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 our collection of games and start reading. Up for research? Try looking at some 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: Game Freak
Publisher: Nintendo
Development Range: 1992-1995, Game Boy
Pokémon Red and Blue is known for a rather secretive development cycle, with very few select materials being released to the public. While the Capsule Monsters pitch gave a simplistic idea on what the game would originally be like before settling into the games we all know to this day, the source code leak gave way towards dozens of previously-unseen elements, showing that development went through many different ideas than originally thought.
There's a lot of early sprites, tilesets, Pokémon designs and even early drafts of the Kanto region! Not only that, but there's data that gives evidence towards scrapped Pokémon that would end up as the notorious Missingno. in the final, which were the cause of balance changes that were made throughout development.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Catherine contains an original arrangement of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl's wild battle theme?
- ...that both the SNES and Genesis versions of College Football USA '97 contain a hidden team known as the Roms?
- ...that Palmtree Panic from Sonic CD was once named Salad Plain?
- ...that you could once kill people with dildos in Manhunt 2?
- ...that the voice acting in The Town With No Name could have been worse?
- ...that Pingus has an unused Pac-Man levelset?
- ...that at least 14 games released on today's date have articles?
Contributing
Want to contribute? Not sure where to begin? Visit the Help 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
- A list of what needs to be done
- Common things that can be found in hundreds of different games
We also have a sizable list of games that either don't have pages yet, or whose pages are in serious need of expansion. Check it out!
Featured File
Tetris Attack is a re-branding of Panel de Pon, a cutesy puzzle game featuring fairies. However, due to the (mis)usage of the Tetris license, the rebranded version of the game has not seen a re-release. The original Panel de Pon would be released internationally on the Nintendo Switch Online service 25 years later.
Pictured is an unused bio for Thanatos. While all other characters have bios seen by waiting on the title screen, bios for Thanatos and Corderia can only be seen by going to an options menu, which requires hacking to access. View more
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