1. #281
    no. just 32.

    Wonder if there is a message in there.

    Did some research and found some interesting methods of hiding secret messages. But have no idea how to decode them.

    Here for you. Maybe some inspiration...

    http://www.aaronmiller.in/thesis/
    http://www.drdobbs.com/security/visu...mple/201804177

    Also found out that Madeon placed some cryptic messages in the album Adventure
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(Madeon_album)
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  2. #282
    Remembering Anba's older posts on twitter. This one for example, there must be a clue anywhere. Maybe done by modified lsb?
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  3. #283
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    Lol the eiffel tower isnt exactly an easy clue , so many different meanings and leads to dead ends.

    Some say the the NWO new world order more commonly known as the illuminati are associated with the eiffel tower and that just too many paths to go down , like the catacombs beneath the tower. If anything i am more interested in the base of the tower. Its built on four bases that are in line with the four points of the compass. Maybe giving a point to the editor map , the tower is somewhere around 1,100 feet high or say 300 meters. Maybe these numbers could be translated in to coridinates of the map too. Another thing is that the tower was smaller until they built an antenna on top of it increasing its size. This reminds me of the antenna that is in the editor infact there is a building with an antenna that can be un attached.

    So many myths and stories about tower , some say that is a massive hypnosis tool designed so i do think there is too many things to go down if you followed that path. With anba only showing the base of the tower in his vid , ( what i saw of it anyway ) this could suggest that its at the base as to where the clue is so with the base being four points of a compass and taking its highet as longnitude and so forth on a map maybe.

    I dont know but its fun wondering , i wonder if anba lives in the apartment at the top , sat there writing these riddles and clues hahahaha.
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  4. #284
    The youtube video of the Eiffel Tower has this written under it:

    "Can one think that because we are engineers, beauty does not preoccupy us or that we do not try to build beautiful, as well as solid and long lasting structures? Aren't the genuine functions of strength always in keeping with unwritten conditions of harmony? ... Besides, there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply." ~Gustave Eiffel

    Sounds like something SynDI would say.
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  5. #285
    Hi im new here, and im really interesting in all of this.
    Ive read a couple of the posts and that one with the penquin in the void was strange. What is weird to ME is the number. Ive done a couple of things, like fail 61 or whatever the number is when the penquin comes up times in that section. I think maybe, judging the headlamp, that maybe on level 61 or something there is something hidden in a cage? Just an idea I tried doing it but when I was looking to see what level it was on the computer some stupid thing came up saying youve won a iphone :/. Please try for your selves!
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  6. #286
    ^

    I've pondered the significance of the "clock" timer thing. What could it possibly be implying by starting at 58 and then counting to 61?

    The conclusion I've come to (though admittedly with a high chance of being incorrect) is that it is a hint at time. Specifically the amount of time we need to wait. Just over a minute.

    If you look at the image shared by Mutetus on facebook and then later shared by Morphy on twitter, the spectrograph shows a time of just that, barely over a minute.

    That's what I'm currently settled on. But wait where? I think the headlamp is a clue for that. I keep thinking we need to wait around sometime to see what happens after getting a platinum medal on a track. I've done this on a few tracks with no luck. I usually play with a live spectral feed on my second monitor and haven't found anything even close to a message.

    And the image that CagBall shared here, posted by ANBA in the Frontier forums has a pixel shift of 32. If you "re-tile" it back to a solid image.... well... I don't know. I've tried everything I could think of and can't seem to clean it up. The image he shared is 127x127. The background is 128x128. I've searched for equations involving those isosceles triangles and pushed my character recognition to the limits trying to determine if there is a legible script or if I can decipher what language it is. It truly looks alien to me. It does look very much like an equation of some sort though. All the work I did with that is on another PC, so I'll upload that later.


    ***EDIT***

    The image, "cleaned" up (?maybe?) and 3X the size.

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    Originally Posted by IFTHISTHENTHAT Go to original post

    Seems to be an image of sound waves or the graphical representation of them.



    Or at least it looks like waves.. what is interesting is that it represents 2 different waves, directly opposing each other.. which results in noise cancellation. If you look into how that works in some active noise cancelling devices, you'll see they record the external noise and invert the soundwaves and play it back to you in real time, which in turn eliminates the background noise.

    So it's interesting that this clue, or at least the wave picture seems to represent noise cancellation and other clues revolve around spectral analysis and things.. I have no idea if this is even related but as always happy to share my random thoughts.

    Here is a video that explains the application in noise cancelling headphones and it shows what I mean about the inverted waves reducing noise.



    Note, as always, I have NO IDEA why I'm sharing this and I can't see if I'm even right.. but you know.. its what we do!
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    Just a quick thought, and could be totally wrong, but, has anyone tried overlaying those layers of 'blocks' on top of each other, from the image above. It could be that it all merges together to spell something out.. Maybe even be possible to shrink the image so it overlaps itself?
    I hope I've explained this properly..


    Just a thought, and pretty random, but heyho.
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    Originally Posted by IFTHISTHENTHAT Go to original post
    ^



    Waveform top right looks like an AC sine wave run through a bridge rectifier, but could be wrong

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  10. #290
    K well I found the ever famous "Mutetus" message.

    Awesome job man.

    He admits it isn't part of the "riddle" but more so just a personal easter egg of his own.

    It was using booped's comment above that got me there.

    More details...

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    redlynx vs allstars track "short circuit" fall down the space precisely after the 'red button' you drive over. the sound emits with red blinking lights.



    EDIT image added, transcription below.



    HELLO. CONGRATULATIONS FOR FINDING THIS MESSAGE. YOU THOUGHT DECODING THIS WASN'T WORTH THE SHOT, BECAUSE WHO WOULD ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THE TROUBLE OF HIDING SOMETHING THIS RANDOM IN A TRACK? BUT NOW YOU'RE REALLY HAPPY THAT YOU DID. JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR, THIS ISN'T PART OF ANY RIDDLE. IT'S JUST MY PERSONAL EASTER EGG. GREETINGS TO THE AWESOME COMMUNITY AND CO-WORKERS. -MUTETUS-

    Also, the component that makes the noise/lights has an "M" signature on it, for Mutetus.

    Off topic (maybe? kind of?), I've become somewhat intrigued by the beeping light pattern at the start of "Short Circuit" ...
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