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 I could explain what The Cutting Room Floor is, but I'll let their front page tell you: The Cutting Room Floor posted: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. And hoo boy there is a lot of poo poo buried in all those video games out there. Some of it good things that should have been published, some of it bad things that never saw the light of day (well, until now) for a reason. Some things are interesting. Some things are funny. And some are downright bizarre. Either way, not everything that doesn't make it into a game makes it out of the files. Sometimes they just leave crap there for debugging purposes and don't even bother to remove it at all. Sometimes they dummy stuff out, with the possibility of it being re-implemented later. Sometimes they yank out all the code but forget to take out the assets. Sometimes they gut the code and the assets, but leave some strings lying around, leaving us to wonder what exactly they mean. Sometimes they leave stuff to fill space on the cartridge (or sometimes they add stuff to fill space on the cartridge). Sometimes things are supposed to be in there, but some programmer oversight buried them in the sands of time. Sometimes they probably just plain forgot it was there in the first place.     A typical test NPC from Super Mario Sunshine, a removed zone from Sonic 2, an Arwing(?!?) in Ocarina of Time, a Donkey Kong Country debug screen... Debug modes! Unheard music! Unseen sights! Anti-piracy stuff! It's all there! Well, the stuff that's been found, anyway. And a lot more is being found even today.     ...anti-piracy from Last Crusade, the rest of Mario's house from Thousand-Year Door, the entire world map of Barkley SUaJG, a well-hidden rank in GTA: Vice City... Color A Dinosaur posted:For whatever reason, this game appears to contain a big honking chunk of Norton Utilities 7 starting at 0xCDD8. We could include more than this excerpt, which begins at 0xE87E, but much like this game, there's really no point. Twisted Edge Extreme Snowboarding posted:OH MY GOD! WE ARE hosed!!!! GLIST_LEN OVERFLOW Mad Professor Mariarti posted:hello hacker fucker Iron Tank posted:This is the programmer, KNT. PAGES OF INTEREST: (I'll add more to this list later) FUNNY poo poo The New Tetris (N64) Spider-Man (PC) (the thread title comes from here) Atomic Bomberman (Check the Filthy Unused Voice Clips) INTERESTING READS Fallout: New Vegas Super Mario Bros. 3 Pokemon Gold and Silver System Shock PROTOTYPES The Legend of Zelda (NES) Mega Man 7 Chrono Trigger Sonic the Hedgehog 2, as seen on Nick Arcade OTHER STUFF Unused music! Hot drat. Anti-Piracy crap Hidden dev messages Source code, just lying there So take a look and see. Maybe your favorite game held some secrets you never knew about. Or maybe, if you really wanted to, you could try cracking some games you know really drat well open yourself and see what's inside. (  Read the rules if you want to contribute! Please don't be a moron and make me regret making this thread.) I'm sure they could use the help.
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For the record, I've only really worked on two pages on there. One of them is on my "favorite" game and you can probably guess which one it is. Not much stuff unfortunately but whatever. The other page(s) is on my actual favorite game*, Persona 4 and holy crap, it's got a lot of stuff on it. (Warning: Major Persona 4 spoilers on that page! Like, right there in the image section!) If you like Persona 4, I recommend reading it, because there's a lot of leftover poo poo in that game and I still haven't put it all up. (Also if you know Japanese, I could use your help with that page soon cause there's leftover Japanese voice clips all over the place) *maybe not my absolute favorite
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