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: Telltale Games
Publisher: The Adventure Company (US), JoWooD Productions (EU)
Released: 2006-2007, Windows, Wii, Xbox 360
Sam & Max Save the World is one of Telltale's first episodic titles, with the stories written by the creators of the Sam & Max: Freelance Police cartoon (which had ended in 1998 but gained a cult following). Continuing in the footsteps of the duo's first (and only prior) game, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Save the World is a point-and-click adventure with lots of silliness and snark.
The game has lots of unused dialogue and graphics in the files, some of which indicate that there were some rewrites and last-minute changes to the story.
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- ...that Mega Man: The Power Battle has many dummied-out features that would make their way into the sequel?
- ...that Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood once had an area called Tutorial Island?
- ...that Life Force has over 20 pieces of unused music?
- ...that inside the Mario Kart Arcade GP ROM, there exists a picture of the Beslan school hostage crisis, a major terrorist attack?
- ...that at least 45 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
Zoo Tycoon is Microsoft's entry into the then-wildly-popular genre of simulation games, featuring picky animals, lazy staff, and dumb guests.
The 'lose scenario' image originally featured a pride of lions attacking the guests with a nice big 'You lose!' printed on it. This was changed to a zookeeper running from a stampede of various animals in the final.
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