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: 1997, Nintendo 64
GoldenEye 007 is widely considered one of the best first-person shooters ever released, introducing new concepts and tactics which revolutionized the genre.
The game has a lot of unused content that reveals that originally the game was planned to be much closer to the movie than it is now. You were supposed to race against Ourumov through the streets of St. Petersburg just like in the movie, and Xenia was intended to meet up with you on the destroyer, none of which happens in the game.
To aid in the development process, there is a debug menu hidden in the game, and the famous Citadel level which had many speculations and rumors about it. Besides that, there are many other ideas hidden in the game files, which give an insight on the game's history...
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- ...that Gokuraku! Chuka Taisen and Taito Chase H.Q. have hidden Morse code messages?
- ...that Bionic Commando: Elite Forces was considered for a two-player mode? And that it contains a large collection of graphics from a game that wouldn't be out for a few more months?
- ...that Palmtree Panic from Sonic CD was once named Salad Plain?
- ...that you could once kill people with dildos in Manhunt 2?
- ...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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Before the release of the Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega wanted to make sure that their new console would sell as well as the NES. To do so, Sega held a competition throughout all of its branches to create a character that would end up replacing Alex Kidd as the mascot of the company.
Eventually, it came down to four designs created by Naoto Ōshima, who had previously worked on the Phantasy Star series.
It was decided that the hedgehog character was the best of the lot, and was redesigned into Sonic the Hedgehog. Some of the other designs were reused later: this fat, pajama-wearing man based on Theodore Roosevelt became the basis for Dr. Eggman/Robotnik's design.
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