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: Square
Publisher: Square
Released: 1997, PlayStation
SaGa Frontier is the seventh game in Square's long-running SaGa series. It's an open-ended RPG with seven separate scenarios, and unfortunately, a sharp learning curve and some seriously uneven difficulty, which caused many people to quit playing before really getting into it. Being one of the first traditional RPGs after the release of the wildly-successful Final Fantasy VII probably didn't help its poor early reputation.
Deadlines absolutely mauled this game, with a whole lot of things being left unused and/or unfinished, from areas, to skills, to songs, to artwork, all the way to an entire chapter. There's also a small debug room with a few nice features... and many, many mysteries waiting to be solved.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that The Simpsons: Road Rage was originally a much more open-ended game?
- ...that the SNES version of The Itchy & Scratchy Game has unused conversations between Bart and Lisa?
- ...that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game has an unused laser gun power-up?
- ...that Rugrats: Time Travelers has an unused graphic of a CD labeled "Microsoft World Domination 99"?
- ...that Scrabble CD-ROM Crossword Game has 4,270 unused words that are simply too long to be placed on the board?
- ...that Gumball (Apple II) had such strong copy-protection it took 33 years to break and discover its secret ending?
- ...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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