Teaser?

[Bones]

www.arcadecontrols.com (What's new 8/10/05)

[AlanS17]

I'm equally lost.

[Bones]

I am still looking for the easter egg in Project Arcade.... 

[Shape D.]

I tried cheating and looking through saint's previous posts.

Didn't work.

[saint]

Heh. The teaser is in the message forums....somewhere. That's all I'll say right now.

[SirPoonga]

When are you going to reveal the teaser?

[shawnzilla]

Been trying to crack this one all day............................................. 

[Shape D.]

I found it, I found it, I found it, found it, found it.

Or at least It's seemed like a tease all day.

[Hoopz]

The only thing that I can come up with is the signature at the bottom of Charlie (Gamecab's) signature that has the following:

Want the Yoke release date, crack the code.

54686520466c6967687420596f6b652052656c65
61736520646174652069732053657074656d6265
7220313074682c2032303035

Would/could that be it?

[Q*Bert_OP]

 

[saint]

Heh. Heh heh. When someone gets it 100% I'll fess up!

[missioncontrol]

man I don't go to the main site enough to see anything that looks like it could be a teaser.........


perhaps Saint is going to build a "All Creatures Great and Small" and keep it updated in the project anouncements....... 

 

[Q*Bert_OP]

perhaps Saint is going to build a "All Creatures Great and Small" and keep it updated in the project anouncements.......

[fastredpacman]

Well has anyone found it?

[PetitMorte]

Does it involve the fact that someone is now taking pre-orders? and needs 19 more?

 

[Bones]

Well has anyone found it?

No....but I am working on a theory that subzero and saint are the one and the same person.

[jerryjanis]

If you want to know what I think, I think that this is a teaser for the fact that Saint is losing his mind.  First, Project Arcade's "I am not your friend" and now this...  Saint is just letting us know that we've only seen the tip of the iceburg.

Or wait a minute...  Maybe it's me who is losing my mind.  Saint's got me picking through every word and analyzing every image looking for some kind of conspiracy.

[saint]

Muahahaha. Someone, somewhere on the message boards, has gotten close, but not 100%

[Hoopz]

Is it that pre-orders are available for the Star Wars Yoke on gamecab.com?

Come on Saint!  Where's the love, man? 

[missioncontrol]

can we have a hint..........

[saint]

Want the Yoke release date, crack the code.

54686520466c6967687420596f6b652052656c65
61736520646174652069732053657074656d6265
7220313074682c2032303035

 . . .

But what's it mean?

[Hoopz]

We're gonna need rainman to figure that out....

"K-mart sucks"

[jerryjanis]

Omigosh...

xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xx xxxxxxxxx xxxx, xxxx

(edit): I'll give everybody a chance at this one.

[SirPoonga]

Want the Yoke release date, crack the code.

54686520466c6967687420596f6b652052656c65
61736520646174652069732053657074656d6265
7220313074682c2032303035

 . . .

But what's it mean?

That's easy. 

[SirPoonga]

Omigosh...

xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xx xxxxxxxxx xxxx, xxxx

(edit): I'll give everybody a chance at this one.

Heh, that is a worthless hint, because if you don't know what the code is that doesn't help you   Other than there is a comma involved

Now, I am going to hav eto ask GameCab a question.  On the preorder page it says:
"If the 20 unit total is not met by October 15th all money will be fully refunded to the respective purchasers."
and
"Upon request you will receive a full refund for your Flight Yoke before September 30th."

Now, if you know the release date those statements will cause a couple of questions

[RaggedEdge]

Wow that was fun!  Now I can get back to my normal life.  I was looking around all day for this teaser.

[SirPoonga]

Wow that was fun!  Now I can get back to my normal life.  I was looking around all day for this teaser.

Saint didn't say if the gamecab thing is the teaser or not.  So have you found the teaser or figured out the gamecab thing?

[RaggedEdge]

I figured out the what the code says:

54686520466c6967687420596f6b652052656c65
61736520646174652069732053657074656d6265
7220313074682c2032303035

I don't know if that was the teaser or not. I hope so. Oh, please don't let me waste the rest of day with this thing if it is not.

[pocketpal]

Well, I finally fingered it out, and I'm so very proud of myself.   

What do we win?   

[JoeB]

WOW..

all I got to say is:

54686973207761732066756e212121

cheers!

[SirPoonga]

I don't know if that was the teaser or not. I hope so. Oh, please don't let me waste the rest of day with this thing if it is not.

Right,  saint didn;t out right say the code was the teaser.  You probably assume so form his comments and the fact in the news post it says to email/pm the right person.  So it makes sense that that would be the teaser.  Waiting to see

[pocketpal]

41726520776520616c6c20676f696e6720746f20737461727420
636f6d6d756e69636174696e6720696e2068657861646563696d616c20
41534349492063686172616374657220636f646573206e6f773f

 

[Hoopz]

41726520776520616c6c20676f696e6720746f20737461727420
636f6d6d756e69636174696e6720696e2068657861646563696d616c20
41534349492063686172616374657220636f646573206e6f773f

 

Remember this is a family forum.  We dont need that kinda language here!  LOL

Somebody is gonna have to explain the code to some of us....

[AlanS17]

All I know is that it looks like hexidecimal. I'm too lazy to figure it out, though. Maybe tonight if I run out of other stuff to do.

[SirPoonga]

All I know is that it looks like hexidecimal.

That's a very good assessment.

[quarterback]

41726520776520616c6c20676f696e6720746f20737461727420
636f6d6d756e69636174696e6720696e2068657861646563696d616c20
41534349492063686172616374657220636f646573206e6f773f

 

Egads, I hope not.

[saint]

Yes, but how many of us figured it out manually, and how many used some online tool?

[quarterback]

Yes, but how many of us figured it out manually, and how many used some online tool?

The real question is: "Was this the teaser you were referring to?"

Poonga keeps saying that the hexi-yoke-date-thingy might not have been the teaser at all, so are we supposed to continue searching around the forums in the hopes that we find the elusive teaser?? 

Can you explicitly confirm/deny that the release date is what you were teasing about?

Thanks

[AlanS17]

<-- Figured it out manually last night.

[AlanS17]

<-- Figured it out manually last night.

I've only got one hint for you people that haven't gotten it yet...

American standard code for information interchange

[quarterback]

Yes, but how many of us figured it out manually, and how many used some online tool?

I did it letter by letter, although most of the words only required the first letter and knowing what "20" is to figure out what the word was.

[MrTroy]

Ugh... 19 days later would be better. Then it's my Birthday....

Troyd = Loser.

[AlanS17]

I actually broke it down into columns in Excel and did character conversions from there. So maybe it's halfway cheating, but it was still pretty darn manual.

[Bones]

I ran it through my TI994/a but ran out of memory.

[SirPoonga]

Poonga keeps saying that the hexi-yoke-date-thingy might not have been the teaser at all, so are we supposed to continue searching around the forums in the hopes that we find the elusive teaser?? 

Well, am i right?  Saint doesn't confirm that it is the teaser, just hints that it is

Yes, but how many of us figured it out manually, and how many used some online tool?

I used calc.exe.  I know the decimals of all alpha characters of the "american standard code for information interchange"  by heart.  It's a matter of using calc to convert the hex to decimal then for me   My many years of programming in BASIC using chr...

[Dervacumen]

Reminds me of hacking Atari 800 games back in the 80's. 

[saint]

Heh, I used calc.exe also. I didn't trust my memory of the ascii codes, so I used the ALT-num-pad trick...

Poonga keeps saying that the hexi-yoke-date-thingy might not have been the teaser at all, so are we supposed to continue searching around the forums in the hopes that we find the elusive teaser?? 

Well, am i right?  Saint doesn't confirm that it is the teaser, just hints that it is

Yes, but how many of us figured it out manually, and how many used some online tool?

I used calc.exe.  I know the decimals of all alpha characters of the "american standard code for information interchange"  by heart.  It's a matter of using calc to convert the hex to decimal then for me   My many years of programming in BASIC using chr...

[saint]

OH, and yeah, that was the teaser

[SirPoonga]

OH, and yeah, that was the teaser

Good

Heh, I used calc.exe also. I didn't trust my memory of the ascii codes, so I used the ALT-num-pad trick...

Heh.  I just remember key demical values and add from there mostly.  But I like that technique, less thinking involved.

space=32
0=48
A=65
E=69
M=77
S=83
Z=90
a=97
e=101
m=109
s=115
z=122

Odd ones I know off hand, i.e. all the ones important in old school text parsing and dos programming.
BEL=7
TAB=9
NL = 10
CR=13
esc=27

Heh, I think it is safe to give away the code now.  Between saint's and my reply you should  have the tools to figure it out.  ...and AlanS17 spelling out the acronym

Put "american standard code for information interchange" into google and click I'm Feeling Lucky

[cdbrown]

I wouldn't have a clue how to work it out - so what does it say?

[SirPoonga]

I wouldn't have a clue how to work it out - so what does it say?

Understandable, it is using the "american standard code for information interchange", not the australian one

[AlanS17]

Know where you're going doesn't matter if you still don't know how to get there. How many people can count in hex? I figured that would be the stumper for most people and that mentioning ASCII wouldn't be a big deal.

[SirPoonga]

Know where you're going doesn't matter if you still don't know how to get there. How many people can count in hex? I figured that would be the stumper for most people and that mentioning ASCII wouldn't be a big deal.

True, but you google the thing and you get a lookup table, no need to know how to count in hex then, just find the match.

[whammoed]

I used my Little Orphan Annie decoder pin.  It told me the release date then it told me to drink my Ovaltine!

[quarterback]

I wouldn't have a clue how to work it out - so what does it say?

I won't tell you what it says, but I'll tell you how to figure it out without beeking a geek!

Here's the code you want to crack:

Code: [Select]

54686520466c6967687420596f6b652052656c65
61736520646174652069732053657074656d6265
7220313074682c2032303035
Here's an exed-out version of the sentence from jerryjanis' post:

Code: [Select]

xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xx xxxxxxxxx xxxx, xxxx
It's simple substitution.  The first thing I figured out was that "20" = "space" which is pretty obvious from comparing the code to the exed-out sentence.   

The other bit of information you have to work with is that the message will tell you the flight yoke release date.   With those 4 things, you should be able to crack the code in no time.... at least the vast majority of it and then one important specific character can be easily deduced.

Have fun!

[SirPoonga]

The other bit of information you have to work with is that the message will tell you the flight yoke release date.   With those 4 things, you should be able to crack the code in no time.... at least the vast majority of it and then one important specific character can be easily deduced.

Right, because ", xxxx" would have to be ", 2005".

[AlanS17]

Well gee, I don't know how much I can say without giving it away? 

It's one long hex string, but every ASCII character is 2 hex numbers in length. That's not really giving anything away, though. You could figure that out by counting everything between spaces.

The hardest part is converting the hex to decimal (unless you seriously cheat and use a hex -> ASCII code table).