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.
All Featured BlurbsDid 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 many older games have uncompiled code snippets sloppily included?
- ...that RoboCop vs. The Terminator thought that was a weird error, man?
- ...that the voice acting in The Town With No Name could have been worse?
- ...that Pingus has an unused Pac-Man levelset?
- ...that at least 74 games released on today's date have articles?
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
It's a camera... for your Game Boy!
The camera includes tall frames that can only be selected when printing a picture were changed for the international release.
This Pokémon frame, this one featuring Pikachu and Clefairy, was changed to a Wario Land frame. The Pokémon frame may refer to the planned but unreleased Pokémon Pink.
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