While 2019 may have been a year filledof questionable moments, once again we've proven right here on this channelthere's been many insane video game discoveries out there that the world hasnever seen before.
“Hey! Look at us.
” “Look at us!” “Huh!””Who would have thought?” “Not me!” This is why today I'm gonna be diving into the Top 10 Mysteries andDiscoveries of 2019, that all deserve their own special Oddie for bestdiscovery of the year.
Code Vein.
In definitely one of the most unusualdiscoveries of the year, shortly after Bandai Namco Studios new RPG franchiseCode Vein was released back in August dataminers found in the files of thegame a number of unusual audio files that couldn't be found anywhere else inthe game, that appeared to be characters from the game raving on and on about apizza chain that sounded suspiciously similar to Domino's Pizza.
“I suggesttrying the filo crust, biting through all those layers is really satisfying!” “Andthey still managed to turn a profit! All this talking is making me hungry! Let'sdig in, shall we?” Although the pizza chain is neveractually mentioned by name, some eagle-eyed players pointed out that a Domino'ssign could be found in one of the game's original screenshots, that didn'tactually appear in the final game.
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Perhaps suggesting this was some sort ofreally awkward cut cross-promotion! “That aroma!” “I've never smelled anything so tasty.
Mystomach is growling! This world is full of surprises!” Unfortunately, the gamesdevelopers and Domino's Pizza have both refused to give an answer on the matter.
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but what really makes this one of the biggest mysteries of the year for me iswhen I saw THIS in an episode of Silicon Valley a couple weeks ago! “Turnon the microphone.
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How are you doing Richard?” Are you hungry? Would you like some pizza?” “Crazy right? Domino's Pizza? In a fantasy medieval universe.
” “What the [bleep]?” What the [bleep] indeed!It's almost like Domino's pulled their ad campaign from Code Vein and went withSilicon Valley instead.
Well, I gotta give em them this was probably a way lessawkward cross-promotion than whatever the hell this was supposed to be.
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“I'm looking forward to this!” “Especially that crust! Fluffy.
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digin while it's still piping hot!” “You can see the soul of an uncompromisingartisan in this pizza.
” Really? Call of Duty Black Ops 3.
Since 2015 Jason Blundell has been touting the Call of Duty Black Ops 3 mapShadows of Evil as having a hidden easter egg on it that players stillhaven't found in this day.
And to the disappointment of all those who've beenhunting for all of these years, late last year a disgruntled developer revealed on Reddit, among a lot of other things that he himself neversaw proof of the egg, suggesting that it was bull and while it's still a mysterywhether or not that particular Easter Egg actually exists another discoverywas found in Call of Duty Black Ops 3 this year by redditor LackingAGoodName- can't argue with that – who after peaking at the scripts of the game noticed therewas a possible unfound easter egg on the Der Eisendrache map and found by allowingall the zombies to break through the windows, then boarded each of the windowsup with two boards, bought the ARK5, boarded up the windows again twomore times bought the Sheiva, boarded up the windows onemore time, bought the RK5 again, and then ran out this door in five secondsflat.
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Not sure how anyone was supposed to findthat.
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it reveals this never-before-seen very heartfelt Easter Egg that hasn'tbeen found since the game came out four years ago! Great job LackingAGoodName, this is definitely the most wholesome discovery of the year.
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now if we can onlyfind that Shadows of Evil Easter egg.
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Race with Ryan.
Thanks to the many peoplethat recently submitted this fairly unsettling mystery to me on Twitter andReddit.
Race with Ryan is a licensed game from the Ryan's World empire.
The YouTubechannel arguably responsible with the recent Child Protection Act push onYouTube, as the channel sparked an investigation from the FTC for using potentially deceptive marketing practices to children.
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However, I'm not sure that explains what dataminers found in the game as TiniestTurtles on Twitter discovered this disturbing texture of Ryan's face thatcould be found in the files of the game! Unfortunately the developer has refusedto comment on the matter, leaving us with only one question: why? This is definitelyone of the most [bleep]ed-up discoveries of the year.
Red Dead Redemption 2.
Since Red Dead Redemption 2's PC release last month, dataminers haveuncovered some incredibly unexpected content hidden in the files of the game.
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but none more baffling than the discovery in the files of character princess is IsabeauKatharina Zeinsmeister, whose only actual known appearance in the game is on amissing poster as a twelve-year-old girl and here they found what appeared to beher adult form! Dataminers were able to determine the identity of PrincessIsabeau by the file name IKZ, as well as the matching description of birthmarkson her face and arm.
However, the question remains.
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where is Princess Isabeauhiding and will she even be alive when we find her? Oh and they found thismonstrosity in the files no one's ever seen before.
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Oh god.
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what the hell is that thing? Supposedly this thing could also behiding somewhere in the game still unfound, perhaps in the murky unseeablewaters surrounding the game's environment.
But uh.
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maybe don't find that one.
If anyoneends up finding the nest of these things out there you can count me the hell out.
Borderlands.
Back in June in my video Unsolved Mysteries Part III, I reportedon an unusual discovery found on my discord server uncovered by DaxMarco, where byminimizing Borderlands during its startup a series of absolutely disturbingmoans could be heard meaning from the game application thatdon't occur anywhere else in the game! Well, since that videos release, Rewindon my Discord server made a startling discovery when he pitched the audio uptwo octaves and heard what appeared to be an animal whimpering.
[animals crys] Rewind sent the audio through the contact form on the Gearbox website and ratherunbelievably, Randy Pitchford the head of Gearbox himself immediately replied!Rewind's original question was what the sound we were hearing was actually arecording of and instead of getting a super direct answer on that, Pitchfordinstead explained the recording was intended as an ambient creature cry andthat the windowed mode is likely indeed slowing down the sample rate, butcontended that he never heard of this mystery before.
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now we were all shockedRandy Pitchford himself responded to this through the Gearbox contact form inlike ten minutes, it definitely gave many of us on my Discord server theimpression that Randy was maybe trying to distance himself from this oneas soon as he could, possibly to keep himself out of hot water.
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again.
As thatwould have been – what – the eighth time this year? But truly what else could theactual source of this audio be and would minimizing the game actually create thatkind of sample change? I don't know.
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I mean we're only given a response as vagueas this what am I supposed to think? Considering we've seen at least havesome confirmation now that this audio is likely a slowed down version of this.
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Ihave to say.
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seriously what the [bleep]? This has to be the creepiest discovery of theyear.
Spitfire.
Many know the first and oldest easter egg from 1979's Atariclassic Adventure, a legendary easter egg where if you take a single pixel all theway back from the beginning of the game you'd find the game's only developercredit, prominently featured in the novel and recent Spielberg film Ready PlayerOne.
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” Well I hate to break it to youReady Player One fans but that's actually wrong and has been wrong for awhile, as an even older easter egg than that was discovered in 2017 on thearcade game Starship 1, but no need to focus on that one for very long as RT-55J on selectbutton.
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Spitfire for the Fairchild Channel F Channel F being a forgotten home consolefrom the 70's.
“The Fairchild Video Entertainment System.
The home entertainment system that never gets old!” By disassembling the game, RT found onthe game mode select screen, by entering the code 343242124133231432142314 3221132342334111223324443 Whew! The nameMichael K Glass will appear for one single frame.
Damn, all of that for that!While I'm not sure if that was worth all of that effort, RT initially foundSpitfire's release date was fairly hard to pin down, until he found anadvertisement stating the game's release was set for April 1977, predating thefirst public appearance of previous record-holder Starship 1 by only a fewmonths, solidifying the discovery as the oldest easter egg ever found at awhopping 36 years! That said the first video game was made in 1950.
Fingerscrossed, but I really hope one day we find an easter egg from the 60s or eventhe 50s.
a Apex legends.
Late last month developers from Respawn mentioned duringa live stream, an Easter Egg remained to be found on the firing range map sinceit debuted in September “And I will add one more thing, there is an easter egg.
“”That is true!” “And nobody's found it.
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” “So challenge for everyone out there.
” Immediately, the Apex Community scoured the environment for any possible clues, finding numerous discoveries out of bounds that even prompted the developerto say he didn't even know you could go out of bounds.
The community finallyfound that if they abandoned their weapons went into this cave, grappled up to thisplatform, crouched, look straight down at the platform and then switched theirlegend, the dummies on the firing range would come to life and attack you.
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While Respawn did indeed confirm that discovery be the easter egg that theywanted players to find, everything suddenly became way more confusing whenraineYK on Twitter discovered that by again abandoning all your weapons, crouching in this spot and again changing your legend, the game would suddenlyshift from first-person view to a never-before-seen third-person view! Adiscovery that completely changes the entire game! When Respawn was shown thediscovery on Reddit, THIS was their response.
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leaving many confused whetheror not the third-person mode was even one of the Easter eggs meant to be found, especially considering everybody was ready to pack it in after the firstdiscovery was confirmed to be the Easter Egg, definitely making this one of themore confusing Easter eggs I've seen in recent memory.
Beavis and Butt-head: Virtual Stupidity.
Late last year the Easter Egg Hunter – “Hey how's it going!” -released a video showcasing two previously undocumented easter eggs inBeavis and Butt-head Virtual Stupidity that went undocumented for 23 years!These finds encouraged youtuber Edward Beluha this year to search every screenwith a hot spot indicator with the ScummVm emulator and sure enough, hemanaged to find another easter egg that went unfound for over two decades, as byclicking on all four corners of this Veterans Hall sign, this bear suddenlyappears out of thin air.
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and this happens.
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[snicker] I felt something but um.
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I couldn't like grab it!” [snicker] The object Beavis was holding is believed to be a cameoappearance of an object from another Viacom published game, Zoop, whichconsidering this isn't the only Viacom slam hidden in this game, sounds likeworking at Viacom.
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sucked.
[lots of noises] Futurama Okay so we have to get this one, inSeptember of this year I've released 7 Easter eggs That Were Never Foundin which me, The Easter Egg Hunter and Slippy Slides got together to confirmthat this giant Easter Egg floating out of bounds, likely had some sort ofsolvable solution to it that we still hadn't found in over 15 years, whichturns out was originally found by Larry Lemming on The Cutting Room Floor onlybecause of a bad emulator, the three of us were thrilled to find it lit up theinternet by storm, particularly on my discord server whereegg hunters spent three days straight trying to solve the mystery, until finallyextremely technical game reverse engineer JayFoxRox came into the discord and finished the solution.
At that point he and the rest the community wenton to uncover that Futurama had many more easter eggs in the game that werenever found before.
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although the easter egg found referencedin the code on level 5-1 was never deemed to actually be solvable, so we mayjust have another easter egg on our hands that still needs cracking.
Enoughtalk, let's look at this thing! Alright step one, break Leela's locker.
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Pick up the keycard.
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Okay now we just got to pop our head in this boiler room for a second.
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'Kay, I think that's enough.
Come down the hall.
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Okay, so we got to break the fireextinguisher glass without actually grabbing the fire extinguisher.
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shouldn'tbe too hard.
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Oh [bleep].
Okay.
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we're gonna have to do this again.
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Alright! There we go! Go in the room across the hall.
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open this drawer and grab the cash.
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“Wow! This is that stuffBender is always stealing from me!” Move our way into the conference room.
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we have to have exactly seven cash collectibles to make this work.
Fortunately there's four right on this table.
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Seven.
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'Kay we got seven.
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break the TV.
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a very short sound will play annndd.
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Just as Slippy predicted there was a door hereafter all! Beautifully revealing this easter egg that can finally be properly viewed in-game after all of these years! I handit off to James and Slippy who have some extra words for the community.
A massivethank you goes out to the community and everyone that contributed, thank you somuch for your amazing work and it's crazy to think that so many people cametogether to solve what I thought was originally just a totally random easteregg floating out of bounds.
Truly an EGGcellent find.
And I totally agree withyou James it's amazing work from all across theglobe and it just goes to show what an awesome community can do when working asa team, to unveil this unsolved easter egg after 15 years! I'd just like to sayanother huge thank you to you Odd for inviting me to be part of this mysteryand again congratulations to everyone involved in solving it now, after allthis effort, there's only one thing left to do: let's finally beat this easter eggwith a hammer! Almost brings a tear to my eye.
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Mario's Early Years: Fun With Numbers.
Now this is my personal favorite discovery of the year.
Again, from my video 7Easter Eggs That Were Never Found I detailed easter egg DillyDylan sharedon my discord server that he received a tidbit about from a developer interview, after revealing this information in the video, the discord community went as faras datamining the contents of both the PC and the Super Nintendo version to thebest of their ability, but couldn't find anything despite their efforts.
Unbelievably, weeks later Hydl C came to my discord and showed us the EasterEgg was hiding on this exact pixel on the Super Nintendo version.
“Hello! Hello! Hello! Hello!” And it's even a 3 stooges reference! It's unbelievable to methat an easter egg that was hiding in plain sight went this far unnoticed for25 years! No hacking, no using the scripts of the game, just good old-fashioned egghunting! Truly inspiring to know the oddheader community showed the world once againthat no matter how old these games get there's still easter eggs left to find! If you enjoyed this video please subscribe and if you know of any othergreat mysteries or discoveries that I missed, submit to oddheader.
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Thanks again everybody for the amazing year! [patrons] Stay tuned!.
