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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:Nintendo
Publisher:Nintendo
Released: Unknown (disk image dumped in 2010),Famicom Disk System
A prototype ofThe Legend of Zelda was dumped and released on December 25th, 2010. It's a late build of the game: the game can be completed, but the Second Quest has just barely been started. Nevertheless, there are a great amount of room alterations, both on the overworld and in the nine dungeons. Some of the game's iconic enemies have different designs, shops have different items in stock, and a significant amount of music hasn't been composed yet. Overall, the prototype is a lot more forgiving than the final version: it's much easier to get rupees, and enemy placement and difficulty isn't quite as evil. It's worth checking out for anyone interested in learning about the game's development.
All Featured BlurbsDidst thou wot...
- ...thatIron Tank contains an angry screed by KNT, the game's programmer? (Don't worry,he got better.)
- ...that theGame Boy Camera has all of the content used in an undumped CoroCoro Comics version that was never released to the public?
- ...that there's a texture for a gun hidden in Plum's trophy inSuper Smash Bros. Melee?
- ...thatDance Dance Revolution 2nd Mix was supposed to have Xanadu, which wouldn't be included until 3rd Mix?
- ...that due to the video game crash of 1983,Midnight Magic was released three years after it was completed?
- ...that Lakitu's behavior inSuper Mario Bros. is the result of a bug?
- ...that at least26 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
Space Quest IV has Roger Wilco traveling back and forth through time, while also being hunted down by Sludge Vohaul and his many henchmen.
Included in the CD-ROM version is an additional room that is inaccessible, created as something of an in-joke. The room contains many references to the legally dubious things that landed Sierra in hot water.
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