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
SaGa Frontier is the seventh game in Square's long-running SaGa series. It's an open-ended RPG with seven separate scenarios, and unfortunately, a sharp learning curve and some seriously uneven difficulty, which caused many people to quit playing before really getting into it. Being one of the first traditional RPGs after the release of the wildly-successful Final Fantasy VII probably didn't help its poor early reputation.
Deadlines absolutely mauled this game, with a whole lot of things being left unused and/or unfinished, from areas, to skills, to songs, to artwork, all the way to an entire chapter. There's also a small debug room with a few nice features... and many, many mysteries waiting to be solved.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that The Simpsons: Road Rage was originally a much more open-ended game?
- ...that the SNES version of The Itchy & Scratchy Game has unused conversations between Bart and Lisa?
- ...that Norimaro in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter has an unused nosebleed attack? (Yes, you read that right.)
- ...that Blaster Master has an unused 8th special item that not even Blaster Master Underground knew about?
- ...that Super Mario Advance 4 has a large amount of e-Reader content that was never used?
- ...that LEGO Ninjago: Spinjitzu Smash had unused graphics from Mega Man Battle Network?
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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While GoldenEye 007 was beloved for its gameplay and multiplayer, it also hid a surprising secret.
Deep within the ROM, coding remains for a ZX Spectrum emulator. It seems that Rare programmer Steve Ellis wanted to test out whether the ZX Spectrum could be emulated on the Nintendo 64, and added it to his current project at that time. While the methods to access the emulator were removed before release, the emulator itself is still fully functional and handles all 48k and smaller Spectrum titles, albeit with no sound.
Included with the emulator is a homebrew replacement for the Spectrum "monitor program" ROM, containing rewritten versions of the few ROM commands required by the games so as to avoid infringing on Amstrad's copyright.
According to an interview with producer and director Martin Hollis:
One fact that isn't well known, is that a ZX Spectrum emulator is hidden in the game code. At one time, we had the idea of including an arcade machine within the game to play old Rare games, including Ultimate Play the Game. Unfortunately we didn't have time and the idea was abandoned.
While no ZX Spectrum game ROMs are included in the final GoldenEye build, there is a list of Rare-developed games tucked away within its files. The listed games are Alien 8, Atic Atac, Cookie. Gun Fright, Jetpac, Knight Lore, Lunar Jetman, Pssst, Sabre Wulf, and Underwurlde. Notably, Jetpac later appeared embedded in Rare's Donkey Kong 64; not only was it legitimately accessible in that game, it was required!
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