the horrifying world of game console errors

[@nimk]

corrections (so you don’t have to comment) > xbox games in a ps2 won’t show a RSOD, but rather an xbox screen telling you that it’s an xbox game and to put it into an xbox. i knew about that but… eh. i completely forgot that pc games and scratched discs exist > call of duty was on the wii, but i put it in the video because it was an identifiable video game acronym that was mostly popular on other platforms (also cuz COD on the wii sucked) > the xbox 360 three-ring RROD/360 slim RROD has an error code that can be seen by button combos. this just never popped up in my research so i had no clue > the amount of green rings on the xbox 360 means the amount of controllers connected, 1 through 4. it doesn’t matter in the context of the RROD, any number of green lights means the console is functioning well enough, but apparently enough people have complained that i got it wrong so here is me correcting my “video-ruining mistake” > not a correction, but i want to say that the point of this video isn’t to be a comprehensive list of console errors, but rather a hand-picked selection of them that i found, personally, scary to some degree. although you guys have mentioned a bunch that i think could end up making a part 2…

[@LiKeNSubscRib]

For the first one it depends on the xbox game

[@TDGalea]

Also, you can get an error code from the 3-quadrant RROD. Press the controller sync and DVD eject at the same time, it'll blink a number of quadrants faster. Do that four times and it gives you a four-digit status code.

[@hristiqndimitrov5249]

If you ever do modern consoles The PS4 has a ton of error codes around disc drive issues storage issues and update issues So does the ps5 they are kind of similar but with the ps5 the disc drive problems make the console a paperweight With Xbox One and Xbox Series Error screens are basically the same although you'll see them less on the series consoles BUT since the Xbox Series SSD'S are in a way paired to the console once you see a storage error code on a series consoles start praying

[@hristiqndimitrov5249]

Also the Nintendo switch has a few errors for Bluetooth and software and a blue screen of death

[@904funny]

Also some Wii U NAND chips are defective

[@Kodeb8]

I just love how unnecessarily serious the Gameboy Player one is. The player didn't connect properly to the console, do I really deserve to get jumpscared because of it?

[@wolfetteplays8894]

It’s meant to get your attention and let you know the seriousness of the situation

[@warrenpeabody3784]

Yes

[@donovanmahan2901]

The auditory version of being tackled to the ground after leaving without paying for something

[@Marshtard]

@@wolfetteplays8894 but it really ain't that serious! why did they need to add the most discordant set of piano notes known to man just to say "whoopsie, you forgor to plug the thingamabob into the doohickey"

[@tredI9100]

Connecting something improperly can in fact lead to damage in some cases.

[@SKCro.]

Funny how the Wii error screens tell you to refer to the manual, yet there really isn't anything in the manual about solving those issues.

[@riverscuomo7140]

Classic Nintendo!

[@CommanderWiggins]

"Please refer to the manual" The manual: "You're fucked."😊

[@someguy0nthen3t]

"An error has occurred, fix it yourself jackass"

[@mollyartemis]

Nintendo is always like that.

[@surpriseman]

"Please refer to the manual" The manual:haha, jumpscared you

[@NeedForSpeed.2004]

Other video game consoles: An error has occurred. PS1: **starts violently coughing up and shitting blood & organs while having a seizure**

[@prosto_a_user]

you could just say "springlock failure"

[@YusefdoesEducation]

and i homebrewd my 3ds

[@SlushieSlasher]

@@YusefdoesEducation same. but what does that have to do with anything

[@YusefdoesEducation]

@@SlushieSlasher i almost bricked it

[@RougeTheGato]

i think the reason error screens are so scary is because the notion that something is wrong but you not knowing what it is is just terrifying.

[@axsuriaa]

or because it catches you by surprise and is loud af

[@HunterTheDiseaseRat]

school, basically. you never understand what is wrong, but something is wrong..

[@Jasikaby]

For me It

[@pancake2700]

And potential loss of save data/game progress, which depending on the game can be something you’ve spent a lot of time and effort on. Same thing with computer errors, except potentially even more serious because of how much *stuff* you can have on there

[@TurboPikachu]

Yeah, like Windows blue screens of death prior to Windows 8

[@VoidHearted]

I never understood why error messages always creeped me out. Especially when they happen in the dark. I think it’s because it’s a sudden jarring thing up in your face going “SOMETHING IS WRONG SOMETHING IS BAD”

[@Icantchangemyhandlehelp]

It makes me relieved to know I'm not alone in this

[@fishmilk0]

EXACTLY

[@ratboygirl]

“A GRAVE ERROR HAS OCCURRED. IT’S ALL OVER. YOU’RE FINISHED. IT’S FATAL. YOU’RE FUCKED 🚨” like it’s my fault?? as an 8yo just trying to play my ps2 game???? genuinely felt like i was gonna have the cops called on me for breaking something

[@SpringySpring04]

@@ratboygirl very agreeable, those error screens always make you feel like you did something you weren't supposed to, it's very strange

[@MothmanOfficialWva]

This but graphical errors in games. Like in fallout 4, there’s a weird bug that certain particle effects (blood, dust clouds, etc) could be corrupted(?) and turn into a weird glossy rainbow texture, like the rainbow you see reflected in spilled oil. I got swarmed by 4 bloodworms with that bug, and I couldn’t see anything but glitchy rainbow. Freaked me the hell out.

[@thilsiktonix]

Surprised you didn't include the sound the Wii makes when it crashes. It's absolutely horrifying, and it happened TWICE to me as a kid. Really solidified my fear of computer errors.

[@TheBeast9417YT]

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@cringekid07]

eeeeeeerrrrrrr

[@plushenjoyingfiend4335]

*beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep*

[@tealmuchwow]

*DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

[@therealjadecat101]

UUUGGHHH I HATED THOSE! My problem is that I'd play the Wii all day and moslty through the night sometimes and that loud sound would make me jump and go to my parents crying, although it was rare it was freaky af

[@baitornot4697]

The only error screens I was scared of were the ones that make some ungodly loud annoying sound, but not because of the sound itself, but the idea of my parent waking up and getting in trouble

[@ketsu_kit8920]

LMFAOOOO look at this loser! he only has one parent lol /j

[@caglarizci1105]

Only sound worse than the nuclear alarm. I think everybody can agree.

[@TheRandomChannel_idk]

Personified Fear?

[@OnlyCockroach]

Wii flashbacks

[@Ashurion-Neonix]

As a kid I was never scared of the Wii error screens, just disappointed that my game crashed.

[@Two_wheeled_dumbass]

I mean at least they didnt have the erie sounds like ps2 or xbox360

[@anothermiddleschoolburnout8816]

You were one tough kid. These still freak me out.

[@ardishco]

As a kid I was mostly intrigued by it because I knew how many little easter eggs they could hide in some of the most obscure screens. Growing up with Nintendo does that to you, hehe.

[@TheSpikyOfficial]

The one that freaked me out as a kid is the gamecube one

[@mintybudgie]

nah bruh i was playing a game and it just crashed and it said the disc couldnt be read and i was so mad

[@voidgamer7122]

i have verzephobia, which means i have an irrational fear of glitches, especially in video games, which sucks because i also find game glitches very facinating.

[@karmaswap7527]

Me too! Game glitches and errors...im also into learning about computer viruses and such but damn do they scare the living hell out of me

[@Bumble._.Jellybottom]

same honestly, i hate extreme visual glitches or things that mess with sound, but i always mess around and try to break games

[@adventurekitty101]

@@voidgamer7122 I think I have a very weird and specific form of this fear. I don’t like unnaturally stretched textures that glitch and move around in weird ways, but it depends on the texture and how it’s glitching, and it also seems to apply to video game snakes or snake like things , but more specifically the movement of it, like in VRChat, if someone has one of this hand puppet snake or serpent like avatars that have the physics rig, and they start moving it around me and spinning around, I get extremely uncomfortable, or something like the Reaper Leviathan in Subnautica, especially with it’s tail or head claws glitching through the Aurora’s or a base’s walls. Or even the Naga and Hydra from the Twilight Forest and another Minecraft Mod(Hydra could have been Twilight Forest too, I don’t remember)

[@toecurlersupreme]

@@karmaswap7527 right like since ive been a kid my one recurring nightmare is my whole pc getting taken over by a virus or something while im like desperately trying to fight it

[@RadeonVega64]

bro same

[@ARandomAccount-nm1nh]

10:23 "Hey, what sound should we make our error message boss?" "How about a piano sound!" "... What?"

[@B.L.U.S]

Feels like the piano guy on the intro died and his head fell on the piano

[@diamondcat705]

Call me weird or something, but I actually like it

[@altacclaptop3]

Why did that sound like the pianofrom virtual insanity

[@kkdm2010]

It’s kind of funny to be honest

[@GamerGatorDoesTech]

i still dont understand the error. how does it know your trying to play gameboy without the player plugged in?

[@foggykog]

Thank you for empathising with me and the many other children who were shit scared of error sounds

[@miayoung8679]

I’m still afraid of them 💀

[@FlamingSkyess-ni6ri]

They scare the living hell out of me so i agree

[@Niko_Nikolai0]

i have a phobia of them, i cant even set alarms on my phone without giving myself a heart attack now

[@tony76935]

Feel ya, the black screens and the little jingles, or in the Wii and Wii U's cases the blaring system crash siren, just unnerve me...

[@kelsey990]

i used to have nightmares as a kid where the family computer would error and then become sentient, good to know i wasn’t the only one lol

[@VerifiedHero]

8:09 I swear. If I had a PS1, and witnessed this, im actually gonna cover my ears and my heart would beat so fast that this was the scariest thing in my life, no other things that scare me more then this.

[@princesspixel3151]

I wonder if you could just mute the TV to avoid the ominous sound? (I never was a PlayStation kid growing up, with the exception of playing ATV Off-road Fury 2 at my childhood friend’s house)

[@oventree]

@@princesspixel3151 well the playstation doesn't have secret speakers in it or anything so yeah you can just mute your tv or whatever audio device you have it routed to just like any other device

[@nolinnellz3499]

Tbh personified fear scares me more. (I hate loud noises)

[@Aoi-lol]

same

[@Clusterking47]

same

[@EestiDorito]

To trigger the personified fear you need a corrupted PS1 disk or even a corrupted BIOS

[@notdamienn]

Ps1: oh shi- the game Is corrupted I’m gonna screech

[@Uwulisesu]

ps1:sh*t this man putted something corrupted lets scare him it will be good what could go wrong >:D

[@silasmcgee3647]

And how exactly does one end up with screwed up internal code to trigger that? Not that I plan on triggering it intentionally by putting in a bad disc or causing some kind of internal damage to my PS1 it's spent the past 3 years in a shoe box and I don't even know what model it is

[@kellymountain]

@@notdamienn its more like "hey wait a minute this isn't a proper game di[The screams of the damned as the console reads the wrong bytes in the wrong place at the wrong time and has a stroke]"

[@overkill1603]

Or a pc disc on a modchipped ps1, it dosen't only give fearful harmony

[@0-_X.E.N.O.N_-0]

It's amazing how a simple error message scarred me for life. The game suddenly stopping, all the music cutting out, the black screen with nothing but white text telling you something is wrong, and the overall sense of dread knowing you've just discovered something you weren't meant to.

[@TheMilkGaming]

6:34 I put in Mario Kart Wii while in the pitch black of my basement with the only light coming from the tv. Clicked on the button to play and this message appeared. Scared me to death because it was pitch black and the white text was ominous I ran upstairs crying. I was 7 at the time.

[@emvsquad]

that's actually so scary

[@SUSthehedgehog]

Sorry for your loss man 😔

[@fakefunnyfam]

@@emvsquad true this kept happening to me and i was scared to death (exaggeration)

[@superpie64]

you should have made it cut randomly to the wii "disc could not be read" error in the middle of the video without any warning it wouldve been hilarious

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Guru Larry did a similar trick with the buffering wheel on his video that had lots of us confused for 10 seconds or so lol Then there was AVGN with his glitches in 2014 with his intro tune.... Yeah missed opportunity. Oh well.

[@clxo1273]

Izzzyzzz did this with her anti-piracy screen video!Not the same error message, but it scared the hell outta me

[@burbuja9126]

It would be terrifying

[@Bulbmin_Gaming]

I would be funny if it would say video could not be read

[@Ra1ndr0p]

oh god no-

[@Deadbass_]

I actually managed to replicate the personified fear numerous times. Apparently scratched disks can do that

[@princesspixel3151]

This is why I chickened out on consideration of getting a PS1 🐔

[@rubypicklol]

@@princesspixel3151 good thing I have a ps3

[@engagingweirdo]

@@rubypicklol the ps3 is probably my favorite console to date, or in other words, it’s the goat!

[@juliusminaj]

@@engagingweirdo I hate the ps3 lol the ps5 is way better

[@jamesparkes8776]

@@juliusminaj are you a child?

[@MissQuakie]

I remember the first time I saw the PS2 RSOD as a kid I put in a pirated Bionicle Movie DVD. In my head, it was the same, and was gonna boot fine. The way the DVD was formatted wasn't compatible though, and I just froze when the screen went red. I just wanted to watch the funny robots goddammit

[@novameowww]

no bonkles allowed on the ps2. what has this world come to

[@CommanderWiggins]

@@novameowww literally 1489

[@thelarryman482]

Gad dammit!

[@toakovika]

Teridax cursed your console, the gas-skinned bastard.

[@Clusterking47]

8:20 holy moly, I'm gonna have nightmares tonight.

[@sergcreate]

Same

[@langkahreka9549]

"something wicked this way comes."

[@bcmiller1100]

9:43 EMERGENCY MEETING

[@newYoshtown]

Instantly made the sound from scary to funny

[@JediLMS520]

Lol

[@SCOTTISHTURNIP]

this sound is something you would hear in an old roblox game tbh

[@PhirePhlame]

As a fun fact, if you eject a Wii or GameCube disc on the "cannot be read" screen, it'll clear that error state and replace it with a "please insert disc" one. You can then pop it (or another copy of the same game) back in to have it retry the read that faulted.

[@chaosprobably9062]

haha, yup. my brothers used to exploit that because we had two copies of a game, one copy that would always crash at a tutorial point, and one copy that the wii wouldn't even boot up. we learned that we had to start the game up with one of the copies, get to the point where it would crash, and then switch to the other. good times, lol

[@Junimeek]

i realized this when my mario kart wii disc started to fail to read, and so would do it myself. it became more and more frequent until the disc was finally too damaged to be able to be read.

[@PencilNova]

Also, correct me if im wrong, but some games have a "custom" "This disc cannot be read yada yada" screen when the crash occurs after the disc is being used, first example that comes to mind is the smurfs 2 (since i have it). All of this could be a thing that happened in my dreams/nightmares so idk (like a few weeks ago i had a "no piracy dude" that explained that nintendo doesnt support 3rd party tools because i inserted a ntsc disc into my pal wii).

[@subclassify.]

@@PencilNova would you happen to like to elaborate

[@PencilNova]

​@@subclassify.​i remember various discs having a different "this disc cannot be read" screen, a more concrete example that came to mind is wii sports and wii party, if my memory serves correctly wii sports's "disc cannot be read screen" is more compact (as in, it covers a smaller area) compared to wii party's, another example happens in the legend of spyro (as you can see in BK4's vid) where the error message has a straight up different font. As for the smurfs 2, i remember it having the same error message (of course) with the same text color but of course with a different font, except it would happen on the last frame you were able to play in, with a blueish tint covering the text, this wouldnt cover the entire screen but a good portion of it, the text would be pretty small, i also remember that thing having a white or grey border. This is the most i can really remember about it

[@enderjed2523]

Fearful harmony and personified fear also show on how the PS1’s sound system works with the built in BIOS sounds.

[@Etech_Shorts]

Fun Fact: The sound for personified fear is really just the sound for fearful harmony just slowed down! speed it up and increase the pitch by an octive, and you get the sound of fearful harmony but it fades really quick!

[@PokeShadow77]

oh dang you're right it is an entire octave up

[@AussieTraviews]

Kinda, but not really. For PF, it plays the first sound used at the start of the second half of the PS1 startup, just slowed, and more reverb. The bells at the end are the same as the ones at the end of the ps1 startup, but slightly sped up. Fearful Harmony uses the bell sounds, just multiple times, at different pitches and speeds.

[@brandonperez8977]

The intro theme actually are just separate samples that are being used as a midi type, the fearful harmony and personified fear are actually a glitch type error that will play those samples which the modded PlayStation console is trying to find the SYSTEM file inside of the disc which causes the console to crash the boot screen if it couldn't find the file or got a corrupted/fake one

[@unnamedscribble-auttp]

the reason the bells happen is bc the console is lagging a lot, and it tries to play the startup sound but it's a lot more slowed down

[@fatyoshi696]

As someone with some wii modding experience, I can give a bit more info on the wii "system files are corrupted" error. When you're a modder, the number 1 thing that can cause this error is installing a corrupted wad (basically a modded wii channel) to the wii menu. If you do this, the wii will give this error every time you go to the wii menu, which is every time the console is booted up, basically bricking it unless you took the appropriate preventive steps (installing bootmii and making a nand backup (a backup of the wii's os), and/or using a usb loader to check that the wad is good before going back to the wii menu). Installing wads carelessly can get your console permanently bricked, so always have a recent nand backup on your pc in case something goes wrong

[@CloudySkies17695]

Though not an error screen, the sound emitted from a Game Boy Advance when it crashed scared the ever-loving *shit* out of me as a kid, and it's honestly still freaky now. In a way, "Fearful Harmony" is like a doorway into the past: different, but all the same familiar and eerie.

[@Mizu2023]

When a GBA crashes, it ends up reading the music player's code, or whatever is after the supposed audio buffer calculated by the music player in the game's code. PSX's Fearful Harmony is the bootscreen's sound, but really slow, because the PSX is trying its best to find something that it can understand, inside the CD(if it isn't PSX compatible(like an audio CD) you modchipped your PSX. IDK another way to make it occur).

[@IamSimonDiamond]

I remember the first time I saw the PS2s Red screen of death. I ran outside because I was that scared. I got that error screen on a normal PS2 disc by the way

[@AGAMER360]

me too, i had a RSOD on my ps2 when i was young, and iirc my family was playing a Sega collection games, and the ps2 dropped (problems with wired controllers), and it might have broken the disk.

[@100MagicChickens]

bruh I remember putting a finding Nemo game in the ps2 when I was like 5 and getting that screen, after that I had my parents put in the game for me out of sheer terror it would happen again

[@Puppyjuan_1970]

it was either broken, corrupted, or dirty

[@AnInternetMod]

Same, one time I turned on my PS2 to play some games (with the disk loaded in correctly) and I randomly got that screen. I wasn't scared during that time, but looking back years later, I am terrified of that screen.

[@onewhitedude]

@@Puppyjuan_1970 Scratched discs won't always show the RSOD. Midnight Club 2 skipped at the blue Rockstar logo and Need for Speed: Carbon was just a pure black screen.

[@Kippykip]

PS2 red screen of death usually happened when lasers failed, which these days is getting more and more common. I think that's where it got its reputation.

[@AdvancedKrizalid]

The solution was pretty simple , get your games on a harddrive and play without the disc ... It was so much better to play without the loading times. My ps2 didn't see a disc since 2002 .

[@Kippykip]

@@AdvancedKrizalid Oh yeah I use OPL too myself, but for the common folk the red screen is a horrible thing.

[@AdvancedKrizalid]

@@Kippykip you say that like it was secret forbidden knowledge , the homebrew was free , legal and the official ps2 hardware to make it work was in every decent videogame store for like 50.

[@Kippykip]

@@AdvancedKrizalid It depends on the country, in Australia most PS2 consoles were stock. While most PS1 consoles were chipped. In countries like Brazil, PS2 HDD mods are rampant still. Despite that, I still sell premodded PS2 fat units on my irl retro shop, or tell customers about its existance and they're always surprisied. But tbf most people irl here don't even know what an emulator is either lol Australians seem more interested in just sports and cars, not console modding or hacking lmao

[@TheSpotify95]

Not surprised the lasers are failing given the age of the units and also how the lasers operate, the surface it slides up/along will wear over time. The same thing happened with PS1s, early PS1s were notorious for laser failure and not being able to read discs.

[@janemba42]

The PS1 startup always creeped me out as a kid, I think because my dad got it just to play the port of Doom. Which has a super creepy soundtrack.

[@peanut7098]

10:16 feels like I’m in 2017 again.

[@Siristhisyourcar]

I got Rickrolled by this

[@smyry]

“Microsoft can’t get anything right, can they?” I just realized that this is when Vista was in development 💀

[@tandris1085]

my guy just roasted microsoft soo bad💀💀

[@engagingweirdo]

Damn!

[@TheOfficialLeaf]

they really can't get anything right XD

[@kenrickkahn]

I like Microsoft but damn does he have a point 😂😂

[@voidx6782]

microsoft has been rubbish from vista until now, no wonder xbox, and all their stuff turned as bad

[@strawb28]

The wii in general just scared me. The ambient sound of just nothing but something always terrified me and still does. Especially the home brew channel. Just a happy starting up sound and when you open it. Practically nothing but something is there. I grew up being terrified of error screens, the daunting feeling of trying to play Mario kart or something and just seeing nothing or just plain white text telling me that I did something wrong must’ve led up to my fear of failure and doing everything wrong or just embarrassing myself. I have such a vivid memory of my dad turning on our wii and me just RUNNING upstairs covering my ears because I was so scared to the wii music and the random errors. It’s so haunting to me. Last night I actually had a dream about my wii and just error screens and then some massive monster comes to fucking kill me. These type of dreams with my wii have been with me since I got it and I’ve never recovered. Thanks Nintendo, for somehow scaring me for life with some music.

[@ScalsAnimWorkshop]

I still own my old wii and i’ve never been scared of the menu music But man, I understand how you feel

[@princesspixel3151]

Who needs creepypastas when you have actual scary dreams instead?

[@MarioFantasy]

I thought I was the only one who is scared of error screens

[@BunnyLikesCarrotsFromPiggy]

@@MarioFantasy same

[@zoltanwilson4277]

Good story, dude! LMMFAO 😂😂🤣🤣

[@memelurd7341]

4:21 might be false, the PS2 would recognize the disk as a regular DVD and instead you would see an Xbox related error message which would leave little Timmy in awe instead of fear

[@nimk]

yeah i definitely did know about this but forgot to mention it here. oops lol

[@Luffym17]

@@nimk Its a screen that mainly came up from putting pirated ps1 or ps2 games in the console without a modchip. Its also the same with the ps1 red screen also shown which I can confirm is probably only on the slim PSone models. Since that's the only model I've ever seen that screen on. (I use a FreePSXboot tonyhax memory card I flashed myself to play burned games and if I keep the burned game in the console and forget to eject the lid before preforming the exploit this screen shows up)

[@bluey-next777]

True, BK4 did an Xbox disc to PS consoles video and, well that. It's also the same for ps3 but not ps4 (and possibly PS5)

[@uselessguy1]

the animation is super badass though

[@brandonperez8977]

​@@bluey-next777the PS4 and PS5 no longer uses CD and DVD lasers anymore, which means nobody can't see their movies or listen to their music on those consoles nowadays.

[@kryptos4812]

8:14 that sequence gave me goosebumps

[@HassleHoffer372]

Fearful harmony would work so well to hide secrets in an ARG

[@v__R4Z0R__v]

The worst moment is with the PS2, when you play a game and the game freezes. I remember this happening with GTA San Andreas and Spider-Man 2. The game freezes, but the sounds don't. The sound is kind of in a loop and that's it. Imagine playing a game, then the game turns black with a fail message on the screen, while the game sounds are playing in a loop in the background. Really terrifying

[@FunkyFurret]

Infinite scream…

[@cupio-stardust]

Something similar happened to me on the Wii, where I wanted to play Kirby’s Return To Dreamland, and the intro played as normal. It was when I pressed start, that the console did a short ominous beep sound, screen turned fully white, and a small part of the opening song played on loop infinitely. It was terrifying especially since my Wii crashed seconds later.

[@phyllojoe5346]

That gameboy player thing would be extra terrifying because I would be expecting the weird noise when you have no game and it twists to the options

[@Distraction_C0LORZ]

8:58 imagine leaving off at this part and hearing the *whoosh* without any context 🪑

[@unnamedscribble-auttp]

*c h a i r*

[@galaxy_GT-k3z]

c h a i r

[@RadeonVega64]

c h a i r

[@galaxy_GT-k3z]

@@RadeonVega64 *CHAIR*

[@Starxbatz]

8:29 kinda sounds like a bell

[@KatBeeBean]

As a toddler, I tried the game boy player a lot, and one day just forgot to ask my dad to help me plug it in. IT TERRIFIED ME AND I HID UNDER A BLANKET ON THE COUCH AND NEVER MOVED FOR LIKE AN HOUR 😭

[@nucleartaco04]

@@KatBeeBean I can empathize with that, so loud and sudden. I had a similar experience when I was 4 but it wasn’t an error screen. Whenever I powered on my PlayStation 2, I’d run the fuck away until after a few seconds because the startup noise scared me.

[@katoline]

for me, that weird sound that the wii would make if it crashed always used to scare me

[@zDarkWind5]

The big piano notes should be for critical system failures not “Oops, this isn’t plugged in correctly.”

[@real_terminalgt]

bk4 (a person who made videos on console errors) witnessed personified fear with a ps2 disc when they were sleeping spooked the shit out of him

[@chaptermastertree8214]

whats the video called??

[@EbrahimKhalid_77]

Yeah what is the video name

[@TheJoker.07]

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[@ningulussons3335]

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[@SoulCaliburGal]

@@EbrahimKhalid_77 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3y5i51njd6qfdE

[@laser90]

0:30 Your PS5 is too hot. That's why there are hot singles in your area

[@Lilystocalifeworld]

💀

[@ellie-za-bif]

lmao

[@Creative_YT]

What do you mean you can’t avoid taxes? I do it all the time!

[@tyjuarez]

4:08 CORRECTION: Original Xbox games had a video that would play if you tried putting the disc in a normal DVD player (including a PS2) It was a pretty cool Xbox animation, followed by a standard screen telling you that this was, indeed, an Xbox game and not a standard DVD Video.

[@nimk]

yep, someone else mentioned this too. completely didn’t remember this when working on the script lol

[@IPichu777]

Some Xbox 360 discs had this little animation and screen as well, not just the Original Xbox games

[@DecidiousGreens]

Link please?

[@tyjuarez]

@@DecidiousGreens kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp7NYaWBbbmSa5Y

[@UnderscoreAngel]

I remember that because I have a modded Wii, it will do the classic "freeze sound", which isn't usually scary, but it when happens in the middle of the night on a long Super Mario Galaxy playthrough wasn't really that fun.

[@ColaTai]

Fix your wii

[@UnderscoreAngel]

@@ColaTai it still works LMAO

[@board7374]

There is literally nothing more terrifying than the freeze sound for me. It puts me in such a hard fight or flight mode its not even funny. And the PS1 stuff too.

[@loadsamoney5210]

it's SO LOUD

[@andrewhaywood1262]

I can still remember seeing a Disc Read Error on my GCN for the very first time: it was while I was playing Shrek 2, age 7. Quite terrified to say the least, now I've gone outta my way to try and trigger error screens in different GCN games through Dolphin.

[@capybarey]

shrek 2

[@brightwolf_hun1848]

I am happy to know that it's not only me who has an irrational fear of error screens.

[@Sir-Baudelaire-]

The fearful harmony is like *BOY DIDNT I TELL TO NOT PLAY GAMES AT NIGHT*

[@mindfuzz9999]

i found 3DS errors scary as a kid. though they're just black screen with white text so maybe it's just fear of the unexpected. of course now that i've hacked my 3DS i'm more used to them but having it crash is still a bit scary

[@brandonperez8977]

I got it once when my cousin has a R4 card, it was working fine before and then I got that type of errors and even my cousin's 3DS had the same issue so he now use it on his DSi, and a few years later I discovered the problem that it was the Firmware updates that blocked it, I lost contact of my cousin which I could tell him about it

[@joniorsomething]

I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE FINALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS i always thought my fear of shit like this was a dumb thing, finally there's someone who talks about it! also you are CRIMINALLY underrated, i can tell you'll hit it big one day, keep it up!

[@real_terminalgt]

funny thing is, the wii manual doesnt not even reference the corrupted system files error, just a phone number

[@chrisfenyoYT]

The error messages on the Wii always used to scare the shit out of me. Especially if I was in dark or empty room.

[@noooooooooo00]

WOW, this was my first watch for this channel and the effort that went into the CAPTIONS/SUBTITLES alone is immaculate. the fricken sounds even had perfectly descriptive captions, blown away on that by itself. some bigger channels don't even put effort into subtitles. diving into your channel now brb lol.

[@PhirePhlame]

Just a small minor correction, the green ring lights in normal operation denote the states of the virtual controller numbers. If no controller was connected, only the power light would show. One light meant one controller, all the way up to all four lights shining green if four controllers are connected.

[@avoidthevo1d]

The PS3 Fat models also had issues with reliability, and when it failed to work, it just gave you 3 beeps with an orange LED. Those 3 beeps still sit inside the deepest layers of my memory

[@michaelbullen3104]

Lol good times

[@trollsansofficial]

Why are they called fat models Or did you just call them that for no reason

[@ThenonFun]

This is a SUPER under rated video! I remember we had a wii, and a few of the disks were kinda fucked, they could play, but after a few minutes, it showed the "Cant read disc message" It was scary hearing the wii sports menu, and then all of a sudden... nothing

[@princesspixel3151]

The true nightmare imo is when the Wii eventually stops reading any discs at all… that just means two simple words for a Wii owner, “Game Over”

[@angelsoflithium]

this happened to me a lot because of me leaving discs out for some reason and them getting scratched to hell😭 had to rebuy mario kart wii so many times

[@paperbloom82751]

5:50 kinda true i have a wii and wanted to play bowling with my grandma, and she knew how to play and even beat me and got almost all strikes. correction: she got a strike in 100-pin bowling

[@Mitzi-chan224]

8:37 oddly enough, I don't find this scary. I find it soothing. that lo-fi sound just does that to me ig

[@AQLV]

GPU errors and 'pancake' crashes where one smaller failure in a console leads to the console being bricked are more common now than ever due to how complex the firmware and hardware is now.

[@bartekpekala77]

I used to get a three-ring RROD on my 360 often because the plastic shell at the tip of the power cord got cracked so the pins didn't always make a connection with the console itself. Replugging the cable made it run as intended :) Also, keep in mind that the 360s green rings have corresponded to the amount of controllers paired with the console, not just the fact it's booting.

[@jpuc5568]

thanks for actually putting the music used in the video and desc omfg

[@AstrumKitten091]

I love the over dramatic names of these things. "PERSONIFIED FEAR" *Is just a shwooop sound thats slightly unnerving*

[@XRelays]

2:17 I work alot with Xbox 360 hardware and can explain. The substrate interposer is essentially a very small motherboard than is the size of one of those square crackers. The "sodder joints" that cracked are microscopic balls that connect to a die the size of your fingernail. Then, bigger solder balls are put under the substrate and connected to the actual Xbox motherboard. There are also some smaller components on the substrate but those are for power regulation (basically control how much power the GPU gets). Hope that cleared things up.

[@AlT-s2s]

@jameswheeler5025 they think it fixed it because well it reheats the balls and causes it to bend to cause connection. Someone on youtube made a awesome video on why ps3s and xbox 360s failed due to bad solder joints under the die

[@SarafinaSummers]

Thank you! Are you referring to a saltine cracker, by chance?

[@SuperUmizoomi]

4:52 it kinda reminds me of how after sonic.exe got popular back then creepypasta writers just slapped .exe on the name of any game like that means 'cursed version tht kills you'

[@WD_RatLad]

it's especially funny when you consider the fact that it's literally just the name of a file extension.

[@snarkatryta]

Creepy pasta writers when they see a game's file extension name: 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😮😮😮😨

[@SuperUmizoomi]

@@snarkatryta executable files dont even come in CDd it should be sonic.iso

[@itzash1]

4:03 *”Emulators have left the chat.”*

[@Coolllama]

3:10 happened before but did actually get a RROD when it happened the next time

[@unnamedscribble-auttp]

i wish they actually put more description into the errors instead of something like “Something went wrong. Please try again.”

[@Filipinogeographyguy]

It's the same thing about computer malware. when the computer dies to the malware the killscreen of the computer is always creepy which get stuck in people's minds. This happend to me before when I have curiosity on computer malware where I watched videos about malware

[@floatyjam]

I don't understand why do they have to make the error screens so terrifying

[@karmaswap7527]

Haha I know but think about this: What else can they do to tell the user something is wrong? Even playing a cute or fun sound wont make things less scary, it might actually make it worse than it just being silent. It wouldn't matter what color background or font they use to display the message, having anything pop up at random when something is wrong (that we dont know of until an error message shows) will always be horrific...I dont think theres an easier way to show an error... :(

[@aname-kg3cb]

the ps1 was not meant to do that. Same with the 360. Same with the wii. other consoles did that intentionally

[@lukedoesntupload]

japan console error screen: YOU WILL DIE RIGHT NOW japan eas alarm: hey there! didn't want to alarm you, but there's currently something going on right now, want some mochi?

[@scpnoobers]

I remember being hella scared to turn on my Xbox 360 because of the red ring of death

[@princesspixel3151]

I gave up on my Xbox 360 before it could happen to me at all

[@magita1991]

I remember it happening to me. Truly a sad day.

[@JulianDaEpic0]

I never encountered the ps2 error screen as a kid, but the start up screen already terrified me. I just remember on a dark night in my cabin's living room as a 3-4 year old, I would sit on the couch ready to play shrek 2. But that start up screen with the sound HORRIFIED me

[@capybarey]

shrek 2

[@familiagrancelli2666]

never realized how scary this stuff actually is. i hope the next gen of video game consoles have gentler error screens...

[@karmaswap7527]

Hopefully but what can they really do, you know? Their main goal is to let the user know something is wrong and the only way they can do that is if they display a message on the screen. Even if they played a cute and or fun jingle, people (even me) would still find it scary since its popping up at random when something happens that we aren't aware of until the error message says something. I WISH errors can be better but there probably wont be a way to make it so its not scary in any sort of way😢

[@fredrichfernando6798]

One time, I had bought an OG Xbox that... had some problems. The first game disc I tried to put in it (Oddworld Stranger's Wrath) gave me an error unlike anything I've seen before. When the game tried to start up, the screen started rapidly flashing red and black. So yeah. This only happened a couple of years ago, but imagine seeing that as a kid. That was like the PS2 RSoD on steroids.

[@JoelGerson1]

Woah

[@michaelbullen3104]

Wow what the fuck?

[@andreahardee2331]

When I was a kid, I was scared every time an error message came up on our PC, so I’m really glad that never happened with my N64 or GameCube. 🙀

[@SKCro.]

The N64 didn't really have any error messages to begin with, not even a "cannot read cartridge" message. It would just boot to a black screen if the cartridge couldn't be read. Of course, the N64DD did have an error screen, but it was a Japan-only accessory.

[@PichusBlueberryPies]

This video was amazing, but to correct around ( 6:03 ), Call of Duty did appear on the Wii a few times, but overall great video still.

[@nimk]

yeah my excuse as to including it there was cuz it was a game with an easily identifiable acronym (to compliment GTA and juxtapose DOAXBV). also cuz COD on wii was horrible and i refuse to believe it existed

[@PichusBlueberryPies]

@@nimk yeah, from what I’ve seen COD on Wii looks terrible, and I’d prefer to play it on the PS3.

[@deadlyespresso6166]

9:42 I think the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive's error noise is kind of underrated. The low-pitched buzzing noise is alarming, but not as much as the Wii crashing noise or the Game Boy Player's error sound.

[@ElMundoNoob]

I know I'm 2 years late, but I'd like to share my story. I have been always a fan of technology like consoles, laptops, phones, etc. I'm not usually scared of something but I just have this weird phobia about being stuck in a void. Just falling down endlessly. I never liked consoles that had a weird desing choice of things floating with no ground, especially the PS2. I would always be scared to turn it on as a kid because I just felt terrefied about just imagining me falling down endlessly in the start up screen, menu screen, etc. I would ALWAYS be hugging my dad or mom while I was turning it on because of how scared I was. They would always tell me to just forget about it but it's a fear I still have to this day. You can tell how terrefied I was (and still am) that I wouldn't even turn it on by myself alone. Now, I have always been a fan of console errors, I just like them a lot. I like to watch bsod, console errors compilation videos. But it's just the PS2 and PS1 errors that just get me terrefied. I don't mind the PS3, PS4, or the PS5 designs, but the others are just... so scary to me. I have a VR headset now, and its a meta quest 3. You should know where I'm going with this. I always lift my glasses up when I'm gonna open a game in VR because I just don't like the loading screen. It gets me very scared. What gets me even more scared is rec room, and how it uses the nothingness of the void a lot. A LOT. specially in vr. You change rooms? boom you are falling in the void for a few seconds. You are loading it? Chance you get stuck in the void until you turn off the vr headset or get tpd (which triggers my phobia A LOT and I start freaking out) You wanna log in? You are in the void. But it isn't that bad since you get a little floating grass which is nice since it doesn't scare me that much. I really like rec room, that's why I don't stop playing even though it triggers my phobia sometimes. Roblox's desing on vr is just a little bit weird but I don't mind roblox's void at all, its just not scary. Also sorry for bad english, I'm spanish.

[@writer8706]

For the Xbox 360 and PS3 the issue was in simple terms. The little metal joints hold the gpu to the circuit board. Their is layer of what I'll call glue their that helps take the stress off these metal joints as they heat up. The issue is the "glue" was the wrong type for the job. As it would get to soft at the temperatures the gpu runs at. This means the metal joints flex and break. When enough of them break the system breaks.

[@tandris1085]

Personified fear and fearful harmony still scares the shit outta me

[@jhenielpr]

police car be like:

[@spudplayzgames3819]

8:33

[@GamerJP30]

One thing that used to creep me out as a kid was the little transition screen that played whenever you returned to the wii menu from a game

[@AverageMD-Fan21]

The one with these: [Wii] [Wii] [Wii]?

[@karmaswap7527]

​@@AverageMD-Fan21YES EXACTLY THAT! especially when you're trying to do something on the wii (like opening up WiiFlow without the SD/USB in the wii)

[@sofiaciel7599]

the PS2 RSOD, for the original model, usually meant, "the drive laser is failing" that's how i found out about my favorite way of making sure my parents were out another 200-something dollars - the disc read error!!

[@TheJoker.07]

Didn't expect my man BK4 to have a shout-out at the end

[@the2323guy]

9:15 it's possible to trigger the pfear on all ps1 models, unlike fearful harmony there are a couple of disc images found on youtube made just to trigger pfear or mini pfear which you could burn for your ps1

[@nimk]

interesting! i’ll have to try that out sometime

[@BrizzysTrains44206]

Pfear works when you put sega cd disc in

[@_KDP]

4:34 this legit scared me as a kid well the one wher it couldnt read the dis properly

[@drxshock6957]

Glad to not be the only one who was scared of *The Game Disc could not be read* Wii message lmao. As well as that my Wii has a unique problem where I can trigger that message on command by selecting Wii Sports Resort's Motion Plus tutorial video #4 (If control becomes unstable). Still works to this day.

[@Lukec128]

Mario party 8 was my favourite game growing up. 2021 I was still playing, when my game cut into a screen. The screen was flashing Black and white for about 3 hours. The Wii did not turn off, go back to the home menu or anything. My TV didn’t even turn off! I do agree with you Nimk.

[@chancegoodling]

7:49 LoOkS sO LiGiT

[@MacBack123]

im glad i subbed due to the windows startup and shutdown sounds video, i thought from the lowercase title, it was gonna be like bill wurtz lol

[@Imposterwastaken1234]

6:46 I have a Wii in the room I’m watching this vid in and I’m thinking of playing Wii sports resort ping pong and I go to turn it on and I get met with that EXACT SCREEN😂😂😂

[@Theonly_z_Official]

"Death" Melanie: Im back from the dead

[@YusefdoesEducation]

imagine if some old console had even sarier things

[@TheMrDeeJay]

interesting PS1 error screen: some later games in the PS1 lifespan started having modchip detection (example: Um Jammer Lammy) and if your modchip doesn’t happen to be one that disables itself after boot, you may eventually be greeted with an error message in either English or Japanese (in my case I got greeted with the Japanese message despite running a PAL game on a PAL console) and a giant red prohibition symbol on a black screen with a message that a modification has been detected. The English version also had an US phone number you were supposed to call (probably why other regions got the Japanese message)

[@TheRandomChannel_idk]

There's a rare variant of this, in a Japanese game called "Poporogue", if the anti-piracy screen triggers, instead of the Japanese 🚫 screen, you'd get a red hand inside a red-outlined circle, the circle being smaller than what was seen in later screens. This has absolutely no text and is dubbed "Red Hand Protect".

[@im_bobby_mom]

5:04 that's straight dopamine right there.

[@davestrider2766]

My brother was freaking out over his red ring of death like it had been the end of the world only for it to start working an hour later and for years we never knew why. From this video I'm starting to guess that it was from the cables and now I can't stop laughing.

[@FunkyFurret]

How many quadrants were lit up?

[@Its_bloon.yt2011]

@@FunkyFurretfour from “the cables”

[@neurograves]

homestuck

[@NRI-p1k]

I remember being scarred with the windows 7 blue screen of death when i was a kid. It was 3am and i was playing some friv and then it crashed and a harsh horrible sound started playing, which i couldn't stop until I unplugged the pc. I was homealone and the whole house had the lights turned off, and for some reason it still scares me to this day

[@GavGaming15]

With my Wii u I only have 4/12 games working. I treated the discs poorly and I remember the shock whenever I would put in one of my favourite games and it wouldn’t load. It really sucks to see the invalid disc screen. I’ve spent hours and hours with family and friends on games and I just see that invalid disc show up. It just shows how fragile these discs are.