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 Product Development Division 1
Publisher: Square (JP), SCEA (US), SCEE (EU), SCE Australia (AUS)
Released: 1997, PlayStation
Final Fantasy VII was the first step into the PlayStation for the Final Fantasy series. It's been a rather divisive game in many ways, but what isn't is how much they left in the game, including some very detailed debug rooms.
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- ...that Myth Makers: Super Kart GP started as a Nickelodeon racing game?
- ...that Lethal Enforcers I & II has its own entire source code hidden inside?
- ...that Mario Party, Pokémon Stadium and Ocarina of Time were planned to support the N64 Disk Drive?
- ...that the games in the Jak and Daxter trilogy all have hidden debug modes accessible with the controller?
- ...that MTV Sports: T.J. Lavin's Ultimate BMX on the Game Boy Color contains a historical e-mail relating to a No$GMB update?
- ...that the Japanese version of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has many leftover and unused items?
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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Doom is a 1993 first-person shooter and likely the most influential FPS game of all time.
On December 10, 2014 (Doom's 21st birthday), developer John Romero released a large number of in-development and unused art assets for both Doom games on Twitter.
This image shows how real life models were used as a template for enemies, with a dinosaur toy being used as the reference model for the pinky demon enemy.
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