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
Developers: Ion Storm, Westlake Interactive (Mac)
Publishers: Eidos Interactive, Aspyr Media (Mac)
Released: 2000, Windows, Mac OS Classic
Deus Ex is the rare combination of several genres, real-life conspiracies, loads of content to explore, and captivating environments.
The game was also highly ambitious, with development spanning several years. Not only are there plenty of cut concepts, but also plenty of concept art and screenshots from early versions of the game. The released game also contains slews of cut conversations, loads of unused textures, and some tidbits from cut levels.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that The New Tetris contains a gigantic amount of hidden rants and ASCII art? And that it took hackers only three days to find?
- ...that the DOS version of Mario is Missing! has cut dialogue for the ending?
- ...that the arcade version of Bubble Bobble has a complete set of slot machine graphics?
- ...that many early Konami NES games have anti-piracy features designed to make the player's experience miserable?
- ...that PuLiRuLa has a hidden snowy stage in the game's code?
- ...that Valve accidentally leaked cut weapon names in Team Fortress 2 then leaked the assets for said weapons almost two years later to the day?
- ...that at least 37 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
The Game Boy Camera is a quirky camera that takes monochrome photos at a low resolution of 128x112 pixels. It had numerous changes between regions and special editions, including changes for the weird UI images (most infamously, the error images that would pop up). There were even once plans to make a color version of the camera.
An additional version involving Hello Kitty characters was also planned, and went unreleased. Its existence was only known when it was found in the lot check archives in 2020. Shown here is a unique error message screen from that version.
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