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: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 1995, Super Nintendo
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island is a dramatically different game from Super Mario World. Rather than controlling Mario, the player controls Yoshi and has to guide baby Mario to safety. As with its antecedent, it has quite a bit of unused content.
Among the more notable content hidden in the game, there are sprites for baby Mario crawling, some scrapped transformations, and even a dragon coin.
There is even a little bit of art from when the game had a different art style.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that the original arcade version of Donkey Kong has a congratulatory message to those who could decompile the game?
- ...that both Hidden Agenda and The Transnium Challenge summon Satan if a graphic is missing?
- ...that the Bionic Commando could originally shoot his arm in a downwards direction?
- ...that The Simpsons Game was planned to support multiplayer with 3 or 4 players?
- ...that the voice acting in The Town With No Name could have been worse?
- ...that Pingus has an unused Pac-Man levelset?
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
Alien Soldier is a high-octane "boss rush" style run-and-gun that was released late in the Mega Drive's life. While the US release was available on the Sega Channel, American hardcore gamers had to wait until 2007 to see a proper release on the Wii Virtual Console. That said, there were plans to include upward of 100 bosses in the game, but time constraints forced the developers to include only 26.
Pictured is one of the many bosses planned for the game, but which was ultimately scrapped. While it was assigned an ID, the code for this boss doesn't work.
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