Fallout: New Vegas modders are having a field day restoring cut content found in the recently leaked beta

In November a beta build of Fallout: New Vegas that is a whole two gigabytes bigger than the release version was uncovered on an Xbox 360 dev kit. It contained locations, textures, and even whole NPCs that were ultimately cut to get the finished game down to a more workable size.

But what was too much New Vegas for an Xbox 360 disc is not nearly enough for a heavily modded playthrough on PC, and the Fallout modding community has spent weeks going over the beta with a fine-toothed comb to restore some of the most interesting things that were lost.

For starters, there’s an NPC who made it to the deck of playing cards in the Collector’s Edition, yet was absent from the finished game. Marilyn, the second of Mr. House’s securitron lady friends, is even referenced by Veronica in the finished game, so it’s a relief to finally have her return. There are actually a few mods bringing Marilyn back, but I went with the straightforward Marilyn Restored for my current loadout.

On the subject of Mr. House, the skeevy Steve Buscemi-looking original depiction of the character is also back thanks to Restored Beta Mr House, and if you really want to go all the way his Lucky 38 casino was supposed to have its own bespoke trash cans—you can see them in the intro cutscene—and finally you can experience true peace of mind on that front with Lucky 38 Trash Cans Restored.

Posters from Fallout: New Vegas compared in their beta and final forms