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.
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Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Released: 1988, NES/Famicom
Bionic Commando was a game that had Nazis in it, so it was massively censored by Nintendo outside of Japan, having all references to Nazis replaced with "The Badds" (except for the fact that if you made it all the way to the end, you got to fight Hitler). It's a fun platformer, but oddly enough you can't actually jump in it.
It has a lot of unused and censored content, including unused areas and unused dialogue, but the regional differences are, quite expectedly, where most of the differences lie.
All Featured BlurbsWere You Aware...
- ...that Hardwar has a hidden CD audio track containing some snarking from the developers?
- ...that Zeromus got a makeover in the Japan-exclusive Easy Type version of Final Fantasy IV?
- ...that there's an unused mask of Link's face in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask?
- ...that Mario has a model stretched to fit Luigi's proportions in Luigi's Mansion?
- ...that Tiger Woods 99 PGA Tour Golf has an uncensored version of the South Park pilot episode?
- ...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?
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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Pokémon Stadium 2 is essentially Pokémon Stadium with 251 Pokémon, new mini-games, and a couple of new features.
Found among the mugshots of the trainers and Gym Leaders is a set for Pichu, of all things. It was likely used for testing, though the idea of Pichu leading a team of Pokémon is a cute thought.
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