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, the show we support weekly on various obsolete forms of physical media only to start a creepypasta in 20 years, theorists, I can't express how excited I am for today's episode, oh man, this one It's good, this is a very good, this is Ben drowned, but in real life it's accounting plus, if accounting plus really had a solution, it's petscop but it's playable and it has a narrative that actually makes sense and the best of all is which is still ongoing, this is a mystery. that you can play right after you watch this video and help solve it it's great it's very well organized can you tell I'm excited about this one because oh man I'm excited about this one ladies and gentlemen let me introduce you. the mystery of the long lost n64

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the latest sensation creepypasta arg from youtube very well sensation may be too strong a word the latest criminally underrated masterpiece from youtube that I hope today we can help make a sensation because let me tell you it deserves it Today's video will certainly be a little less theoretical and more of an invitation to join this community of mystery hunters as they try to solve one of the smartest games I've ever had the pleasure of playing and please note that today we actually , we're only scratching the surface of a mystery that already has a 76-page Google document analyzing the evidence, not to mention a 26-page subdocument analyzing all the evidence from a single source, so join me, my friends, while Start exploring the mystery of Raven 64.

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Our history on today's Internet begins with the criminally overlooked creator. named Adam Butcher, who does what is the instant death of any YouTube channel. He creates quality content. By that I mean that his stuff is always very good, but it takes him a long time to create it, so the algorithm is, of course, one part, game designer, one part. Each video of the filmmaker on Adam's channel is completely different from his story of a game that took him 13 years to make his most famous work, the popular Internet story, where he tells the story of a vlogging mystery hunter and his connection with a mysterious death in UK camps is no joke, it's a 9 minute video that has better storytelling and pacing than most movies you'll ever see.

The link is below in the description along with many other links because there are a lot of things that you are Anyway, I'm going to want to follow this my friends, it's your last video that I want to focus on today, a video uploaded in October titled What happened to Crow 64? In this video, Adam acts as your typical retro game review channel and covers a bit of lost media think of channels like Kadiris or Gaming Historian. In this case, he stumbled upon a development cartridge for the unreleased n64 game Catastrophe Crow and, uh, just as a reminder, this is like Petscop, this undiscovered game was never really a game he was intended for. to exist, he was created for the purpose of being in this creepypasta.

I mention this because it can be a little confusing when talking about fake stories of fake games as if they were real, so the game was fake, it was never intended. to be all for this story, well it was a fake game, but now it's a fully playable real game, we'll get to that, so thanks to Adam's research we learned that Catastrophe Crow was the brainchild of successful developer Manfred Lorenz and company of the. interactive opus despite looking a lot like a clone of super mario 64 lorenz promised to make Catastrophe Crows something special with new features never before seen in a video game.

The team promised intrepid exploration and something innovative called an eternal revival system. It's probably just a bad translation. right, something called the eternal revival system sorry, that's just my alarm that goes off every time there's a story about an indie video game where people get sucked into the game or revived by the game bad light bad bad light not done yet We know someone is in that game, sure we can strongly suspect it, but we don't know, don't look at me like that, don't look at me like that, light, you know what you did, oh, I can't be mad at you, who is my low life? my bad like oh you're so catastrophe crow was originally based on a drawing lorenz's daughter made and was based on saving your father's business from the villain lord cat unfortunately during development something tragic happens that causes manfred's home life to change. completely falls apart and begins to spend everything. he spends his time at work and asks his developers to create strange and inexplicable resources.

Then one day, Manfred disappears along with all of the company's hardware. He later finds his boat floating off the German coast. The only thing left behind is a mysterious farewell note written in German along with a sequence of numbers and now the twist after years of catastrophe, the crow is lost to history. Adam seems to have found a copy on eBay. He ends his historical retrospective with some of the audience's first looks at the gameplay of this long-lost game and, oh man, this is where Puzzle Solving really begins as Adam plays through the Catastrophic Raven. Things start out like your typical platformer, grassy landscape, simple shapes, bright colors, but you quickly find yourself in a secret area that includes a crow typing on a computer with some weird things to say after that, cut.

A house scene plays before the player returns to the first area of ​​the game. Now things repeat themselves, but slightly differently, the sign at the workplace went out and a strange scarecrow stalks the player character from afar only to disappear when he approaches after failing. to answer a ringing phone, Adam runs through a glitched section of the wall behind which is this animation of a crow holding computer equipment jumping off a ship learning the story of Manfred Lorenz his disappearance the lost ship the equipment stolen computer it's easy to make the connection that this is probably a recreation of what happened to manfred himself when the player character jumps after the npc is taken to a misty forest where they can find an old crow crying over what looks like being a grave labeled crow, except the gravestone is actually an n64 cartridge, the grave isn't even the creepiest part, as when Adam tries to leave the site, we hear the phone ring again before his character falls down a flight of stairs, causing all sorts of mind-blowing images to appear, including a brain scan and the arrival of two skeletal figures coming to take the crow away and while I'm almost 100% sure this is a coincidence, I find it interesting, while I do this, that the timestamp of that image turns out to be at time equal to 666 devil it's not a mcu yet, but maybe in Catastrophe Crow the video ends with a scene of an older crow walking towards a crow's bedroom younger before these disturbing events unfold.

A headless crow is kept on life support as the room fills with water until more monsters steal the crow in the dark. To me, there's a pretty clear interpretation for all of this: Manfred's son falls down some stairs, causing them to severe brain damage, hence the brain scan and the headless crow on the hospital bed. Manfred gets the call about this while he's at work, which is why the phone sound effect is so prominent in these scenes, but he probably doesn't answer, which is why he can't answer the phone or he's haunted by the memory of that phone call. , that's why the phone never stops.

Sounding off, there's probably also a lot of guilt associated with the fact that he wasn't there for the kid, so this all happened while he was in an office building, as a result of the kid's serious injury, he changes the game. which his company was working on. include an eternal revival system to keep his son alive somehow, a classic pet cop move, you know, the boy eventually dies, as evidenced by the monsters taking the hospitalized crow, causing Manfred to turn literally crazy after realizing he couldn't. Actually, to bring the boy back to life, he takes all of his hardware out into the middle of the ocean and jumps off a boat.

That alone would be a really cool way to tell the story, making a fake game to make a fake flashback to tell. A creepy, tragic story of loss, but believe it or not, there's a lot more here, you know those iceberg meme charts that show the depth of knowledge on any given topic. Well, this video of an atom is just the tip of the iceberg that Adam clearly had. I worked on this argument for a long time before releasing that big video, considering it seems like he put up five sister channels, each with a video of a random gaming session just to make them look legit, followed by one or more videos of Catastrophe Crow gameplay each. one before Adam's original video, the only channels known to be canonical entries in the series are Adam Butcher, n64, long lost story, 90s retro games, Fred, n64, excavation man, childhood memories , 64 and ultra 64 forever, and it was here on these other channels where we started. to get the clues needed to start solving the clues left in Adam's original video, for example what's up with that strange coded language of the crow on the computer at the beginning of one of the sister videos, catastrophe, crow, playback n64 long lost history channel n64?

We see a pretty standard pause screen later in that same video, although the pause screen is scrambled. This fairly simple substitution cipher turns out to be something the community called Crow Language and can be used to decipher many of the puzzles throughout this game using just the letters. from this pause screen we can decode the previous message h is i w is a q is m where one is and he oh my maybe that Mephisto joke from earlier was a little more direct than I suspected or you know, working on a videogame. is embodied, which I must admit is what I heard from a lot of my developer friends, so yes, we feel you like a crow, we feel you and this raven language is used a lot throughout the mystery, for example in the video titled Underground level of childhood memories.

On channel 64, we have a classic spell, something on the ground and the letter lights up in a different color. A puzzle like you saw in banjo-kazooie back in the day, except here what you're spelling doesn't make much sense wow blizz hojo qovlo isn't German it's not Swedish it's crow using the crow's coded language do you understand the phrase please forgive me the two oh boy, we're getting serious now but that's not all listen to the clip from that game segment, each letter has a sound associated with it, meaning that what seemed like a simple puzzle solved through the language of crows is actually giving us is giving a second alphabet that we can use, one where sound effects can be translated back into words and that's not our only audio-based code that we get.

Fake game company Opus Interactive Manfred had another project they had worked on on a game titled Ocean Quest for the Super Nintendo. We learned this by pausing Adam's original video on a fake gaming magazine article talking about Catastrophe Crow here in the text we see quote this. will be the first n64 outing from opus Interactive, a German developer led by director Manfred Lorenz, whose ocean action adventure was a surprise late hit for the SNES. By searching Ocean Quest on YouTube, you'll find a video from the Ultra64 Forever channel of the game's ending. song creditsvery quiet well something the jonathan rose lyon channel noticed on youtube was that the song starts with a 26 note ascending sequence, 26 notes for 26 lyrics later in the song you have little riffs like this so what he did jonathan was to extract those notes match them with the tones from the beginning of the song and translate them to the next thea nils marta manfred thanks for playing can you see why this is such a cool puzzle and why I'm so excited to talk about it and this gives us Our key players and their names remind us of that decoded message from earlier, forgive me both, but our initial interpretation of the events of Crow 64 only had Manfred and his son, so who else is here?

Based on the Ocean Quest audio, it sounds like we. make our cast of characters manfred our protagonist thea his daughter nils his brother and marta his wife this is also supported by clues in other parts of the mystery thea's name also comes from a splash screen that appears for only a moment when starting the game in the first line reads that which of course is raven language which translates as my dear thea and funny enough thea translates directly into raven language using raven language which is a very strong indication for who she was originally this game and we can also confirm Marta's name in that farewell letter to Marta.

Before he disappeared on the ship, but now we come to the land of theory, my friends. Because I and most of the community have noticed that four different crow avatars appear in all the game videos, each of which represents to a different member of the family, the big crow with glasses is father manfred, the other big crow is mother marten, the little crow. with a blindfold who serves as the player's main character is thia and the other smaller crow is her brother nils the rest of that splash screen with thea's name by the way contains blank spaces for secret messages scattered throughout the game .

I won't spoil how. to solve every line in this video because honestly it's a lot of fun to do it yourself and there's a whole community doc outlining it all so if you're interested and want the answers you can look them up there and on Big thanks to the doc editors lucasim a buggy replay mozark paradox factor bmb and bird for keeping track of all this plus everyone who contributed to this big mystery so far anyway once you've discovered all the secrets that decodes the message. next my dear thea I'm sorry I couldn't be with you in the end I was too scared I ran and now I'm in hell one that I made myself I dreamed of you playing this one day but you will never do it please forgive me my Raven, please forgive me both of us, dad, this is just for his little brother.

Now you'll notice that some of those letters land on spots that are highlighted on the original splash screen if you take all of those letters from the final message that they spell. dear nils little brother nils seems to be the key sometimes literally exclamation n64 the forest level of the man video includes a vigenere cipher that requires two keys to decipher one alphabetical and one numerical the code of manfred's note 307-813- 54841 plus the name nils repeated by doing that, the puzzle is solved for nils, I'm alive, so is manfred really alive? It seems that back in October, the community resolved an email address that has currently been removed from the dock with good reason: it's an actually working email address that is clearly being managed by a real person (it's not just about replying) Automatic responses but responds to what people say in real time As the game becomes more popular, more and more people started spamming the email waiting for clues and eventually it stopped responding for that reason.

I will be telling you the email, but if you want you can solve it, although I warn you not to use it unless you think you have a solution for the next part of the puzzle we are going to talk about because I don't want to burn the good will of whoever is there. on the other end of that thing when email was still working it sent ml messages clearly manfred lorenz one of the first responses set up the community with the conundrum that everyone is still stuck on my dear boy after all these years I have a lot to say your birthday is not far away I hope we can meet the day after tomorrow at the place we celebrate every year I will be there, we have two things clear that we need a birthday and a place since that email many people have tried to get answers from manfred but most have failed.

Shortly after that address stopped responding, we got one of the biggest crashes I've ever seen in an airg of a Twitter account's source code. Posing as a former employee of Opus Interactive, he dropped a huge zip file containing the complete source code of Catastrophe Crow, that's right, you can now play the Catastrophe Crow game and not only that, you can now go behind the scenes and interact with each object and asset in the unit, which means that there are still an absolutely enormous number of clues to honestly explore and solve. I think this argument is one of the best organized I've seen.

I've covered many storylines in the few channels coming to the table with most solutions already set up multiple gameplay channels released well before the main game preview. I really hope that by introducing everyone to this mystery today I created a few more crows. to delve deeper into the incredible mystery that is the catastrophe, crow, who knows, maybe one of us theorists will finally be the one to solve the next big mystery, all we need is a place and a birthday until then, remember that everything it's just a theory, a game theory anyway, if you like that video, which you clearly did since you got to the end, make sure you subscribe to this channel because we will definitely revisit this game when there are more developments to talk about speaking of cryptic creepypasta style games, you heard me mention it.

A couple of times throughout this video, check out our series on Petscop, another one that's criminally underrated and that I should probably finish talking about at some point. Also one last reminder that the theoretical software is directly below this video and is available for a limited time only, including some items we've been trying to make for over three years, specifically that Pikachu plush, so grab it before May it also become a mystery lost on the Internet. See you next time, guys.