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
Super Mario Galaxy
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 2007, Wii
Super Mario Galaxy takes traditional platforming and sets it deep in space in one of the best video games of all time. Left over in the game are traces of all the ideas that didn't quite make it into the game, from lost planets to unused enemies to early models. A few of these ideas were worked into the sequel.
Did You Know...
- ...that the Atari 7800 port of Karateka wants to plant subliminal messages in your brain?
- ...that Team Fortress 2 has a real-time music track leftover in its files?
- ...that Side B of the Apple II Karateka diskette has an upside-down version of the game?
- ...that the stage select in the Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast doubles as an exception handler?
- ...that Super Mario Advance 4 has a large amount of e-Reader content that was never used?
- ...that LEGO Ninjago: Spinjitzu Smash had unused graphics from Mega Man Battle Network?
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!
