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 Yujix Terada hid his name in Dirty Pair: Project Eden by placing it in the overscan area at the bottom of the screen?
- ...that there's text in Perfect Dark for Game Boy Camera support?
- ...that even games from 1975 can have unused graphics?
- ...that there are voice clips in Super Smash Bros. for six characters' Final Smashes?
- ...that Metroid Fusion has debug rooms that use graphics from Wario Land 4?
- ...that Sonic Mega Collection has an unused video filmed in San Francisco?
- ...that at least 27 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
Plants vs. Zombies sees the player planting an armada of sentient plants firing a variety of weapons to halt waves of zombies from storming the player's yard.
When the game was originally released, the Dancing Zombie and Backup Dancer Zombie resembled Michael Jackson and a backup singer from the Thriller music video. In an eery coincidence, Jackson would die a month later. About a year afterwards, Michael Jackson's estate objected to its inclusion. PopCap subsequently changed the designs of the Dancing Zombie and Backup Dancer Zombie out of respect to Jackson, with replacements being a stereotypical disco dancer and more casual dancer wearing pink shirts with a mustache respectively. The textures for the original designs still remain in the data unused.
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