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: Valve
Publisher: Valve
Released: 2007, Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Mac OS X, Linux
Welcome to Team Fortress 2... after 9 years of development, hopefully, it will have been worth the wait.
Team Fortress 2 (shortened to "TF2" by many) is a team-based multiplayer first-person shooter created by Valve, the same creators behind the Half-Life series among others. Starting its life as a far more gritty and realistic military shooter more in the vein of its predecessor, it was initially released on the Orange Box in 2007 for Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
Being a popular multiplayer game with a current lifespan of 17 years, the game has had its ups and downs, with cut content planned and dropped over that time. Some of these files have been accidentally released in updates and allow us to get a look at what could have been.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Mega Man 7 has two somewhat hidden references to Nintendo hardware that were removed in later releases?
- ...that Mario Paint has hidden features that are disabled by default?
- ...that Norimaro in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter has an unused nosebleed attack? (Yes, you read that right.)
- ...that Blaster Master has an unused 8th special item that not even Blaster Master Underground knew about?
- ...that Metroid Fusion has debug rooms that use graphics from Wario Land 4?
- ...that Sonic Mega Collection has an unused video filmed in San Francisco?
- ...that at least 50 games released on today's date have articles?
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!
Featured File
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is a tactical RPG that follows Prince Laharl in his quest to become Overlord. This would later be remade for the Nintendo DS.
Seen here is an screenshot of a test scene for the game in action, which was included among the thumbnail images for the game for some reason.
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