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 the Atari 7800 port of Karateka wants to plant subliminal messages in your brain?
- ...that ClayFighter 63⅓ has a character name graphic for a "HoboCop"?
- ...that there's an unused mask of Link's face in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask?
- ...that Skullgirls has an ASCII portrait of a Persona 2 character hidden in its cutscene script files?
- ...that Crocomire was set to appear in Metroid Zero Mission?
- ...that Mega Man's Soccer has unused endings for the championship and tournament modes?
- ...that at least 23 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
In all initial releases of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, the developers accidentally used fan art of Sonia the Hedgehog (one of Sonic's siblings from the Sonic Underground cartoon) by DeviantArt user ArtByRiana. Shortly after this was discovered, Sumo Digital quickly patched it out of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 releases, replacing it with official art of Amy Rose.
While the PC version was also patched, the Sonia art can still be seen with lower graphics settings. The Wii version was never patched due to its internet limitations.
Though an accidental inclusion, it remains notable for being only the second time any of the Underground-exclusive characters have appeared in an official Sonic game (the first instance being a 2000 Tiger LCD game based on the cartoon).
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