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: Black Isle Studios
Publisher: Interplay
Released: 1999, Windows
Planescape: Torment follows The Nameless One, a man who can never truly die, and his quest to discover why he is trapped in this endless cycle and, later on, what can change the nature of a man. Considered one of the best written RPGs out there, it is a cult classic with a devout following.
Quite a few graphics were scrapped for the final game, including a set of graphics for the enigmatic Lady of Pain. There is also a huge amount of unused voiced lines, particularly for Morte and Annah. Like any good RPG, there are also a few removed quests.
While The Nameless One might not be able to know what can change the nature of a man, you can know what can change the nature of a game's content by reading this article.
All Featured BlurbsDid You Know...
- ...that Deus Ex has cut models and textures referring to cut White House and moon levels?
- ...that Donkey Kong 64 has a hidden rainbow coin collectible that took 17 years to be well known?
- ...that RoboCop on the Game Boy and Alien vs. Predator on the SNES were both planned to have password screens, but they ended up scrapped?
- ...that RoboCop vs. The Terminator thought that was a weird error, man?
- ...that Transformers (PlayStation 2, International) has a very early story draft hidden on-disc?
- ...that Gubble Buggy Racer started as a Wallace and Gromit game?
- ...that at least 30 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
Syndicate Wars is the sequel to Syndicate, if you couldn't tell already. Compared to the original, it features more detailed cyberpunk environments in 3D, new weapons, and some very interesting missions.
Pictured is a mission from the cut campaign for the Unguided, the punk rock styled citizens rebelling against both the oppressive Eurocorp and sinister Church of the New Epoch after their controlling Utopia chips fail. Little is known about the Unguided campaign, why it was cut, or how it would work in-game outside of the actual missions.
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