Portal - Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations

Valve add new secret puzzles to Portal, teasing something
1-Mar-2010 What new game might they tease through Portal?
A mysterious update to Portal has changed the radios in the game to emit a series of twenty-six secret codes when brought to the correct locations. The Steam forumites are still hard at work cracking them at time of writing, but what's been deciphered so far sounds like a boot-up sequence for some computer system - perhaps one that's still alive?

Chunks translated so far read:

Interior transmission active
External data line active
Message digest active

System data dump active
User back up active
Password back up active

And the phrase "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" in checksum form (a way of verifying data). Best of all, one of the morse code snippets translates to the words "BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP" and so on. Translate that as if it's Morse code, and you get: LOL. Classy, Valve.

Check in with how the deciphering is going in the Steam thread. It's likely to be cracked soon, and it could well be the first hints of a new Portal game.

Update: some of the other sound files can be converted into images, showing a computer keyboard, Aperture Science letterheads, and some formulae. Check them out here.

Thats why I love Valve.

I thought it might be something like this when I read the changelog yesterday.

I've been reading the Steam forums, it's so crazy! Over 3000 posts on this topic alone.

By now, way more has been deciphered than in that post you linked, but it's not quite sure yet what it all means.

Yes, there are some posts that try to summarize everything, but most of the are outdated.

What it all comes down to is this:
There are radios in portal, as there always used to be. You need to go get those radios, pick them up and carry them to some location. Suddenly it will start transmitting morse code or SSTV. SSTV is a way to transmit pictures through sound. In total, there are 26 radios, 4 transmitting morse code and the rest SSTV.

The best summary is here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... ?t=1169027

What this summary doesn't mention so far is, that they have found a phone number, used for BBS (a 90's forum system through modems). If you connect to it, you get some weird shit like this:
http://www.facepunch.com/showpost.php?p ... count=1441 (2nd picture is an elephant)
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6278/portalascii.png

What it all comes down to is this: EPISODE 3 and PORTAL 2. Many of the hints feature some known theme (image, voice, ...) of one of the games. Speculation is, that the next part of those games will feature them more interconnected than before. (as we already know, Portal takes place in the HL universe)


The funniest thing is this: One radio transmit morse code, which if you spell it out translates to:
BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP
BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP
BEEP BEEEP BEEP BEEP
And if you translate that back it spells out LOL.
Valve is trolling us!

We have coordinates, blueprints, hailing frequencies. Quite ingenious of Dr. Mossman to hide it all in the carrier wave.

just release/announce the game! i seriously cant be bothered with all this bullshit teasing... just gives the steam forum "insert name here" something to waste the days with... no offence, im just sick of it... id rather have the game given to me in a timely mannor than get an erection from a load of BS propaganda then receive a 4 hour game 700 years later.

How exactly was the audio converted to images?

They don't look like EP.3 images, maybe more likely something to do with Portal 2.

http://tinyurl.com/yecbo5q