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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
Bionic Commando
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Released: 1988, NES/Famicom
Bionic Commando was a game that had Nazis in it; so was massively censored by Nintendo, having all references to Nazis replaced with "The Badds" (except for the fact that if you made it all the way to the end, you got to fight Hitler). It's a fun platformer, but oddly enough you can't actually jump in it. It has a lot of unused and censored content, including unused areas, and unused dialogue, but the regional differences are, quite expectedly, where most of the differences lie.
Did You Know...
- ...that The New Tetris contains a gigantic amount of hidden rants and ASCII art? And that it took hackers only three days to find?
- ...that Star Fox was renamed Star Wing due to potential legal issues in Germany?
- ...that Norimaro in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter has an unused nosebleed attack? (Yes, you read that right.)
- ...that Blaster Master has an unused 8th special item that not even Blaster Master Underground knew about?
- ...that MTV Sports: T.J. Lavin's Ultimate BMX on the Game Boy Color contains a historical e-mail relating to a No$GMB update?
- ...that Cheetahmen II was supposed to have two more levels?
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!
