The Cutting Room Floor
| The Cutting Room Floor | |
|---|---|
 The Cutting Room Floor's logo | |
| Language | English |
| Status | Active |
| Run | 2009 - Present |
| Date opened | February 2nd, 2010 |
| Creator | Rachel Mae |
| Number of articles | 29,950+ |
| Forum | The Cutting Room Floor |
| Mascot | Super Mario 64 Cactus |
| Website | Main Page |
The Cutting Room Floor is a wiki that is dedicated to unused and debugging content found within video games, covering various platforms and genres of video games. While editors are welcome to add to the wiki, article edits are held to stringent quality standards to ensure accuracy, organization, and that content stays on-topic. They have a category for Pokémon games, demos, and prototypes as well.
History
The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) began as a personal project by Rachel Mae after looking through DOS programs and learn 6502 assembly in 2001. The project was updated and mainly focused on NES games until 2006 due to the relative ease for datamining older games.The project can be found here. Xkeeper ended up taking an interest in the project Rachel Mae was working on and offered to rework the site. Initially it was planned to have the site run similar to that of a blog but was later decided to rework it into a wiki for ease of updating and to allow other people to add-on to and update the site. On February 2nd, 2010; the wiki became open to the public for editing. Initially when the wiki began, users had to request an account from admins to be able to contribute. This was changed several months later to make editing available to all users wishing to contribute to the wiki.
Since its starting days, The Cutting Room Floor has been seen as the leading resource for for unused and debugging material online. The website has been featured in a variety of media such as Edge Magazine, Kotaku, Joystiq, Cracked, Wired, and GameSpot. The wiki has also grown to have a forum, irc channel, twitter page, bluesky page, and a reddit page. The website expands daily covering games from 1974 all the way up to the present day.
Content
Articles
The wiki covers various aspects of video games. They cover different types of gaming articles such as the video games theirselves, demos, and prototypes. They also cover the development cycle of games along with pages that cover unused lines of code or possibly dummied out developer commentary for why or why not something is used within a game. Any user may contribute to or create articles but can also add tags noting something may need more research, translation, or testing.
Administrators
The administrators, as with other wikis, have full run of the wiki and can ban users, delete pages, edit the main page, and edit any page. They help make sure the wiki runs smoothly and are the people to go to when there are any questions about how to help contribute.
External links
- TCRF's About page
- TCRF: In the Media page
- TCRF: Sites of Interest
- TCRF on BlueSky
- TCRF on Twitter
- TCRF on Reddit
- TCRF on Tumblr (Inactive)
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