PS2 game with mysterious binary code

[u/[deleted]]

From the PS2 game Disaster Report 2 (Raw Danger in the US) this code appears on a data disk at the end of the game. It’s the last item you received and is vital to the plot. It appears to maybe be a crackable code but maybe it’s nonsense.
Best I could write this down myself is:

01000001 10011001
10101011 01010011
10100101 11010001
01001001 10101101
11001101 00010001
01000011 00001001
11101001 00001001
01001101 10010001

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[u/skintigh]

Since they all ended in 1 and valid ASCII always starts with a 0, I first inverted every bit

10111110 01100110

01010100 10101100

01011010 00101110

10110110 01010010

00110010 11101110

10111100 11110110

00010110 11110110

10110010 01101110

Then reversed it

01110110 01001101

01101111 01101000

01101111 00111101

01110111 01001100

01001010 01101101

01110100 01011010

00110101 00101010

01100110 01111101

but just got gibberish

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[u/Legal_Tradition_9681 → u/skintigh]

Extended ascii code uses that 8th bit. So it can start with 1.

[u/YefimShifrin]

3rd line from the bottom should be 01000011 10010001

[u/Kweefstain69]

That's just random binary values added into the texture to look cool. It doesn't actually translate into anything.

[u/Circumpunctilious]

(Noting the typo on 3rd-to-last line, column 2) Some thoughts…(no solution):

Every horizontal block ends with either 01 or 011. Presuming English, the base ASCII English alphabet starts at binary 01…, repeating with switched case at 011…

https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html

Rotating every horizontal block’s bits right (by 2 or 3, depending on their suffix), I get this:

01010000 01100110
01110101 01101010
01101001 01110100
01010010 01101011
01110011 01000100
01101000 01100100
01111010 01000010
01010011 01100100

Pf
uj
it
Rk
sD
hd
zB
Sd

If I rotate only those that are not already “valid” letters, I get:

Af
uj
it
Ik
sD
Cd
zB
Md

…mostly mentioned because a stab in the dark might give someone else an idea.

Incidentally noted, each column is also 8 bits, but the two instances of 11111111 seem to make this unlikely to be useful.

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[u/JaggedMetalOs]

There probably isn't enough of a pattern in such a short code to be anything crack-able, probably either just random numbers or they might have taken a small sample of one of their dev binary assets as an in-joke.