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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.
Featured Article
Sam & Max Save the World
Developer: Telltale Games
Publisher: The Adventure Company (US), JoWooD Productions (EU)
Released: 2006-2007, Windows, Wii, Xbox 360
After Sam and Max: Freelance Police was cancelled, Telltale Games decided to bring it back as an episodic point-and-click adventure going by Sam & Max Save the World, featuring stories written by the creators of the show. It was one of Telltale Games' first episodic titles and went on to produce more entries from other franchises as the years went by, before they went defunct.
The game itself has gone through a few rewrites and last-minute changes, resulting in lots of unused dialogue and graphics that were discovered in the files.
Contributing
Itching to discover some buried treasure yourself? Not sure where to start? Check out our ever-growing Guides section for lots of helpful information on finding debug modes, unused graphics, hidden levels, and the like.
Even if you aren't skilled with research, you can still help! Some things that need to be done:
- 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, 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.
- If you can do research, take a stab at some stuff listed on Content to expand
When in doubt, remember this excellent tip from Link's Awakening:
Here is your clue. Make all the red blue.
