Daniel Benmergui

Secret of Software 64

24 March 2008

A competitor for the Video Game Name Generator Competition at TIGSource.

Did you manage to find the minidump?

88 Comments so far
Leave a comment

Are you supposed to put the red tower into the lava? Why can’t I move the golden shield on the bottom (from game start)

Is there another ending besides this?

“SYSTEM CORE DUMPED

“CHECK:

“/MINIDUMB.LOG

“FOR MORE INFO. COMPLETE DUMP
“NOT ACTIVATED.

“LAST ERROR IN STACK:

“UNVALID WRITE ACCESS TO LOCATION
“OXBADCODE4″

[...] Thus started Secret of Software 64. [...]

I like it, i find the minidump. I hope to see a couple more levels in a while…

I don’t where do you get this kind of ideas, it takes around an hour and 20 minutes to find the minidump, you did it again, I’m still insulting you XD (exists insulting???) I’m starting to like these games of “lets see what you do”.

I will visit tig more often, “Papal go-kart in vegas” makes my imagination explode with ideas.

Same happened with “third world magic soldiers”.

ithamore thanks for the spoiler uh….

anyway that’s not the end, you’re supposed to find the minilog

kinda short, but cool ^^

I got Two of the green things

@Aslai: yeah, it happened to me once…it’s a bug I couldn’t fix at the time of the competition

Look at you,
you don’t find what you wish
Look at you again,
you wish what you find

They asked me for my help
but it was not for them

I’ll help you instead.

how do u beat it i mean seriously i can’t do anything….. -.- ><

Raxel:

Try starting by putting the egg near the lava pool. If you didn’t find the egg, try putting the large machine over the broken ground… hope that keeps you going!

is there an alternate ending to the minidump?

I have this wierd monster thing. A comination of the two monsters!
I have got to bars in the yllow river!!
WhatNext???

Never mind!
“SYSTEM CORE DUMPED

“CHECK:

“/MINIDUMB.LOG

“FOR MORE INFO. COMPLETE DUMP
“NOT ACTIVATED.

“LAST ERROR IN STACK:

“UNVALID WRITE ACCESS TO LOCATION
“OXBADCODE4″

aaaaah i cant find the minidump thingy

You should put this one on Kongregate, and ask if they can attach a card or badge to it…

I love these kind of puzzle games. Reminds me of ‘Escape the room’.

How the hell do you get past the “SYSTEM CORE DUMPED” screen?

HELP! I Made The 64 Thing And Now Im Stuck!!

Liking the Tyrian style sprites (or I assume they are)

pyro-dude: they are not Tyrian-style, they ARE the Tyrian sprites (slightly modified, in some cases).

XD >:( is what this game says to me

What is the deal with minidump, I was able to get it, but most of the stuff aside from the poem is unknown.

That was kinda hard, I only got it because I cheated.

This game can only be played here to get the true ending, I don’t think I spoil too much by saying that because you still need to know what must be done.

I went allmost deaf in the edn. I had my headphones on and volume at max. >.< hurt

I got three of the evolved green thingies.

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

so… I’ve found the poem. where do I go from here?

“unvalid write access on stack?”

also, you spelled verdict as “veredict”

how can i get more of these monsters?

I got the glowing metal egg thing and a green monster and 3 things I can put in the yellow stuff to make em glow…..I need a hint.

Aw I think I won I got to the
SYSTEM CORE DUMPED

“CHECK:

“/MINIDUMB.LOG

“FOR MORE INFO. COMPLETE DUMP
“NOT ACTIVATED.

“LAST ERROR IN STACK:

“UNVALID WRITE ACCESS TO LOCATION
“OXBADCODE4″

message with the picture of something flashing in the background did I win???

wth?

k this is my story, where di i go wrong?

i smashed the cracked floor
i melted the broken thing and the big machine in the lava pit
i put them in the mold to make more metal things
i hatch the egg
i ‘cook’ the egg scraps
i feed it to the bug dude
i put the evolved guy on the green stuff
i put the metal ball in the machine
i put the bug in the machine….

i put the ball into the yellow

all that error nonsense comes up!!

WTH?!?!?

I think that flashing epileptic seziere error part suppose to say something but i’m not seeing it..that minidump is there..but there sure is no clear clue on where it is I can say that much..heh

Ok I found the minidump, but I havent debugged these ever so I can’t get my dumpchk working with the dump…

Well, at least I found it, Yay \o/

–WARNING, SPOILER–
I don’t understand.
I went to http://www.ludomancy.com/minidump.log
but now what?

when i drop the 64 ball in the yellow stream is that the end???????

aaaa

[...] http://www.ludomancy.com/blog/secret-of-software-64/ в Любими преди 1 минута edno23.com Начало контакти [...]

is that the ending the error screen?

is there a different ending? please tell

Not really @name

So after getting the minidump with the poem yo can’t do anything more?

No… not in this version

¿And where I can find a full version?

i got the to the black screen with writing after i dumped the 64 ball in the yellow, changed green

is that the end????

what do i do next???

wat is a mini dump??

i took a screen shot it just shows green grass blue water

Does “invalid write access to location 0xBADCODE64″ mean we have to check this website with a memory editor and see what’s at the address 0xbadc0de64? I know that’s one too many characters for a 64 bit system, but some of the first posts had said it was “OXBADCODE4″, and that would fit within those constraints.

I found the
“Look at you,
you don’t find what you wish
Look at you again,
you wish what you find

They asked me for my help
but it was not for them

I’ll help you instead.”
in the minidump.log
is the end?

I tried to search the memory in this page when the 0xbadc0de64 is being displayed, but I couldn’t find anything. But probably I didn’t do things right =(

Hmm…

(Spoiler)
I saved the minidump as a .bat file, then when I open it it runs down a lists of commands and beeps at me… then creates a file where I saved it called ‘<<3′

Somewhat confused…

actually scratch that; a print screen revealed that they were all errors… *smack head*

lol i say some page of videogames just to complete the thingy…
Hey,i got a wird monster like medusa and now i am stucked HELP!

Heeeeey
I got the big green 64 ball. what i do now ? (l0l, sounds like music ! “IIII GOOOOT THE BIIIIIIG GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN BALL, SO WHAAAT THAT I DOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW” okay, i stop)

Look at you,
you don’t find what you wish
Look at you again,
you wish what you find

They asked me for my help
but it was not for them

I’ll help you instead.

What now?

I’m guessing there is no ending since no one out of ALL the people that have comment has actually gotten past minidump.log

were is the mini dump i was thinking of a really small dump on the screen

I finished and found the memorydump.log. I captured the frame that flashes after you beat it and it shows a serene place:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/NessDan/SecretOfSoftware64.jpg

Left the game on after I beat it while taking a screenshot (see above post) and it actually changed! Screen now reads:

FILE #13: S0S64 [CANCELLED]

K.P. (OCCUPATION: POET)

“IT IS A MOCKERY OF SENTIENCE, LIFE AND BEAUTY! SHUT IT DOWN!”

VEREDICT: ARCHIVE AND NEVER RESTART THE SYSTEM AGAIN.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/NessDan/SecretofSoftware64End.jpg

WHAT THE F***? WHERES THE FULL VERSION?!?!??!?

hey i think i got the peom yay to me if i am right :look at you look at you again you dont find what you wish you wish what you find they asked me for my help ill help you instead: no typo : it was not for them: oh and remember i am only a kid so dont laugh or anything if i am way off

So the clue is that you have to axecute the log file by renaming it to a .bat file?
What is this? Viral infection for dummies?
It’s like an art exibit that requires you to inject yourself with an unknown substance. as in, PSHYEAH RIGHT!

Found the minidump thing. must try it again. These games are fantastic

o sh**. im really confused. what did that batch file just do? i didnt get to end of game, so maybe it didnt do anything, but my cpu beeped, and thats scary for me. any ideas?

nevermind, found the poem. beat it. scared me tho. very complicated. dont kongregate post it. way to complex for it.

Haha, all your games are too easy, but still fun.

simple not easy

easy.. just look at the comments and use ur common sense

MAKE A FULL VERSION!!!!

HEY! Okay thats Crazy i have make the minidump.log file in a .bat file then i become a file with the name <<3 WTF!?!!?! HELP ME PLS!? IS IT A VIRUS or SOMETHING!?

No, it’s not… I never did the .bat file experiment, though

eh… hm… okay but it is dangerous for my pc or is it spyware or something?! tell me please!?

No.

….hmpf…and is it really over when i use this damn .bat file?

….hm…. but 64 reminds my nintendo 64….O_o

okay aother question just say me for what is that <<3 pls!?

i have not think that this good games are make by an hacker… its a great pity….:/

…i think too he is a hacker…:/

“Look at you,
you don’t find what you wish
Look at you again,
you wish what you find
They asked me for my help
but it was not for them
I’ll help you instead.”

is that the end????

no make the .log data in a .bat data then you will see what comes a big <<3 and i dont know what that is!?

I have now this <<3 file what now?

Wow i got 2 of those green creatures
^^

me encanta que sos argetino y te postean en igles. buenos juegos, no entendí nada igual. today i day me gustó mucho

how do get more than 1 green thing

The minidump.log was obviously not meant as dos code. Well, that is to anyone who has any knowledge of dos code or programming in general.

The beeping most likely results from the series of errors command prompt receives in quick succession.

As for the created file “<<3", it would appear somewhere in the midst of jargon is a recognizable command used to append a log or otherwise some sort of file. Then again, I have not searched for any evidence of this.

Anywhooo, this like every accessible other game by Daniel is a gem that has left me wanting, and hoping for more.

I can’t believe it…
After hours of unsuccessful trying I searched for a walkthrough on youtube and realized: THERE IS A BUG!!! I CAN’T SEE THE WHOLE MAP!!!

Here is a snapshot:
http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/big/firefoxbug9wio4dk0.png

I’m using:
- Firefox 3.6
- Java 6 (Build 1.6.0_18-b17)

Thank you for wasting my time…

Now I’ve tried using the IExplorer and it works.

Keep doing such grates games! They are all realy ingenious!

BTW: Sorry for my bad english.

OMG… The Bug was sitting in front of the computer… Somehow I activated the zoom function of firefox which only resized the frame, not the content… so… it was a false alert… sorry… ( maybe you can implant this as an additional riddle )

How do you get two bugs? All I can get to is the 64 ball and then i have the error code. Once you get the log file, is there actually anything else to do?

Leave a comment

Secret of Software 64

My Games!

Interesting Articles