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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
Final Fantasy IV
Developer: Square
Publisher: Square (JP, US), Sony Computer Entertainment (EU)
Released: 1991, SNES; 2002, PlayStation
Final Fantasy IV is the first SNES game in the Final Fantasy series. It has loads of differences not only between the original Japanese and American/Easy Type versions, but also between the SNES and PlayStation versions. There are some oddities here and there as well.
Didst thou wot...
- ...that The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall has a quest that goes unused due to a simple naming mistake?
- ...that Team Fortress 2 has a real-time music track leftover in its files?
- ...that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game has an unused laser gun power-up?
- ...that Rugrats: Time Travelers has an unused graphic of a CD labeled "Microsoft World Domination 99"?
- ...that due to the video game crash of 1983, Midnight Magic was released three years after it was completed?
- ...that Cheetahmen II was supposed to have two more levels?
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 more.
When in doubt, remember this excellent tip from Link's Awakening:
Here is your clue. Make all the red blue.
