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: Rare
Publisher: Nintendo
Released: 1997, Nintendo 64
GoldenEye 007 is widely considered one of the best first-person shooters ever released, introducing new concepts and tactics which revolutionized the genre.
The game has a lot of unused content that reveals that originally the game was planned to be much closer to the movie than it is now. You were supposed to race against Ourumov through the streets of St. Petersburg just like in the movie, and Xenia was intended to meet up with you on the destroyer, none of which happens in the game.
To aid in the development process, there is a debug menu hidden in the game, and the famous Citadel level which had many speculations and rumors about it. Besides that, there are many other ideas hidden in the game files, which give an insight on the game's history...
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- ...that the Superman arcade game has graphics for a female character and a sign advertising delicious Cold Blood?
- ...that Scribblenauts once had a female Maxwell?
- ...that Super Mario Sunshine had four areas and a railroad system that were cut from the final game?
- ...that Shinobi III supports a then-unreleased controller through a cheat code?
- ...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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