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: GSC Game World
Publisher: Deep Silver
Released: 2008, Windows
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky serves as a prequel to Shadow of Chernobyl, further elaborating on The Zone’s many mysteries. Clear Sky was released only a year after the previous game, utilizing ideas that were abandoned during Shadow of Chernobyl’s prolonged development.
While Clear Sky didn’t suffer from a lengthy development, there’s still plenty of cut content lurking within, including cut weapons, quests, audio, and dialogue.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that the Amiga version of Final Fight has two lengthy diatribes by the author?
- ...that Taito's Indiana Jones game hates checksum errors?
- ...that Norimaro in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter has an unused nosebleed attack? (Yes, you read that right.)
- ...that Blaster Master has an unused 8th special item that not even Blaster Master Underground knew about?
- ...that there are models for Mario and a Goomba hidden in Pikmin?
- ...that Nintendo World Championships 1990 was likely meant to have music on its title screen?
- ...that at least 14 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
Tetris Attack is a re-branding of Panel de Pon, a cutesy puzzle game featuring fairies. However, due to the (mis)usage of the Tetris license, the rebranded version of the game has not seen a re-release. The original Panel de Pon would be released internationally on the Nintendo Switch Online service 25 years later.
Pictured is an unused bio for Thanatos. While all other characters have bios seen by waiting on the title screen, bios for Thanatos and Corderia can only be seen by going to an options menu, which requires hacking to access. View more
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