The PS2 didn't have native support for a feature like this I don't think. People found out you can brute force it to run stuff from dvd mode but not through legit means
@@CrashFan03 I... honestly can't remember tbh. I mostly just remember them putting "Compatible with PlayStation 2" on their movie DVDs like that was a unique selling point.
@@TrollDecker I think that's just an awareness thing like how some later ps1 games also had stickers for that and gamecube games had stickers saying they worked on wii
@@racerwilson152 Doom movie must be exception, I remember putting DVD's in before getting the adapter and it just popped up saying "You need to buy this to play DVD's" but boy, when I bought that was I a happy lad. Fast forward to the 360 and it just works
@@racerwilson152No. Part of the function of the DVD remote was that it added the DVD logo to the console which was a legal requirement for playing DVD video. They simply weren't allowed to play DVDs without that branded piece of plastic... the remote itself was mostly irrelevant.
Believe it or not, the Blu-ray contains all 3 English dubs of the film (yep, it got slightly different dubs in British and Australian, alongside the theatrical American audio). Those incorrect subtitles actually adhere to the British dub of the film- which they renamed Aunt Fanny to Aunt Fan (it does not take much to understand why). Some of the voices have been changed in the dub too, so it definitely felt strange revisiting the film as a British viewer on the Blu-ray (forgetting to change the dub to what we had does that). Also this audio convenience killed the audio encode- the Blu-ray is still lossy DTS rather than the expected lossless DTS:HD MA. Great.
@@ToastyMann xD ummm I guess you don't get it so I'll straight up say it~ In other countries, outside the U.S., fanny doesn't mean butt it means a woman's 🌹 0-0 almost completely different meaning
The Alien DVDs contained a link to the Alien website. The website still works, as it runs off the disc, and the link provided to buy the Alien movies still works. It redirects to Amazon.
@@maxonwolf5841probably because someone could have got the domain to it and then have it redirect to gay porn or something and that’s not something I think they want associated with alien.
Did anybody hate those double sided DVDs? Thinking you're about to watch the Widescreen version of a movie and all of a sudden it's Fullscreen! Or if it's a double feature you're thinking you put it on the movie you wanted and then it's the movie you didn't want!
i hated them too! though i suppose i’d rather buy one with a double side fullscreen/widescreen than accidentally buy the fullscreen version straight up.
I mean, the little ring would tell you which was which so unless you were tossing them like a frisbee it never was that big a hassle. And I say this as someone who owns and watched a good chunk of the Dukes of Hazzard box sets which were all the double sided DVDs.
I only ever had experience with two of them growing up, neither of which I own anymore. I don’t recall having trouble with putting in the wrong side for fullscreen or widescreen, but yet again the first one I had was when I was literally five years old and didn’t know what it meant.
the only double-sided dvds i had growing up were my dad's dukes of hazzard complete season sets and the yogi bear show more often than not warner bros did double-sided discs for tv series releases, chief among them being the aforementioned dukes of hazzard and some early hanna-barbera cartoons of course nowadays as a physical media collector i do have some double-sided dvd releases in the form of the original batman movie dvds from 1997 and the first christopher reeve superman movie from the 2001 boxset the batman ones have that "fullscreen on one side, widescreen on the other" thing but it didn't take me long to figure out that the aspect ratio depended on which label side was up which was a bit of a mindfuck because on the aforementioned (superior) golden collection release of the yogi bear show's double-sided discs, whichever label was facing down when inserted would be the side of the disc that the dvd player would read
I like it with my Avatar box set. It's already a thick boi. I also had the first 4 Final Destination movies conveniently placed on 2 discs as a kid. Was about to say it was less for me to lose... but if I had lost one then I'd be losing 2 movies instead of 1. Okay nvm those DVD's suck!
I've recently gotten obsessed with the OG xbox, softmodding my own including upgrading the hard drive to load many many games onto it. The weird things the OG xbox did that's been forgotten is crazy to me, along with Robots there's DVD's with demos for Doom 3, The Hulk, King Arthur, four different star wars games, The Chronicles of Riddick and Van Helsing.
So I knew about the Incredible Hulk one as I remember playing as a kid and being blown away that a DVD featured a game demo but I had no clue about the others as it never dawned on my that other DVDs would feature Xbox game Demos. So now I’m interested and feel like I need to add these DVD’s to my collection for my OG Xbox lol 😂😂😂
What’s a good method/guide for softmodding an OG Xbox? I’ve only really softmodded a 3DS and PS Vita, and those were only because they both have dedicated, step-by-step guides. Was wondering if there was anything similar for the OG Xbox?
@@5persondude lots of youtube videos on it. You used to need a game to mod it now day's you don't. and you can get the online multiplayer "Xbox live" to work thinks to insignia
That's funny that there are two movies, released only a few years apart, that feature Robin Williams talking about anime. Robots (2005) and One Hour Photo (2002).
The first DVD release of Chronicles of Riddick had an option when you load the DVD to either “convert” or “fight.” Depending on your choice, it would load one of two different DVD menus.
I have the director's cut on dvd, that was a great menu! Also I remember that the dvd of cats and dogs had a similar thing: you could choose the "cat" menu or the "dog" one.
@@Gail-no9py I had only a reprint of the x-men 3 dvd with a normal menu, so good to know! (I even had some reprints of blue sky dvds with barebone menus, Robots and Horton being the two I remember the most, now I have the ones with the cool menus)
I remember this, my family discovered this on accident since we mainly used the Xbox original to watch movies. It was was an intriguing discovery and we messed with it for quite a bit before we lost it
The reason why the English subtitles are inaccurate on the Blu-Ray is because they are for the British dub. “Fanny” is slang for vagina in the UK so they changed Aunt Fanny’s name and the change is reflected in the subtitles.
Robots is one of *the* greatest animated movies ever. There are sooo many great ones, But the cast, the moral message, and some (yes not all) of the jokes are just absolutely brilliant. It’s gonna age like wine.
@@bubbyberry I’ve been a done roach dogg as long as I can remember. Let me tell you, I’ve been a roach dogg ever since roach senior got hit by a greyhound. I say i’ve been a done roach dogg as long as I can remember.
Damn. I guess "You can shine no matter what you're made of" was far more inspirational to a generation of kids and parents than my autistic child self and angry movie reviewer-addicted teen self would like to admit. One day I'll revisit Robots now knowing the context for why it has a following. Just not today.
This is actually not the only dvd to contain game demo like that. Hell, this also existed with blu-rays that had ps3 demos but it's interesting to see a prototype of the game that is pretty different to what the game would become.
About the PS3, this is a bit of an opposite example but I own the tie-in game for Phineas and Ferb Across the 2nd Dimension (shit game, don't play it), and it actually doubles as a Blu-Ray disc containing four episodes of the show. It's also the only time the show made it to the format if I recall correctly.
@@ToastyMann This reminds me of a similar but a little different case. The game is called Short peace: Ranko Tsukigime's longest day. Short Peace was this project to create an anime movie with different segments being directed by different directors and the final part of that project was the aforementioned game. The disc contains both the game and the movie. At least my European version. Apparently the American release doesn't have the movie, which I think is a bad deal because that game isn't particularly long and I think that the combo package with the movie was what made the package worth it. Sucks for the burger eaters.
I remember as a kid playing the “Over The Hedge” game on the literal movie DVD with the tv remote. PLEASE review and find the old school movie DVD and play that game!
I actually was part of that small demographic that did own an og Xbox and robots on DVD at the same time and I remember accidentally stumbling on the demo by accident when just trying to watch the movie when I was younger, I only experienced it once because the Xbox was shortly replaced with a 360 but it was a neat thing to stumble across. I know Hulk 2003 also has a demo for the Xbox which would be cool to see you cover
@@hectormanuel8360 i was using the urinal at school the other day when my oversized pokemon shirt fell down mid stream and got soaked in pee. I was so embarrassed since I had to go the rest of the day with a wet shirt reeking of pee with no way to hide it, so I blamed it on the weird kid in class and told people he peed on me
Huh, never knew this. They indeed do not make DVD menus like they used to. The Xmen 3 The Last Stand DVD offered you to choice to pick a side tied in with the movie, always thought that was cool.
I've finished the Robots game twice, the ball rolling is pretty different; This is clearly a prototype version of it. XBEs are glorified EXEs, would be pretty easy to find a build date and also compare it's data to the final game.
The game itself is really one of the golden gems of movie crossover games as a fun platformer. The ball racing on story mode is basically a way to get from part of the worlds to another.
Hey, Spies in Disguise was actually pretty good imo. To be fair, the first time I ever watched the movie (or even heard of it for that matter) was when I was in jail a few months ago
At 4:43 you say some of the deleted scenes are stuck at 480p, there is a very good reason for this. The deleted scenes were NEVER rendered, this is a playblast which is just a low quality preview used to help artists find flaws in their animation and present results to supervisors/art directors before rendertime, which especially in 2005 was extremely expensive time-wise. They couldn't possibly re-render these scenes without a crap load of effort. They also likely weren't even properly lit.
Not only that, pretty much every extra till 2006 circa was recorded/rendered in SD, so even on blu ray releases old movies extras were in low res (in some cases like the lotr extended cuts the distributor knew that and the extras were literally the DVDS from the original extended sets).
I can’t believe I found a video on this demo game! I used to alternate between using a PS2 and Xbox to watch DVDs. I think I found this game by complete accident when I was going to watch the movie. It was pretty strange playing a game demo on a movie disk. O.o I don’t really remember what I thought about the gameplay, I just vaguely remember the character select menu, the half pipe race tracks and the bolt collectibles. As for the movie itself, is pretty cool for the most part. 👍 Definitely one of those movies I would watch over and over as a kid :)
People in 2005: Hey dude, do you want to see The capitalist depression which quickly spirals into uncovering a corporate conspiracy to eliminate the lower class by pricing them out of the market and discontinuing products they need to live and if you dont buy the new products, they are going to kill you Movie? It stars Obi-Wan Kanobi!
THANK YOU. It's another spot that's concerned with the stolen music thing. One with a music composed in 2006 and then stolen in 2007 while "Piracy, It's A Crime" was already a thing in 2004. And yes, the Piracy It's A Crime tune is however clearly just a bootleg "No Man Army" from The Prodigy.
Kinda unrelated but reminded me of putting in the orginal Gorillaz CD into the family computer. Only to find it had an interactive tour of the gorillaz "Studio". That ends in a Jump scare.
I actually had this as a kid and played it! Well, until I decided to shove the DVD into our SUV's player while it was shut off and broke it permanently. I don't remember anything about it other than it being a racing game I was really bad at, but it was cool enough to stick in my head all these decades later. I'm glad I'm not the only one who still knows about it.
5:27 What's even more impressive is the 5.1 DTS audio being crammed in there. And keep in mind, even in half Bitrate, the track can take up a lot of space, and you need to also have room for Dolby 5.1 in case you didn't have a DTS compatible player or decoder. Let that and everything else about the dvd sink in...
Original XBox discs have a specific feature where all of them show up as a DVD to normal players, with a message about being an "xbox disc". They just took this to the extreme by having it be an entire normal DVD in that DVD section. It was part of the anti piracy system, as normal PC drives wouldn't be able to read the Xbox partition containing the game as it first registers as a DVD
Thanks for a good video, I like your takes and information that you've provided. Like pointing out the fact that Blu-Ray release is inferior to DVD release, which, as potential future owner of Blu-Ray, I now will better keep that in mind
Blu-Rays in general are very much worth having, it's just that you need to keep an eye out for bad releases as they're more common than you might think.
Aside from bonus material, bluray is definitely superior with better visual and audio quality compared to just about any DVD. If you don't care about that then DVDs are fine, but most movies really shine in full HD
@@ToastyMann Very true, especially for early bluray releases like this. The issue is mainly due to Sony rushing to get ahead in the HD format war of the mid 2000s
DUDE IM JUST i decided to click on this video just to watch something new, and the fact that this game was like, a locked memory in my mind that i didnt have any recollection up until now is CRAZY like you just unlocked a memory from me, i remember i loved playing this game because it was so reminiscent of Fusion Frenzy, which was also for the original Xbox, which my uncle had the xbox, along with that game for it, so when robots came out for dvd and i saw there was a game included with it, i for sure had to play it
There was a Mask DVD with so many special features it included episodes of a doggy daycare alongside the usual deleted scenes and other nonsense, Its weird to think how many people now a days dont realize how much actual stuff we've lost when it comes to owning physical media over the last 15 years
I have just watched the movie Robots myself for the very first time in my life on UMD (I love rare formats haha) so this was a very cool video subject for me 😁 I also know the Hulk movie has a Xbox demo included and I also miss how much work people put into DVD menu’s as early Blu-Ray’s had a similar kind of effort put into them, but Blu-ray’s nowadays are only a standard template sadly 😕 This is the first video from you that I have seen so you have a new follower in me 😁
Completely unrelated but you talking about an Xbox demo game brought me back to playing my uncles Xbox as a kid. My brother and I used to play a demo of Munch’s Odyysee. One of the most bizarre games I’ve ever played.
thanks for the nostalgia trip - I worked QA (Qaultiy Assurance, game testing) on the robots tie in game way back when, so this was interesting to watch.
The only double-sided DVDs that I ever had growing up were the ones for Alvin & The Chipmunks (2007), Horton Hears A Who! (2008) and Coraline (2009), but every other DVD I had growing up was either one-sided, gray or came with two discs.
Blue Sky had Rio, the Peanuts Movie, and posthumously had Nimona, which got revived and released in 2023. Also, from research, they would have made a movie called "The Anubis Tapestries", based on the 2006 novel, in 2018. I've seen the concept art of Apophis for it, bro looked smug as hell, like he had every amount of cockiness and smug attitude of every Dreamworks and Disney villain combined into one character.
Seeing this video pop up made me go downstairs and dust off my old childhood collection of DVDs. Sure enough, putting my old copy of Robots in my Xbox (given to me a few years back) had this game on it. Yeah, the AI is truly impossible to overcome, but otherwise, it's a decent little demo for being on a DVD I've had since I was in diapers. Awesome video, thank you for opening my eyes to this!
This was generally such a cool video. It covered something that has led me to going back and accquiring old DVDs because they were so much better back then. 100% interested in seeing more DVD obsecurities and I really enjoyed this video. Good job YT recommendations, you finally gave me a good channel that doesn't have 100k or 1M subscribers, you my good sir have earnt your subscription. And I can generally say I was here before 2K.
I loved this movie as a kid, and this is all really fascinating- I know I own a DVD of it, but I don’t actually know if mine has any of the bonus features- I think it’s a little newer. Anyways, UA-cam’s really popping off with recommending me smaller channels lately- you’ve got some good stuff!!
I had a blueray player and a tiny tv when I was like 8. While the family had a large collection I solely had three movies: Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, and THIS DVD. They all had great bonus features, but I never knew about this hidden game! Man, I miss when so much extra was added to physical media
Fun fact, the full game was also on GameCube, oddly, it was a collectathon platformer. I played it and, it’s honestly good, like legit solid. Good music, solid designs and some fun extras
I recommend Curse of the Were-rabbit as it has an extra in the form of a short from 1997 called Stage Fright. To be put in bluntly, 6 year old me was terrified of it. The tone is really dark and gritty and Mr. Hugh is a downright despicable character. In fact Stage Fright won a BAFTA for best short film in 1998.
Song starting at 1:42 is Dark Ruins from Ape Eacape. This song was remixed on the vaporwave track "Plasma Lounge" by General Translator. I was listening to the latter while getting a burger today, small world, never watched this person before either.
7:18 i was too young to know how to get to the main menu, so I thought the rental store mixed the game disc with the DVD as the game auto starts in an xbox/first menu is stupidly vague. I told my dad to take it back twice until we realized what was going on. That's why I love and loathe this bonus feature at the same time
@@ToastyMann The movie is pretty alright. The plot of the movie is about a kid who turned a agent into a pigeon (or rather the agent did that to himself as the young kid worked on a invisibility potion). With this the kid and the agent try to stop the main villian from uploading a virus that will turn every drone in the city into a mass killing machine. And idk why but they are also chased or something? I haven't watched the movie for a long time as I only saw it once like 2 years ago and some things could be miss remembered.
I remember this! Was such a crazy feeling to put a DVD in a game console and have it load up a game. Felt like the kind of thing kids would make up on the playground along side other rumors like "how to unlock Luigi in Mario 64" but this time it was actually real.
I remember getting Demo Discs from magazines and Pizza Hut (lmao). And DVD menus are amazingly missed these days. I remember the Shrek 1 CD, donkey jumping endlessly screaming “pick me” he was the “play movie” option
"they certainly don't make them how they used to" both good and bad. Good that more often than not we arrive at the menu almost immediately, bad by the lack of special features. I absolutely HATED when I would put in a DVD and still have to sit around, locked out of menues, watching that pathetic PSA or worse, previews that stopped being relevant when the movie launched for home media sales.
I'm sure living with only the blueray edition of blue sky's robots must have been unbearable. I couldn't even imagine life without my widescreen dvd copy of robots with all its cool bonus features and entire xbox game demo
As a huge Blue Skies fan I will sing the praise of Epic and Spies In Disguise until my death. I remember the marketing for Epic specifically because Beyoncé voices a character that dies in like the first 10 minutes. But genuinely the story is rather unique of being a girl visiting her crazy ass dad who believes there are little people in the woods and then gets stuck in the middle of a tiny woodland folk war. Also Pitbull is in the movie for some reason. I rewatch the movie recently and it’s still actually really fun. Spies in Disguise is their last movie before Nimona and also really fun. While silly it goes back to its roots of touching up on really complicated, ethical issues, especially concerning war and how we treat enemies. It’s about the cycle of violence and revenge. Also with Will Smith and Tom Holland lol.
I spent way too much time as a kid playing around in different dvd menus. I remember the lion king 1 1/2, elf and some disney Xmas collection ones being super fun to play as a 6 year old
6:22 i think it was less sony having a patent and more xbox having to cover the cost of royalties related to dvds through the remote accessory to keep the console price down
I remember one day when I was younger trying to watch it and finding the game instead. I played it for HOURS and then forgot about it completely. This is such a blast from the past for me.
Blu ray movies are still compressed. Original quality movies can easily be anywhere between 200gb to 6terabyte for modern movies. You can't assume they wouldn't keep the original source as maximum as they could for re-release reasons. Ie how they keep rereleasing old 80s movies on blu ray even though they were using floppy disks back then.
I guess that there's a hidden xbox video game hidden inside the dvd itself however to access it you need a xbox system that has dvd compatibility on it to access it but you could also try to access it with a computer and use a program that could extract any hidden content that's contained inside of it basically.
I suppose the reason it wouldn't work on a PS2 is exactly because it read dvd out of the box. It wouldn't know if it was a game or a movie.
The PS2 didn't have native support for a feature like this I don't think. People found out you can brute force it to run stuff from dvd mode but not through legit means
I'm willing to bet it was more likely that it was because it wasn't a Sony Pictures release.
@@TrollDecker did sony dvds do that?
@@CrashFan03 I... honestly can't remember tbh. I mostly just remember them putting "Compatible with PlayStation 2" on their movie DVDs like that was a unique selling point.
@@TrollDecker I think that's just an awareness thing like how some later ps1 games also had stickers for that and gamecube games had stickers saying they worked on wii
It's crazy that such an obscure game was played briefly on an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Swear what episode?
@@MrAveregeguy68 season 2 episode 3
@@shanecobain5241 What scene?
@@CrispyTarantulajust watch the episode bro
@@shanecobain5241timestamp?
I had this DVD, but I didn't have the Xbox movie piece to plug in my Xbox. Now that I have an Xbox and the movie piece, I no longer have the movie
Im pretty sure you can just put it in and play it, or was the doom movie disk an exception to the rule
@@racerwilson152 Doom movie must be exception, I remember putting DVD's in before getting the adapter and it just popped up saying "You need to buy this to play DVD's" but boy, when I bought that was I a happy lad.
Fast forward to the 360 and it just works
Modchip bypasses it @@racerwilson152
@@GingerNingerGames is it possible later og Xbox models didn't need the addon
@@racerwilson152No. Part of the function of the DVD remote was that it added the DVD logo to the console which was a legal requirement for playing DVD video.
They simply weren't allowed to play DVDs without that branded piece of plastic... the remote itself was mostly irrelevant.
It's fitting that the old, junky DVD version of Robots, specifically, is better than the shiny, new, upgraded Blu-ray version.
Believe it or not, the Blu-ray contains all 3 English dubs of the film (yep, it got slightly different dubs in British and Australian, alongside the theatrical American audio). Those incorrect subtitles actually adhere to the British dub of the film- which they renamed Aunt Fanny to Aunt Fan (it does not take much to understand why). Some of the voices have been changed in the dub too, so it definitely felt strange revisiting the film as a British viewer on the Blu-ray (forgetting to change the dub to what we had does that).
Also this audio convenience killed the audio encode- the Blu-ray is still lossy DTS rather than the expected lossless DTS:HD MA. Great.
That's a fuckin' Robots knowledge bomb I never expected to discover.
If I remember correctly, OneyNG said that in other countries, Fanny means slang for...aheh a women's ya know?
@@BobCalter-j6n That's her entire joke
Nah, nah, I think you missed it. "Fanny" means a woman's FRONT butt in other countries, while it's for the butt in America. :3@@ToastyMann
@@ToastyMann xD ummm I guess you don't get it so I'll straight up say it~
In other countries, outside the U.S., fanny doesn't mean butt it means a woman's 🌹
0-0 almost completely different meaning
The Alien DVDs contained a link to the Alien website. The website still works, as it runs off the disc, and the link provided to buy the Alien movies still works. It redirects to Amazon.
Wow, a movie company actually keeping up with an online component? That’s crazy!
@@DamonFoMos the website lives on the disk
@@slarbiterSomeone still went out of their way to make that link to redirect though. Won’t lie it’s kinda surprising.
@@maxonwolf5841 some old Warner Bros. DVDs still have the inner actual interface tucked in them
@@maxonwolf5841probably because someone could have got the domain to it and then have it redirect to gay porn or something and that’s not something I think they want associated with alien.
Did anybody hate those double sided DVDs? Thinking you're about to watch the Widescreen version of a movie and all of a sudden it's Fullscreen! Or if it's a double feature you're thinking you put it on the movie you wanted and then it's the movie you didn't want!
i hated them too! though i suppose i’d rather buy one with a double side fullscreen/widescreen than accidentally buy the fullscreen version straight up.
I mean, the little ring would tell you which was which so unless you were tossing them like a frisbee it never was that big a hassle. And I say this as someone who owns and watched a good chunk of the Dukes of Hazzard box sets which were all the double sided DVDs.
I only ever had experience with two of them growing up, neither of which I own anymore. I don’t recall having trouble with putting in the wrong side for fullscreen or widescreen, but yet again the first one I had was when I was literally five years old and didn’t know what it meant.
the only double-sided dvds i had growing up were my dad's dukes of hazzard complete season sets and the yogi bear show
more often than not warner bros did double-sided discs for tv series releases, chief among them being the aforementioned dukes of hazzard and some early hanna-barbera cartoons
of course nowadays as a physical media collector i do have some double-sided dvd releases in the form of the original batman movie dvds from 1997 and the first christopher reeve superman movie from the 2001 boxset
the batman ones have that "fullscreen on one side, widescreen on the other" thing but it didn't take me long to figure out that the aspect ratio depended on which label side was up
which was a bit of a mindfuck because on the aforementioned (superior) golden collection release of the yogi bear show's double-sided discs, whichever label was facing down when inserted would be the side of the disc that the dvd player would read
I like it with my Avatar box set. It's already a thick boi. I also had the first 4 Final Destination movies conveniently placed on 2 discs as a kid. Was about to say it was less for me to lose... but if I had lost one then I'd be losing 2 movies instead of 1. Okay nvm those DVD's suck!
I've recently gotten obsessed with the OG xbox, softmodding my own including upgrading the hard drive to load many many games onto it.
The weird things the OG xbox did that's been forgotten is crazy to me, along with Robots there's DVD's with demos for Doom 3, The Hulk, King Arthur, four different star wars games, The Chronicles of Riddick and Van Helsing.
Is your OG Xbox set up on Insignia? The new OG Xbox Live servers, that's been pretty fun taking it online like you would back in the day.
So I knew about the Incredible Hulk one as I remember playing as a kid and being blown away that a DVD featured a game demo but I had no clue about the others as it never dawned on my that other DVDs would feature Xbox game Demos. So now I’m interested and feel like I need to add these DVD’s to my collection for my OG Xbox lol 😂😂😂
What’s a good method/guide for softmodding an OG Xbox? I’ve only really softmodded a 3DS and PS Vita, and those were only because they both have dedicated, step-by-step guides. Was wondering if there was anything similar for the OG Xbox?
@@5persondude Mrmario2011 has a video about the new "endgame" method to softmod.
BTW, look into getting it set up on Insignia.
@@5persondude lots of youtube videos on it. You used to need a game to mod it now day's you don't. and you can get the online multiplayer "Xbox live" to work thinks to insignia
Robots was the best movie ever because it had Robin Williams saying anime.
Give me big anime eyes
I love the chance of him asking to change the script just to say that lol
That's funny that there are two movies, released only a few years apart, that feature Robin Williams talking about anime. Robots (2005) and One Hour Photo (2002).
"Anime eyes" should be a gen z low fi hip hop song, with Robots samples.
The first DVD release of Chronicles of Riddick had an option when you load the DVD to either “convert” or “fight.” Depending on your choice, it would load one of two different DVD menus.
I have the director's cut on dvd, that was a great menu!
Also I remember that the dvd of cats and dogs had a similar thing: you could choose the "cat" menu or the "dog" one.
@@venomsnake9023x men the last stand also had that
@@Gail-no9py I had only a reprint of the x-men 3 dvd with a normal menu, so good to know! (I even had some reprints of blue sky dvds with barebone menus, Robots and Horton being the two I remember the most, now I have the ones with the cool menus)
@@venomsnake9023 im surprised people even remember that movie
@@barneecalhoungaming Horton? If yes, I watched that movie A LOT as a kid!
I remember this, my family discovered this on accident since we mainly used the Xbox original to watch movies. It was was an intriguing discovery and we messed with it for quite a bit before we lost it
The reason why the English subtitles are inaccurate on the Blu-Ray is because they are for the British dub. “Fanny” is slang for vagina in the UK so they changed Aunt Fanny’s name and the change is reflected in the subtitles.
Goddamn Europeans
The Star Wars revenge of the sith dvd also has an Xbox demo on it
Same with the Clone Wars DVDs.
One of the Hulk movies had this too
So does Van Helsing
Oh yeah prove it?
Holy crap, I barely remember that. Wasn’t it a demo for the Episode III tie-in game? Or was it the demo for Battlefront 2, on the bonus disc?
If you want another oddity, the Zookeeper bluray has a demo of Ratchet and Clank for the PS3 on it. I want to get that to experience it myself lol.
Yeah there were a lot of Blu-ray movies that randomly had game demos for the ps3.
Faintly Remember there being a movie that had a god of war 3 demo.
@@alex99x99xlooked it up, it was District 9
@@alex99x99x district 9?
Thats kinda nuts!
Robots is one of *the* greatest animated movies ever. There are sooo many great ones, But the cast, the moral message, and some (yes not all) of the jokes are just absolutely brilliant. It’s gonna age like wine.
roach. doggin.
@@bubbyberry I’ve been a done roach dogg as long as I can remember. Let me tell you, I’ve been a roach dogg ever since roach senior got hit by a greyhound. I say i’ve been a done roach dogg as long as I can remember.
Damn.
I guess "You can shine no matter what you're made of" was far more inspirational to a generation of kids and parents than my autistic child self and angry movie reviewer-addicted teen self would like to admit.
One day I'll revisit Robots now knowing the context for why it has a following. Just not today.
Childhood memories 😢
This is actually not the only dvd to contain game demo like that. Hell, this also existed with blu-rays that had ps3 demos but it's interesting to see a prototype of the game that is pretty different to what the game would become.
About the PS3, this is a bit of an opposite example but I own the tie-in game for Phineas and Ferb Across the 2nd Dimension (shit game, don't play it), and it actually doubles as a Blu-Ray disc containing four episodes of the show. It's also the only time the show made it to the format if I recall correctly.
@@ToastyMannActually, Phineas And Ferb made it to Blu-ray in Japan surprisingly enough
@@ToastyMann This reminds me of a similar but a little different case. The game is called Short peace: Ranko Tsukigime's longest day. Short Peace was this project to create an anime movie with different segments being directed by different directors and the final part of that project was the aforementioned game. The disc contains both the game and the movie. At least my European version. Apparently the American release doesn't have the movie, which I think is a bad deal because that game isn't particularly long and I think that the combo package with the movie was what made the package worth it. Sucks for the burger eaters.
Hulk had a demo for the game.
I remember as a kid playing the “Over The Hedge” game on the literal movie DVD with the tv remote. PLEASE review and find the old school movie DVD and play that game!
That game and the mini games were so fun. I loved the levels where you went into houses and ran around the neighborhood
wait theres a game? i have access to that dvd
my guess is that they used an earlier draft of the script to create the captions
I think it’s the British script. “Fanny” is considered too vulgar in the UK.
Can confirm in the British version she is called Aunt Fan
Bigweld: I’m the prettiest girl at the Harvest Moon Ball
I actually was part of that small demographic that did own an og Xbox and robots on DVD at the same time and I remember accidentally stumbling on the demo by accident when just trying to watch the movie when I was younger, I only experienced it once because the Xbox was shortly replaced with a 360 but it was a neat thing to stumble across. I know Hulk 2003 also has a demo for the Xbox which would be cool to see you cover
"This unholy thing on the other hand thought it would be a smart idea to map acceleration to up on the analog stick."
Cars in Fortnite be like
This aged well, now Fortnite has a dedicated acceleration button an a boost button for thier cars.
the half-life 2 airboat on consoles be like
That's explained by PC control schemes, where shooters with drivable vehicles typically have the WASD movement coherent with foot movement.
Doesn't Halo do that? That most popular game on the Xbox.
@@cookieface80yes it does and its well executed.
I would TOTALLY print a car. Hell, id steal one if i knew where to sell its parts
my friends DAD worked for Eurocom and worked on the engine for robots, how cool.
Any other stories?
@@hectormanuel8360 i was using the urinal at school the other day when my oversized pokemon shirt fell down mid stream and got soaked in pee. I was so embarrassed since I had to go the rest of the day with a wet shirt reeking of pee with no way to hide it, so I blamed it on the weird kid in class and told people he peed on me
Huh, never knew this.
They indeed do not make DVD menus like they used to.
The Xmen 3 The Last Stand DVD offered you to choice to pick a side tied in with the movie, always thought that was cool.
The video starts at 5:53
LMAO
I was just about to comment this 💀
It's 2024 and YT content creators are still wasting our time 🤦🏼♂️
The rest was cool but I wasn’t down for it right now, thanks
Yeah half the video is just waffling
I've finished the Robots game twice, the ball rolling is pretty different; This is clearly a prototype version of it.
XBEs are glorified EXEs, would be pretty easy to find a build date and also compare it's data to the final game.
You take back every negative of Robots, Now
The game itself is really one of the golden gems of movie crossover games as a fun platformer. The ball racing on story mode is basically a way to get from part of the worlds to another.
Hey, Spies in Disguise was actually pretty good imo. To be fair, the first time I ever watched the movie (or even heard of it for that matter) was when I was in jail a few months ago
At 4:43 you say some of the deleted scenes are stuck at 480p, there is a very good reason for this. The deleted scenes were NEVER rendered, this is a playblast which is just a low quality preview used to help artists find flaws in their animation and present results to supervisors/art directors before rendertime, which especially in 2005 was extremely expensive time-wise. They couldn't possibly re-render these scenes without a crap load of effort. They also likely weren't even properly lit.
Not only that, pretty much every extra till 2006 circa was recorded/rendered in SD, so even on blu ray releases old movies extras were in low res (in some cases like the lotr extended cuts the distributor knew that and the extras were literally the DVDS from the original extended sets).
I can’t believe I found a video on this demo game! I used to alternate between using a PS2 and Xbox to watch DVDs. I think I found this game by complete accident when I was going to watch the movie. It was pretty strange playing a game demo on a movie disk. O.o I don’t really remember what I thought about the gameplay, I just vaguely remember the character select menu, the half pipe race tracks and the bolt collectibles.
As for the movie itself, is pretty cool for the most part. 👍 Definitely one of those movies I would watch over and over as a kid :)
People in 2005: Hey dude, do you want to see The capitalist depression which quickly spirals into uncovering a corporate conspiracy to eliminate the lower class by pricing them out of the market and discontinuing products they need to live and if you dont buy the new products, they are going to kill you Movie? It stars Obi-Wan Kanobi!
HALF LIFE 2 BETA MINIMALIST REFERENCED. I AM LIVING THE HEIGHT OF REALITY
You can blame me for that lol
XD
Hi dude! I know you!
@@hectormanuel8360 who?
@@elvenezolanoxd6245 @gilition, I know him. He posts videos of PD cartoons
Not to be that guy, but the "you wouldn't download a car" music wasn't actually stolen, it was made up. But it does resemble a song by The Prodigy.
No but ironically the ad was pirated for years. It was supposed to be a one time use at a film festival and ended up everywhere
That is also untrue. What use would a film festival have for an anti-piracy psa anyway?
THANK YOU. It's another spot that's concerned with the stolen music thing. One with a music composed in 2006 and then stolen in 2007 while "Piracy, It's A Crime" was already a thing in 2004.
And yes, the Piracy It's A Crime tune is however clearly just a bootleg "No Man Army" from The Prodigy.
this reminds me of the time i put the haunted mansion DVD in my old PC to play the extra ad on bonus.
Kinda unrelated but reminded me of putting in the orginal Gorillaz CD into the family computer. Only to find it had an interactive tour of the gorillaz "Studio". That ends in a Jump scare.
The 2003 hulk dvd also has a demo level of the Xbox game as a bonus
I actually had this as a kid and played it! Well, until I decided to shove the DVD into our SUV's player while it was shut off and broke it permanently. I don't remember anything about it other than it being a racing game I was really bad at, but it was cool enough to stick in my head all these decades later. I'm glad I'm not the only one who still knows about it.
5:27 What's even more impressive is the 5.1 DTS audio being crammed in there. And keep in mind, even in half Bitrate, the track can take up a lot of space, and you need to also have room for Dolby 5.1 in case you didn't have a DTS compatible player or decoder.
Let that and everything else about the dvd sink in...
Original XBox discs have a specific feature where all of them show up as a DVD to normal players, with a message about being an "xbox disc". They just took this to the extreme by having it be an entire normal DVD in that DVD section.
It was part of the anti piracy system, as normal PC drives wouldn't be able to read the Xbox partition containing the game as it first registers as a DVD
Video topic starts @ 6:00
The lamppost bot that just drops offline is the funniest thing I’ve seen in movies
Thanks for a good video, I like your takes and information that you've provided. Like pointing out the fact that Blu-Ray release is inferior to DVD release, which, as potential future owner of Blu-Ray, I now will better keep that in mind
Blu-Rays in general are very much worth having, it's just that you need to keep an eye out for bad releases as they're more common than you might think.
Aside from bonus material, bluray is definitely superior with better visual and audio quality compared to just about any DVD. If you don't care about that then DVDs are fine, but most movies really shine in full HD
Oh absolutely, there’s no denying that. It’s just that some releases stick out like a sore thumb with how bare bones they are.
@@ToastyMann Very true, especially for early bluray releases like this. The issue is mainly due to Sony rushing to get ahead in the HD format war of the mid 2000s
1:19 yeah we need those kinds of animated movies back
Definitely.
DUDE IM JUST i decided to click on this video just to watch something new, and the fact that this game was like, a locked memory in my mind that i didnt have any recollection up until now is CRAZY like you just unlocked a memory from me, i remember i loved playing this game because it was so reminiscent of Fusion Frenzy, which was also for the original Xbox, which my uncle had the xbox, along with that game for it, so when robots came out for dvd and i saw there was a game included with it, i for sure had to play it
2:18 I never heard my grandpa laugh harder than at this scene.
This video was so well made, UA-cam actually nailed it with having this in my algorithm. Favorite movie growing up! Thanks for this
There was a Mask DVD with so many special features it included episodes of a doggy daycare alongside the usual deleted scenes and other nonsense, Its weird to think how many people now a days dont realize how much actual stuff we've lost when it comes to owning physical media over the last 15 years
It was advertised to be in the game on the box and by the studio. This was a common practice in the early 2000s
I have just watched the movie Robots myself for the very first time in my life on UMD (I love rare formats haha) so this was a very cool video subject for me 😁
I also know the Hulk movie has a Xbox demo included and I also miss how much work people put into DVD menu’s as early Blu-Ray’s had a similar kind of effort put into them, but Blu-ray’s nowadays are only a standard template sadly 😕
This is the first video from you that I have seen so you have a new follower in me 😁
Completely unrelated but you talking about an Xbox demo game brought me back to playing my uncles Xbox as a kid. My brother and I used to play a demo of Munch’s Odyysee. One of the most bizarre games I’ve ever played.
We need to bring this kind of thing back
The Spongebob Movie did this too actually. I even have both of the DVD versions and yep, They contain the demo for the pc tie-in.
thanks for the nostalgia trip - I worked QA (Qaultiy Assurance, game testing) on the robots tie in game way back when, so this was interesting to watch.
My brother and me were so curious on how we were playing a game on a movie disc when we were young, finally got answers after 15 years
The only double-sided DVDs that I ever had growing up were the ones for Alvin & The Chipmunks (2007), Horton Hears A Who! (2008) and Coraline (2009), but every other DVD I had growing up was either one-sided, gray or came with two discs.
I have been waiting so long for a video talking about this specific thing
Blue Sky had Rio, the Peanuts Movie, and posthumously had Nimona, which got revived and released in 2023. Also, from research, they would have made a movie called "The Anubis Tapestries", based on the 2006 novel, in 2018. I've seen the concept art of Apophis for it, bro looked smug as hell, like he had every amount of cockiness and smug attitude of every Dreamworks and Disney villain combined into one character.
Seeing this video pop up made me go downstairs and dust off my old childhood collection of DVDs. Sure enough, putting my old copy of Robots in my Xbox (given to me a few years back) had this game on it. Yeah, the AI is truly impossible to overcome, but otherwise, it's a decent little demo for being on a DVD I've had since I was in diapers. Awesome video, thank you for opening my eyes to this!
Ang Lee's Hulk DVD had a demo of its game on the DVD as well for the Xbox.
Random video from a channel I’ve never heard of, talking about a feature on a movie I forgot existed
UA-cam knows me so well :)
This was generally such a cool video. It covered something that has led me to going back and accquiring old DVDs because they were so much better back then. 100% interested in seeing more DVD obsecurities and I really enjoyed this video. Good job YT recommendations, you finally gave me a good channel that doesn't have 100k or 1M subscribers, you my good sir have earnt your subscription. And I can generally say I was here before 2K.
I loved this movie as a kid, and this is all really fascinating- I know I own a DVD of it, but I don’t actually know if mine has any of the bonus features- I think it’s a little newer. Anyways, UA-cam’s really popping off with recommending me smaller channels lately- you’ve got some good stuff!!
I had a blueray player and a tiny tv when I was like 8. While the family had a large collection I solely had three movies: Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, and THIS DVD. They all had great bonus features, but I never knew about this hidden game! Man, I miss when so much extra was added to physical media
Fun fact, the full game was also on GameCube, oddly, it was a collectathon platformer. I played it and, it’s honestly good, like legit solid. Good music, solid designs and some fun extras
I recommend Curse of the Were-rabbit as it has an extra in the form of a short from 1997 called Stage Fright. To be put in bluntly, 6 year old me was terrified of it. The tone is really dark and gritty and Mr. Hugh is a downright despicable character. In fact Stage Fright won a BAFTA for best short film in 1998.
Song starting at 1:42 is Dark Ruins from Ape Eacape. This song was remixed on the vaporwave track "Plasma Lounge" by General Translator. I was listening to the latter while getting a burger today, small world, never watched this person before either.
Cool
You are SO right about the quality of old dvd menus. Sometimes youll come across a modern one thats worth a dam, but theyre far and few in between.
I find it fascinating how they managed to fit a whole game inside a dvd
I had both the original DVD release of Robots and an original Xbox with the DVD remote addon. I only remember playing the demo once
7:18 i was too young to know how to get to the main menu, so I thought the rental store mixed the game disc with the DVD as the game auto starts in an xbox/first menu is stupidly vague.
I told my dad to take it back twice until we realized what was going on. That's why I love and loathe this bonus feature at the same time
do not dog on my boy Spies In Disguise that film was good as fuck
*I never watched it,* but unlike Peanuts I've heard practically nobody talk about that movie other than it being the last film from Blue Sky.
@@ToastyMann The movie is pretty alright.
The plot of the movie is about a kid who turned a agent into a pigeon (or rather the agent did that to himself as the young kid worked on a invisibility potion).
With this the kid and the agent try to stop the main villian from uploading a virus that will turn every drone in the city into a mass killing machine.
And idk why but they are also chased or something?
I haven't watched the movie for a long time as I only saw it once like 2 years ago and some things could be miss remembered.
he actually starts talking about the game at 5:55 for those of us who don't want to hear him complain about a blu-ray disc for five minutes
I remember this! Was such a crazy feeling to put a DVD in a game console and have it load up a game.
Felt like the kind of thing kids would make up on the playground along side other rumors like "how to unlock Luigi in Mario 64" but this time it was actually real.
I remember getting Demo Discs from magazines and Pizza Hut (lmao). And DVD menus are amazingly missed these days. I remember the Shrek 1 CD, donkey jumping endlessly screaming “pick me” he was the “play movie” option
My DVD copy of Van Helsing apparently has a playable demo of its game for Xbox, but I never got an original Xbox to try it on.
"they certainly don't make them how they used to"
both good and bad. Good that more often than not we arrive at the menu almost immediately, bad by the lack of special features.
I absolutely HATED when I would put in a DVD and still have to sit around, locked out of menues, watching that pathetic PSA or worse, previews that stopped being relevant when the movie launched for home media sales.
I'm sure living with only the blueray edition of blue sky's robots must have been unbearable. I couldn't even imagine life without my widescreen dvd copy of robots with all its cool bonus features and entire xbox game demo
I only remember replaying over the hedge mini games. I miss the freebies that were just unadvertised making em a pleasant surprise
As a huge Blue Skies fan I will sing the praise of Epic and Spies In Disguise until my death.
I remember the marketing for Epic specifically because Beyoncé voices a character that dies in like the first 10 minutes. But genuinely the story is rather unique of being a girl visiting her crazy ass dad who believes there are little people in the woods and then gets stuck in the middle of a tiny woodland folk war. Also Pitbull is in the movie for some reason. I rewatch the movie recently and it’s still actually really fun.
Spies in Disguise is their last movie before Nimona and also really fun. While silly it goes back to its roots of touching up on really complicated, ethical issues, especially concerning war and how we treat enemies. It’s about the cycle of violence and revenge. Also with Will Smith and Tom Holland lol.
I spent way too much time as a kid playing around in different dvd menus. I remember the lion king 1 1/2, elf and some disney Xmas collection ones being super fun to play as a 6 year old
6:22 i think it was less sony having a patent and more xbox having to cover the cost of royalties related to dvds through the remote accessory to keep the console price down
God I hope my Value Village still has that copy of Robots on DVD
I remember one day when I was younger trying to watch it and finding the game instead. I played it for HOURS and then forgot about it completely. This is such a blast from the past for me.
1:56 SCOTT THE WOZ JUMPSCARE
WTF
And then some bs about trans rights agter it
"HEY Y'ALL-"
Robots was kino.
Blu ray movies are still compressed. Original quality movies can easily be anywhere between 200gb to 6terabyte for modern movies. You can't assume they wouldn't keep the original source as maximum as they could for re-release reasons. Ie how they keep rereleasing old 80s movies on blu ray even though they were using floppy disks back then.
Ngl, i loved this movie. Not sure why this movie didn't get more accolades.
7:12 The part you clicked for
Wild how I remember watching all of the movies he listed at the beginning as a kid-
Guess I must've got lucky with my childhood lol
"Who the hell remembers Epic, or Ferdinand or Spies in Disguise?"
Me, remembering each and every single one of these:
That Robots DVD looks totally meta I literally never heard of that Xbox Robots game, that is a fascinating kinda crossover.
DVD menus used to add so much character to the experience. I felt like I was "in" the movie before it even started and after it ended
I guess that there's a hidden xbox video game hidden inside the dvd itself however to access it you need a xbox system that has dvd compatibility on it to access it but you could also try to access it with a computer and use a program that could extract any hidden content that's contained inside of it basically.
Briefly jumpscared by Aunt Fanny's concept art
streaming can never replace the might of the dvd menu and special features
Nice Princess and Cobbler reference in the b-roll .
The ape escape music in the background deserves a like on it's own
This was extremely nostalgic to me, me and my brother actually played the demo for HOURS I remember how much fun it was
I think I’m just amazed they looked at that spare disc space and went “what if we crammed a game in here”
I found this just trying to watch the movie, my mind was blown