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
Developer: Game Freak
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 1999–2001, Game Boy
Pokémon Gold and Silver were the long-awaited sequels to the original Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow that started the whole Pokémon craze. Being released as two of the first games for Nintendo's then-new Game Boy Color, Gold and Silver benefited from the new possibilities of colorful Pokémon and maps. Due to the prolonged development time, there are many remnants of early content for nearly every Johto city along with some unused events and debug menus.
All Featured BlurbsDid 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 the Japanese version of Factory Panic has Gorbachev as the protagonist, but he was changed to a much more generic character in the International releases?
- ...that Chainz 2: Relinked once had a level editor?
- ...that the difficulty of Stage 6 in Ghosts'n Goblins constantly changed between board revisions?
- ...that Streets of Rage 3 has two cut levels, both of them on otherwise unused motorcycles?
- ...that at least 67 games released on today's date have articles?
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!
Featured File
Biker Mice from Mars is an isometric racing game based on the animated series of the same name. It's actually pretty good.
The character portraits were redrawn from scratch in the EU version so the characters can show off Snickers bars. Some actually look nicer than the originals.
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