Okay, lets try this again.
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If youre in the portal mood
If youre in the Half Life mood
Greetings, all test subjects.
As of March 1st, 2010, Portal got a surprise update, one that we will all remember as the Portal Frequency (Yeah that's something even I wouldn't use or remember, so if anyone can come up with something better for this date, feel free :lol)
The update
What did this do?
For starters, it added a new achievement to Portal.
Suddenly people wondered, What is this update? Whats it for?
When you get in-game, you will notice the radio in your relaxation vault looks different. Theres a red light on it. By grabbing the radio and going through the door, you will soon find out that at the right spot, the radio will find a different frequency and spout morse at you. You will find there are other radios, spouting all kinds of sounds at you. The sound the radios make when they desintegrate through the emancipation grid is also different.
Thats what the update did. Radios all throughout the Test Chambers have been placed. By whom? Or what? What do they tell us? (Well yeah, it was Valve, but play along please!)
What do I do?
There are a total of 26 radios, each with a different message.
Heres where you can find each one of them(YES THIS IS A GUIDE)
Some of them are morse, some of them are garbled messages. The morse messages translated to this:
Thread containing images
What does this mean!?
That's what this thread is for. Speculate all you want. So far, the signs point towards Portal specifically, but since the universes of both Half Life and Portal are one and the same, we never know what may happen. GDC will probably be our best bet.
Really good theory IMO
My take on this, I'm pretty disappointed it's not directly related to Episode 3, but Portal 2 is fuckawesome as well, ofcourse.
What do we have so far!?
Morse Translations
Picture containing all BBS pictures so far
SSTV Images
New desintegration sound; voices can be heard
So, a short timeline:
NEW UPDATE (03-03-2010)
Oh dear. Valve has done it yet again! A new update was released on March 3rd. Valuable asset retrieval has been added. The following were added to Portal
What the ending contains:
What does this new update mean? Obviously,
Discuss away people!
One final note; this thread is far from complete. There's all kinds of modem sounds and facts (The phone number originates from Kirkland, Valve's original studio location.)
Thread music (Open in new tab, CTRL+CLICK THESE)
If youre in the portal mood
If youre in the Half Life mood
Greetings, all test subjects.
As of March 1st, 2010, Portal got a surprise update, one that we will all remember as the Portal Frequency (Yeah that's something even I wouldn't use or remember, so if anyone can come up with something better for this date, feel free :lol)
The update
What did this do?
For starters, it added a new achievement to Portal.
Code:
Transmission Received
..?When you get in-game, you will notice the radio in your relaxation vault looks different. Theres a red light on it. By grabbing the radio and going through the door, you will soon find out that at the right spot, the radio will find a different frequency and spout morse at you. You will find there are other radios, spouting all kinds of sounds at you. The sound the radios make when they desintegrate through the emancipation grid is also different.
Thats what the update did. Radios all throughout the Test Chambers have been placed. By whom? Or what? What do they tell us? (Well yeah, it was Valve, but play along please!)
What do I do?
There are a total of 26 radios, each with a different message.
Heres where you can find each one of them(YES THIS IS A GUIDE)
Some of them are morse, some of them are garbled messages. The morse messages translated to this:
Others, as crazy as it might seem, were garbage. But! The garbage in turn, turned out to be encoded images. These could be accessed with SSTV These were the following images:
Thread containing images
What does this mean!?
That's what this thread is for. Speculate all you want. So far, the signs point towards Portal specifically, but since the universes of both Half Life and Portal are one and the same, we never know what may happen. GDC will probably be our best bet.
Really good theory IMO
My take on this, I'm pretty disappointed it's not directly related to Episode 3, but Portal 2 is fuckawesome as well, ofcourse.
What do we have so far!?
Morse Translations
Picture containing all BBS pictures so far
SSTV Images
New desintegration sound; voices can be heard
So, a short timeline:
- New achievement in update.
- Radios discovered all over the game. What do they do?
- Some radios sent out morse code.
- Morse code gets translated; See above.
- Other radios send out garbage turns out to be images!
- On the images there are letters and numbers; they were an md5 for a BBS number; a number for a BBS (Bulletin Board System).
- When dialed correctly, a login screen appeared. Proper credentials have been found, and pictures have been received from the BBS. This is the most up to date image as of now:
NEW UPDATE (03-03-2010)
Oh dear. Valve has done it yet again! A new update was released on March 3rd. Valuable asset retrieval has been added. The following were added to Portal
- 2 new dinosaur_fizzle sound effects (Another voice can be heard...? (Alyyy[x]?)
- A new ending *SPOILERS*Valve outdid themselves. They added a bit to the ending for storypurposes.
- A new credits sequence? This might also be totally unrelated and just a normal credits sequence. There's nothing exciting in here.
What the ending contains:
An android comes up to Chell, offscreen. It says:"Thank you for assuming the party escort submission position" and drags Chell off to places unknown.
The valuable asset is Chell, and she is being retrieved. What faction is the droid from? Aperture Science... Or something else? We don't know.
Discuss away people!
One final note; this thread is far from complete. There's all kinds of modem sounds and facts (The phone number originates from Kirkland, Valve's original studio location.)
And no, it has not been confirmed to be 2 games in one. Stop pestering people Twiggy! 
