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: Heavy Iron Studios
Publisher: THQ
Released: 2003, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is one of the many SpongeBob SquarePants video games to come out during the franchise's initial breakout in the early 2000s. Ever since release, it became widely regarded as one of the best SpongeBob video games because of the addictive object-collecting mechanics, creative and expansive worlds, and overall capturing the look and feel of the show. Since then, it became an unexpected cult classic and even received a remake for newer consoles.
As ambitious and big as the game is, it was originally planned to be even bigger. There are several cut levels appearing in a drastically unfinished state, unused animations that would have added more detail to the characters, and several leftover objects from earlier points in development. And if that isn't enough, there's even concept art for locations that never made it into the game!
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that the 1978 game Orbit has hidden credits that could only be accessed by a removed button combination?
- ...that Atomic Bomberman has many alternate line takes, including some pretty profane dialogue?
- ...that the Atari version of Donkey Kong had an easter egg that took 26 years to discover?
- ...that Persona 5 Royal has over two hours worth of unused cutscenes?
- ...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!
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At the Sonic CD title screen, press Down, Down, Down, Left, Right, A to go to the sound test.
Setting all three Sound Test selections to 07 will load this stage that features the enlarged head of Eggman as its background and has a rather difficult layout. It's possible that an extra Time Stone was to be collected here at one point, though it's probably just a little bonus thrown in for curious players, much like the hidden pictures.
Completing this Special Stage will display a secret credits screen.
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