The Cutting Room Floor
The Cutting Room Floor is a site dedicated to unearthing and researching unused and cut content from video games. From debug menus, to unused music, graphics, enemies, or levels, many games have content never meant to be seen by anybody but the developers — or even meant for everybody, but cut due to time/budget constraints.
Feel free to browse our collection of games and start reading. Up for research? Try looking at some stubs and see if you can help us out. Just have some faint memory of some unused menu/level you saw years ago but can't remember how to access it? Feel free to start a page with what you saw and we'll take a look. If you want to help keep this site running and help further research into games, feel free to donate.
Featured Article
Developer: KnowWonder (Windows), Westlake Interactive (Macintosh)
Publisher: EA Games (Windows), Aspyr Media (Macintosh)
Released: 2001, Windows, Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X
The PC version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone went through an accelerated development cycle in order to be released alongside the film of the same name. The game was mostly based on the original book by J.K. Rowling as Warner Bros. was extremely strict about releasing materials related to the highly anticipated film adaptation. The movie went on to become the top-grossing film of 2001, and the PC version similarly became one of the best-selling games of the year and continues to have a following of its own.
While the magical world of Hogwarts has many secrets to be found, the game's files are full of perhaps even more secrets that reveal much about what was going on behind the scenes. Remnants from the game's rushed development include an easily accessible debug mode, various assets for a scrapped Privet Drive level, tons of unused dialogue, and a plethora of other content intended for numerous features that were ultimately dropped.
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- ...that the Atari 7800 port of Karateka wants to plant subliminal messages in your brain?
- ...that ClayFighter 63⅓ has a character name graphic for a "HoboCop"?
- ...that the Japanese version of Factory Panic has Gorbachev as the protagonist, but he was changed to a much more generic character in the International releases?
- ...that the stage select in the Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast doubles as an exception handler?
- ...that Commando was originally called Combat, and was renamed Space Invasion in West Germany?
- ...that DuckTales has a third ending with a very obscure unlocking method?
- ...that at least 68 games released on today's date have articles?
Contributing
Want to contribute? Not sure where to begin? Visit the Help page for everything you need to get started, including...
- Instructions for creating and editing articles
- Guides that will help you find debug modes, unused graphics, hidden levels, and more
- A list of what needs to be done
- Common things that can be found in hundreds of different games
We also have a sizable list of games that either don't have pages yet, or whose pages are in serious need of expansion. Check it out!
Featured File
Spy Fox: Operation Ozone is a game in which Poodles Galore constructs a giant orbital aerosol hairspray can to destroy the ozone layer, so she can have a world monopoly on her SPF 2001 sunscreen, and it's up to Spy Fox to stop her.
Pictured is an unused teaser for an unreleased game, A Gaspocket Adventure: Aliens Ate My Cookies. Prior to that game's leak, this was the only sign of the game's existence. It's also the only 16-bit color graphic found in the entire game's data.
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