The Cutting Room Floor: Unearthing Unused Content from Video Games
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This is pretty cool! Randomly came across this tidbit, regarding one of my favorite Apple II games: "While Karateka only takes up Side A, Side B contains a copy of the game modified to play upside-down. According to Jordan Mechner, this was a practical joke by Brøderbund so tech support could have the delight of telling someone that their game was upside-down because...they put the disc in upside-down. Duh."
This wiki is a delightful mine of information! It's also full of humor; as an example, the description for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is: > Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a game in which you rapidly deprive an island of its natural resources in order to craft tools that never stop breaking. https://tcrf.net/Animal_Crossing:_New_Horizons
Some random favorites: https://tcrf.net/X-Men_(NES) Great little way to hide a secret. https://tcrf.net/The_New_Tetris Developer rant. Niel Voss really did make great music! https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Bros._3/Unused_Levels Unused levels in Mario 3. https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_... A huge wealth of early screenshots and development info for OOT. https://tcrf.net/Proto:The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Ocarina_of_Time/... ...and a leaked build from around the time many of those screenshots were…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-13 | The Cutting Room Floor - unearthing unused and cut content from video games | agent86 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013-05-29 | The Cutting Room Floor - unused and cut game content | morphics | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-05-08 | The Cutting Room Floor: Unearthing Unused Content from Video GamesFirst breakout · Best thread | indescions_2018 | 183 | 20 |
| 2021-04-06 | The Cutting Room Floor | bpierre | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-10-10 | The Cutting Room Floor | swatson741 | 89 | 13 |
| 2023-07-17 | The Cutting Room Floor | swatson741 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-09-24 | The Cutting Room Floor–unearthing unused and cut content from video gamesLatest 20+ point return | herbertl | 109 | 21 |
| 2026-03-29 | The Cutting Room Floor | petercooper | 4 | 0 |