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
Developers: Ion Storm, Westlake Interactive (Mac)
Publishers: Eidos Interactive, Aspyr Media (Mac)
Released: 2000, Windows, Mac OS Classic
Deus Ex is the rare combination of several genres, real-life conspiracies, loads of content to explore, and captivating environments.
The game was also highly ambitious, with development spanning several years. Not only are there plenty of cut concepts, but also plenty of concept art and screenshots from early versions of the game. The released game also contains slews of cut conversations, loads of unused textures, and some tidbits from cut levels.
All Featured BlurbsWere You Aware...
- ...that Matt Furniss will break your legs if you hack Mad Professor Mariarti?
- ...that Mechanized Attack has an actual, factual nude code?
- ...that Samurai Shodown Anthology has movelists for the unplayable characters - but got all but one of Yumeji's moves wrong?
- ...that the enemy troop leader in the arcade Alien vs. Predator actually has a name? And it may have been possible to fight him?
- ...that Alien Storm has a hidden cheat that can be activated by many different button combinations?
- ...that the Brazilian GameCube BIOS has a patch contained exclusively to fix a crash in NBA Courtside 2002?
- ...that at least 38 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
Pokémon Stadium 2 is essentially Pokémon Stadium with 251 Pokémon, new mini-games, and a couple of new features.
Found among the mugshots of the trainers and Gym Leaders is a set for Pichu, of all things. It was likely used for testing, though the idea of Pichu leading a team of Pokémon is a cute thought.
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