| Virtua Fighter 3 (Sega Saturn port) | バーチャファイター3 | Sega | 1998 | 2 | Sega Saturn | CD | DC, Arcade (ALL.Net) | Retail | Commercial | A port of this classic was announced for Saturn. Cancelled and moved as a launch title for Dreamcast. Has been talked for decades that the port was 100% completed and fans are still waiting for a leak | No |
| Waku Waku 7 sequel | Sunsoft | Unknown | Unknown | Probably arcades? | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A sequel to the cult classic “Waku Waku 7” was in the works (and no, it isn’t “Astra Superstars”) but was cancelled. Concept art of the game was revealed in 2014 at the "Sunsoft Retro Exhibition" held in Nagoya | No | |
| Warlocks of the Fates | 神竜戦記 (Shinryu Senki) | Astec 21 | 1995 | 2 | Arcade (Neogeo MVS) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | 1v1 2D fighter for the Neo Geo. Received extensive coverage on Neo Geo Freak magazine. There’s some video footage at YouTube. A prototype cartridge is on a Mandarake store in Nakano Broadway with a “not for sale” sticker. I saw it myself in 2013 and 2019, and it's still there… | No |
| Way of the Warrior (Arcade version) | Naughty Dog | 1994 | 2 | Arcade (American Laser Games hardware) | CD | 3DO | Retail | Commercial | David R. Liu, who was a tester for the 3DO game, said in a 1994 interview (see GameFAQs) that an arcade version of this title was “very close - I'd say the arcade Way should be ready for printing within weeks, if not sooner”. Nothing happened. There’s a flyer of the arcade platform | No | |
| World Heroes 64 | ワールドヒーローズ64 | ADK | 1997 | 2 | Arcade (Hyper Neogeo 64) | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to this japanese website World Heroes was going to jump to HNG64 with 3D models but was cancelled because HNG64 was a huge commercial failure. There’s only an image of a polygonal test model of Hanzo | No |
| Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Amiga port) | Ocean | 1989? | 1? | Amiga | Unknown | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to some european Amiga magazines a port of “Yie Ar Kung-Fu” based on the arcade version was in the works by Ocean. Nothing happened | No | |
| Yie Ar Kung-Fu (SG-1000 port) | イー・アル・カンフー | Konami | 1985 | 1 | SG-1000 | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | According to Sega Retro a port for the SG-1000, based on the MSX/NES port, was in the works. Cancelled because SG-1000 was dying, BUT, there’s a bootleg for the same platform, made by the taiwanese group Aaronix with the name “Gōngfu” that has been rumored to be programmed using the cancelled port? | Maybe? |
| Zatch Bell! Electric Arena 2 (US “Unare! Yūjō no Zakeru 2” localization) | Eighting / Banpresto | 2004 | 2 | Game Boy Advance | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | A localization of the game “Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Unare! Yūjō no Zakeru 2” was announced in 2004 but was cancelled. A fan translation that “tries” to be this localized version was released in 2023. It’s still not the real thing, it’s not a ROM prototype leak, so it’s still unreleased for me, but it’s a good alternative | No | |
| Zodiac Fighters | V-Real Interactive | 1994 | 2 | Atari Jaguar | Cartridge | N/A | Retail | Commercial | Also known as “Horrorscope”. A fighting game announced alongside Arena Football '95 by the same developer. Both games were cancelled and there’s no screenshots or videos of Zodiac Fighters, but a prototype of Arena Football ‘95 ROM was leaked on the internet, so maybe a miracle could happen in the future | No |
