I feel like it would have been funny if the game was like "So... you just happened to have a file from 1970 on your computer? I am suuuuure this file is totally legit and not tampered at all. Let's calculate the damage values... WOW, they're so big that they cause an integer overflow. Enjoy your 1/1 card"
@@MarkoIronFist That’s really interesting. I oughta learn more about programming history and development; stuff like that begs for greater understanding
I actually legitimately found a file from around 1970 (if not earlier) when I fought this boss, it turns out that some of the most fundamental files your pc needs to run were created in that period and have never been replaced. So it was really damn scary when I in essence took the fucking soul and life of my pc, and PO3 came at me with the "I will delete the file if it dies"; so I just didn't play the card. Moral of the story: everyone has a file from 1970 on their computer
@@makeshiftparadox You don’t have to actually delete it. The game only looks for the name of the file in the folder when it asks you to delete it. Hence, you could alternatively rename the 1970 file or move it to another folder, and Inscryption won’t know the difference. It feels weird that it’s possible to outsmart Inscryption like this, but then again, the devs were never going to be too invasive with this to begin with; it’s already scary enough that the game accesses your irl pc and you can only continue by saying yes, so forcing the player to delete something they own {which is potentially dear to them} would be a step too far. Rather, making them think they have to is part of the fun, especially since those who take the whole thing seriously get to laugh and cry as they earn a pity achievement and P03’s mockery, before learning online afterwards that they didn’t have to delete anything I wish I didn’t get spoiled on the whole thing; I could’ve ended up deleting a 2009 mp4 of Twilight from my pc organically 😂
Fun fact: I have a perfectly legitimate download of Magic the Gathering 1997 (aka Shandalar) on my computer, and those files are still read as being from the years of that game. So I got a thicc boi in this fight completely legitimately.
@@hoodyk7342 That only happens if the in game card gets destroyed, mine lived the entire fight because I played with that in mind. Plus, I made sure to pick a file that was nonvital.
I feel the game should have let you attempt to use the OLD_DATA for this part, giving the option for an alternate ending if you force P03 to delete it. Or alternatively P03 just tells you to use a different card.
@@magicmotte788 Exactly, P03 would likely make it have infinite health so he wouldn't have to try, and if you then hammered it then he would probably just put it back in your hand or something.
You can also crash the game with sufficiently large image files. The game tries to display any image you select on PO3's face, which is a problem. Pick any other filetype and it won't try to read it.
This actually brought back some memories lmao I still recall playing this game a year and a half ago or so and when I had to pick a large file. I picked an image disk that was around 30 GB
The game can't actually delete any files from your computer because then it would be classified as malware, so it creates a text document with the same name as the file you chose, with a message inside it along the lines of "I don't have authorization to delete any files, be a good sport and do it yourself" there's a secret achievement that is rewarded to you if you delete the file (the original, not the .txt file, so obviously this is only really viable if you choose a file you don't need), and when you load up the game again P03 acknowledges that you followed the rules, pretty cool little easter egg
on the PC version, nothing special happens since if it actually did delete files the game gets counted as malware on the console version, however, it's possible to make Inscryption delete itself (in game)
So the game can’t actually delete files, what it does instead is make a text file asking you to delete it in the same folder as the file you choose, and if you delete the file, or just move it to another folder, P03 will comment on it and you get an achievement
what other people are missing however is a comment on the fact that the game KNOWS you chose a game file for the second phase. Archivist says "be careful with that one!" or something along those lines if you look for and choose the .exe file for inscryption (or something that's simply been named it, the most the game can do is read the names, ages, size, and if a png the image on the file). I can't remember the exact line word-for-word, but the game does recognize it's own .exe file being chosen, as well as the .exe files for daniel's other games, pony island and the hex. beyond that, the most the game does is make a text file that, depending on what you choose, says one of two things, both being written by either p03 or the archivist, depending on how you want to read it. most files say roughly that a delete was attempted but failed and that to honor the game rules you should delete it yourself, but a game file says something along the lines of "as much as i want to honor the rules, i also want to keep playing". hope you don't mind the wall of infodumping, i like this game a normal amount 👍
AFAIK modern computers store the time variable as a signed integer meaning that it should be possible to change the creation date metadata of a file to be before 1/1/1970 which would be hilarious if the game realized how impossibly old that file was.
Yeah, found that out like a month after uploading this :p It's probably the same anyway, since on Markiplier's playthrough he gave a file from 2001 and still got 4/4
This part of the game normally deals SERIOUS mental damage to a player or they Just purposely handicap themselves. As an aspiring youtuber, I had multi gb recordings that I was simply never going to get around to editing so those were gone. And when I originally made my pfp I made sure to make a backup the same day. So I uniquely got the maximum stat bonuses the game would let me take on both of these events and didn't lose a single file that actually mattered lol
@@Lukas99g i recall the fact that the game basically leaves a txt that sorta breaks the 4th wall, saying "yeah technically this should be deleted, but im not gonna delete one of ur files lol. feel free to delete it urself" but dont quote me on that.
i was confused during this part, didnt think it had anything to do with my real files i gave it a system file, thank god you dont actually have to play the cards
Augh, I wanna know the stats on how the size and date correlate to stats given to you- the limit is 8 damage and a 4/4 card, but when (size and age wise) do you reach those limits? What do the graphs look like?
didn't see anyone comment on this but I think it's interesting: If you play this fight on consoles, you actually get to view inside luke's computer! Not only is there ANOTHER ARG hidden inside it, this time about the melter's history, but like has suspiciously old files just hanging around his drive, IIRC he has a file from ~1100 and you can actually use it. Doesn't have special dialogue tho
The maximum filesize on Windows 10 is 8 petabytes. This would of course be difficult to achieve through regular means, but one could easily mount a corrupted storage medium whose file descriptor table contains an entry for an 8PB file that, in reality, does not exist. However, the game does not have any dialogue beyond 1TB, so unfortunately, such techniques cannot be used to instantly win the battle.
The big file was a sparse file, it was just reserved, but didn't actually take up any space (and didn't have any data). The old file was done by faking the modification date The specific Linux commands used are: sudo truncate big --size=17TB touch -a -m -t 197001010000 old
The reason sparse files work like that is due to a feature called "holes" which is present in most of the modern file systems you'll come across. Essentially, if I file contains a long string of nothingness (specifically, a string of binary zeroes) then the filesystem will merely make a note that there's X amount of nothing at Y address instead of actually physically writing all that nothing down. Hence, creating an image file of a 500GB hard drive that has only 15GB of data on it will result in you having a 500GB file that only physically takes up 15GB.
Hey, fun fact about this boss, if you put one of Daniel Mullins’ other games in the second phase where P03 threatens to delete your file, you get some secret lines!
really wished it gave you something ridiculous if it was more than a hundred GB or something, and as a plot twist, it has that sigil similar to the skeletons, it dies after attacking.
This just popped up in my feed for some reason but I got a questgion, Does the game show the actual filesystem of the PC or did they just mimic the ones found in UNIX-likes?
If you haven’t yet, make sure you don’t learn anything else about this game before playing. Yes, this generally applies to most games, but it ABSOLUTELY applies here. Ask anybody else here who has finished it, they’ll second that.
Ive heard some claim that "oh the game isnt allowed to actually delete your files otherwise itd be considered malware" But like...... you're consenting to it? Is that actually the reason? Surely not.... If you fully consent to it (by seleting it knowing full well it can be deleted), then surely its not considerd malware if the file you chose and you agreed to get deleted actually got deleted. Thats like if i go to CMD and willingly type "del ". Oh nO NOw thE comMAnD lINe pRoMPt iS mAlWaRe betTEr dElEte iT. Please please please tell me that its not "because its malware" and its actually "because the dev was too nice". I would much rather a benevolent game developer than the misslabeling of malware
The game is called Inscryption. It has a lot of 4th-wall-breaking and mixes that with Yu-Gi-Oh type combat and rougelike rng. It doesn't get rid of your files, but it knows how old and big they are.
It doesn't actually delete the file, rather it just makes a .txt file in the same folder as the file you selected that tells you to "delete it yourself"
If you have an unit of a gamer PC (building it yourself is usually cheaper by the way) disk size is usually 3 tera, but sometimes like, 30 if you have an actual monster PC I think. I wonder what they put in that file.
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