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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
Final Fantasy Tactics was, for many people, their first strategy RPG ever. Featuring an engaging story, excellent graphics and music, and anincredibly intricate gameplay system, this game is a classic all around. It has quite a bit in common withTactics Ogre, an earlier strategy RPG, mainly because the two games were developed by the same teams.
And, of course, it has its fair share of unused content. With unused battle maps, overpowered debug command sets, extra playable characters, fully intact NPC and enemy data left hidden from view, and a whole mess of music left orphaned in the west with the removal of some minigames,Final Fantasy Tactics was pretty muchthe reason to own aGameShark back in the late 1990s.
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?
- ...thattheSuperman arcade game has graphics for a female character and a sign advertising delicious Cold Blood?
- ...thatRugrats: Time Travelers has an unused graphic of a CD labeled"Microsoft World Domination 99"?
- ...thatThe Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has many,many unused rooms?
- ...that Nintendo's NESTetris was likely meant to have music on its title screen?
- ...that at least43 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!
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The MacintoshSimCity was the first release in the Maxis Sim line. Its success proved to a skeptical industry that creative, open-ended gameplay was as legitimate a form as zero-sum competition.
Pictured is the original copyright-infringing form of the monster, which even made the iconic roaring sound. This prompted Toho Co. to threaten legal action. Later versions would replace it with an orange salamander, with a more lawyer-friendly noise.
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