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: Dreamworks Interactive
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Released: 1998, Windows
Jurassic Park: Trespasser was aimed to be a massive open-world survival game, released as a digital sequel to The Lost World. Sadly, this didn't turn out too well because so many locations and features had to be cut due to hardware limitations and time constraints during development.
Years after the game was released, a few prototypes got dumped and they're a lot different from the final game. There are a lot of noticeable differences, details, and even minor level changes! As time moved on, more prototypes were released and some former developers of the game even contributed to the mysteries that surrounded the game's development and original presentation.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Mega Man 7 has two somewhat hidden references to Nintendo hardware that were removed in later releases?
- ...that the NES Tetris has a partially implemented two-player mode?
- ...that there's a texture for a gun hidden in Plum's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee?
- ...that Dance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix was supposed to have Xanadu, which wouldn't be included until 3rd Mix?
- ...that the A-Type song in the Game Boy version of Tetris was completely different in the earliest released copies?
- ...that Game & Watch Gallery originally had a Very Hard version of Classic Mode?
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
Yoshi's Safari is a first-person Super Scope game where you shoot things, as you'd expect.
However, many early assets would be leaked on July 24, 2020. This included an early sprite of Yoshi getting injured, with a visible nosebleed. Raised hair could also be seen.
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