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: Toby Fox
Released: 2015, Windows
Undertale started as a humble Kickstarter campaign, and snowballed into an internet phenomenon upon release. And it's easy to see why: it's an EarthBound-inspired RPG with a phenomenal soundtrack, taking an interesting spin on the RPG genre with an innovative bullet-hell battle system. Not only that, a lot of the decisions you make drastically affect the game's world, adding to the game's replay value and making it an emotional rollercoaster.
It wasn't just the gameplay that made it an internet sensation, but the fascinating secrets that are buried deep inside the game's files: unused text, music, rooms, graphics, items, and even a debug mode! It's no wonder the creator left a message urging prying eyes not to share the game's secrets online.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Gremlins: Unleashed and Kirikou have a variety of hidden images and messages from the developers, including rants about crappy Windows dev environments?
- ...that the Amiga version of Dragon's Lair has a message to crackers, asking them to wait a while before cracking the game...and it worked?
- ...that many of the special items in Landstalker were censored from the Japanese version?
- ...that Sonic the Hedgehog Mobile has graphics for the Marble Zone UFOs seen in a prototype of the Genesis original?
- ...that graphics for an unused blimp object exist in Castlevania: Bloodlines?
- ...that the instructions for reaching the final stage of the NES X-Men were hidden in the in-game text?
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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Gun-Nac is a strange space shooter involving you mercilessly blasting robotic rabbits, happy faces, and any other bizarre thing that gets in your way.
The Famicom version has a longer opening and ending. The visuals for the Japanese opening and ending can actually be seen in the NES version by doing the "Death & Non-Death" cheat, but the text that accompanied them was removed.
No matter how many investigations were performed,
the cause of this incident remained unknown.
The creatures produced grew more and more evil,
and eventually took over the factories,
plunging the worlds into chaos.
Though a defense unit was established,
they were completely outmatched by their mass-produced foes.
