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... and shit gets fucking real?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48QdVhCBfQ

So the story is that this kid bought an old N64 cartridge from a creepy old man. It was just a blank grey cartridge with "Majora" scribbled on the back in permanent marker. Clearly it was either some beta version of the game or a bootleg copy, so the kid figured he may as well get it anyways. He went home and plugged it in, and started off playing the game normally. He gets all the way to the end and then does the Fourth Day glitch (explained here) and then the game starts acting really weird, and, well, the above videos pretty much sum up the whole thing. You can read this guy's entire account of what happened here


Anyways, assuming it's fake (people have brought up that it's a very high-res output for N64, supposedly only possible with a hacked ROM on an emulator, but it's possible to output that well with an S-video out cable into a TV tuner into a computer, which is something a lot of college kids will do; this kid is apparently a sophomore in college) it's really fucking good. I don't think it's real, but I'm still creeped out by it.

Also, for some reason this post refused to work as intended, which explains why there's all this random code. I promise, I don't know how to get rid of it, it doesn't appear when I try to edit it.

holy shit! I don't think it's real, but now I wanna stay up a little more and get it out of my head. I didn't even get to the third video. >.<

Again, I apologize for the post being so fucked up, I don't know what happened. But yeah, the whole thing, even if it's fake, is super fucking creepy. Especially when Young Link is all of a sudden in certain parts of Ocarina of Time, and all the text says "You Shouldn't Have Done That", after which the screen goes black and Navi's voice comes and says "Watch Out". For some reason that really fucked with me.

(I think I fixed your post, by the way)

Haven't watched the video yet, but from what you're saying, it reminds me a lot of the rumors of an old "Pokemon Black," an alleged well-done hack that features a ghost you can actually KILL Pokemon with, and graves are left where you defeat trainers and stuff, and then your character becomes an old man.

Anyway, I'll be watching this soon. Sounds interesting.

I got deterred in the 2nd vid out in Termina Field, when the creepy mask salesmen was there next to Epona and skull kid. And his head would follow you if you walked near him. That and in the first vid where Link kept spontaneously combusting and electrocuting at the same time. Fuckin' creepy.

These are kinda creepy.

Wow, this is a bit creepy... That Link statue is just... what.

Although I will say that the Song of Healing sounds pretty cool played backwards.

It's hacked, I'm sure of it. Still really damn creepy.

Osaka, on 13 September 2010 - 01:59 PM, said:

This is hacked, Amagari Fault is fictional, and Marble Hornets isn't real either. That doesn't stop it from being effectively really creepy.

Also, if you check Jadusable's YouTube account (the user he posted these videos and the original creepypasta) his apparent college roommate uploaded a fourth video. One of the lines cements the fact that it's fake (I'll let you guys do some research to figure it out) but in the context of the story it's creepy as hell.

I'm not sure which line you're talking about. It's all really fishy-sounding (obviously), but I'm not sure which deal-breaking line you're referring to.

Straxton, on 13 September 2010 - 04:44 PM, said:

I was gonna let you guys figure out, but that would be stupid. The deal-breaking like (while you wouldn't know it) is after Link gets killed by the boss, and the screen fades to black and there's just the sound of a child huddling and freezing in the cold. The line is "Why is he smiling? The father?" The reason this is a dealbreaker is because the line is directly robbed from another video on Jadusable's channel, called Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines - Rosa, which is just a recording of a conversation with character Rosa, who appears to be a medium of some sort. Anyways, she says that very line at some point in that video, recorded and uploaded in June of 2009, making it over a year old. The line is voice-acted, by the way, I don't believe it's a coincidence, and honestly I don't suppose it matters much. It really just cements that this is a work of (very) creative fiction.

Ohh, I see. I thought you meant in the newest video's description, not a line from the game.

Well still, very cool. And I'm interested in seeing what they release on the 15th.

I agree with you guys, it's pretty fake, but it's still really unsettling too. I've only gotten through the long blog post and two of the videos so far, and I've never played Majora's Mask, but oh man that laugh and the music?

This would make a sick movie. B|

edit: Alright, just finished it. Obv fake, but entertaining nonetheless.

To play along though I'll post what I think because I don't want to do my math homework:
Ben was a child who really liked the game.
His father most likely abused him, which the people on the street suspected but didn't intervene, hence why the man was so reluctant to talk about it.
The old man tried to work as a therapist of sorts for Ben, hence the ink blots.
Ben's escape from his life was through this Zelda game.
On 4/23, Ben's father drowned him, hence the "His father, why is he smiling?" line.
No one could prove the details of Ben's death, and Ben used the game as a way to communicate what really happened from the afterlife.

Clearly though it is fake, probably just a guy messing around with a ROM, ran into some weird stuff, took a bit of footage, reversed some music and added some creepy sound effects. I don't really believe in stuff like this.
The quality and the use of OoT do give it away, I know a lot of people bring up TV Tuners and while that is a possibility, they're not perfect. I've used them before with s-video cables and you can't get quality as nice as those videos unless you were using an Emulator, with the exception of having some very high quality equipment.

Still, it was really entertaining and definitely creeped me out. I keep looking over my shoulder, expecting to see that Link that kept popping up, haha. That's what freaked me the most. And the laughing.

I don't think this is just some screwing around with a ROM, I think this is a well done, intentionally designed hack of the game. I think the original creator of the videos/story/etc set out to create the whole thing, not just some fucking around with the game. A lot of the stuff is really well done, the use of sound effects and pulling out text from the game, the glitching effects, all of this isn't something you do just messing with a ROM file. Of course it isn't real, but it's really well done. You can't just fake this, you gotta do it right.

Sophos, on 13 September 2010 - 08:58 PM, said:

I dunno, it all seems a bit too trippy to just be a hack that the game already had and nobody accessed. If that's the case then I'm assuming that this guy found all of it, and just made up the ghost story, which is a possibility. I know for a fact that the save file thing can happen though, it happened to my PS2 actually. My sister's save file was corrupted on Kingdom Hearts (not sure if this was related), but then like a week later a new save file just randomly appeared in slot 99, on a much higher level than any ot the other files, and was up to around Hollow Bastion, whereas we were all still stuck at Agrabah. Memory card wasn't used or anything.

You've got a point but I think it all might have been some ROM hacking and a bit of clever video editing.

Misty, on 13 September 2010 - 09:23 PM, said:

Well, all I'm saying is that it's glorified ROM hacking and clever video editing.

http://www.joystiq.c...yable-followup/

Just though I'd post this, as it's kind of relevant.

That amused me. xD

Especially when link got consumed in fire.

Those kind of things are entertaining.