corrections (so you don’t have to comment) > xbox games in a ps2 won’t show a RSOD, but rather an xbox screen telling you that it’s an xbox game and to put it into an xbox. i knew about that but… eh. i completely forgot that pc games and scratched discs exist > call of duty was on the wii, but i put it in the video because it was an identifiable video game acronym that was mostly popular on other platforms (also cuz COD on the wii sucked) > the xbox 360 three-ring RROD/360 slim RROD has an error code that can be seen by button combos. this just never popped up in my research so i had no clue > the amount of green rings on the xbox 360 means the amount of controllers connected, 1 through 4. it doesn’t matter in the context of the RROD, any number of green lights means the console is functioning well enough, but apparently enough people have complained that i got it wrong so here is me correcting my “video-ruining mistake” > not a correction, but i want to say that the point of this video isn’t to be a comprehensive list of console errors, but rather a hand-picked selection of them that i found, personally, scary to some degree. although you guys have mentioned a bunch that i think could end up making a part 2…

Funny how the Wii error screens tell you to refer to the manual, yet there really isn't anything in the manual about solving those issues.

i think the reason error screens are so scary is because the notion that something is wrong but you not knowing what it is is just terrifying.

I never understood why error messages always creeped me out. Especially when they happen in the dark. I think it’s because it’s a sudden jarring thing up in your face going “SOMETHING IS WRONG SOMETHING IS BAD”

Other video game consoles: An error has occurred. PS1: **starts violently coughing up and shitting blood & organs while having a seizure**

I just love how unnecessarily serious the Gameboy Player one is. The player didn't connect properly to the console, do I really deserve to get jumpscared because of it?

Surprised you didn't include the sound the Wii makes when it crashes. It's absolutely horrifying, and it happened TWICE to me as a kid. Really solidified my fear of computer errors.

The only error screens I was scared of were the ones that make some ungodly loud annoying sound, but not because of the sound itself, but the idea of my parent waking up and getting in trouble

i have verzephobia, which means i have an irrational fear of glitches, especially in video games, which sucks because i also find game glitches very facinating.

you should have made it cut randomly to the wii "disc could not be read" error in the middle of the video without any warning it wouldve been hilarious

Thank you for empathising with me and the many other children who were shit scared of error sounds

10:23 "Hey, what sound should we make our error message boss?" "How about a piano sound!" "... What?"

9:43 EMERGENCY MEETING

As a kid I was never scared of the Wii error screens, just disappointed that my game crashed.

To trigger the personified fear you need a corrupted PS1 disk or even a corrupted BIOS

It's amazing how a simple error message scarred me for life. The game suddenly stopping, all the music cutting out, the black screen with nothing but white text telling you something is wrong, and the overall sense of dread knowing you've just discovered something you weren't meant to.

6:34 I put in Mario Kart Wii while in the pitch black of my basement with the only light coming from the tv. Clicked on the button to play and this message appeared. Scared me to death because it was pitch black and the white text was ominous I ran upstairs crying. I was 7 at the time.

8:09 I swear. If I had a PS1, and witnessed this, im actually gonna cover my ears and my heart would beat so fast that this was the scariest thing in my life, no other things that scare me more then this.

I actually managed to replicate the personified fear numerous times. Apparently scratched disks can do that

8:20 holy moly, I'm gonna have nightmares tonight.

Though not an error screen, the sound emitted from a Game Boy Advance when it crashed scared the ever-loving *shit* out of me as a kid, and it's honestly still freaky now. In a way, "Fearful Harmony" is like a doorway into the past: different, but all the same familiar and eerie.

As a fun fact, if you eject a Wii or GameCube disc on the "cannot be read" screen, it'll clear that error state and replace it with a "please insert disc" one. You can then pop it (or another copy of the same game) back in to have it retry the read that faulted.

“Microsoft can’t get anything right, can they?” I just realized that this is when Vista was in development 💀

8:14 that sequence gave me goosebumps

As a toddler, I tried the game boy player a lot, and one day just forgot to ask my dad to help me plug it in. IT TERRIFIED ME AND I HID UNDER A BLANKET ON THE COUCH AND NEVER MOVED FOR LIKE AN HOUR 😭

PS2 red screen of death usually happened when lasers failed, which these days is getting more and more common. I think that's where it got its reputation.

Fearful harmony and personified fear also show on how the PS1’s sound system works with the built in BIOS sounds.

As someone with some wii modding experience, I can give a bit more info on the wii "system files are corrupted" error. When you're a modder, the number 1 thing that can cause this error is installing a corrupted wad (basically a modded wii channel) to the wii menu. If you do this, the wii will give this error every time you go to the wii menu, which is every time the console is booted up, basically bricking it unless you took the appropriate preventive steps (installing bootmii and making a nand backup (a backup of the wii's os), and/or using a usb loader to check that the wad is good before going back to the wii menu). Installing wads carelessly can get your console permanently bricked, so always have a recent nand backup on your pc in case something goes wrong

0:30 Your PS5 is too hot. That's why there are hot singles in your area

Fun Fact: The sound for personified fear is really just the sound for fearful harmony just slowed down! speed it up and increase the pitch by an octive, and you get the sound of fearful harmony but it fades really quick!

I remember the first time I saw the PS2 RSOD as a kid I put in a pirated Bionicle Movie DVD. In my head, it was the same, and was gonna boot fine. The way the DVD was formatted wasn't compatible though, and I just froze when the screen went red. I just wanted to watch the funny robots goddammit

The PS1 startup always creeped me out as a kid, I think because my dad got it just to play the port of Doom. Which has a super creepy soundtrack.

8:29 kinda sounds like a bell

I remember the first time I saw the PS2s Red screen of death. I ran outside because I was that scared. I got that error screen on a normal PS2 disc by the way

japan console error screen: YOU WILL DIE RIGHT NOW japan eas alarm: hey there! didn't want to alarm you, but there's currently something going on right now, want some mochi?

WOW, this was my first watch for this channel and the effort that went into the CAPTIONS/SUBTITLES alone is immaculate. the fricken sounds even had perfectly descriptive captions, blown away on that by itself. some bigger channels don't even put effort into subtitles. diving into your channel now brb lol.

4:21 might be false, the PS2 would recognize the disk as a regular DVD and instead you would see an Xbox related error message which would leave little Timmy in awe instead of fear

The big piano notes should be for critical system failures not “Oops, this isn’t plugged in correctly.”

8:37 oddly enough, I don't find this scary. I find it soothing. that lo-fi sound just does that to me ig

The error messages on the Wii always used to scare the shit out of me. Especially if I was in dark or empty room.

for me, that weird sound that the wii would make if it crashed always used to scare me

The worst moment is with the PS2, when you play a game and the game freezes. I remember this happening with GTA San Andreas and Spider-Man 2. The game freezes, but the sounds don't. The sound is kind of in a loop and that's it. Imagine playing a game, then the game turns black with a fail message on the screen, while the game sounds are playing in a loop in the background. Really terrifying

Personified fear and fearful harmony still scares the shit outta me

i love your channel so much dude, i have this strange interest in any kind of interrupting, creepy screens, and i love the way you talk about them in detail.

8:58 imagine leaving off at this part and hearing the *whoosh* without any context 🪑

That gameboy player thing would be extra terrifying because I would be expecting the weird noise when you have no game and it twists to the options

The wii over here was like "check the manual." And the manual had NOTHING. And I was so upset lmao.

6:46 I have a Wii in the room I’m watching this vid in and I’m thinking of playing Wii sports resort ping pong and I go to turn it on and I get met with that EXACT SCREEN😂😂😂

The wii in general just scared me. The ambient sound of just nothing but something always terrified me and still does. Especially the home brew channel. Just a happy starting up sound and when you open it. Practically nothing but something is there. I grew up being terrified of error screens, the daunting feeling of trying to play Mario kart or something and just seeing nothing or just plain white text telling me that I did something wrong must’ve led up to my fear of failure and doing everything wrong or just embarrassing myself. I have such a vivid memory of my dad turning on our wii and me just RUNNING upstairs covering my ears because I was so scared to the wii music and the random errors. It’s so haunting to me. Last night I actually had a dream about my wii and just error screens and then some massive monster comes to fucking kill me. These type of dreams with my wii have been with me since I got it and I’ve never recovered. Thanks Nintendo, for somehow scaring me for life with some music.

bk4 (a person who made videos on console errors) witnessed personified fear with a ps2 disc when they were sleeping spooked the shit out of him

5:50 kinda true i have a wii and wanted to play bowling with my grandma, and she knew how to play and even beat me and got almost all strikes. correction: she got a strike in 100-pin bowling

I never encountered the ps2 error screen as a kid, but the start up screen already terrified me. I just remember on a dark night in my cabin's living room as a 3-4 year old, I would sit on the couch ready to play shrek 2. But that start up screen with the sound HORRIFIED me

4:08 CORRECTION: Original Xbox games had a video that would play if you tried putting the disc in a normal DVD player (including a PS2) It was a pretty cool Xbox animation, followed by a standard screen telling you that this was, indeed, an Xbox game and not a standard DVD Video.

I remember that because I have a modded Wii, it will do the classic "freeze sound", which isn't usually scary, but it when happens in the middle of the night on a long Super Mario Galaxy playthrough wasn't really that fun.

I am happy to know that it's not only me who has an irrational fear of error screens.

2:17 I work alot with Xbox 360 hardware and can explain. The substrate interposer is essentially a very small motherboard than is the size of one of those square crackers. The "sodder joints" that cracked are microscopic balls that connect to a die the size of your fingernail. Then, bigger solder balls are put under the substrate and connected to the actual Xbox motherboard. There are also some smaller components on the substrate but those are for power regulation (basically control how much power the GPU gets). Hope that cleared things up.

I can still remember seeing a Disc Read Error on my GCN for the very first time: it was while I was playing Shrek 2, age 7. Quite terrified to say the least, now I've gone outta my way to try and trigger error screens in different GCN games through Dolphin.

i found 3DS errors scary as a kid. though they're just black screen with white text so maybe it's just fear of the unexpected. of course now that i've hacked my 3DS i'm more used to them but having it crash is still a bit scary

7:49 LoOkS sO LiGiT

9:42 I think the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive's error noise is kind of underrated. The low-pitched buzzing noise is alarming, but not as much as the Wii crashing noise or the Game Boy Player's error sound.

I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE FINALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS i always thought my fear of shit like this was a dumb thing, finally there's someone who talks about it! also you are CRIMINALLY underrated, i can tell you'll hit it big one day, keep it up!

funny thing is, the wii manual doesnt not even reference the corrupted system files error, just a phone number

I don't understand why do they have to make the error screens so terrifying

Fearful harmony would work so well to hide secrets in an ARG

Just a small minor correction, the green ring lights in normal operation denote the states of the virtual controller numbers. If no controller was connected, only the power light would show. One light meant one controller, all the way up to all four lights shining green if four controllers are connected.

This is a SUPER under rated video! I remember we had a wii, and a few of the disks were kinda fucked, they could play, but after a few minutes, it showed the "Cant read disc message" It was scary hearing the wii sports menu, and then all of a sudden... nothing

Mario party 8 was my favourite game growing up. 2021 I was still playing, when my game cut into a screen. The screen was flashing Black and white for about 3 hours. The Wii did not turn off, go back to the home menu or anything. My TV didn’t even turn off! I do agree with you Nimk.

I would be horrified too if my Wii gave up after getting a home run in Wii sports

GPU errors and 'pancake' crashes where one smaller failure in a console leads to the console being bricked are more common now than ever due to how complex the firmware and hardware is now.

3:42 Ah yes, the error with no screen is one of the most infamous death screens. 😅

I remember getting the fearful harmony (or personified fear im not sure anymore) on my old ps1 back in the day. I was scared of that thing.

thanks for actually putting the music used in the video and desc omfg

police car be like:

The PS3 Fat models also had issues with reliability, and when it failed to work, it just gave you 3 beeps with an orange LED. Those 3 beeps still sit inside the deepest layers of my memory

The fearful harmony is like *BOY DIDNT I TELL TO NOT PLAY GAMES AT NIGHT*

I have watched so many meme complications with the Gamecube intro being modified in someway(Specifically the one of the Gamecube Cube falling off the screen right before the final note), that I was caught so off guard in this video of the Gamecube intro actually finishing, and me actually seeing it properly for the first time. Lol

I used to get a three-ring RROD on my 360 often because the plastic shell at the tip of the power cord got cracked so the pins didn't always make a connection with the console itself. Replugging the cable made it run as intended :) Also, keep in mind that the 360s green rings have corresponded to the amount of controllers paired with the console, not just the fact it's booting.

I remember being hella scared to turn on my Xbox 360 because of the red ring of death

How do you not have more subs? Blows my mind. You can tell how much effort you put into your research, dialog, editing, etc. I'll definitely be subscribing with the multiple channels i have😂 (always forgot passwords, and went through and reset them all lol)

When these errors are scary, i just think about the computer warning me about something wrong

when i was a kid i was equally freaked out and interested in these sorts of things. i was the type to be horrified by the black void outside of the castle in sm64 but kept trying to clip out to it anyways

im glad i subbed due to the windows startup and shutdown sounds video, i thought from the lowercase title, it was gonna be like bill wurtz lol

every time i get any errors im always freaked out. and every time you get an error it's never for a good reason. so that's probably why i get scared

@5:27 The error screen happens on all ps models. (unlicensed disks, pc disks, damaged wobble, dodgy modchip, etc)

4:52 it kinda reminds me of how after sonic.exe got popular back then creepypasta writers just slapped .exe on the name of any game like that means 'cursed version tht kills you'

When I was a kid, I was scared every time an error message came up on our PC, so I’m really glad that never happened with my N64 or GameCube. 🙀

hahaha thanks for unlocking my memory of my friend at boarding school being sad that his 360 had RROD'd upon starting the year but a couple weeks or so later he realized he'd just forgot to plug in the video cable

0:34 home run so good it corrupted your wii's files

Didn't expect my man BK4 to have a shout-out at the end

For the Xbox 360 and PS3 the issue was in simple terms. The little metal joints hold the gpu to the circuit board. Their is layer of what I'll call glue their that helps take the stress off these metal joints as they heat up. The issue is the "glue" was the wrong type for the job. As it would get to soft at the temperatures the gpu runs at. This means the metal joints flex and break. When enough of them break the system breaks.

"Death" Melanie: Im back from the dead

Yeah idk why but that wii screen is terrifying. Maybe it’s just that a black screen makes us think of darkness, and darkness can be terrifying. I got terrified whenever a television warning test was on at my grandmas house. The sudden BEEP BEEP and then robotic voice was horrifying. Idk why I just felt like these two things had something in common and o felt like I should mention it.

This video was amazing, but to correct around ( 6:03 ), Call of Duty did appear on the Wii a few times, but overall great video still.

3:10 happened before but did actually get a RROD when it happened the next time

personified fear is the creepiest error in the world of consoles in my opinion, the sound and empty black screen is so creepy that some people will easily get nightmares if they see this error

My brother was freaking out over his red ring of death like it had been the end of the world only for it to start working an hour later and for years we never knew why. From this video I'm starting to guess that it was from the cables and now I can't stop laughing.

9:15 it's possible to trigger the pfear on all ps1 models, unlike fearful harmony there are a couple of disc images found on youtube made just to trigger pfear or mini pfear which you could burn for your ps1

7:17 YOO FEAROFDARK!

I really wish there was a word to describe the extremely specific existential terror I get from error screens and even certain words. I remember when I was younger, I got an error screen on my dad's Xbox 360 in the middle of the day and in a completely sunny room, and I saw the error and ran out of the room in fear. I can't explain it. Also, if anyone knows what I'm talking about, the screen you get when you lose connection to the internet on animal crossing new leaf, was always really creepy and sad to me. Resetti just sitting in the middle of a grey void with the error message, eugh

4:34 this legit scared me as a kid well the one wher it couldnt read the dis properly