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: Rockstar North
Publisher: Rockstar Games
Released: 2004, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Windows
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas... it's essentially the pinnacle of the Grand Theft Auto games, if not, many open-world games as a whole. It was loaded with features, such as customization, side missions, a hunger and strength system and even a much bigger map than before. Such content led this game to become a best-seller, to the point of receiving multiple ports.
As jam-packed as this game can be, there's a boatload of unused content to be found such as a wider range of customization options, unseen pedestrians, unused mission parts and even a skateboard. It gets more fascinating as it went through a wealth of revisional and regional differences, resulting in certain details and features being exclusive to a version of the game!
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Hardwar has a hidden CD audio track containing some snarking from the developers?
- ...that the Intellivision port of Centipede has a hidden message with a terrible pun?
- ...that the Superman arcade game has graphics for a female character and a sign advertising delicious Cold Blood?
- ...that Scribblenauts once had a female Maxwell?
- ...that Monster Rancher has a slick techno track randomly put on the CD as filler?
- ...that the Wii version of A Boy and His Blob has a Sam & Max: Freelance Police intro movie?
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
Buster Brothers, also known as Pomping World, Pang, and Loony Goony Pop-Balloony, is an action game about popping evil balloons that are terrorizing the landmarks and cities of Earth.
While the Game Boy version is the only one without a two-player mode, the ROM does contain mostly-complete and working Link Cable support, as well as two-player layouts of the screens. That said, it seems this code wasn't finished: there is neither code to detect the link status nor a special menu item to select the two-player mode.
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