14:12 H4, C3, K2, A1. Seems like the intended word to unscramble there is Hack, which would be fitting of the devs to throw in there.

The RDP unit of the N64 is the "Reality Display Processor". It's pretty much a discrete GPU that handles frame buffering, depth testing, and rasterising to take those tasks off the CPU. That generation of consoles were largely the earliest ones to feature hardware acceleration for 3D graphics.

I would guess a lot of the weirdness with Silo in particular is because it was a survivor of the rail shooter beta footage that exists out there. Silo was clearly one of the earliest levels that was finished enough to have a demo to show to the press, so it's not a surprise there's a lot leftover from the game's rail shooter life. Those missiles firing off would've been a helluva setpiece to rival the most badass Time Crisis moments for sure.

I love the mysteries of old games. Why did the developers and 3D modellers choose to do something? It's all lost in the mists of history.

A lot of the unused properties of Silo: the vents, the rocket launch, the ability to open and close the launch door, remind me of the end of Aztec. I wonder if they decided the two levels were becoming too similar and stopped developing those features in Silo, or whilst making Silo, became inspired to create Aztec. In regards to Ourumov's briefcase, they might have added it before realising that the player would have to kill Ourumov to obtain it, but Ourumov can't die in Silo because he is needed in Train, and by that point it was just easier to leave the briefcase and key in than go back and remove them.

Saw the notification come up and clicked off another video because I knew this was going to be TRULY REMARKABLE.

Regarding the blast doors that open in the roof when the player becomes unarmed, I'm 99% sure I read somewhere that this was added by the Devs so they could record some cool footage of the blast doors opening with the missiles clearly visible in the foreground. And that they forgot to remove this function!

I had no idea you could open the silo roof like that! That's so cool

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I’m 34 and just now am beginning to Speedrun. I chose OOT as my game but Goose you’re a huge reason for me getting into the scene. Love your vids thank you.

"Ourumovs briefcase" sounds like a physics experiment or something. Maybe they put Schrodingers cat in Ourumovs briefcase? 😂

Is it possible that the original objective was not to open the ceiling doors but to close them before launching so the silo exploded without the c4? I wished we knew!

It's fascinating that we continue to learn so much about the inner workings of this gem so many years after it came out!

JUST the video I needed tonight! So excited to watch!!

dude silo is such a good demo for the game in general. I remember playing it on a demo console before buying the game 🥺 I was blown away that the mission was failed if the scientists got unalived

At 13:10, "RDP" probably stands for "Reality Display Processor." It's another part of the N64's graphics chip. I can't link the source bc KZfaq thinks it's spam, google "nintendo 64 architecture" and it's the top result.

Goose: this is a briefcase... "Dear god!..." Goose: ...and you can't use the key "No!..."

I was so worried you were going to move along without commenting on Ouromov's cheeky little dance.

I'll bet if you can score an interview with one of the old devs from Rare they could tell you what they had originally planned for this stage in GoldenEye.

Great video, this is probably my favourite level to replay. Another quirk of the briefcase is that it makes the “click” of picking up a weapon as opposed to the usual beep of a gadget/item

I discovered something recently that I never knew about Aztec. I knew about the wall climb technique in the pit at the beginning of the level so I had an idea. After clearing out all the enemies, I wanted to run back into the pit and lure Jaws back to that wall so I could do the wall climb technique and shoot him from above. To my surprise, not only can Jaws shoot you through that wall from the bottom of the pit, but he can do the wall climb as well and that totally destroyed my idea. Hahahahaha I had hopes that it would work but it’s still pretty awesome learning something new after 25 years.

What a wonderful comfy video to start my morning with, you're always killing it Goose!

I love your videos exploring Goldeneye and its mysteries. I always save these ones to watch during prime comfy time.

When I was younger I tried to kill Bond in some weird places to try and get a bette view of some things. The ladder on this stage, the other side of the vent on Facility and the bottom of cradle were the ones I was obsessed with lol. Great video as usual!

I always assumed Ouromov's briefcase held an early Goldeneye key or prototype James could choose to take as a 2nd/alt objective for Mi6/Q to study. IIRC it was in a briefcase in the movie.

Love these obscure Goldeneye facts videos, Super interesting stuff.

I dont know why your videos interest me so much, I'm not typically into speed running lore...I've never ran goldeneye only played it casually. But your videos keep me engaged. Keep it up. Would love to hear you talk more about TWINE 64 again. I know it's a bit niche though

I really enjoyed this video dude. I like all your videos, but having the opportunity to hear your thoughts like this is very interesting.

Objective f) Launch Missile Obtain Ourumow's briefcase (launch codes) -> reprogram missile (use one of the computers next to elevator) -> open roof (Ourumow's keycard) -> leave Beta test: "... no, it takes too long. I cannot finish DLTK mode any more" :(

I love the wub calm intro and music you use often!~

Awesome piece of content. Loved the bit on the shaft. Had no idea.

I love these types of videos, I'd love to see more of this style

There’s always more to discover in this fascinating game

I've been playing this game since the 90s, maybe I read or seen it somewhere but I totally forgot about the rocket bay opening when switching to unarmed... weirdest thing ever. Always top quality vids man much appreciated 🙌

The biggest mystery of goldeneye is how I still haven't played it to this day

Never forget that weird feeling when I first tried the silo roof opening trick

The ultimate speedrunning & n64 lore channel of all time!!!!

I have a theory based on nothing that silo was one of the first, if not the first level that they made. It seems like it would fit the on rails style they were originally going for. Guards hiding behind boxes, stuff like that, classic arcade style level. Maybe these weird assets were from when it was still an on rails shooter. Also does anyone else remember ever seeing a video, or image, or something of Silo having like a mini boss, in like a different room? The model of the guy was that black suited model (like the ones in Cradle) and had the face model of that character with the dark eyes. Not Duncan Botwood but the other one with dark eyes.

Love these videos as always. Legend.

Always learning something new for the game I've played the hell out of. I love your content man.

you know when peach comes up and says “he we gooooooo”👰🏼‍♀️ you know it’s time for a truely remarkable goldeneye video

There's also a catwalk in one of the silos with a guard standing on it, but you can't actually get to it because the door goes nowhere. Also the RDP is the Reality Display Processor, it's a part of what you might consider the N64's GPU.

Congrats on the 100k subs !

It would be awesome to get guys like you and the other goldeneye playing gurus to have an interview with a few of the developers and ask away.

My favorite room is the elevator on 00 Agent. I remember it being a tough level.

I can make a guess on that opening missile door. They planned to have that as part of an objective to close the door, so that when the rocket launches, it would detonate inside the silo.

dope video, congrats on 100k :)

7:07 it's been since the early 2000s since I've seen someone mention this and I even forgot about it. 10:03 was something you wouldn't notice unless you really were paying attention with the level loading. A lot of interesting facts in this one!

great vid, facility could use an explore video like this, that level has lots of rooms that normally get overlooked

The tall vent in the rocket silo reminds me of a part in the Moonraker book where Bond is trapped in a silo and hides at the top of a vent shaft to avoid being hurt to a crisp when the rocket launches. I wonder if that might have been a potential subplot.

Hell yeah Goose. Love the goldeneye content. Can’t wait to watch

Once again, after two decades of playing the game and I still learn new things. Some I already knew such as the silo roof and new things such as loading jungle before B1 to get ghost guards

Nostalgic memories of watching DetStar's web page slowly load over a 56k modem

100K subs, what a milestone. Congratulations

I doubt it's true, but a silly theory that I just thought of: Perhaps an early concept for the Silo mission was to infiltrate the Silo, obtain the briefcase and key, use the key to open the roof and then use the briefcase to reprogram and launch the missile, and finally escape before the missile launched, possibly with the ultimate idea being to use the missile to destroy their own silo here. And then during development, the objectives were reworked into the final version of Silo, with those earlier ideas being recycled into Aztec instead. Theory aside, the main thing that sticks out to me is that it's quite similar to Aztec though, with the opening roof paralleling the exhaust bay and the implication that the missile was meant to launch at some point. I have to wonder if there is some connection there at least.

Keep up the good work, buddy. Been watching since the good old days, and I'll continue to do so.

What I like about these commentary videos is the funny ingenious way to bypass certain KZfaq filters by "passing away" enemies, such a great way to unalive our foes, from now on when I play I will pass away all my enemies. 😏😈

Developer doesn't complete a level map 100% KZfaqrs: "What could this mystery mean?"

Wonder if the creators of the game see these video`s and laugh their asses of. With reactions like "check out these dudes freaking out over goldeneye". Love your video`s and enthousiasm. Long live the nostalgia.

Ourumov's briefcase was the only mystery I remember about Goldeneye64 since I was a child. What happens if you shoot the Dostovei in his other hand, does he recoil like the guards? (here I am, talking about Dostoveis in the hands of enemies again 😂🤣)

I had messed around a lot on that stage but I don't think I've ever noticed the silo doors opening. I always figured that the hardware cards were for the GoldenEye. I didn't think it was an Easter Egg for the names of the Nintendo 64 hardware components. Technically. If there's a GoldenEye on that level. That would mean that there was a third one were as in the film it was indicated there were two? I can't remember if destroying it after taking the photo fails the objective though. But the silo does explode it on higher difficulties. I imagine the lowest difficulty is to help players learn the level. I'd like more videos like this. I find them fascinating.

I love your videos! Thank you for all your effort. I recently rediscovered Goldeneye on the Switch and Perfect Dark on Xbox and have enjoyed trying to beat them both on the hardest difficulties. I did not know about any of these mysteries! I’d love to see more Perfect Dark videos. Are there any mysteries in Area 51? 😂

My Friends Always great seeing a new goose video.

I wonder if the silo roof is as simple as the roof assuming it's an (unfinished) cutscene if it's on screen with no weapon.. just a weird quirk that wasn't bothered to be taken care of.. because who'd bother to go unarmed looking at the ceiling?

Oh my gosh, I always wondered what those circuit boards were about! That's perfect xD

I spent countless hours trying to glitch a way into that vent, and now I don't have to wonder anymore.

Muy buen video, con la de veces y años que lo he jugado, nunca me había parado a observar esos detalles.

I love this channel.

Sky loading really interesting, learned something new thanks Goose

I think Ourumov is just dancing like that because he has to pee.

This video intrigued me so much that I just had to go dig out the old N64 and see some of these things myself. Just like you, I went to silo and turned on my invisibility cheat (which took me a few tries to unlock I must admit). I was so interested in Ourumov’s briefcase so naturally that’s the very first thing I wanted to check out. I ran straight to the end of the level where I could find him. Just like you demonstrated, I was able to shoot the briefcase and sure enough he would just flinch and nothing else. But then I noticed something that you didn’t mention (maybe you noticed it and thought it was just TOO strange and unusual for this video)…. When Ourumov’s briefcase is shot, IF YOU ARE STANDING VERY CLOSE TO HIM, you can hear a very very feint and QUIET and DEEP voice sound from him. One that’s different than the usual sound of a guard taking damage for example. It sounds like he’s letting out a SIGH??? The sigh (to me) sounds as if he’s upset about something? Perhaps this was part of a scrapped mission by the developers… who really knows. (Hopefully I’m recalling this 100% accurately, I tested all of this 5 days ago) Anyways, sorry if you were choosing to keep this a secret for another video. It’s honestly just so strange and unusual so you’ll definitely want to check it out for yourself if you missed it. I mean.. I wouldn’t believe it myself if I was the one who missed it... If you do make the video, perhaps you could use one of these titles for it “SILO’S LOW SIGH” or “SIGH LOW on SILO” At the end of the day maybe my Goldeneye cartridge was just struck by a stray gamma ray and this was programmed in randomly. Hard to tell. A lot of crazy stuff happened that day, it was April 1st after all.

I’d like to think the briefcase contains Marsellus Wallace’s soul

I'd love to see an explanation of the backstory for the blood splatter that made it to the back of the gamebox, but never made it to the game.

My homies aren't here to give me the routine goodnight kiss. A video from goose will work just as well.

Very cool. Didn't know any of these things. About the sky textures, could they be used to slightly boost performance in 4P multiplayer?

This stage was originally programmed to be on rails like the Virtua Cop games....I think it is possibly the very first level they created

RDP: Reality Display Processor. The RCP is split into two parts, the RSP (Reality Signal Processor) and RDP; the RSP does all the vertex calculations, then the RDP does the texturing, blending, filtering, etc. to actually generate the display.

Amazing video

Very cool, my friend at the time had Golden eye N64, his name is Graham, If I stayed in contact I would for sure send him this video! Very cool

Every time I hear this little intro, makes me want to go hit a “nice shot” in Mario Golf!

This must be the satisfying pronunciation of SILO i've ever heard

Another interesting tidbit about the Silo mission is that the room where you can open the bay door, there is a balcony and guard that you cannot get too through normal means. I wonder if there are game genie codes that allow you to explore that area more.

Does the sky physically change to mirror another level, or just in the code? You've talked about it at length over the years, but every time you show footage I only see the default blue sky in the missile room.

make me think of kaiba when he blocks the gunshoot with his briefcase xD

Gratz on 100k stay true

I threw some knives out of the silo ceiling and the flipping noise kept going for awhile.

I actually did know about the room names. I recently dusted off my N64 after decades and started a new run in this game and was stuck on Silo 00 Agent for a while because I kept missing one of the silos when planting the bombs. So I started to keep track of each room I went in by remembering each of their names.

Don’t know any of this, thanks Goose!

Wonder if the briefcase used to be in multiplayer as a capture the flag item type deal, and the vent looks like it used to be the original starting position for the beta or something then you'd go up the ladder. That's just my guess though. Reminds me of when I was a kid I wondered why the balcony doors on frigate were locked and couldn't be opened near the control room (not the one downstairs)

6:23 I just tried this on 1964 emulator not too long ago and even though I couldn't open the ceiling, I discovered that both of those ceilings are transparent. You can shoot bullets, rockets, grenades etc and they go through the ceiling as if nothing is there. I threw a bunch of throwing knives to the point where the audio started to glitch out and decided to shoot rockets as well. This ended up crashing the game.

I have never known about opening the silo doors. Me and my sister would have made so many half life jokes.

Detstar! That's a name I haven't heard of in a long time, nice

To me the biggest mystery is why we have to prime a building with explosives, when it's going to explode anyways in 8 minutes.

Another strange thing: the timeline in Silo does not make sense. It says that it happen 2 years before the main story and that it takes place in Soviet Kirghizstan. The main story is set in 1995, the year of the movie, however, that would put Silo in 1993, 2 years after the USSR ceased to exist. Therefore, it should've been set at least 4 years before the main story.

Silo is so much fun, thanks for the video! Is it possible to have a plastique not attach to a surface and fail the mission? I swear I've seen it done, but I recently tried to do it, and couldn't.

The behavior of Ouromov with his briefcase strikes me as weird in LTK too. Ouromov normally drops the briefcase and runs as soon as he sees you. I assume this is because it’s tied to his health and he starts with zero health in LTK, but you don’t even have to shoot him once… I mean, it’s not like all the guards see you and just die in LTK, they have to be shot, even if shot in the gun. Not so with Ouromov and his briefcase.

Good stuff

I bet you would dance back and forth too if someone was pointing a rifle at you lol.

Silo is my favorite level for no real reason.

Effin incredible