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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. If you want to help keep this site running and help further research into games, feel free to donate.
Featured Article
Yume Nikki
Developer: Kikiyama
Released: 2004, Windows
Developed with RPG Maker 2003, Yume Nikki is the only known game developed by the enigmatic Kikiyama. The game revolves around exploring the surreal dreams of Madotsuki, with no goal besides collecting all of the items known as "Effects" that alter her appearance and/or grant new abilities. It is considered to be one of the most influential freeware games, spawning countless fangames and serving as one of the inspirations for Undertale.
It continually received content updates until 2007. While many versions remain lost to time, some have been recovered from Japanese magazines that distributed freeware games. Along with numerous differences from the final, these versions have their own unique unused assets, offering a look at in-development graphics and scrapped ideas Kikiyama had for the game.
Did You Know...
- ...that several unused bosses exist in Cuphead's data?
- ...that the Game Boy version of Yoshi's Cookie was once called Hermetica?
- ...that games included with Windows Vista and 7 have support for Xbox 360 controllers?
- ... that Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has very early concept art in its graphics?
- ...that the Game Boy Color version of Dragon Warrior III has Dragon Warrior IV-related content in it?
- ...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!
