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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 ourcollection of games and start reading. Up for research? Try looking atsome 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:Square
Publisher:Square
Released: 1997,PlayStation
SaGa Frontier is the seventh game in Square's long-runningSaGa series. It's an open-ended RPG with seven separate scenarios, and unfortunately, a sharp learning curve and some seriously uneven difficulty, which caused many people to quit playing before really getting into it. Being one of the first traditional RPGs after the release of the wildly-successfulFinal Fantasy VII probably didn't help its poor early reputation.
Deadlines absolutely mauled this game, with a whole lot of things being left unused and/or unfinished, from areas, to skills, to songs, to artwork, all the way to an entirechapter. There's also a small debug room with a few nice features... and many, many mysteries waiting to be solved.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...thatHardwar has a hidden CD audio track containing some snarking from the developers?
- ...that the Intellivision port ofCentipede has a hidden message with a terrible pun?
- ...that Side B of the Apple IIKarateka diskette has an upside-down version of the game?
- ...thatChainz 2: Relinked once had a level editor?
- ...that this website'sprickly mascot was originally intended to appear inSuper Mario 64?
- ...that at one point in development, the green background inthe 1990 Windows version of Solitaire could be changed to a bitmap image?
- ...that at least31 games released on today's date have articles?
Contributing
Want to contribute? Not sure where to begin? Visit theHelp 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
- Alist of what needs to be done
- Common things that can be found in hundreds of different games
We also have asizable list of games that either don't have pages yet, or whose pages are in serious need of expansion. Check it out!
Featured File
Marvel Land is a platformer set in an amusement park, filled with several Namco references.
Pictured is an unused float based on the Japanese adaptation of the musicalStarlight Express that Namco sponsored in the late 80s.
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