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: Square
Publisher: Square
Released: 1997, PlayStation
Final Fantasy Tactics was, for many people, their first strategy RPG ever. Featuring an engaging story, excellent graphics and music, and an incredibly intricate gameplay system, this game is a classic all around. It has quite a bit in common with Tactics Ogre, an earlier strategy RPG, mainly because the two games were developed by the same teams.
And, of course, it has its fair share of unused content. With unused battle maps, overpowered debug command sets, extra playable characters, fully intact NPC and enemy data left hidden from view, and a whole mess of music left orphaned in the west with the removal of some minigames, Final Fantasy Tactics was pretty much the reason to own a GameShark back in the late 1990s.
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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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In Banjo-Kazooie, if the player collects all of the Jiggies and then beats Gruntilda, Mumbo will show pictures of two Eggs and one Ice Key during the ending. These and four more Eggs can be obtained by using secret built-in codes.
As soon as the player collects one of these, a new menu called "Stop 'n' Swop" will appear at the very end of the game totals, which shows all the secret items collected so far. None of these items have an effect in-game; they were intended to be used in various Rare-developed Nintendo 64 games by quickly swapping the cartridges after turning the power off, hence the feature's name. Each egg corresponded to a different game, and transferring the Ice Key to every game and back would unlock a final, grand bonus. Unfortunately, due to technical limitations, the feature had to be scrapped - the feature depended on powered-off N64s retaining Rambus memory for 10 seconds, but newer models starting in 1999 reduced the time down to just 1 second, and attempting to swap one cartridge for another and turning the power back on within this time would be exceptionally difficult. The only game known to contain any remnants of the feature aside from Banjo-Kazooie is Donkey Kong 64, which has data relating to the Ice Key. (Paul Machacek confirmed on Twitter in 2020 that Stop 'n' Swop was functional between Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 when Nintendo told Rare the idea wasn't feasable.)
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