The Cutting Room Floor

Thanks to @retropals.bsky.social, I am now aware of Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream, an unreleased Game Boy game which features some kind of nightmarish creature with the heads of Harry and Marv as its final boss.

And now you are too.

(Screenshot from the invaluable resource that is @tcrf.net.)

🎄 Happy holidays! ❄️
Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues.

tcrf.net/BS-X_Magazines
tcrf.net/index.php?ti...

🎄 Happy holidays! ❄️
Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues.

tcrf.net/BS-X_Magazines
tcrf.net/index.php?ti...

Let's Dump Mystery Prototype ROMs - Again! YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation

The winter FUNraiser continues at 12pm Pacific: We're dumping a new set of mystery ROMs, live on stream! And we need your help to assemble the data!

Based on the labels on these ROMs, there *will* be at least one new unpreserved game in here.

As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels.

Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/

update re: the tcrf Brawl Stars page.

i replied asking for a list of what, specifically, is violating said policy.

STOP THE PRESSES.

The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one.

Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon.

@hg101.bsky.social

Well, that's weird! I just checked and don't see anything out of the ordinary.

This is the 2017 "remake" of the old homepage, though it leads to actual wiki pages and not the original site's content.
tcrf.net/aprilfools20...

screenshot of the SMB3 Unused Levels subpage, focusing on Unused Level 6; it's the one that's placed on the "START" tile in World 1. it's an ice level with a moving line platform that drifts up and down, like some water stages.

For our birthday... quote this with one of your favorite articles!

Here's one of mine: tcrf.net/Super_Mario_...
Super Mario Bros. 3 just has so much left over in it... I remember playing around in this level in Nesticle 25 years ago.

(You can also support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/tcrfwiki)

screenshot of The Cutting Room Floor's first main page edit: "It slices, it dices, it even filets the filet!"

screenshot of the original website (second link)

Time keeps flying... The Cutting Room Floor wiki turned 16 on Saturday!

TCRF is a product of everyone who has contributed to it over the years. Thanks to everyone that's edited an article, donated, or just shared it with their friends.

tcrf.net/The_Cutting_...
bmf.rustedmagick.com/cr/cuttingro...

Have you ever seen a biorhythm chart before? No? Well, imagine a rectangular graph, wider than it is tall, with many vertical lines and a single blue horizontal line running through the middle. Values at the bottom of the graph range from 1 to 31. There's a vertical yellow line going through the 20th. There are three sinusoidal waves weaving through the graph: A red "Body" line, a green "Feeling" line, and a blue "Intellect" line. Text at the top reads "JUL 2022 BIORHYTHM" because that's when I added the article to TCRF. Oh, and there's a birthday below that: "24 AUG 1953". Can you guess the significance of that date? Anyway, that's what's in the picture. Enjoy landing planes at midnight.

If you buy Midnight Landing on Arcade Archives this week, you'll receive a Biorhythm calculator at no extra cost! You can use it to measure your humors or whatever, I don't know. I'm not from the 70s.

(Original find by Phil Bennett - see article for details)

tcrf.net/Midnight_Lan...

A screenshot of the original front page of Data Crystal [https://datacrystal.tcrf.net/w/index.php?title=Data_Crystal&oldid=2]

We're a bit late to the party, but Data Crystal turned 20 years old last month! That's... old.

DC is the sister wiki to TCRF, focused on reverse engineering, datamining, and documentation; stuff useful for ROM hacks and fan translations.

datacrystal.tcrf.net/wiki/Data_Cr...

DM us your IP address (api.ipify.org) or an admin on Discord. (Our DMs should be open but if they aren't reply and I'll see what I can do)

Picture of the starting area of Strategy X (Konami set). There's a large cyan arrow pointing upwards with the text, "GO AHEAD !!" below the arrow. Hopefully this is pointing at the TCRF link.

Getting into the groove of making articles again. Here's one for Strategy X, which was released on Arcade Archives a few weeks back. Includes version differences with the older Stern set, an unused enemy, and evidence for a possible older Konami set buried in Stern's version.

tcrf.net/Strategy_X

If you've been sitting on something you've wanted to document, now might be a good time to finally log in and write that article. (Or at least log in.)

screenshot from https://tcrf.net/Deltarune/Chapter_3/Unused_Graphics showing a Ralsei mannequin. "A mannequin designed after Ralsei's mysterious Chapter 1 appearance. This is NOT located in the files of Chapters 1 or 2, and was specifically added for Chapter 3."

Now that Deltarune has been out for a few weeks, you might want to take a look inside the game! A big chunk of chapter 3 got cut, and there's a lot of unused sprites throughout both new chapters.

tcrf.net/Deltarune

Introducing the Craig Stitt papers | Video Game History Foundation Presenting our newest library collection from Sega and Insomniac artist Craig Stitt.

Introducing our newest collection: The Craig Stitt art and design papers!

Craig Stitt was an artist and designer for Sega and Insomniac, working on games like Sonic 2, Spyro the Dragon, and Ratchet & Clank.

Read more:

Craig Stitt talking in front of a drawing of Sonic and Tails.

Tomorrow, we're launching a new collection in the library... along with a special video episode of the Video Game History Hour! Patreon members get to watch first.

www.patreon.com/posts/vghh-e...

A larger number of items from Gaelco's archives were given to us recently. Amongst them was a World Rally prototype (on Modular System) from before Carlos Sainz image was covered with a giant helmet. The development story is well known, so this is an important piece of history.

If you use secure, unique passwords, you should not have any problems (consider a password manager). Also, ensure you have a verified e-mail address on your wiki account for password resets, should the need ever arise.

There have been reports of "compromised accounts"; unfortunately, some users used the same password for the wiki as they did on other hacked sites, and those accounts were used for vandalism. Any account that was part of a compromised list had its password reset as a security measure.

Ongoing events: Unfortunately, the website and community have been the target of an ongoing harassment campaign by the website KF. For those reasons, we've temporarily locked down invites and wiki registrations to prevent abuse and vandalism. (continued)

i love visualizations. here's a (at-the-time) live feed of requests from the wiki servers. (addt'l information in "alt text")

the nine pride logos used on tcrf.net; trans, pan, nb, lgbt, lesbian, intersex, gay, bi, ace

the discord server icon, which is a saguaro cacti on a pastel rainbow flag, with "tcrf" written below it

Happy pride month! To celebrate, the logo rotates through a few different pride flags, and the Discord server icon has been changed to be a little more colorful.

Remember: Being kind costs you nothing.

screenshot of a discord message from tcrf's announcements channel, showing the new "(leaf) TCRF" server tag you can use

For those using Discord, we (currently) have one of those fancy "server tags" you can use on your profile.

i wrote a blog post about the ongoing LLM scraper/DDoS botnet problem, so there's something a little better to read than a bunch of disjointed bsky posts

blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorize...

Screenshot of a "Screen Character Test" debug tool from Dead Connection. On the left is a bitmap of a brown-suited man with a brown hat. He looks pretty peeved.

The player select screen from Dead Connection with Philip (with one "l") and James selected, but the cursors say 3P and 4P? Wuh?!?

A location test screen from Dead Connection. The background is a sepia tone version of the standard Game Over backdrop. The usual Taito location test copy is displayed, which reads as follows: "THANK YOU FOR PLAYING UP TO THIS STAGE. YOU ARE A VERY GOOD PLAYER. AREN'T YOU? BECAUSE THIS GAME IS NOW UNDER LOCATION TEST, WE ARE VERY SORRY NOT TO SHOW YOU THE NEXT STAGE OF THE GAME. WE ARE TERRIBLY SORRY FOR THIS AND HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN, SOMETIME AND SOMEPLACE."

The high score screen, with the top two names being "JIR" and "KAT". The severed heads of Pu-Li-Ru-La's player characters, Mel (Girl, blue hat) and Zak (Boy, pink hat), adorn the bottom-left corner of the screen.

This is a week late, but here's a TCRF article on Dead Connection that I made a few years back. Notable finds include a big debug menu, scrapped 4P support, a location test screen, hidden cameos from Zak and Mel of Pu-Li-Ru-La fame, and a mess of unused destructibles.
tcrf.net/Dead_Connect...

After rigorous testing and numerous bugs squashed, user registration on romhack.ing is now open to the public. Go ahead and register on the site!

To help with server costs and support site infrastructure improvements, please consider supporting us on Patreon.
patreon.com/c/romhackdoting

Title screen of Space Station Silicon Valley (N64)

Title screen of Evo's Space Adventures (PS1)

It's impossible to 100% Space Station Silicon Valley (N64) due to one of the trophies being intangible, but good news! The PlayStation port (that renamed it to Evo's Space Adventures, halved the framerate, removed some levels, and replaced the whole soundtrack) fixed it!

tcrf.net/Bugs:Space_S...