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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
Deus Ex
Developers: Ion Storm, Westlake Interactive (Mac)
Publishers: Eidos Interactive, Aspyr Media (Mac)
Released: 2000 Windows, Mac OS Classic
Deus Ex is the rare combination of several genres, real-life conspiracies, loads of content to explore, and captivating environments.
The game was also highly ambitious, spanning several years before finally being realized in 2000. Not only are there plenty of cut concepts, but also plenty concept art and screenshots from early versions of the game. The game also contains slews of cut conversations, loads of unused textures, and some tidbits from cut levels.
Did You Know...
- ...that the programmer of Death Stalker put a message in the game's code after he was locked out of his car?
- ...that Nashi-jiru Busha! Funassyi VS Dragons has random Pokémon sprites hidden inside?
- ...Shang Tsung was meant to have a fatality in the arcade version of Mortal Kombat?
- ...Kintaro was originally meant to have an intro in Mortal Kombat II like Goro did in Mortal Kombat?
- ...that Metroid Prime has an unused intro narration that was later repurposed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl?
- ...that Streets of Rage 3 has two cut levels, both of them on otherwise unused motorcycles?
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
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!
