The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 24/09/2026Howdy folks! Here's our writeup on the DDoS from last month: blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-... Thanks for your patience while we worked to get this out! 420654
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorVideo Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Starting today, we're piloting Japanese magazines in our digital archive! We've spent the last few months upgrading our library infrastructure to support Japanese-language material, starting with the magazine Neo Geo Freak. Read the full blog post for more info: gamehistory.org/5k-magazines/ 12314136
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorRick Fox @theotherrickfox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026#ASC2026 #AnthroSoCal2026 Get ready everybody! The official @tcrf.net panel, Cut Content in Retro Games, starts at 3 PM **TODAY** in Panel Room 1!! Don't miss this really fun deep dive into some of your favorite classics and obscurities*!! (*obscurities are not guaranteed to be your favorites) 0154
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 09/09/2026Someone also posted this to our forums as well! Here's our article on what was known before this prototype was released! Most of it appears to be in the ROM. tcrf.net/Prerelease:B... bsky.app/profile/fact... 8388162
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 09/09/2026I regret to inform you that they're at it again, pivoting to a new method. While Cloudflare mitigated most of the requests, at this scale, even 1% is enough to cause a disruption. We've adjusted the firewall rules some to hopefully maintain smooth service for real users. Thanks for your patience! 715014
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorRick Fox @theotherrickfox.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Bob the Lobster attempting to be the tertiary @tcrf.net mascot. o,,o 313824
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 06/09/2026Our attacker finally seems to have learned that our sister wiki, Data Crystal, exists, and pointed their cannon at it. Data Crystal is now behind Cloudflare as well. For TCRF updates, we haven't seen any outage issues since swapping to Cloudflare, and more VPNs should be allowed as well. 822122
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 04/09/2026As far as the DDoS situation goes, our host is still seeing attack traffic to our old (public) IP address, but our server is happily serving pages behind Cloudflare and our dashboard suggests things are going well :) In the next few days, we'll try to have a post-mortem report on what happened. 215715
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 04/09/2026New feature rolling out today: better Discord embeds! 416313
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 01/09/2026It's good to be back :D tcrf.net/The_Cutting_... 351302302
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 01/09/2026Working on bringing the wiki back online now. See you soon! 21697
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 31/08/2026is it normal when even Linode staff are telling you "this attack seems unusually sustained and targeted" 928828
Reposted by The Cutting Room Floorj @zerojay.com · 30/08/2026If you're wondering why amazing sites like @tcrf.net have to go to the lengths they do to ban AI and bots, read the article. 4228113
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 30/08/2026latest update on the @tcrf.net downtime situation 7355103
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 30/08/2026I updated the downtime page with some frequently asked questions and better links tcrf.net 11471119
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 30/08/2026Linode has informed us that the attack is still ongoing against both our primary and backup server, so now we have a backup-backup server. Hopefully things resolve for good soon! tcrf.net/The_Cutting_... 933351
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 29/08/2026you're fucking killing me linode, we spent all fucking day sitting here thinking this was almost over. screaming internally 311712
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 29/08/2026the back and forth with Linode continues ... from what I understand the attack has subsided, but now there's some other network fault at play that we're troubleshooting 1973
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 28/08/2026the DDoS has now migrated to the temporary webserver that doesn't do anything but serve the error page. fun to watch now that it doesn't matter 920745
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 28/08/2026We've submitted a ticket to Linode about the network issue. No ETA on when we'll hear back yet. 21274
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 27/08/2026Sorry folks, someone's paying for the expensive DDoS services. Not much we can do when they're saturating a gigabit pipe. We'll be back when we can! 1127449
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorGavin Astra~☆ @gavinastrawolf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I finally finished editing the Furcationland 2026 @tcrf.net panel hosted by @theotherrickfox.bsky.social . I did a ton of editing to make this panel easy to watch & unlike last time we have the raw game footage recording! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdGK...youtube.comCut Content in Retro Games: Cutting Room Floor FCL Panel 2026YouTube video by Gavin Werewolf 23310
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 08/08/2026new blog post: self-hosting in the era of LLMs and cheap compute in general, about the kind of crap traffic i see day to day, as well as a more modern nuisance: claude code blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-...blog.xkeeper.netSelf-hosting in the era of LLMs and cheap compute – Xkeeper's blog 7425167
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 06/08/2026Recently, there was some controversy, because an AI user pointed their automated tools at our website, and got a warning about a prompt injection. Nothing actually happened, mind, but our anti-AI page successfully annoyed the operator and interrupted their "work." 131642358
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 04/08/2026A few people have wanted to know how this works: the mechanism is pretty simple. The site checks if your browser says it's coming from one of these sites. If so, you get the "AI loser" page. The link on the page strips out the "utm_source" parameter and referrer, so you only see it once. 10625173
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 22/07/2026We're rolling out a new tool to help compare images throughout the wiki! These are on limited pages currently but the selection is expanding. Shoutouts to Hawk for its work on this! 11664139
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 12/04/2026Seeing the audio for this prototype restored so quickly is incredible, amazing job 319562
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 09/04/2026Hey folks! We have an anonymous release today of a very early Punch-Out prototype! There's a lot to see in it (but not hear); check out the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social video here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5A...youtube.comThis Punch-Out!! Prototype is Unlike Anything We've Seen BeforeYouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation 4303134
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 01/04/2026Happy Holidays! We're back to our old goofs again, this time with some silly random taglines (contributed by admin Hawk). 1629
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorProto Challenge @protochallenge.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Today, we bring you a prototype of Mario's Picross for the Game Boy! Dated January 23rd, 1995, this build comes a few months before release and contains different puzzles, a different Super Game Boy title screen, and other graphical differences. archive.org/details/mari... 418564
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorRetro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Thanks 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.) 12410130
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorThe Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 22/12/2025🎄 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... 214062
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 22/12/2025🎄 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... 214062
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorVideo Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 17/12/2025The 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.youtube.comLet's Dump Mystery Prototype ROMs - Again!YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation 310033
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorVideo Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 15/12/2025As 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/ 6728951417
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 12/11/2025update re: the tcrf Brawl Stars page. i replied asking for a list of what, specifically, is violating said policy. 1112335
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorWest Mansion: The Splatterhouse Homepage @west-mansion.bsky.social · 01/11/2025STOP 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 271533644
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 28/10/2025Time 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... 6534203
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorGoldS_TCRF @golds-tcrf.bsky.social · 23/10/2025If 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... 02610
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 16/10/2025We'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... 216149
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorGoldS_TCRF @golds-tcrf.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Getting 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 0166
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 30/06/2025If 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.) 05521
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 30/06/2025Now 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 010016
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorVideo Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Introducing 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:gamehistory.orgIntroducing the Craig Stitt papers | Video Game History FoundationPresenting our newest library collection from Sega and Insomniac artist Craig Stitt. 3575185
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorVideo Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Tomorrow, 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... 011711
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorDavid 'MameHaze' Haywood @mamehaze.bsky.social · 11/06/2025A 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. 24919
The Cutting Room Floor @tcrf.net · 10/06/2025Ongoing 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) 1022548
Reposted by The Cutting Room FloorX ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 04/06/2025i love visualizations. here's a (at-the-time) live feed of requests from the wiki servers. (addt'l information in "alt text") 1345