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The Cutting Room Floor
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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.
Featured Article
Super Mario Bros. 3
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.
Contributing
Ready to help? Even if you aren't skilled with research, you can still help!
Things that need done:
- Get the basic information onto new pages
- Expand and add information to short pages
- Writing some guidelines and style pages, both for reference and to have a consistent style
- Adding pages for the tools and features, for example, debug modes and levels, as well as unused graphics, text, music, levels, items and prototypes.
- This also includes pages for tools like the Game Genie, GameShark, Hex editors, as well as other tools.
When in doubt, remember this excellent tip from Link's Awakening:
Here is your clue. Make all the red blue.
