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: Rare
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 1994, Super Nintendo
Donkey Kong Country is an SNES platformer released to much hype. It has the distinction of being the highest-selling non-bundled Super Nintendo game ever. Its graphics were created by capturing 3D models rendered with Silicon Graphics equipment. Those graphics were then packed into the ROM with a proprietary compression technique. This process came to be known as "Advanced Computer Modeling", or, "Magic".
As loaded as the game is with content, there's still more in the cartridge that remains unused. This includes unused bonus rooms, enemies, items, and scenery. Come read unused dialogue from that cantankerous chimp, Cranky Kong! Marvel at the unused animations from various characters! Like fonts? This game is loaded with them! A free movement debug mode can be enabled as well.
All this and much, much more in the Donkey Kong Country article.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Catherine contains an original arrangement of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl's wild battle theme?
- ...that both the SNES and Genesis versions of College Football USA '97 contain a hidden team known as the Roms?
- ...that the arcade game Depthcharge could have let the player bomb whales?
- ...that Chainz 2: Relinked once had a level editor?
- ...that Bullet Bills were meant to appear in the Game Boy version of Yoshi?
- ...that at one point in development, the green background in the 1990 Windows version of Solitaire could be changed to a bitmap image?
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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The Pokémon series is well known world-wide, becoming the highest-grossing media franchise of all time. In April 2020 its humble beginnings were leaked online, showing development materials for the Pokémon Red and Blue games.
This image shows the development version of Lavender Town, with its much different design compared to the final version.
The town has a completely different layout, lacking the iconic Pokémon Tower and a lot of the houses. It looks more like a typical drive-by town, with very few houses, a minuscule convenience store, and an overgrown hotel. It also appears to have once been close to the water to the east, while in the final games this spot is mountainous.
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