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Have you ever heard of a game called LSD: Dream Emulator? If you never have, I'll give you a rundown; if not, feel free to read on.
LSD: Dream Emulator is an old video game that came out for the PS1 in 1998. It was only released in Japan, and came out in limited quanitites, and is a pretty rare game to find out in the wild.
In the game, you explore another man's dreams over a period of 100 days. Some dreams can be drastically different from others, while some can be exactly the same, just with slightly different textures. If you want to know what the gameplay's like, watch a video on YouTube.
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After it's release, LSD: Dream Emulator developed quite a cult following from a dedicated group of fans, who seem to enjoy the game's psychadelic setting. However, did you know that there was going to a sequel to LSD, of sorts? And no, I'm not talking about a fan-made game.
I'm talking about an official release from the company that made the original. It was going to be called LSD: Dream Simulator, a variant on LSD: Dream Emulator. The game went into development around April 2001, and development finished about a half year afterwards. A playable demo and trailer was sent out to event hosters, and was meant to have been shown at E3 2001.
Unlike the original, the game was going to be horror-based, and was going to use the PS2's Emotion Engine to full effect, generating seeming random worlds in seconds, kind of like how Minecraft generates it's worlds. The game was never finished.
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The company which made the original didn't have enough fianancial backing to finish the game, and the game was left in a semi-complete state.
The game remained undiscussed until 2004, when players began running into an odd occurrence in their original PS1 copies of LSD. According to witness testimonies, those who are either die-hard players, or simply lucky, will run into a man wearing a grey coat. Referred to by fans as the 'Grey Man', the man only walks in one direction. There have been reports of the Grey Man moving it's neck to follow the player. However, the grey man only walks in one direction, usually forward. Coming in contact with him will make the screen flash a blinding white, and will make you lose your Flashback ability. People claim that they sometimes see a loose frame or two of previous dreams they've had in-game. Nobody has run into him on day 00 or day 01.
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Then, in 2005, the original plot for LSD: Dream Simulator was uncovered by loyal fans; according to the discovered brainstorming session, the game was going to be about a man called Naraki, who had become obsessed with LSD, playing it almost every single day. He had frequent dreams about him in the LSD world, with each dream slowly increasing the amount of trauma caused to the character. Unlike the other game, you could wake up at any time, apart from if you were in contact with the Grey Man. If you wake up early through a dream, the dream you have afterwards will be worse. However, if you last a long time in a bad dream, your dream will get better. Apparently, the chacter would enter something called 'Peaceland' on Day 50, and the game would end on Day 55. However, the ending was unknown.
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Very interesting green!!!
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After the Grey Man was discovered, people began discussing about who he was. Threads and forums popped up all across the internet, questioning who is they Grey Man was, and what his perpose was in-game. People said that he could delete save data, change the level, disable linking, edit the character's size, and fly. While none of these have been proven true nor false, there is one thing that seemed constant in every testimony given; the earlier the character is met in-game. The more aggressive the character seems to be. If met on Day 02, 03, 04, or 05. Horrifying images will display instead of the white flash.
02: A mutilated child's carcass, in the middle of a dusty road, surrounded by cactai and sand. The skin of the child is missing, and there appears to be the kanji symbol for 'Life' carved into his stomach.
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03: A mutilated cow, on the same road as the boy. The blood stain from 02 is still there, leading me to believe that this was all somehow planned. This is the second easiest one to find.
04: A greyscale image of someone with a shotgun in their mouth, with the image paused a few frames after the trigger was pulled. You can see fragments of bone, blood, and brain flying out of the back of his head.
05: The same image, but stopped before he pulls the trigger. There have been reports of a video playing after the dream ends, showing the man putting the gun down on a wooden table, and then going to sleep. Like the picture, the video is greyscale. This one is the easiest to find.
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2 copies on eBay, nearly £200 each straight from Japan lol...
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People began to question the disturbing nature of these photos, some giving philosophical reasons, as well as some obvious reasons. The mystery continued to swirl around the Grey Man's head until 2006, when one of the developers of the game, Hiroko Nishikawa, stepped forward and gave a reason for a good percentage of the things in-game.
"In the original dreams I had, the Grey Man was suicidal. A recurring dream that I had was me stopping him from shooting himself. In one dream, we were walking through a beautiful winter landscape, discussing things. He told me that the reason he is so suicidal is because his son was stolen at a young age, and killed by someone who has never been found. I based the images around what he told me, and things i saw in the dreams that I could not program into the dream due to technical reasons. The one with the cow is a weird one, mainly because I don't remember adding it."
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After this information was spread, people began to make connections to a strange dream that seemed to happen from time to time. in this dream, there would be a weird, deformed baby chasing them through a tunnel of flesh. The baby that chases them through the tunnel seems to be pretty close to Hiroko's 02 picture, and some people think of this baby, and the one that appears in 02, as Grey Man's child.
Around this time, a man by the name of Naraki joined the LSD forums. He appeared to be quite a whiz, knowing a fair feal of information on LSD, and some things other people didn't. He explained Hiroko's speech, for those who didn't understand it, and made some quite fundamental connections. After this information was uncovered, the LSD community kind of went dormant for a while, and didn't really talk about the Grey Man until 2008, when there was news of a man in Tokyo committing suicide after playing LSD.
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he man was one of the moderators of the forum, who had apparently found a way to meet Grey Man in Day 01. However, he committed suicide before he could take a picture, write it down, talk about it, or anything. Like Hiroko, the man kept a Dream Journal. The dreams matched what was planned for LSD: Dream Simulator, before it was discontinued.
The name of the man who committed suicide was Naraki. According to rumour, some unfinished copies of the game (About 4,000 thanks to copiers) still exist in the wild. Nobody who played a copy of the game talked about it.
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Thanks Greenman, just what I needed before bed... 😰
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Hyena wrote:
I do what I can. I'm actually planing on playing it this week. I'll name my game profile "Hyena"... Sleep tight.Thanks Greenman, just what I needed before bed... 😰
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I remember an old LSD emulator called "acid warp"
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GreenManXphile wrote:
This reminds me of the old Pokemon game that makes people commit suicide .he man was one of the moderators of the forum, who had apparently found a way to meet Grey Man in Day 01. However, he committed suicide before he could take a picture, write it down, talk about it, or anything. Like Hiroko, the man kept a Dream Journal. The dreams matched what was planned for LSD: Dream Simulator, before it was discontinued.
The name of the man who committed suicide was Naraki. According to rumour, some unfinished copies of the game (About 4,000 thanks to copiers) still exist in the wild. Nobody who played a copy of the game talked about it.
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Wow! Very eerie.. another great post GM! I seriously missed reading up on these on the GD
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〓M A X I M U S〓 wrote:
Read comments after a YouTube video. People said download PS1 and get a Japanese playstation network and you can get the game for like 8 Yen.2 copies on eBay, nearly £200 each straight from Japan lol...
As for the game in starting to think these Japanese game makers are a trippin lol -
YOU wrote:
*PS1emulator〓M A X I M U S〓 wrote:
Read comments after a YouTube video. People said download PS1 and get a Japanese playstation network and you can get the game for like 8 Yen.2 copies on eBay, nearly £200 each straight from Japan lol...
As for the game in starting to think these Japanese game makers are a trippin lol -
✯ ᎪᎡᎬᎦ ✯ wrote:
I wouldn't waste my time on a emulator copy.YOU wrote:
*PS1emulator〓M A X I M U S〓 wrote:
Read comments after a YouTube video. People said download PS1 and get a Japanese playstation network and you can get the game for like 8 Yen.2 copies on eBay, nearly £200 each straight from Japan lol...
As for the game in starting to think these Japanese game makers are a trippin lol -
GreenManXphile wrote:
I've never even seen one in RL can't comment on the quality of it.✯ ᎪᎡᎬᎦ ✯ wrote:
I wouldn't waste my time on a emulator copy.YOU wrote:
*PS1emulator〓M A X I M U S〓 wrote:
Read comments after a YouTube video. People said download PS1 and get a Japanese playstation network and you can get the game for like 8 Yen.2 copies on eBay, nearly £200 each straight from Japan lol...
As for the game in starting to think these Japanese game makers are a trippin lol -
✯ ᎪᎡᎬᎦ ✯ wrote:
YOU wrote:
*PS1emulator〓M A X I M U S〓 wrote:
Read comments after a YouTube video. People said download PS1 and get a Japanese playstation network and you can get the game for like 8 Yen.2 copies on eBay, nearly £200 each straight from Japan lol...
As for the game in starting to think these Japanese game makers are a trippin lolI won't be going anywhere near the game lol 😂😂
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who actually read the whole thing
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GreenManXphile wrote:
Plz, post us your game review.Hyena wrote:
I do what I can. I'm actually planing on playing it this week. I'll name my game profile "Hyena"... Sleep tight.Thanks Greenman, just what I needed before bed... 😰
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Got it for a few bucks from a collectors yardsale.
Traded it for a few CIB jrpgs and then the price hiked. Rather depressing as I'll probably never find it again. Thanks as always for the read, green. Never knew this game was as deep as it is.
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Very interesting read. Thanks green!
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Mr.D-Killer wrote:
👺 Most of us 👺who actually read the whole thing
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Why did I read this before I go to bed...😳😳
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Mr.D-Killer wrote:
Fuck off.who actually read the whole thing
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Just downloaded the game and have already played through 7 nights... This game is so messed up... Met the gray man on day 6 :/ also I've run into dead body's, massive two headed babies, missile launches, crazy bat things, a pink elephant, tie dye penguin, endless staircases... And this crazy dude that kept chasing me around :(
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If you guys like this google binaural beats and try those
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Has anyone done a wikki search for this game? The page is pretty normal, straight forward game descriptions... Until you get into the soundtrack section?? Me thinks someone hacked that page!!
I would copy and paste, but i KNOW someone would fet offended!
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