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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:Capcom
Publisher:Capcom
Released: 1994,Arcade
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors was Capcom's first brand-new fighting game after several revisions ofStreet Fighter II. Trading the martial arts theme for a more over the top monster archetype theme, it pushed the envelope both visually and mechanically, having a large amount of influence on the genre.
In addition to a character debug menu, a sizable amount of unused graphics remain in the finished game's data, ranging from general spark and dust effects, to 8 player labels implying an unrealized tournament edition similar to Super Street Fighter II, and even an unused super attack for the game's sub-boss.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...thatMega Man 7 has two somewhat hidden references to Nintendo hardware that were removed in later releases?
- ...that the NESTetris has a partially implemented two-player mode?
- ...that the Atari version ofDonkey Kong had an easter egg that took 26 years to discover?
- ...thatThe Simpsons Game was planned to support multiplayer with 3 or 4 players?
- ...that the difficulty of Stage 6 inGhosts'n Goblins constantly changed between board revisions?
- ...thatStreets of Rage 3 has two cut levels, both of them on otherwise unused motorcycles?
- ...that at least53 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
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout is another mediocre mascot platformer, this one made for Bugs Bunny's 50th birthday. It's a blowout, alright.
Pictured is an unused ending slide found in the game's data. It features three characters who don't appear in the game otherwise: Marc Antony, Pussyfoot, and Road Runner. Yosemite Sam is in the main game, but doesn't show up to the party in the final version.
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