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: Nintendo EAD Group No.4
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 2015, Wii U
Super Mario Maker is every Mario fan's dream come true; the ability to make their own courses. Longtime fans and newcomers can experiment with all possibilities like putting wings on blocks or enemies, and even stacking a ton of Piranha Plants on top of a Firebar. It was so well-received, it even got a 3DS port.
This game contains a LOT of leftovers including items with different graphic styles, early variants of items, and even leftovers of items from an earlier iteration of Splatoon!
It is quite an interesting read.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Mega Man 7 has two somewhat hidden references to Nintendo hardware that were removed in later releases?
- ...that the NES Tetris has a partially implemented two-player mode?
- ...that the arcade game Depthcharge could have let the player bomb whales?
- ...that Chainz 2: Relinked once had a level editor?
- ...that the A-Type song in the Game Boy version of Tetris was completely different in the earliest released copies?
- ...that Game & Watch Gallery originally had a Very Hard version of Classic Mode?
- ...that at least 30 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
Syndicate Wars is the sequel to Syndicate, if you couldn't tell already. Compared to the original, it features more detailed cyberpunk environments in 3D, new weapons, and some very interesting missions.
Pictured is a mission from the cut campaign for the Unguided, the punk rock styled citizens rebelling against both the oppressive Eurocorp and sinister Church of the New Epoch after their controlling Utopia chips fail. Little is known about the Unguided campaign, why it was cut, or how it would work in-game outside of the actual missions.
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