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: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Released: 1994, Arcade
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors was Capcom's first brand-new fighting game after several revisions of Street Fighter II. Trading the martial arts theme for a more over the top monster archetype theme, it pushed the envelope both visually and mechanically, having a large amount of influence on the genre.
In addition to a character debug menu, a sizable amount of unused graphics remain in the finished game's data, ranging from general spark and dust effects, to 8 player labels implying an unrealized tournament edition similar to Super Street Fighter II, and even an unused super attack for the game's sub-boss.
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- ...that Star Fox was renamed Star Wing due to potential legal issues in Germany?
- ...that the Japanese version of Factory Panic has Gorbachev as the protagonist, but he was changed to a much more generic character in the International releases?
- ...that the stage select in the Genesis version of Sonic 3D Blast doubles as an exception handler?
- ...that Commando was originally called Combat, and was renamed Space Invasion in West Germany?
- ...that DuckTales has a third ending with a very obscure unlocking method?
- ...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!
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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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