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Important links

The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xqiqNn1RIM

The biography: http://vanishingpointgame.com/biography/

The flickr website: http://flickr.com/photos/inzenity/

Video clues/findings

1. The map (left of Bellagio picture) is the map of the Bellagio fountains, one of the sidewalks has been marked with a pen

2. Japanese text in the video (below the Bellagio picture) is the Main welcome text of the Japanese Bellagio site

3. She puts 1 watch in her pocket and 4 watches in a box, with a small red dart/screwdriver/...

4. She talks about "if they need help, they can look for the vanishingpoint tag".

When you search on Google for "vanishingpoint tag" you get to the Flickr site above.

Biography clues/findings

1. The formula and biography hint towards Leonhard Euler (not sure yet)

Other clues/findings

1. Changing your system time progresses the counter, but nothing happens when it reaches 00:00:00.

Edited by Zyphrax

I found something.

I think this website is somehow related to the game and post #74 here

http://galaxyrailway.com/C62/data-room/C62...62sinagawa.html

translated version here

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...Flanguage_tools

Rather unlikely, especially as it was last modified on July 16th.

Just to backtrack to the start, people talk about a diode on the cat. I have a copy of that image from ages ago and it has the "diode" on that too- my assumption would be that it is just a random bit of plastic/item, and its also the reason the cats reacting how he is and its not in game.

This is filling the hole 'The Lost Experience' ARG left- New way for me to waste my time, woo!

Start by reading the startpost of this topic

Important links

The video

The biography

The flickr website

Video clues/findings

1. The map (left of Bellagio picture) is the map of the Bellagio fountains, one of the sidewalks has been marked with a pen

2. Japanese text in the video (below the Bellagio picture) is the Main welcome text of the Japanese Bellagio site

3. She puts 1 watch in her pocket and 4 watches in a box, with a small red dart/screwdriver/...

4. She talks about "if they need help, they can look for the vanishingpoint tag".

When you search on Google for "vanishingpoint tag" you get to the Flickr site above.

Biography clues/findings

1. The formula and biography hint towards Leonhard Euler (not sure yet)

Other clues/findings

1. Changing your system time progresses the counter, but nothing happens when it reaches 00:00:00.

2. The website counts down to 8th of January 2007 6.30pm

Did I forget anything in this?

Let's keep up-to-date what we know...

Edit: added the countdown info

Edited by Zyphrax

Did I forget anything in this?

Let's keep up-to-date what we know...

You missed out that the date counts down to the 8th of January 2007 6.30pm

But the rest is all good, We need to see more high res footage. video, i still reckon that the video is missing some thing at the beginning? any one else agree?

The wrappers look like a xbox 360 button confige if rotated

EDIT: CES2007 will be on during the time when the countdown finishes? http://windowsconnected.com/photos/blog_pi...0/original.aspx All together Now. Announcing a new way to share, protect, and store what matters most.January 2007 could this be something?

EDIT2: The original video was taken down very quick, kinda reminds me of lost and their videos

Edited by gxblast

Anyone spent any time trying to find other sites that are doing the same as us to try and steal some ideas... Im assuming we need to figure out another key and since all the keys so far have come from that first cryptic image from keyboard rotations etc does the video even help us with finding another key??

Important links

The video

The biography

The flickr website

Video clues/findings

1. The map (left of Bellagio picture) is the map of the Bellagio fountains, one of the sidewalks has been marked with a pen

2. Japanese text in the video (below the Bellagio picture) is the Main welcome text of the Japanese Bellagio site

3. She puts 1 watch in her pocket and 4 watches in a box, with a small red dart/screwdriver/...

4. She talks about "if they need help, they can look for the vanishingpoint tag".

When you search on Google for "vanishingpoint tag" you get to the Flickr site above.

5. The black book that she is reading on the bed is:

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Vol 2 by Edward Gibbon

Biography clues/findings

1. The formula and biography hint towards Leonhard Euler (not sure yet)

Other clues/findings

1. Changing your system time progresses the counter, but nothing happens when it reaches 00:00:00.

2. The website counts down to 8th of January 2007 6.30pm

3317257387449e05029ze5.png

About as clean as it will get, from inzenity's blog. I just used ps on it a bit to make the text darker and more focused.

The pages are from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by 18th century English historian Edward Gibbon.

Some have tried to decompile it, but no great results so far...

I guess the ASPX page does the real work :)

You are not enough familiar with flash protection.

If you look in the decomplied flash code, you'd find out that it doesn't do ANYTHING useful. only some strange simple aruthmetics and IFs.

It doesn't send anything to internet. This is what you should find suspicious.

I solved the case: the code is broken and only parts can be decompiled. But it can be disassembled! And I see some interesting things there.

You are not enough familiar with flash protection.

If you look in the decomplied flash code, you'd find out that it doesn't do ANYTHING useful. only some strange simple aruthmetics and IFs.

It doesn't send anything to internet. This is what you should find suspicious.

I solved the case: the code is broken and only parts can be decompiled. But it can be disassembled! And I see some interesting things there.

maybe post it here?

You are not enough familiar with flash protection.

If you look in the decomplied flash code, you'd find out that it doesn't do ANYTHING useful. only some strange simple aruthmetics and IFs.

It doesn't send anything to internet. This is what you should find suspicious.

I solved the case: the code is broken and only parts can be decompiled. But it can be disassembled! And I see some interesting things there.

My reply was based on findings by other users. Im running a Flash decompiler now myself. The first thing I notice is indeed a load of IFs. Is this some form of obfuscation or really just plain useless?

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