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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:Neverland
Publisher:Taito, Natsume
Released: 1995,Super Nintendo
Lufia II is a more or less standard RPG released on the SNES in 1995, which actually serves as a prequel to the first game in the series. It's known for its puzzle-filled dungeons, loads of inane fetch quests, and lots of utterly ridiculous glitches.
And it also has a surprising amount of cut content. A full-featured debug mode, unused items, hidden areas, and some hints that the Sinistral Erim was originally going to be much more physically menacing than she ended up being. In addition, quite a bit was changed from the Japanese release to the one seen overseas.
All Featured BlurbsWere You Aware...
- ...that the unlocking method for the Hornet vehicle inDaytona USA 2: Battle on the Edge was discovered after 22 years?
- ...that close to half of the mutants inS.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl were cut, some of which would later appear inS.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat?
- ...that the site's logo uses text fromThe Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout?
- ...thatmanyearlyKonamiNESgames have anti-piracy features designed to make the player's experience miserable?
- ...that inMega Turrican, there are unused graphics that have Mario and Sonic frozen in carbonite?
- ...that part of a phone call from the white nationalist organization Combat 18 was left inFront Mission: Gun Hazard?
- ...that at least37 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 New Tetris is a unique take on the Tetris formula. It includes a mode where the player collects various artifacts relating the various environments and an exceptionally trippy soundtrack.
The game quickly became infamous for rants and ASCII art hidden deep in the game's code, which includes lead programmer David Pridie ranting about various subjects and marijuana leaves. These were found mere days after its release. Nintendo would not work further with H2O Entertainment, as H2O's next game was instead published by THQ.
Pictured is a crash handler revealing a hidden code, which was hastily implemented to get past Nintendo's certification requirements.
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