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: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 1988, NES/Famicom
Super Mario Bros. 3 was the last main-series Mario game released on the NES. The game introduced such beloved concepts as the Koopa Kids, Super Leaves, and Tanooki Suits.
Fifteen unused levels are tucked away in the game, only accessible through codes and hacking. Along with those levels are unused enemies, graphics, stage palettes, and two unused minigames. There's even a debug menu!
And in addition to all of that unused content, there are a variety of differences between the Japanese and International versions of the game. The two international revisions contain some interesting differences, too! There's a lot to know about Super Mario Bros. 3.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that the 1978 game Orbit has hidden credits that could only be accessed by a removed button combination?
- ...that Atomic Bomberman has many alternate line takes, including some pretty profane dialogue?
- ...that the Superman arcade game has graphics for a female character and a sign advertising delicious Cold Blood?
- ...that Scribblenauts once had a female Maxwell?
- ...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 29 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!
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Mother 3 had a long development cycle, starting on the SNES, then moving to the 64DD, before ultimately being released as one of the last Game Boy Advance titles. Even then, only in Japan, meaning that fan translations were required to play the game in English.
Pictured here is a low-quality image of the Ostrich Burgers Historic Summit Inn Cafe on Route 66. It's possible that it was simply inserted into the game to test how the game displayed graphics. It seems to closely resemble the Dur-T Cafe found during the Highway section of Chapter 5. The cafe itself would be destroyed by the Blue Cut Fire in 2016, though the owners plan to rebuild it as it was before.
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