actually in the half life 2 folder is only the source engine itself, the actual assets for hl2 are inside the hl2 subfolder 🤓 it's also like this for goldsrc, where valve is inside the hl folder don't know about source 2 though as i dont have vr or cs2
also this isn't the entire engine folder, only the executable (also this is why so many source game are detected as others if you've ever tried using discord rich presence or something similar)
@@HOURHAK ...Yes? Half-Life's icon includes the lambda symbol. As do the icons for Half-Life 2 and its Episodes. And I believe it's the same for Half-Life Alyx, although I can't personally confirm that since I don't own it.
The visible icons go so crazy! This is such an interesting video all around, I really like seeing the similarities and differences (like portal 2 being absolutely fitting, lol).
I love this kind of thing. When I was a kid I put the Quake 2 CD in the hifi and discovered that the in game music was like a regular music CD so I tried it with another disc and it sounded super strange. I listened to all the game CD's I could find to try and figure out if I'd hear a pattern or something. I also snipped the end off of a VGA connector and put the wires on my tongue to check if I could identify colours by the way it made my tounge tingle. Unfortunately all colours tingle/taste the same in VGA.
This is hands-down one of the coolest things I have ever seen! Very cool! Also, I'm wondering if those "visible icons" are easter eggs or juts a file inside of it that gets registered. Btw, I'm your 500th sub! Hope you keep going! :D
The icons are actually a part of regular windows executables, usually stored in several different sizes (32x32, 64x64, 128x128 etc.) and stored as bitmaps, that's why it's possible to see them in raw data.
@@logitchy my guess is that they either get added during compliation (unlikely) or get stored in the file metadata (which is still part of the file's data) after compilation. they're definitely not being "coded in", though.
@@MrD34DM4U5 im mostly uneducated in exe compilation, since i have more experience in other things about computers. i think its the ico file encoding itself into the raw data/binary
@@logitchy well "raw" could mean a lot of things. since a program is made of data, one could say the whole file from beginning to end including metadata/digital signatures is the "raw data". you could also say that the raw data is only the machine code. the icon is clearly embedded into the exe though. you can embed jpgs into .mp3 files so i guess it works in a similar way
ive been making raw data sounds out of exe files for a few years and always wondered what the descending tones were and their the thumbnail icon. thats so cool.
It would be cool if this could be like a part of the interloper series, like anominade does this on all source games and in sven co-op and Portal RTX or Portal 2 he finds like weird shit and goes into a research on em
I came here to hear incorrectly decoded data. I had a dream last night I was tasked with decoding an audio signal like this, but i was given a dictionary and a stick and told to go figure it out in the woods. I was saying that i at least needed something that stored the audio and then I was sent off with a book and a stick.
the icons turn into weird PWM waves, and since they all follow a similar pattern, you could argue that this is coherent music with motives and development. well, it's more of noise with small excerpts of melody. close enough.
I imagine this is what computers see, and their job is to remember the color of every pixel on every frame, and the audio value on every frame too, and they have to work with the whole thing as well to render and update the game every few milliseconds...
is it possible to take this raw video and audio data and turn it into something the average joe can play on a computer?
Not really, UA-cam's compression ruins it.
@@rawdataeeto3316 was a joke comment. But still, would be hilarious if it worked.
@@rawdataeeto3316if I theoretically had the uncompressed video file, what would I use to convert it back to an EXE?
@@cryingbaby23 I'd say this video does a better explanation than I could ever do: ua-cam.com/video/_w6PCHutmb4/v-deo.html
@@rawdataeeto3316 So you openly admitted to pirate Half-Life?
Now i can run hl2 in my head, thanks
🤔
actually in the half life 2 folder is only the source engine itself, the actual assets for hl2 are inside the hl2 subfolder 🤓
it's also like this for goldsrc, where valve is inside the hl folder
don't know about source 2 though as i dont have vr or cs2
what the fuck are these replies
@@jag-stang29 me being obsessed with stuff that doesn't matter
also this isn't the entire engine folder, only the executable (also this is why so many source game are detected as others if you've ever tried using discord rich presence or something similar)
3:07 would be like a sick intro to a video
or the ptsd from booting up your PS2 in the dark while your parents are sleeping lol
Daft punk :
@@juna_hansnah Portal 2 OST:
I'm taking that
@@lazykits537 and then the red screen of death comes to haunt your soul
2:22 Radiation warning
HUH?
I hear it lol
they put a geiger counter in my gmod 🙏😭
I like your pfp billy4734
@@PlyrNoob2890 A fellow no CS:S enjoyer
4:51 the sven accelerator
Beginning of Black Skinhead by Kanye West
What do you mean! I can’t find anything about what you’re pertaining to, I am so curious!
“Attempting shutdown…! It’s not-it’s not shutting down!”
1:39 visible icon
seems like the lambda icon
I saw it for a second 💀
@@HOURHAK ...Yes? Half-Life's icon includes the lambda symbol. As do the icons for Half-Life 2 and its Episodes. And I believe it's the same for Half-Life Alyx, although I can't personally confirm that since I don't own it.
@@TinyDeskEngineer 1. that was a 2 month old comment
2. i am stupoid sorry :)
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4:45 my favourite one
"wooooooooaaaaaaaooowwww *BEEP* wooaaaaw *BEP* woaw *b* wa"
Reminds me of ps1 intro
That one sounded like the THX intro
I use it for a intro for my edits
"That girl looks cute, I wonder what she listens to"
Femtanyl be like:
@@Sharp22CatFishtrue
@@Tape_Rewind true
@@Sharp22CatFish true
@@Tape_Rewind true
Watching this makes me feel like that one zombie that stares at the flashing computer screen in Half Life.
The visible icons go so crazy! This is such an interesting video all around, I really like seeing the similarities and differences (like portal 2 being absolutely fitting, lol).
the sounds pretty much sum up the atmosphere of value’s games
Great Value software
definitely what half-life is all about
indeed
Great value
value deck
value index
Mom: hey sweetie what are you listening to?
What I’m listening to:
5:06 Literally a fog horn
u bat?
That's sounds nothing like him
@@batplaysstuff339 yes bat
@@Vexcenot Wdym him? I meant the object
1:42 Here's why I love hl2. It's sound is something
silly horns announcing the half-life icon
5:15 This would be a sick music intro
Reminds me to "The Wait" by Killing Joke
3:08 ffmpeg tried to remake Valve intro💀
Upd1(2024/07/12): WHY UA-cam DOESN'T NOTIFY ME ABOUT LIKES?! TYSM FOR 65 LIKES!!!
It actually sounds fucking sick
Ik
i'm sampling it rn gonna make a cool beat
4:17 you got an achievement
4:45
this one was smooth asf
sven coop sounding lit
I love this kind of thing. When I was a kid I put the Quake 2 CD in the hifi and discovered that the in game music was like a regular music CD so I tried it with another disc and it sounded super strange. I listened to all the game CD's I could find to try and figure out if I'd hear a pattern or something. I also snipped the end off of a VGA connector and put the wires on my tongue to check if I could identify colours by the way it made my tounge tingle. Unfortunately all colours tingle/taste the same in VGA.
i really be watching this instead of revising English language paper 1
I'm about to do my finals in 1 month yet I'm here watching this
I'm doing my finals in 2 weeks and I'm watching this and waiting for the ttyd remaster
Long Eaton sofas
at 5:24 the image's style surprisingly fits with the audio
Can't believe you would just upload copyrighted Valve files like this!
they were declassified sometime around 2022, as part of a re-classified government operation
well its not usable since the compression kills it
Bruh, it doesn't make sense. Same thing as if you write same shit under any Valve game walkthrough
The 2 above me missed the joke
they forgot the /j 😔
This is hands-down one of the coolest things I have ever seen! Very cool! Also, I'm wondering if those "visible icons" are easter eggs or juts a file inside of it that gets registered.
Btw, I'm your 500th sub! Hope you keep going! :D
The icons are actually a part of regular windows executables, usually stored in several different sizes (32x32, 64x64, 128x128 etc.) and stored as bitmaps, that's why it's possible to see them in raw data.
@@marcinpl3157so theyre physically embedded into the raw exe data?
@@logitchy my guess is that they either get added during compliation (unlikely) or get stored in the file metadata (which is still part of the file's data) after compilation. they're definitely not being "coded in", though.
@@MrD34DM4U5 im mostly uneducated in exe compilation, since i have more experience in other things about computers. i think its the ico file encoding itself into the raw data/binary
@@logitchy well "raw" could mean a lot of things. since a program is made of data, one could say the whole file from beginning to end including metadata/digital signatures is the "raw data". you could also say that the raw data is only the machine code.
the icon is clearly embedded into the exe though. you can embed jpgs into .mp3 files so i guess it works in a similar way
The Portal 2 exe sounds strangely fitting
4:41 goes incredibly hard
the ffmpeg garbled icons are actually so sick
2:14 Garry's Mod logos
this is the coolest thing I've seen done with the source engine
The sound you hear if you put a source engine game on a usb stick and unplug it while playing and you try to make it play a sound that wasnt loaded:
That part of the binary waterfall in the executables where the icons are shown, those tunes sound great.
instructions unlcear, my brain says "file corrupted, resetting"
Sergeant: "Sir, the aliens are sending us a message"
The message:
petition for .exe audio representations to become the main genre for mainstream music
3:08 Bro the fact that even portal2 executable hit's different than other Valve games.
Portal series are different kind.
"What you have there young lady, is the specific contact code for The Combine Overworld!"
Turning your icons into data noise sounds is a great theme making idea
The icon sections make sick synth sounds.
ive been making raw data sounds out of exe files for a few years and always wondered what the descending tones were and their the thumbnail icon. thats so cool.
i cannot believe i sat down and watched this entire video in complete awe at how beautiful this is.
wait he actually listened.. ty for the tf2 executable :3
i can’t tell you why but stuff like this instills some kind of primal fear within me
It would be cool if this could be like a part of the interloper series, like anominade does this on all source games and in sven co-op and Portal RTX or Portal 2 he finds like weird shit and goes into a research on em
at 1:46 is the thumbnail
first time hearing about a binary waterfall, they're kinda beautiful
its crazy how these random garbled sounds if put through the correct algorithm make a game
Funnily enough though these executables don't even contain the code of the games
3:16 sounds like a voiceline
It sounds like the speed up prowler sound effect
Edit: oh wait it sounds like speed up distorted trumpets
wow, garrysmod sounds like a garrysmod
I love using MS-DOS for games, the mental control system is amazing! I can imagine what the speedrunners will do when they get this.
1:47 - Half-Life 2 icon
4:44 - Again...
Time to learn more about interloper with this one 🔥🔥
4:49 i was expecting it to play a banger of some kind
1:43 is so hilarious
The way the logo just Supermans in
My ears really enjoyed this game, thanks
i love how parts of portal 2 actually sound like they could be part of the game's soundtrack
oh i love that you made this
Ah I can see why Valve is loved so much
Thank you! I always wanted to know what OpenGL sounded like!
a while ago i opened windows 98 in audacity (kind of unrelated to the premise of this video) and found the startup sound in there. i felt so smart.
Half-Life 2 icon sounds like brass section part at 0.25x speed
"Gordon doesn't need to hear this, he's a highly trained pro-"
AKHDSUSODHASJDHBCNBYLJKBUOUGDWHBDSNXAJKLWZHFAHF
0:13 a scanner
"every dream has a meaning"
Meanwhile my dreams when i have them:
Piracy is about to go to a whole new level
This is ART.
This reminds me of the old films of Len Lye. I think I found a new favorite channel.
For all of the sudden patterns of clarity, I wonder how much further lossless compression could be done to make these smaller…
playing this video before bed so i can play tf2 while sleeping
gotta be honest this is the best video ever for your ears and eyes
i feel like v1 from ultrakill would listen to this and download all the source games through his head
Thanks, I’m actually playing team fortress right now!
I came here to hear incorrectly decoded data. I had a dream last night I was tasked with decoding an audio signal like this, but i was given a dictionary and a stick and told to go figure it out in the woods. I was saying that i at least needed something that stored the audio and then I was sent off with a book and a stick.
this sounds like what robots would listen to on a daily basis
and honestly the robots really do have quite good music choices
this is like digitally screeching your nails on a chalkboard
the icons turn into weird PWM waves, and since they all follow a similar pattern, you could argue that this is coherent music with motives and development.
well, it's more of noise with small excerpts of melody. close enough.
Chill beats to study to
Idk what it says about me or even just Humanity as a whole that we can be entertained by random flashing lights and weird beeps.
new interloper leak looks fire
Perfect video as a background noise for a good sleep, thanks!
I remember doing this on a windows 98 iso and getting actual sounds from the os out of it. Didn't think anybody else would do something like this lol
Not really sure whata video like this would be for but whatever it is Im all for it
least seizure-inducing earthbound skill:
would be interesting to make an executable that is both functional and also looks normal in waterfall
What if turn space signals into .exe?
4:45 geez, literally ps1 start up sound
what my Ubuntu Chromebook sees when it says that I'm missing a .iso file for steam :
You forgot postal 3
Lol
I don't know what you're talking about, I only know about Postal 2 and 4.
on my way to experience the sickest bad trip of all time
Those sounds to my ears
this really changed my perspective
I imagine this is what computers see, and their job is to remember the color of every pixel on every frame, and the audio value on every frame too, and they have to work with the whole thing as well to render and update the game every few milliseconds...
i like how you can see the icons
Crazy that they left icons for people to see
Ah. So this is a pc according to my Grampa
MY BRAIN REALLY RENDERED GARRY'S MOD WTH
that was so much fun! I really get the hype behind half life now
How bored does a fandom have to get for this to be the most interesting content they're making.
it's strange how you can kind of just straight up see flowers in the garbled data
Its kinda cool that u just need one video to install some things, just using sounds... Like on really old Apple 2