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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. If you want to help keep this site running and help further research into games, feel free to donate.
Featured Article
Luigi's Mansion
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 2001, GameCube
Luigi's Mansion was one of the very first video games to be released for the Nintendo GameCube, that involves Luigi going through rooms in a mansion sucking up ghosts with a vacuum cleaner. It was different from the other Super Mario games, mostly because it focused on Luigi and had a clever combat system that would later be the sub-standard for the character itself.
But that's not all; the game has a lot of interesting early content featuring unused graphics, animations and a lot of leftovers from during development of the game. There's also a handful of other differences such as a completely different challenge mode in the European version.
Did You Know...
- ...that the original arcade version of Donkey Kong has a congratulatory message to those who could decompile the game?
- ...both Hidden Agenda and The Transnium Challenge summon Satan if a graphic is missing?
- ...that games included with Windows Vista and 7 have support for Xbox 360 controllers?
- ... that Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has very early concept art in its graphics?
- ...that the Game Boy Color version of Dragon Warrior III has Dragon Warrior IV-related content in it?
- ...that Princess Peach and Bowser are shown getting drunk on champagne in the Japanese version of Super Mario Kart?
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!
