THEY_CALL_ME_FACE OP t1_j0q4dnv wrote on December 18, 2022 at 4:19 PM

Reply to comment by revchu in You start playing a video game but the disc is scratched and takes you straight to the ending movie scene. Is this possible? by THEY_CALL_ME_FACE

How do you know?

ISpitSaliva t1_j0qcy4r wrote on December 18, 2022 at 5:15 PM

With bad data reads you get either scrambled data or zeros. Both can either make your game glitchy or freeze, to get you to the ending movie your game has to get specific commands and data sequence that's impossible to get due to bad disc read

AIWatching t1_j0qtzui wrote on December 18, 2022 at 6:59 PM

I am not so sure... OP did ask about en ending movie, not a scene or some boss backed by code.

Movies are often stored as separate, regular movie tracks, and the code "plays" them at the right moment. IMHO, it would be possible for a DVD reader to mis-read a game DVD and play a random movie out of it. Back in my pirate days, a badly burned disc would sometime result in random FMV sequences or soundtracks being played when the disc was inserted.

THEY_CALL_ME_FACE OP t1_j0r8r9w wrote on December 18, 2022 at 8:34 PM

Thanks