Those bursts of sound in the Rat man's den are actually SSTV signals that can be decoded into images using SSTV decoding softwares such as this: users.belgacom.net This is from the Rat man's den in test chamber 17, with the developer commentary on, you'll find a chat bubble that only plays this sound, well here it is, decoded. link to another decoded signal: www.youtube.com Slide 1: Portal 2 Announcement ARG (Alternate Reality Game, google it, there's lots of them which are awesome) - Created by people working on Portal 2 - Intended for enthusiastic superfans - Budget of less than 0 - Portal updated to include radios, brod- casting mysterious SSTV images - Certain images contained pieces of an MD5 hash of a phone number - Phone number lead to an old-fashioned BBS -Estimated time to 'solve': 7 hours - Actual time to solve: 7 hours 16 minutes Slide 2: Portal 2 SSTV Images - Analogue format used in HAM radio - Watching video of ISS SSTV soft- ware running sound from laptop speakers unexpectedly picked up by microphone - Peculiar squeking 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 Slide 3: 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 2400 bps modem from 1987 via USB to serial adaptor) - ngetty to ...
Friday, 11 January 2013
Portal 2: Chamber 17 SSTV signal decoded
Portal 2: Chamber 17 SSTV signal decoded Video Clips. Duration : 2.17 Mins.
Those bursts of sound in the Rat man's den are actually SSTV signals that can be decoded into images using SSTV decoding softwares such as this: users.belgacom.net This is from the Rat man's den in test chamber 17, with the developer commentary on, you'll find a chat bubble that only plays this sound, well here it is, decoded. link to another decoded signal: www.youtube.com Slide 1: Portal 2 Announcement ARG (Alternate Reality Game, google it, there's lots of them which are awesome) - Created by people working on Portal 2 - Intended for enthusiastic superfans - Budget of less than 0 - Portal updated to include radios, brod- casting mysterious SSTV images - Certain images contained pieces of an MD5 hash of a phone number - Phone number lead to an old-fashioned BBS -Estimated time to 'solve': 7 hours - Actual time to solve: 7 hours 16 minutes Slide 2: Portal 2 SSTV Images - Analogue format used in HAM radio - Watching video of ISS SSTV soft- ware running sound from laptop speakers unexpectedly picked up by microphone - Peculiar squeking 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 Slide 3: 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 2400 bps modem from 1987 via USB to serial adaptor) - ngetty to ...
Those bursts of sound in the Rat man's den are actually SSTV signals that can be decoded into images using SSTV decoding softwares such as this: users.belgacom.net This is from the Rat man's den in test chamber 17, with the developer commentary on, you'll find a chat bubble that only plays this sound, well here it is, decoded. link to another decoded signal: www.youtube.com Slide 1: Portal 2 Announcement ARG (Alternate Reality Game, google it, there's lots of them which are awesome) - Created by people working on Portal 2 - Intended for enthusiastic superfans - Budget of less than 0 - Portal updated to include radios, brod- casting mysterious SSTV images - Certain images contained pieces of an MD5 hash of a phone number - Phone number lead to an old-fashioned BBS -Estimated time to 'solve': 7 hours - Actual time to solve: 7 hours 16 minutes Slide 2: Portal 2 SSTV Images - Analogue format used in HAM radio - Watching video of ISS SSTV soft- ware running sound from laptop speakers unexpectedly picked up by microphone - Peculiar squeking 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 Slide 3: 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 2400 bps modem from 1987 via USB to serial adaptor) - ngetty to ...
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