[Portal 2] Hidden SSTV Commentary Node

[DuckyRoanNubbles3D]

Wise words.

[NawnExistent]

Portal 2 Announcement ARG

- Created by people working on Portal 2

- Intended for enthuisiastic superfans

- Budget of less than $100

- Portal updated to include radios, broadcasting myserious SSTV images

- Certain images included pieces of an MD5 hash of a phone number

- Estimated time to 'solve': 7 hours

- Actual time to solve: 7 hours 16 minutes.

That's the text in the first image. Can't be bothered to type the second.

[TheAviatorMusic]

Sorry to tell you this guys, but none of this is binarary. This is sstv. or Slow Scan Tele vision. This is a radio frequency with an image converted to sound. Use mmsstv to decode it.

[jacoman5151]

jeez adam fosters got a funny voice!

[TheUser1928]

Um, the second part to that is

um....

I CANT FIGURE IT OUT!

[TheUser1928]

@GadAnimations I understand it, it is simple binary.

Bytes of text. Me likey. oh and btw,

010000100111010101110100001000­000110100100100000011101010110­111001100100011001010111001001­110011011101000110000101101110­011001000010000001110111011010­000110000101110100001000000110­100101110100001000000110100101­110011001000010010000001001001­011101000010000001101001011100­110010000001101000011010010110­010001100100011001010110111000­100000011101000110111100100000­011100110110111101101101011001­01001000000111000001

[GadAnimations]

01000001 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110 00100000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011

[AshCrafting]

01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100101

[radiosification]

they should do some in digital sstv too like in easypal

[janparize2]

When I started watching this video my cat went like: WTF? DUDE, wats that?

[almann1117]

third one: (cont'd)

SSB backdoor for updates and monitoring (possible to watch exactly what people were seeing as they dialed)

Combined might of internets is terrifying.

(these were on presentation slides)

[almann1117]

third one: (hard to read)

Aperture Laboratories BBS

Single analogue phone line in a designer's kitchen (Phone systems in valve office too modern)

Old PC running linux attached to a 2400tps modem from 1987 (Via USB to serial adaptor)

?~~ To handle calls, custom PHP script looping through plot fragments and home-made ANSI-art conversions of Portal 2 artwork

Transmitted about 20MB of data in total

Phoneline constantly engaged!

Several spare modems in case one died - none did (cont'd)

[almann1117]

second one:

Portal 2 SSTV Images

Analogue format used in HAM radio

Watching video of ISS SSTV with SSTV software running sound from laptop speakers unexpectedly picked up by microphone

Peculiar squeaking and beeping degrades in visually interesting ways

Photos of valve whiteboards, equipment, and anything science related lying around

finding radios in portal made for fun meta-game everyone could join in

[almann1117]

first one:

Portal 2 Announcement ARG

Created by people working on portal 2

intended for enthusiastic superfans

budget of less than $100

portal updated to: include radios, broadcasting myserious sstv messages

certain images contain pieces of an MD5 hash of a phone number

phone number led to an old-fashioned bbs

estimated time to 'solve' : 7hrs

actual time to solve: 7hrs 16min

[JJ7x6Studios]

this sound file is called "com-arg"

go get gcfscape, go to common, portal 2, pak01_dir,sound,commentary, then find com-arg and there you go.

[RetroXpuntoNES]

I can fap to this.

[Jhhwxd]

It are actually 3 images. I've just decoded it with RX-SSTV. 1st image: Portal 2 Announcement ARG -Created by people working on Portal 2 -Intended for enthusiastic superfans -Bedget of less then $100 -Portal updated to include radios, broad- casting mysterious SSTV images -Certain images contained pieces of an MD5 has of a phone number -Phone number led to an old-fashioned BBS -Estimated time to 'solve': 7 hours -Actual time to solve: 7 hours 16 minutes Thumbs up! (more in next comment)

[luuclucas]

@Jhhwxd Wich files are the sounds

[TheSektorz]

Budget of less than $100? Yeah right..

[FrozenHaxor2]

MMSSTV Decoded it well for me. It shows folder like images with texts telling you what was in SSTVs of Portal.

[reper2132]

Ignore the didn't..

[reper2132]

Hmmm...RX-SSTV didn't dosn't decode it to well...Odd.

[DFZero235]

@reper2132 The thing with the SSTV recordings is that when Valve tried making and recording them, the phone they used garbled up the signals a bit (because of its age) so there's background squeaking, clicking, and other such assorted junk bleeps that cause the image to go all crazy.

[reper2132]

@DFZero235 Ah ok,I understand now.

[mcfranciscotron]

oohhh shit my ears

[maradona108]

What Bbs means? 

[Zelchodude1]

i think you should translate it

.

[RadioactiveSandvich]

i decoded this wile watching this video the pic sstv showed are are just a list of rules or something

[randomforum]

Youtube destroys the picture quite well, I did decoding with MMSSTV, and yes it works when pressing play on your video, but it has really bad static in the picture

[copiga]

part2:

PORTAL 2 SSTV IMAGES

analogue format in HAM radio

watching sstv vids of iss with sstv software running sound from laptop speakers picked up, degraded in fun ways

photos of valve whiteboards equipment and anything science rtelated lying around

finding radios became fun metagame

[nessnes64]

@copiga Is that bbs shit true?

Sounds creepy

[copiga]

part1:

portal 2 announcement ARG

created by people working on portal 2

intended for enthusiastic superfans

budget <100$

portal updated include radios broadcasting sstv

some contain md5hash of phone number

phone number - old bbs

estimated solve time:7hrs

real:7hrs16mins

[AlfredX1990]

Oh crap.... I entered this room but I had developer commentary off

[alleseigentlich]

COMBINED MIGHT OF INTERNETS IS TERRIFYING.

[liverstoner]

turn it off TURN IT OFF

[invencible33]

Zombie....

[thegamer30000v2]

EAR RAPE!!!

[jacoman5151]

@thegamer30000v2 true...

[darkshadow9581]

I was decoding these SSTV signal on {Robot 36} with RX-SSTV v1.2.2, got three SSTV images, one about an ARG (Alternate Reality Game), SSTV (Slow-Scan Television), BBS. Sorta creepy the way it sounds if you ask me.

[BladePwner]

For all that want's to know what this is, it's:

1 - NOT Ear Rape;

2 - NOT a Morse Code

3 - A SSTV IMAGE. The sound that you are earing it's coded image. So you can you try a software like MMSSTV to decode it. It's a Portal 2 Annoucement ARG. PERIOD.

[TOX1CREVOLVER]

01110100 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100010 01110011 00100000 01110101 01110000 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011

[scubadog2000]

@TOX1CREVOLVER 01000100 01101111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00111111

[styx360ofroblox]

I wonder what this decoded image is...

[technoch33s3c4k3]

i was de-codeing it



[ashley7otaku]

I. Actually. Like. This. Sound. I keep replaying it and it makes my head hurt. :3

[borndeadman]

if you decode the audio with a sstv program you will find 3 pictures telling about a sercet portal 2 ARG being made with a budget of $100

[KashinovichGaming]

Who is Adam Foster? Why is he in Portal 2?

[stuffNwhatever]

EAR RAPE

[ItzCaturday123]

@masterofsomethin Indeed.

[GamerCraze2112]

ITS A MESSAGE THAT YOU CAN DECODE, IT MAKES A PICTURE

[supercrash140]

umm hear the turret? like

((SPOILER ALERT))

Like the one found in a redemption line when you save the turret, moments later starts speaking something weird about GLaDOS maybe?

[Toonlink123456789]

EAR RAPE!

[tjksvids]

The ARG defanatly isn't over. I sence it.

[steamgamesandmore123]

sound like freakin alien

[Dvheereveld]

Erm i don't understand it. What is this beeping. It's some kind of secret message? can someone explain?

[Jordey24]

@Dvheereveld It's basically a picture in audio form.

[RobGrix]

@Dvheereveld

It's suppossed to be Morse Code, which encoded can turn into a word message or pictures, as you can see in the link on the description.

[Frungi]

@RobGrix No, morse code is nothing like that. It's SSTV.

[ARC07693]

@RobGrix That isn't what Morse code is.

[RobGrix]

@ARC07693

Yeah, I mixed up there, sorry

[Koolkitties]

Visually encode it now.

[XMMM94]

The SSTV image i get when decoding this contains this info:

Portal 2 Announcement ARG

created by people working on Portal 2

Intended for enthusiastic superfans

Budged of less than $100

Portal updated to include radios, broadcasting mysterious SSTV images

certain images contained pieces of an MD5 hash of a phone number

Phone number led to an old-fashioned BBS

Estimated time to solve: 7 hours

Actual time to solve: 7 hours 16 minutes

[JacobK97]

Adam Foster...Perhaps MR.Foster from Killing Floor?

[SuperFly8anzai]

@JacobK97 Well, he was a modder that modded video games,(obviously), and got hired by Valve. Mabye he had something to do with Portal ARG.

[n1clc]

Who the hell watched the whole thing...

[gravediggerawx]

@n1clc me

[Sebal007]

Just started MMSSTV (never heard about SSTV before), and it auto recorded this image while watching this video...have to play portal AGAIN

[Mylenthes]

Portal 2 announcment ARG

Created by people working on portal 2

Intended for.... ahh too lazy to type what it says

[guitarkid177]

I gotta get a better mic, i can only read one word in the first image out of all of the 3 images was Portal 2.

[Sebal007]

@guitarkid177 nooooo...dont use mic >.<. Enable STEREOMIX which allows your soundcard to record the output, clean picture^^

[0PlaZma0]

Can someone tell me how to make the SSTV sound because I've got a few ideas in store for this. =D

[mysterykcad]

Combined might of internets is terrifying

-Last bullet point of last SSTV image

[Syniqal]

I wonder if that's the same image encoded as the photo of the Companion Cube on the Moon? See: cdn.gamefront.c om/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/­portal-code.png if you don't know what I mean yet.

[mokana713]

@Syniqal

its 3 random lists of the facts about the radio images

[darkzzii]

wait the 3rd one has "laboratories" then somthing like "BES" "caro" can be made out on the right

[mokana713]

@darkzzii

they are on the wiki if you want to see them clearly

[darkzzii]

i cant tell what the hell that is. it just looks like white

[masterofsomthin]

Adam Foster has a beautiful voice

[sherrard15]

@masterofsomthin i laughed so much when reading this comment :P

[777teg]

adam foster...lol. idk who that is, yet it's still funny.

[NightNeonProductions]

@777teg The creator of a mod called minerva. Just a point of interest :P

[losturkos300]

now translate it ;D

[obliza1]

yea this is only half the hidden area..fail..

[bryand3v]

You can shoot into the room below the fan. takes your somewhere else. and if you stand next to the first painting when you walk in. You hear a defective turret talking to it's self.

[Animat8r]

It explains how the ARG was made.

[Costerguy1234556]

The missing piece of the ARG

[OMGitsDSypl]

someone get steve jobs to translate this!!!

[Number1buttkicker]

That hurt and i have very loud speakers they were all the way up!

[Kasotomic]

FUuuuuuuuu!!! I HAD HEADSET ON WITH FULL SOUND!!!

[Nicky02468]

@Kasotomic Yeah it's abit shit when I'm recording this full thing and my dad starts shouting telling me to turn it down, but I can't because my speaker volume is represented by Fraps...hehe :D

[Kasotomic]

@Nicky02468 Say what? Can't hear you, you know..After the beeping thing..

[TheSoldierCore]

@Kasotomic how did it feal

[NicroLife]

@Kasotomic if u want to record it with good quality u have to change default recording to stereo mix so it would record from the PC not from your mic

[Kasotomic]

@NicroLife The hell?

[TheoneFreeCakePro]

what about the one from the final transmission achievement

[Hi0123456789]

@TheoneFreeCakePro If you decode the sound from that on you'll get a picture of an aperture cube on the moon with the earth in the background, but you can't really see if it is a companion cube or not.

[kurnellampdwarf]

@Hi0123456789 I've done indepth decoding, it is indeed the companion cube.

[Pikandrios]

@Hi0123456789 Wrong! The translation of this will get you 3 pictures with information on the Portal 2 ARG. Take a look at my videos to see the decodation of this and the one you get for the achievement. (The one with the achievement is the one where you see the aperture cube.)

[Hi0123456789]

@Pikandrios That's what I said, you get the moon thingy from the final transmission achievement.

[iAmKEIS]

My Ears!

[PhyOSPhyOS]

@jakesanchard Using a savefile, or choosing the chapter in dev commentary mode.

[tehShinku]

Sound like an encoded image.

[PlayStarRocker]

Adam Foster made some stuff for the first Portal ARG and maybe this is a clue for the now running Valve PotatoFoolsDay ARG.