Update discussion

[The Monkey]

Update:

Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations

So, an update has been released, wherein one can transport the radio to different places in each level, and get an encoded audio message. The sounds' file names are "Dinosaur #"

There're 26 sound files, four of with are morse code. They translate to:

Level 1
Interior transmission active
External data line active
Message digest active

Level 5
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Level 12
System data dump active
User back up active
Password back up active

Level 17
B-E-E-P
B-E-E-E-E-P
B-E-E-P
B-E-E-P

B-E-E-E-E-P
B-E-E-E-E-P
B-E-E-E-E-P


B-E-E-P
B-E-E-E-E-P
B-E-E-P
B-E-E-P

(Which translates to "LOL")

Here're the sounds in their original form
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVB9_WxmsRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCkr5XaAbfc

Also, a new sound is heard when one transports the radio through a disintegration field (It definitely sounds like GLaDOS, saying "Get out" or "Get me out of here", probably the latter):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3uog2tKAQ

So far the best theory I've heard about this is that it's GLaDOS rebooting herself. Hopefully a hint to Portal 2 and/or Episode Three.

EDIT: The guys at Steampowered are hard at work, and have processed the audio files which weren't morse and decoded them into images.

Spoiler

dinosaur2

dinosaur3

dinosaur4

dinosaur6

dinosaur7

dinosaur8

dinosaur9

dinosaur10

dinosaur11

dinosaur13

dinosaur14

dinosaur15

dinosaur16

dinosaur18

dinosaur19

dinosaur20

dinosaur21

dinosaur22

dinosaur23

dinosaur24

dinosaur25

dinosaur26

 

[Shakermaker]

Glados is back. Fukc yeh!

 

[ChiliFan]

I'm thinking this is just another type of puzzle to make Portal 'fresh' again. It's pretty much just finding radios and taking them to various places using portals. Kind of like an easter egg hunt, it's that time of year I guess.

For the record, the one in chamber 12 is amazing.

 

[Shakermaker]

Nah, it can't just be an easter egg hunt for the fukc of it.

 

[eyefork]

Some of the sounds are images apparently. More info here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1169218

The pictures:

 

[eyefork]

Some more:

 

[Shakermaker]

The skull is creepy.

Also, is this a garden gnome?

And a mousetrap:

 

[ChiliFan]

So does anyone have any insights on how to get this particular radio? I'd post it on the Steam Forums but my account's not activated.

 

[Barnz]

Edit: I think these are two different images. My mistake.

I think the guy who originally posted images used a wrong mode to process:

http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk202/TehBarnz/dino14.png

 

[MFL]

*cracks knuckles*

All ****ing riiiiight. Let's do this.

Anyone want to get all 32 pictures (note the XX out of 32 in the corner of most of the photos) and line them up in order? Start listing the information in each photo?

Third picture in eyeforks second post seems to imply a phone number(s) of some kind. The other photo's have random numbers and letters attached. Too little to base anything off of yet. Nice skull. Let's keep this rolling.

The crazy sounds in the beginning and end of the Portalsounds video's sounds like transmission that is being heard on the wrong frequency... or just transmitted very very quickly.

Are there even 32 radios IN portal?

"From images: 9459C6CAC8C203B8128B7CC63068D4FD
Translates to BBS#: (425) 822-5251
425 is a Seattle area code.
Calling resulted in what sounded like a modem.
Someone translate that!"

Origin of number: http://filebox.me/files/uydn1ftcz_a.png
Kirkland, Washington? ... ... ... Valve has offices there. Shit, it was FOUNDED there.

Might be a number to a BBS or fax machine apparently. I do not know how to access that. Somebody did though: Link to call to that number: http://www.supload.com/listen?s=tyXqpe
Something obviously being transmitted, but it's definitely not supposed to be picked up by phone.
Filtered to 2222Hz: http://www.supload.com/listen?s=JQxq0o Could be more Morse, but it's too faint to translate.

Wait. A. Second. Dinosaurs? I'M WATCHIN YOU BARNES!

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

H&R Block.

 

[The Monkey]

The Steam forums, SomethingAwful, /v/ and Facepunch are now uniting their forces to reach that ****ing number. Gonna be a wild night.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

ITS THE F*CKING GNOME

Oh and

Get a fax line to recieve from the BBS number, recieve picture of cake.

Troll on, Valve.

 

[MFL]

Images: http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/1319/finalnj.png

25, 26, 27, and 28 are missing.

Here they are - http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/2862/dino2.png

 

[Barnz]

I was right, the proccessing was wrong. Here's the images in better quality:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1169562

 

[eyefork]

In case you haven't seen it yet:

 

[MFL]

Hmm... DoD.

Anyways, I suspect that as with the original aperture science website, the username doesn't matter. Completely unfounded suspicion, but whatever.

Does anyone remember what the special keys were on the keyboards of the aperture science computers in Portal? I remember some of them were colored.

Edit: Woah, logon page has changed. Try user: backup, password: backup. Woah!

 

[unozero]

We have to wait til the 11th me thinks.

 

[NikolaX]

...........

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

new update just now:

Added valuable asset retrieval

 

[Absinthe]

Reposting here: There's a new ending for Portal as well..

Spoiler

Same as before, but you start getting dragged off before the fade-out now...

Apparently this is the culprit:

 

[unozero]

The asset being Chel.

 

[MJ12]

I think that maybe Chell was chosen to destroy Glados, because Glados was taking from Cave Johnson's authority and power.

 

[MJ12]

Spoiler

i'm hoping she went deaf in the explosion
and lesbians

Not if she could hear the robot!

On a note of that link, I always really liked that concept combine mask that looks like a spider face. I hope they implement it one day.

 

[StarBob]

I was reading this yesterday and I found it fascinating. There are some links to other articles he's written on the same subject and it's an interesting take on it. The most unique idea I've found is that Chell is a clone and all of the little writings and what not you find are previous Chell iterations leaving tips for future Chells. I'm not sure if everything is quite as deep as this guy is making it out to be, but it would be an odd coincidence.

 

[PeteyMax]

Also, is this a garden gnome?

Garden Gnome...?

Gnome Chompski...?


Is he returning?!

 

[Pi Mu Rho]

It's also entirely likely that Valve changed their collective mind on how to use Chell, and decided to set Portal in the distant future to preclude the possibility of the character tie-in.

 

[BillNyeGuy]

so I beat the game again after the update and I noticed GlaDos said after you beat her that she is the only thing standing between "you and them" any ideas what that means? Is that the same thing she said before the update?

 

[Barnz]

yep, it was there before the update