Thanks! Great comment ; ) Don't forget to check out Pikol's old video in the video description!

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Yes perhaps - but there are similar weird sound effects in the PSU demo, the sound of Mono's disembodied voice followed by the first colossus walking ... pretty creepy! See here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6pgZZijq8u2oGQ.html (jump to 1 minute in the video).

I'm no expert (so please remember I could be way off the mark here), but my guess would be that it is a data fetch error (so yes I'm agreeing with the original idea here), due to certain files being missing (because it's a demo). The game initiates the playing of some kind of sound file, it's not there, and thus it defaults to something else. Same as in the video Nomad linked; aren't there various ambience files that play in the forest, which would not be there in the demo right? So it fails to play the right ones, then defaults to something else (and perhaps the doves appear because, much like them being tied to the disappearance of the clouds in the code of the game, maybe the playing of Mono's voice queues them). As for why the intro music gets skewed upon entering the tunnel in the colossus fight - whenever you go inside in this game, there is an audio effect that plays over your environmental ambience, that makes the ambience sound more "indoors" rather than "outdoors". You can hear this all over the place in the game, and in Nomad's videos whenever he's gone to a location that hasn't loaded properly, and then the game has snapped Wander indoors, you can hear the ambience bend in the same way to the "indoors" effect. For example here at 12:14 - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMthqMuol9nWYmw.htmlm14s There seems to be an audio effect that just gets laid over whatever is playing, to make it sound like you've gone indoors. When you glitch into an indoor environment, the effect seems harsher. Why this effect seems to have distorted the intro music is maybe a bit stranger. I would have two explanations (again, both might be totally wrong, but I'm trying): firstly, it could be that the music itself is not bending, it's just an audio effect playing over the top of it as the music cuts out in a very bizarre way, and a load of creepy ambience is played over the top; or, if the notes to the music itself are being skewed, it might be because the aforementioned audio effect that makes outdoor ambience turn into indoor ambience when you go inside somewhere has bent the note in the music the way it bends the sound of the ambience (again, check that link for an example). The proper parts of the OST that play in boss fights where you can go indoors might have been coded to play exempt from the "indoor ambience" audio skew, but the intro music would never have needed such exemption, given that it was never supposed to play here.

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This part gave me chills

Are you talking about that moment at 12:15 in this video, where that creepy effect happens? If you are, then no I think there is a more mechanical explanation rooted in the coding for why that bizarre stuff is happening. There's nothing else in the coding of the game that suggests there was any kind of content like what you are descibing in the game, and even if there was, it would presumably not trigger in a demo. In fact, stuff NOT triggering properly in the demo seems to be what's causing the weird effects. I already explained all this in a previous reply to somebody else's comment, so apologies to anybody who has already read it. I also want to stress that I'm just piecing together my own ideas, I could be really, really wrong. My guess is that the reason the demos to this game have always had strange sound glitches, with sounds playing where they shouldn't, is due to data fetch errors. Wander hits the activation trigger of a particular sound file to play, but since this is a demo (so a lot of the files are not there - for instance you don't trigger any of the colossus fights, their music is not there, texture files for certain areas seem missing, etc etc), the coding defaults to playing something else. This is why the intro music just randomly plays when other sounds are supposed to trigger instead. It's also why in one of Nomad's previous videos, it sounds like Mono's voice randomly triggers when you travel around the forest. There are loads of ambient sounds for the forest, which won't be in the demo's files, since you are not meant to go there in the demo. So that MIGHT be why the intro music and other random sounds are playing in this video. As far as that really bizarre sound skewing you hear, it seems like it is an audio effect that the game uses to change the ambience from sounding like "outdoors" to "indoors". Whenever you go from outside to indoors, the game applies this audio effect to change the way things sound to make it sound like you've gone inside a building or some kind of structure (for the howling of the wind, Wander's footsteps, etc). Of course, when you are glitching the game hard, as Nomad often does, you can never predict how the game will react. Something I've noticed is when Nomad is at a location where Wander is supposed to be indoors, but it hasn't loaded yet, and then it suddenly does, the game's audio "snaps" to the "indoors" ambience very quickly, making it sound like all the ambient sound has just skewed sharply. Check Nomad's video here at 12:14 - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMthqMuol9nWYmw.htmlm14s You can hear how the ambience suddenly snaps from "outdoor" to "indoor" right? It creates quite a sharp bend in the sound. So if we apply this to what's happening at that bizarre moment in this video, there could be two explanations: 1) it's not actually the intro music that's sharply bending in that creepy way, but rather the music plays then cuts out really bizarrely (which it had been doing constantly through this video) and it was actually the ambience skewing sharply, with that really creepy ambience also kicking in a moment later coincedentally; or 2) the intro music is indeed skewing, because it is being subject to the same audio effect that the game uses to skew outdoor ambience into indoor ambience (normal boss music might be coded to be exempt from the audio effect it lays over everything else so that it doesn't skew like this, but the intro music would not need to be given any such exemption, since it's not supposed to play here). So yeah I think I'm at least in the ball park with this stuff. I don't have the coding of the game playing out right in front of me to be able to confirm, but at least what I've said makes sense and has some examples to back it up. Hopefully I'm not completely wrong.

@@TheLastWanderingBard Wow - I never noticed that same effect that you call 'outdoor to indoor' was in my OPM demo video! In fact, in this PAL video I had a lot more content to show of this effect. That is, I would run down the stairs, then run back up to hear that weird 'whirling sound' over and over... I'll see if I still have the recordings. Awesome theory btw - props to you!

@@NomadColossus I'm just glad to be part of this community that you are championing man. If I'm even close to helping fans discover or figure out something then I'll be honored.

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Thanks! Appreciate the comment.

Thanks! Still love making them ; )

Thanks - I think sometimes my videos may seem boring to some followers, but as you mentioned - I look into all aspects of the game, media, art work, demos, posters etc. I have a ton of stuff I have collected over the years to post in a blog or a video... some rare, some not... maybe some day ; )

Yes, it amazes me also sometimes xD. However, only one video was ever uploaded about the PAL demo before (by Pikol), the link can be found in the video description. But I went a little further than Pikol and found some other cool stuff ; )

I guess some people find it creepy as you are walking on nothing! Imagine flying in a plane with the fuslelage being transparent! You would see below you the clouds and below them the earth, 30,000 feet below! Terrifying!

Yeah the ads have become a real pain - in fact I disable the 'skippable video ads' now as KZfaq has added its own ads on top of these. Also, I never check the box for 'unskippable ads' as they are the worst!

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Wow - really? Thanks! I myself follow a lot of YT channels that I like... such as The 8-bit guy, Cinemassacre, Ancient Architects, SicManDan, Gentle Whispering (ASMR ; ) Mr.Puzzle, Emergency Awesome, Shesez, BigMacDavis, Summoning Salt, Brien Foerster, Max Derrat, Looper & Alt Shift X to name a few... well, most of them!

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Yes, I agree - some parts of this video showcase never before seen things in a demo. Otherwise I would not have uploaded it. As listed in the video description, you will see the link to Pikol's PAL demo video - worth watching, but he doesn't showcase what I have featured.

Yes I have explored this cut scene: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rMBioJt8spjQnX0.html But there are no birds in my video? Maybe they added them in the PS3 version? I'll have to look into this further.

Yeah, we have really never understood why this area is in the game? It must be a leftover from a previous build.

since its a cave, maybe it was once the monkeys spot

It could have been a cutscene that lead to a cut Colossus

It could be worse. You could be stuck in a really bad Sonic phase for over a year like me.

Much like Pedro alluded to in his reply, there were so many different builds of this game. There are so, so many things that were cut slowly from this game due to how Fumito Ueda likes to design his games. There are so many cut colossi from so many cut areas, and they were doing this right up until the beta builds of the game. In fact, some were cut at such a last minute that some of their files can still be data mined in the game. So yeah I think there is a reasonable chance that different regions got different builds of the game.

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Translated: I remember watching Nomad's videos when I was 13, I'm already 22 and he keeps making videos, what an amazing guy! .... thanks!

There are at least three ICO demos that I know of

Makes sense!

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; ) OK, I'll include it in the next video I upload just for you!

I don't think so - all we have is the Roc footage sadly.

There is something in the works - that no one has ever seen before... hard to believe after 16 years, but it's true! Something old and never before seen... just be patient, I'll have it uploaded soon.

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It might be possible... but would require a lot of work - and in the end, we already know what it looks like, so there's no reason to do it. I might be able to load the low res lands at F6... just need to find the right addresses.

Yes, I should have said 'warp' through these... as the word 'hack' has negative connotations!

You are correct! Bluepoint used the PAL PS2 build for their PS3 update, then later for the PS4 remake.

No, it's still the same 9 map squares as in the other demos... just this time you can ride further along the bridge... in the OPM and PSU demos, Agro would fall right after you passed the cliff above the water of the 2nd boss area (Quadratus).