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: Square
Publisher: Square
Released: 1994, Super Nintendo
Final Fantasy VI is the sixth game in the long-running Final Fantasy series, and is considered by many to be among the best. It's earned quite a reputation online, as well, for being extremely prone to glitches, some of which actually render things unused that otherwise should be accessible.
But not even glitches can account for everything that went unused in this game: Enemies, spells, key items, dialogue aplenty, Esper effects, and even bits of code to modify the prices in shops all got left out. Did you know that it's actually possible to add the main villain, Kefka, to the team? This game is loaded with mysteries.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that the original arcade version of Donkey Kong has a congratulatory message to those who could decompile the game?
- ...that both Hidden Agenda and The Transnium Challenge summon Satan if a graphic is missing?
- ...that many older games have uncompiled code snippets sloppily included?
- ...that Skullgirls has an ASCII portrait of a Persona 2 character hidden in its cutscene script files?
- ...that the voice acting in The Town With No Name could have been worse?
- ...that Pingus has an unused Pac-Man levelset?
- ...that at least 144 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!
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Bad Piggies for Adobe Flash is Rovio's aborted attempt at a level creation platform for the Angry Birds franchise that predates the released game of the same name. Having never been announced before its cancellation, it only reached the public eye through a long-abandoned Google Cloud website where builds from March and May 2011 exist to this day. While Rovio's vision of a "social" Angry Birds game never came to fruition, their work didn't all go to waste - the underlying engine was finished and used by a slew of sponsored webgames as well as Angry Birds Friends, while the core concept was reworked into the spin-off we all know and love.
This image shows the level design UI for the later build.
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