The Xbox Game Hidden on The Robots DVD

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[@acepedro12]

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.

[@CrashFan03]

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

[@TrollDecker]

I'm willing to bet it was more likely that it was because it wasn't a Sony Pictures release.

[@CrashFan03]

@@TrollDecker did sony dvds do that?

[@TrollDecker]

@@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.

[@CrashFan03]

@@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

[@carlbrown1000]

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

[@racerwilson152]

Im pretty sure you can just put it in and play it, or was the doom movie disk an exception to the rule

[@GingerNingerGames]

@@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

[@kei_nishimaru]

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]

That's a fuckin' Robots knowledge bomb I never expected to discover.

[@BobCalter-j6n]

If I remember correctly, OneyNG said that in other countries, Fanny means slang for...aheh a women's ya know?

[@ToastyMann]

@@BobCalter-j6n That's her entire joke

[@nissylubelle2054]

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

[@BobCalter-j6n]

@@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

[@RoachDoggJr26]

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]

roach. doggin.

[@RoachDoggJr26]

@@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.

[@EclipseColdfire]

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.

[@realgroovy24]

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.

[@marky3609]

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 😂😂😂

[@natey_TV]

It's crazy that such an obscure game was played briefly on an episode of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

[@MrAveregeguy68]

Swear what episode?

[@shanecobain5241]

@@MrAveregeguy68 season 2 episode 3

[@diskdem0n]

my guess is that they used an earlier draft of the script to create the captions

[@S-Video]

I think it’s the British script. “Fanny” is considered too vulgar in the UK.

[@Gooseburger]

​Can confirm in the British version she is called Aunt Fan

[@gilition]

HALF LIFE 2 BETA MINIMALIST REFERENCED. I AM LIVING THE HEIGHT OF REALITY

[@tphofficial64]

You can blame me for that lol

[@elvenezolanoxd6245]

XD

[@Legoluigi26]

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.

[@Makerkiddo]

do not dog on my boy Spies In Disguise that film was good as fuck

[@ToastyMann]

*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.

[@LOLMGS]

​@@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.

[@kylegetz4917]

The Star Wars revenge of the sith dvd also has an Xbox demo on it

[@SupercoolCloneTrooperFan]

Same with the Clone Wars DVDs.

[@wishbonefan]

One of the Hulk movies had this too

[@YoDzOnHalo]

So does Van Helsing

[@TheNaturalGamer1]

Oh yeah prove it?

[@bvgmusic573]

"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

[@HypercomboProduction]

This aged well, now Fortnite has a dedicated acceleration button an a boost button for thier cars.

[@eletronictoenails]

the half-life 2 airboat on consoles be like

[@Raybro16]

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

[@JomasterTheSecond]

Robots was the best movie ever because it had Robin Williams saying anime.

[@humbleskye]

Give me big anime eyes

[@Koalalover70]

Bigweld: I’m the prettiest girl at the Harvest Moon Ball

[@ajzeg01]

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.

[@NottJoeyOfficial]

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.

[@Dinosaurwith42heads]

Robots is better than ghost in the shell and nier automata, prove me wrong

[@MateoThePro]

It ain't even the same genre 💀 That's like comparing Hello Kitty Racing with Gran Turismo and Resident Evil 4

[@BreakingRaven]

better than armored core for answer, armored core 6, armored core verdict day...lmao

[@GorTheMovieGod]

I'M TRIGGERED!

[@BREADDDINGTON]

It's also better than any studio Ghibli movie

[@titanic_monarch796]

as the no.1 robots fan no way

[@supper_e1823]

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 :)

[@QuickSceneClips]

That's pretty cool, I remember back when DvD's where new some people would make games you could play in the menu but it never really took off since people would just watch the movie and never look around or the game would be hidden. They would be simple games but it was still cool to see.

[@eclapsed]

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.

[@Moiisty]

my friends DAD worked for Eurocom and worked on the engine for robots, how cool.

[@strikelitch]

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.

[@mihailos8701]

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

[@ToastyMann]

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.

[@tinyj3rr1ch06]

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

[@automario9263]

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.

[@tenaciousinvestigator4940]

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.

[@ToastyMann]

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.

[@user-ny5vp9be8v]

​@@ToastyMannActually, Phineas And Ferb made it to Blu-ray in Japan surprisingly enough

[@tenaciousinvestigator4940]

@@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.

[@shaungibson4527]

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas did the same thing. Just like you I never owned an Xbox and never played it.

[@Kai-El]

Video topic starts @ 6:00

[@ZanyCat]

As a kid I tried really hard to get this demo to work in my Xbox 360. I tried everything, but I could never get it to play. Glad to know I wasn't missing much.

[@PSIChris]

Some creator was challenged to find this game just by a short video played in the background of some tv scene; it was a good watch.

[@CalebExists101]

1:56 SCOTT THE WOZ JUMPSCARE

[@speake7777777]

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.

[@slarbiter]

I gotta say this DVD looks AMAZING on a tube TV. Peak 2000s animation

[@HazeProductionCo]

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

[@ControversyCaution]

This is the type of random content that gives me life

[@Beefy-Cheese]

2:18 I never heard my grandpa laugh harder than at this scene.

[@GingerNingerGames]

The story in robots is kind of what's happening in Australia's housing market at the moment. Shit's getting so expensive no one can afford to rent or buy on their own anymore.

[@praiserdusty]

It was advertised to be in the game on the box and by the studio. This was a common practice in the early 2000s

[@ajzeg01]

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.

[@Harold_Flower]

I did this when I was a kid and I've never seen any kind of record of it on the internet! Thanks for making this!!!

[@TheEvelynMakesThings]

I still have my copy of the dvd release lating around somewhere! I remember playing those extras WAY too much when i was younger, had no idea there were xbox extras... wow. I dont have an xbox so cant play it, but wow did they shove a lot in there.

[@Willbotx]

I liked how a lot of movies had games on them when popped into an original xbox.

[@demondeity9816]

Now, I was really young so there is a "small" chance that this memory is just a fragmented hallucination because I can't find it online. But this reminds me of the racing game included in the Spy Kids 3 DVD, where you would control one of those vehicles with the remote. I can't be certain that this was actually real, but I remember that the controls were horrible.

[@vidiottheowl2825]

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

[@bradyfitzy]

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!

[@OmegaS-117]

I need to rewatch this movie been years since I watched this movie

[@haydnberthold9489]

Robots is unironically one of my favorite movies to quote. I always like to scream 'Caw Caw' at parties if I need to find someone in reference to the movie. People don't like me much.

[@WookieFragger]

This was not a place I was expecting to see The Thief and the Cobbler footage!

[@nottodaydevilshindowraithe501]

I found out this little game when me and my sis re-watched it at some point, then while scrolling through the extras, (And now no longer being ignorant kids that don't understand stuff.) we saw it, understood it finally, and fiddled around with it to have a good few fun moments. We did get our Xbox at some point, but I guess, not only did we never touch this extra as we've played played the same ones all the time, but never put two and two together.

[@tannerdowney2802]

Louis Rossman's favorite right to repair movie.

[@SpongeyBubby]

I have this movie and an original Xbox so actually trying the actual game from the DVD was pretty damn cool, especially for its time.

[@jamieisjabba]

the riddick dvd had the same thing with a demo for butchers bay on it if you had the two disc release for xbox.

[@kayivey83]

here right after the new scott the woz vid, which mentioned this topic

[@KalebSDay]

The full game was pretty fun. I found that if you do the slide animation a few times back to back that your ass gets set on fire from all the friction haha.

[@loktah1]

sony did not have a patent. its about not paying the dvd license for every player. would have taken you 5 sec to goggle instead of making it up

[@BlankPapers]

I actually had the ability to do this as a kid, and boy was it a great secret! To be fair, my siblings and I got pretty invested in it for a bit when we found this out, even if I do vaguely remember it being hard(but maybe it was me not yet figuring out the game sucked, lol). Still, I found it extremely charming, and if it was a full fledged game(I thought it was a mode in the actual robots game, but I guess not), I’d probably buy it

[@postgotham]

Really well made video, broski. Hope you get the subs you deserve

[@swanemployeeoftheyearflyer7583]

Completely forgot about being able to do this. I was lucky enough to rent it and just play the demo from time to time. Neat is how this wasn't the only movie that did this, with Doom having Doom 3 playable if you put it in an Xbox too.

[@LadiciusTon]

Been waiting for someone else to shine some light on this

[@Pomudachi-ve4dw]

Hulk DVD had a playable demo for the original Xbox.

[@VilifiedOne]

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.

[@YoungMrBlue]

9:48 no one could’ve summarized the movie better

[@cristianovoa]

The xbox needing something extra to play dvds wasn't related to sony, but to dolby, they were already losing money on each console, and didn't want to pay licensing to dolby for every single console produced, so the remote thing was made as a compromise for those who wanted to play dvd's, and it's really just the remote and a small chip key to enable the functionality surely a modded console could be able to play dvds without that

[@Chef_Edurad]

i'm surprised you didn't bring up the End of Evangelion's DVD menu as an example of DVD being superior in presentation

[@Salerias]

Menus in all kind of media got extremly downgraded over the years. Old menus tried to impress you directly at the start and often tried to set the mood for what is to come. Look at old game menus. Halo, Gears of War, Dead Space just to name a few. Dead Space had the terminals from in the game as the main menu. The game even zoomed out of the last terminal you saved when you load a save game. Today menus are just there because you need some kind of interface to interact with it.

[@luig4349]

The 2003 hulk dvd also has a demo level of the Xbox game as a bonus

[@BaxterAndLunala]

That whole part on society kicking you to the curb over one mistake is _kinda_ why I can't be too mean to most of the developers that worked on X7 as well as Kazumasa Iwao. The latter of whom made an excellent comeback. After all, it's no secret Legends Arceus was such an amazing game.

[@superrazor7617]

7:11 this is where the game starts

[@underthebrick]

Excellent vid! Generally miss when dvds we’re packed with bonus content. Also thought I would mention this because you showed the Wallace and Gromit TCOTWR dvd. Theres an entirely separate dvd thats a virtual board game with cgi cutscenes and original voice acting. Just thought I would say because I think thats neat?

[@PricedZer0]

The Chronicles of Riddick DVD had the Escape from Butcherbay Demo. And that game is pretty cool.

[@SajinGT]

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.

[@kuriboh635]

Holy crap this is so cool. My wife owns the robods dvd and we both have original xboxs with dvd attachments but never relized this was a thing. As soon as i get home from my current business trip im doing this.

[@checkoffgames]

Nice Princess and Cobbler reference in the b-roll .

[@term-827]

The unrated dvd version of doom included an xbox demo for Doom 3.

[@ramsle00]

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.

[@Uggy420]

Looks like a upgraded version of the Gameboy game

[@yuribacon]

It makes sense to me why this is a demo for Xbox. All Xbox games are also DVD movies, albeit very boring ones. It'll just throw you to a menu with a picture saying "put this in your xbox dumbass" if you put it any regular DVD player. So basically what they did here is make an Xbox game, but replaced the basic "movie" on disc to an actual feature length film. All the content, movie and game alike, still has to fit on the 4.7GB as you mentioned, so either the game is going to be very basic, or the movie is going to be shit quality and/or not have many extras if you try to shove it all on one disc tho, which explains why real Xbox games have the most bland and boring way to tell you that the disc isn't a movie.

[@stageactstudios]

I use to have my mom's old Original Xbox as a kid and funny enough I stumbled upon the Demo when I was going to watch Robots on the Xbox. I played the game and being the dumb kid I was, sucked ass at it. The Movie itself was a great time.

[@calebmedina9554]

On the old star wars clone wars animated series dvd, you could plae a demo for star wars Republic commando

[@iamnoob573]

reminds me of the time someone said you could play doom 3 on your Xbox classic if you owned the dvd for the movie

[@Lukas_Neumann]

7:00 YES, THIS GAME IS SOOO GOOD. This game is pure nostalgia for me, I love it, it's just soooo good.

[@YoungMrBlue]

0:40 that movie honestly wasn’t too bad

[@josiahball7088]

Took 3 minutes of history just to talk about a disc

[@mikenewbold1699]

how is it hidden if it says on the dvd case?

[@walkman0553]

epic was my childhood favorite, and spies and disguise was amazing!

[@airconditionedstudios1011]

TL;DR DVD of you're cool & own an Xbox, Blu Ray if you just wanna watch the damn movie in its original quality

[@imphoenix3831]

They did the same for the special edition 2-disc release of Ange Lee's Hulk, never got to play that demo

[@Artenesama]

This is so cool, please make more videos about old DVDs extras

[@jasontheredfox]

I always wanted to know what this looked like, very niche topic but this video is great

[@ErdrickHero]

Single layer DVDs are about 4GB, dual layer about 8GB.

[@ivv6954]

Hulk 2003 special edition DVD also had this feature for its release

[@SamSquids]

I always find DVD with bonus Xbox Executables fascinating, I think my parents have a DVD copy of Hellsing (never seen it myself though, can't vouch for how good it is) and it also has an game demo/XBE on the disc.

[@Awesome10YT]

I have an original disc of this movie, one of my favorite movies

[@marky3609]

This video is reminding me that the original DVD release of Ang Lee’s Incredible Hulk came with a demo of the game based on the movie that you could play if you stuck it in an original Xbox. I had an OG Xbox as a kid but was playing the DVD in a regular ass DVD player until I saw this and immediately took that disc out ran to my room and stuff that baby in my OG XBOX lol. The game was crappy as hell but I was still blown away by the fact that a DVD came with a playable demo of a video game if played in a console. It never dawned on me that other DVDs would feature game demos as special extras. Now I kinda want to go and collect every DVD movie that featured a playable game demo on disc when stuck in a console. I also believe there are some that have games playable when played on a PC….but fuck PC lol 😂😂😂😂

[@firestarter6488]

The Star Wars Battlefront DVD demo was far superior, but that's Lucasarts for ya!

[@huskymirai5824]

I remember the Harry potter and flushed away dvds were pretty fun

[@bohanasro6439]

He is watching scott the woz

[@Wisegerbil]

how are you just gonna entirely ignore Horton Hears a Who?

[@green929392]

Doom (2005) movie had a demo for Doom 3