Sometimes you find something in a video game that makes you think... Hold on, let me grab a pen.. E-Y-B-R... V-V-K-S ... This is why today we're diving into
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3 months free. Mabinogi. Thanks to Vivien for submitting this mystery through Oddheader.com. Mabinogi is an MMORPG that launched in Korea in 2004 and on Steam worldwide in 2008... That's garnered over 20 million players to date. Nobody's been able to solve an unusual discovery that's been in the game as far back as players can remember... Possibly being in the game since it came out over a decade ago. If you were to go to Dunbarton and stand on the very edge of the map and then angle your camera in just the right position... You could spot a random sign sitting out of bounds that couldn't
normally be seen... By hovering your cursor over it and reading the sign, it would reveal this ODD cryptic message: “(Ad) Lowest interest rate in Erinn with immediate loans!" "Non-payment cards are acceptable!
Bad credit OK!" "Use Cameragirl’s camera and enter Alby dungeon.
Yoo-hoo.” Huh. Strangely while Erinn is the setting in which the game takes place... What the statement “Use cameragirl’s camera and enter Alby dungeon” means is a complete mystery. As, as far as anybody knows, there isn't any cam girls -err- camera girls in the game And Alby Dungeon is an area in the game far from this sign’s location. While it could be said that it may be some sort of leftover from early in the game’s development... considering it's been here for over a decade with millions of players running around the game world... You would think the developers would have caught on and eventually removed it. Though with the talk of cam girls and acceptance of low credit... I'd be careful with this one, as it sounds a little too good to be true. Casper: Spirit Dimensions. Casper: Spirit Dimensions is a 3D action adventure developed by Lucky Chicken Games that I frankly would never recommend anyone play. Despite this, frequent contributor to the channel HajimeTheFool showed me an intriguing mystery in the game that he's never been able to shake. By using a cheat code to begin the game of all of Casper's abilities unlocked, you could approach a bookshelf in the house and shoot it once normally, then twice with fire, once with freeze, normal again, another fire, and finally a super blast... The bookshelf would mysteriously swing open and reveal a hidden room. Inside is Lucky Chicken Games' mascot, Lucky the Chicken, who says if you found him you're either very ingenious for have been searching for codes... And then proceeds to tell you a long and cryptic story... Lucky tells of an egg of white pixels, nestled along red green and blue pixels, which eventually evolved into polygons that lacked definition. As polygons, they were enchanted by the white egg, dying to know what lied inside—was it friendly, dangerous, or fun? Then one day a small crack appeared on the egg as the polygons screw silent, waiting to finally see what it held inside. Lucky then says, that's all he has time to tell you, promising to reveal more if you find them in the future. Unfortunately, that was the last time that Lucky was ever found in the game. Hajime pointed out Lucky did also make an appearance as an unlockable character in Lucky Chicken Games’ last title: 2004’s Underworld: The Eternal War But doesn't appear to have anything to say, leading us to believe that Lucky might still be somewhere to be found in Casper: Spirit Dimensions or another game altogether. I hope someone out there manages to make some sort of step forward on the mystery... Because I would really love to know what the hell Lucky was talking about. Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. Thanks to Shiinna_Mashiro for submitting this through the oddheader discord. You may remember in one of my earliest videos:
Most Shocking Easter Eggs in Kids' Games A creepy mystery could be found in Friends of Mineral Town on
the GameBoy Advance where if you interacted with this television at exactly 4:44, a dialog box would suddenly repeat the number 4 over and over. Although many thought it was a glitch, it was largely thought because the number 4 represented death in Japan... It was an intentional easter egg made to scare the crap out of children. But now further evidence suggests that it is indeed intentional. As Shiina pointed out that a similar occurrence takes place in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town a remake of the original game released earlier this year on Nintendo Switch and Steam. However, this time when Shinna hit the television at 4:40 on Day 10 while playing the PC version, he found it instead of repeated the number 13 over and over with random letters in between. Shiina promptly wrote down all of the random letters and reversed them and found that it said: “To break the curse, use the rod 50 times.” While there is a fishing rod in the game, Shiina wasn't able to find anywhere where using it 50 times seemed to make any sense. Diamondo on my discord server also went as far to datamine the game, and found another message that said: “To break the curse, equip the sickle for five days straight.” And checking out the game for myself, it seems that there's even more messages to be found than that... As this time a completely different, much larger scrambled message displayed on screen. And another time that wasn't 4:40 a.m. on Day 10, the TV just paused and said “master.” Whatever it is, now that we know that whatever's going on here is clearly intentional and not a glitch... We can at least confirm the developers of Mineral Town have a strange fixation with trying to scare the hell out of children. Odd flex, but OK. Jak X: Combat Racing. Throughout the classic PlayStation 2 platform series, Jak and Daxter, a cryptic language belonging to an ancient race known as precursors can be seen plastered throughout the game’s worlds. In several of the official guides, a legend was provided to translate these messages, allowing players to finally translate the words that Naughty Dog splattered throughout the games. For the most part, it's pretty boring, only revealing words like “power,” “life,” and “fuel.” Despite this, a few secret messages still managed to slip in. For example, in most every release of Jak 2, this message here says:
“Barrel of Eco” A form of energy that pervades throughout the games. But for some reason, only on the PS3 version, I kid you not, it actually says
“Barrel of [bleep]” Why it says this only on the PlayStation 3 version, I couldn't tell you. However, the most mysterious message occurs in the final game of the series 2005’s Jak X Combat Racing. Throughout the game, a news ticker can be seen scrolling on the TV during multiple cut scenes. The message can't be seen in full in any one scene, so it has to be pieced together by watching all of the cutscenes in the game. Once the message is pieced together, it turns out it's actually a long hello from Naughty Dog, with references to other secrets in the game... Such as collectibles you unlock if you have saves of the previous titles. However, in one part of the message, it says to hold left one and right one together, then press triangle, triangle, circle, square, circle, square, X, triangle, X, circle for a prize. Nobody's sure where this code is supposed to be entered or what it's going to unlock... With some thinking maybe it wasn't ever properly implemented or that it works for a different game altogether. For all we know it could be a code for Shrek: Extra Large, but I'm not playing that one again to find out. Mr. Massagy. Thanks to Kahn for submitting this discovery through the oddheader discord. Mr. Massagy is a dating simulator on Steam and PS4 that's as strange as its title sounds... Where you play as Johnny, who goes on dates on an app called Linger with the help of his Australian parrot. Once the player completes a date, they can receive a massage as a reward as the player’s controller will literally vibrate. Wow. Okay, enough of that. Kahn decided to check the game’s credits and as expected saw the name of the studio behind this madness... Quickly following was a special thanks section, which seems serious for about one second before devolving into complete nonsense... Talking about the creepy doll that keeps them awake at night to their boss not paying them enough to write this. However things take a turn for the even stranger as the writer thanks the doctor for pumping his stomach and the child services worker with a good pair. Things then take an unexpectedly serious tone as after they talk about their parole officer sneaking them drugs, they sigh: "For James, on that topic, I truly miss you man.” Shortly after saying, “Sometimes I think of her. God, it was only one line." "We were just joking around. So stupid. I'm sorry I dragged you to that level James." "I wish you never knew me. And then, just the gun. When didja ever buy a gun man?” The text proceeds to ramble on, seemingly devolving into an apology between the writer and some sort of James. The text ends with “no more liquor for me, but thanks to you, the player for listening to me.” Whether this is truly the work of somebody who had too much Captain Morgan when tasked to write some credits is hard to say. It goes on way too long and gets so real that it doesn't really seem like a joke. If this was the work of a developer who decided that this was the time and place to come to terms with some bad life decisions, they truly couldn't have chosen a more ridiculous game to do it in. Why do I have the impression that James never received the message? Marathon. Thanks to Post for submitting this over 25-year-old mystery through the oddheader discord. 1994’s Marathon was Bungie's first successful franchise, well before the days of Destiny and Halo, often thought as an early blueprint for their later games. At one point in the third map of the game... The player finds a terminal by the ship’s AI that tells them to fetch a computer chip on the other side of the vessel. But before logging out, it briefly shows that there's a security breach in an unknown location. After retrieving the computer chip, the player can find a hidden door with no indication that it's there, that traps the player in a pit with a teleporter that appears to be out of reach. In the pit, an invincibility power-up can be found, and with it, Post shows that if you were to line up just right against the wall... You can use an exploit to shoot grenades while firing the assault rifle to access the normally unreachable teleporter. Here the player finds himself in the aforementioned area of the security breach, with an enemy known to affect the ship’s systems. Inside is a maze of teleporters that bounces the player across what seems to be multiple versions of the same room. By going through the teleporters in the correct order, the player can eventually find a final terminal... Which according to the datamined file name was actually supposed to show up on Map 5, not Map 3, like it's found here. This terminal tells a cryptic story about a man named Gheritt White, who doesn't have any connection to the game that anybody knows of. In fact, his story very clearly seems to take place in the 20th century, despite the game taking place in 2794. Gheritt’s story appears to be about a prisoner who believes that everybody deep down is actually a murderer. His tangent recounts a schoolyard fight, where he levitated during the brawl.. As well as a story about a time he fell down some steps, but safely floated to the bottom. It's hard to say, but it seems at the end, Gherritt is either experiencing delusions in his cell or is actually able to change the environment around him and brutally murders a rat before the text ends saying that he escaped into the waves... The waves. But making matters even more of a mystery, last year during an Ask Me Anything on the Marathon subreddit, the game’s lead writer, Greg Kirkpatrick was asked about the meaning of this terminal on who Gherritt White was, and responded that he couldn't remember... Though suspiciously admits that if he did he'd have to be cagey... But, reasonably, he did work on the game over 25 years ago, so unless any other developers come forward remembering what this terminal was supposed to be,
the identity of Gherritt White and who he was... ...may just be a mystery where we'll never know the answer. Half-Life 2. One of the more investigated mysteries submitted on my discord server regards a mysterious billboard in Half-Life 2 that can be seen outside the train station near the beginning of the game with XCCR, which is actually HSSG in Russian. In 2013, players on the Steam forums had seemingly noticed for the first time that if they Googled XCCR... It would lead to an ominous site modeled as a mysterious computer terminal, where they can input codes with no results. Even stranger, they then found people have been asking what the website was across the internet since 2006... With some believing at the time that it had something to do with the show Lost, although nothing was ever found to confirm this. But then looking at the domain registry for the website, they found that it was registered in 2004 on November 18... Meaning it was registered with only one day having passed since Half-Life 2's initial release. Although strangely the site doesn't appear to have been updated before 2006. While some could assume the domain was registered outside of Valve after somebody saw it in the game... I did notice the domain was registered with
SoftLayer Technologies Incorporated. Which from what I found was a company that hosted servers for enterprises and originally started with video game companies. Which I feel gives a bit of credence that this isn't just some rando’s hoax. Sleuths were later able to find the website's file directory and found a read-me file explaining a code had to be entered once every 99 minutes or else resources would be lost. In addition to this they found an animated GIF that when slowed down gave the following message: “Everyone is doing well, hence record n sure done. Without broken counts." "If you hoping of something. To find him, these must look past skin deep. Smash each five px you shall find it.” Um, well that makes sense. What the message means as well as the website's overall purpose has never been solved. And this is another mystery that we may never actually know the answer to... As the site went offline in 2019 as the domain’s ownership was transferred to another person although the site’s file directory is still hosted at the address by SoftLayer Technologies. One popular theory, being a Valve employee was responsible without the company's permission and they forced him to take it down when they found it. Fortunately, the website is still archived and preserved by archive.org. So if you want to check out the website for yourself, I left a link in the description down below. But in case that website sends you down a rabbit hole of dark web investigations you may just want to be safe and sign up for ExpressVPN. ExpressVPN is a virtual private network that gives you a number of benefits for surfing the web... Such as encrypting your data and hiding your IP address so that people can't trace your activity back to you. As not only does Express VPN protect you from hackers who want to steal your information but it also unblocks content so you can have unrestricted access to all of your favorite movies and shows. For instance, it allows me to watch one of my favorite movies of all time: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Which isn't normally available on Netflix in the US meaning the next time you get the message that this video is unavailable in your country... You can just say YOU'RE WRONG as you have Express VPN, which allows you to watch whatever you want. You can also use it how I do to protect yourself from people trying to steal your information for nefarious purposes... So you can stop receiving all those emails that look a little like this. Find out how you can get 3 months free by clicking the link in the description down below at expressvpn.com/oddheader. That's expressvpn.com/oddheader to use ExpressVPN for three months free. If you enjoyed this video and want to see more content like this, please subscribe. And if you know of any other secret messages in video games that have never been solved come join the discord, submit to oddheader.com, or even give me a shout on Twitter or Reddit. [patrons] Stay tuned.
