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According to an interview between Kotaku and an anonymous Xbox dev, there is a hidden easter egg that hasn't been discovered for 20 years. The easter egg is similar to triggering the <<Eggsβox>> easter egg, which involves ripping a CD and naming it <<Eggsβox>>, after which a credits roll will play. The dev said that they wanted to avoid the same disappointment with the <<Eggsβox>> easter egg being found.

When we shipped [the Xbox], there was no real plan on how to leak [the ‘<<Eggsβox>>’ trick], but somebody on the team did an interview and hinted that there was something ‘cool’ in there,” the developer said. “It was a terrible way to do it. People went crazy thinking there was a free game, or something to that effect, stuffed away in the Dashboard/console. After a day or two he had to just leak the trigger due to all the speculation that was spinning out of control. Due to the way he leaked it, when it was ‘found,’ people were so disappointed.

The trick involves ripping a CD and naming the track Timmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! (with the y being repeated 26 times). Afterward, going to the system info will show a hidden credits sequence for the Dashboard team.

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[slaphappygamer]

Timmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

 

[Ondrashek06]

that's a lot of y's

Again, don't expect likes because you have the "Announcer" flair. I'm sure as hell not gonna give you one. You're not entitled to likes because you get to pick what gets on the frontpage.

 

[Chary]

Again, don't expect likes because you have the "Announcer" flair. I'm sure as hell not gonna give you one. You're not entitled to likes because you get to pick what gets on the frontpage.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Hells Malice]

Again, don't expect likes because you have the "Announcer" flair. I'm sure as hell not gonna give you one. You're not entitled to likes because you get to pick what gets on the frontpage.

Professional help exists to get your anger under control my friend

 

[porkiewpyne]

Again, don't expect likes because you have the "Announcer" flair. I'm sure as hell not gonna give you one. You're not entitled to likes because you get to pick what gets on the frontpage.

As a veteran Temper used to ask, "Who pissed in your cereal this morning?"

 

[HollowGrams]

Cool, likes for errr1.

 

[chrisrlink]

would be sweet if someone could use this as an entrypoint but i doubt it =/ it would save you the hassle of making/buying a usb Female to og xbox male cable+ splinter cell ,simmilar to the audio cd exploit

 

[Deleted member 668561]

As a veteran Temper used to ask, "Who pissed in your cereal this morning?"

One day he accidentally sat on a banana, and it changed his life...

 

[raxadian]

Not only does my mans hate most games, but also trivia and secrets

Is an easter egg people could only do by burning a DVD with a specific label; so you waste a DVD to just get credits roll?

 

[Something whatever]

Love things like this

 

[Deleted User]

But... why?

 

[Reynardine]

How I learned to stop worrying and spell Timmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy with 26 y's.

I wish the easter egg would do a bit more than just a credits roll. Still neat though.

 

[Chary]

But... why?

I think you mean, “but...whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?”

 

[chrisrlink]

this needs to be looked into for a security hole

 

[pedro702]

this needs to be looked into for a security hole

the original xbox has many holes lol, there are a crap-ton of ways to hack the console, this is just the xbox sees the name of the dvd and ativates a credit roll inside the dashboard itself so it doesnt actually read any data inside or load anything except the dvd name.

Is an easter egg people could only do by burning a DVD with a specific label; so you waste a DVD to just get credits roll?

yeah just like the other one, and they wonder why people haven't found it yet... who would go around making blind dvd names to try and triggers a simple credit roll to happen? lol

 

[raxadian]

yeah just like the other one, and they wonder why people haven't found it yet... who would go around making blind dvd names to try and triggers a simple credit roll to happen? lol

Yeah how hard it was to make people connect a keyboard and write something instead? After all the original Xbox was a PC disguised as a console.

Like Type "Secret credits roll 1" and "Secret credit rolls 2" while in the system configuration settings.

No fuss, no having to waste a DVD and a lot of people were connecting keyboards anyway...

 

[Kioku]

Is it REALLY a leak if a developer divulged this information?

 

[dude1]

No one's ever put Timmmmmmy?
How strange

no, the problem is many probably put in Timmmmmmy?
sadly no one did Timmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

 

[Deleted member 546149]

no, the problem is many probably put in Timmmmmmy?
sadly no one did Timmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!

I wonder if someone added one more y and then they read this

 

[FAST6191]

the original xbox has many holes lol, there are a crap-ton of ways to hack the console, this is just the xbox sees the name of the dvd and ativates a credit roll inside the dashboard itself so it doesnt actually read any data inside or load anything except the dvd name.

As far as I am aware though all the choices are

"find either action replay and associated memory card, possibly also have fun getting the software to work as it is not necessarily XP only but... you want XP if you can get it, or make USB adapter using now increasingly hard to find up to around 2 gig USB drives (and limited numbers of them worked even back in the day) and possibly hard to find breakaway or soldering your controller cable, copy hacked save, load hacked save in a game, install softmod". The list of games did increase a while back with some people making new ones and the big three originals are common as anything and thus not with a price bump often associated with such things.

"rip apart xbox, hope you still have a computer with IDE (as far as I am aware the overwhelming majority of USB readers won't work as they don't implement locking) and are fast enough to get it in the time between unlocking and locking again and then copy files across"

General mod chip and TSOP for slightly older models if you are content to play with a soldering iron, or suffer clip on chips and their foibles.

If I could burn a custom CD (granted writeable CDs and burners seem to be something of a legacy device these days as well) and have it launch a softmod installer that would be a boon over the status quo. As far as "just reading" then there are plenty of things that have had errors in unicode handling, buffer overflows might still be a thing (this is 2003 or worse security after all) and more besides with names (see original PSP hacks). Little extras and bonus features also form the basis of a lot of iffy code.