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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.
Featured Article
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 1998, Nintendo 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was the long awaited three-dimensional Zelda adventure, and the first Nintendo 64 Zelda game. It had a development time of three years, and the only limiting factor in its development were the limitations of the Nintendo 64 console, which forced them to cut out lots of things.
The in-game cutscenes hide some canned ideas and suggestions which are normally hidden to the player, and the large game script also has some surprises hidden inside. These tell a lot about what the developers originally had in mind...
Did You Know...
- ...that Matt Furniss will break your legs if you hack Mad Professor Mariarti?
- ...that there's text in Perfect Dark for Game Boy Camera support?
- ...that Mario Party, Pokémon Stadium and Ocarina of Time were planned to support the N64 Disk Drive?
- ...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!
