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Hidden South Park video on PlayStation game get Recalled
Isaac-Lew
wrote in to tell us about the Tiger Woods playstation CD,
which apparently has southpark's
"spirit of christmas" mpeg on it in PC
format if ya happened to stick it in your computer instead
of your playstation. It got recalled. Guess Santa & Jesus
doing battle is just to much for the kiddies to handle.
Does somebody have this for download?
Just thought I'd mention that you used the wrong "to" in the phrase "to much for kids." It should read: "too much for kids."
You killed Kenny!!!!!!! You basturds!!!!!!
now give me your chocolate chicken pot pie
ISO9660?
Pardon me, but this dude was railing on about his KIDS getting corrupted? Since when does a kid play a computer golf game for fun? Yuck.
Give him his =15 minutes, then shut his whiney ass up.
Another case of an easter egg in a program. I wonder how much this cost the company.
Personally, I was routing for Santa.
Whats the big deal about some hidden PC format movie when you can get on the net and find this guy is shooting Mr. Potatohead with a potato gun!!!! http://www.mm13.com/mark/spud_gun.htm
This is very cool, but is it worth a double-post
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# Hack the planet, it's important.
If the parent gave their kids a Southpark game, why is he concerned about giving them access to inapropriate material? Is the game really cleaner than the TV show? If so, what's the point?
This
Posted by gruv:
A good friend of mine has it. He discovered it after he read the news. So he would of never found it. And he told me there is no way he is going to send it back...that's a gem.
this actually isn't the first time that AVIs or MPEGs have been included on Playstation CDs, and it also isn't the first time easter-egg type "hidden files" have been placed on a PSX CD-ROM that are only accessable when you use the CD in a manner other than playing it as a Playstation game. :) (For example, "Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night" has an actual audio track that is playable if the CD-ROM is loaded in a normal CD player.) At least one other Playstation CD-ROM had "unofficial" hidden files of this type (specifically, a picture gallery from an anime, if memory serves).
The main trouble I've run across with this (yes, I actually DO look at my Playstation CDs on a PC just to see what hidden stuff is there, and all) is that in a lot of cases you have difficulty playing it straight from CD-ROM or copying the file. (AVI, MIDI, etc.) I have heard there are utilities to do this, though...I also get a sneaking suspicion Mac users have an easier time of it. (Does anyone actually have info on how the Playstation's file system is set up, like does it use a resource fork and data fork, etc?)
I *have* to admit that this is one of the decidedly funnier "hidden eggs" out there...one of the better ones since the infamous Amiga Kickstart 1.2 easter egg (the good old one where Amiga GmBH let us all know exactly what they thought of Commodore... :). :)
Anyone remeber how everyone was going to that one movie(i forgot the name) just to see the SW trailer, and then left before the movie showed?
Does the same idea apply to this? They should have left the mp3 on the cd just to boost the sales of the game. Hehe.
If 90% of everything isn't crap, your standards are too high.
Anyone know whether RTMARK is behind this? Could be their style: corruption of youth; corporate sabotage; copyright infringement.
spawn_of_yog_sothoth
Well there's Joliet and Romeo as well as plain old iso9660. And you've got to make a distinction between 'PC' and Mac CD format CDs, as Mac users have an annying habit of using HFS instead.
K.
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-- Proud descendant of semi-nomadic cattle-herders.
Hehe. I would so much love to see the expression on the face of that guy who told the father he was lying and that "we don't put no South Park videos our CDs."
Quite expensive for a digital version of the first South Park Movie, but I guess you do get a game for it as well.
I seen this on TV and they showed the guy (or at least the parent) who first claimed to have found it. He was all concerned that his kids would be forever corrupted or something after seeing the video. I think parents should lay off a bit on the censorship stuff. Do these parents that complain have any idea what school is like?
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Is it the zzdummy.dat file? (according to the SP webpage, it's a dat file, and the above is the only big enough to be the movie).
If it is, I don't know how those kids would have found it, b/c if you stick it in a windows machine, it asks what program to open it with. And unless those kids tried every program, I doubt they could have found it.
-Jae
-Jae
Title says it all. Read the article. This was only included on the PC, not PSX.
He said, "You'll be able to tell your grandchildren that you helped assemble the first NT supercomputer," and I cringed.