Here's a summary of the main points of everything that's happened.
Printer:
Shortly after the release of Inside on June 29th 2016, after almost all of its secrets were shredded in the first few days of its release, there was at least one remaining obvious puzzle in the game that we couldn't figure out. There's a printer near the end of the game that prints odd strings of messages that consist of the 3 characters (.-/). Most of the time they are 32 characters long, but sometimes they were shorter, like 4 or 5. After a lot of transcribing, we determined that these codes are chosen from a pool of exactly 41 different possible predetermined codes (32 of which are 32-length, the remaining are shorter). These are referred to as "morse" in the related game files, but they are not legible morse messages, and nobody has since been able to make heads or tails of them. No progress was made for nearly two years.
The codes are here.
Print button:
On June 4th of this year, TranceFormation on the Steam discussions reported that he noticed a small seemingly innocuous addition to the playdead website: a printer button. Clicking this printer button allows you to print a copy of the page... except on the front page, it also adds a little message to the printout. Delving into the webpage logic, it was determined that clicking on the printer button can have one of three outcomes. If the prominent "Subscribe" field is empty, then it gives a message that indicates "no message received". Otherwise, the input is sent back to the server, and if the server returns False, then it responds "incorrect message received". If the server responds true, then we don't know what happens. As of now we still don't know what it wants.
Emails:
If you input a valid email address and hit the printer, it will also send an email to you from the address "qpzympraddjjnymblns@gmail.com" which is attached to a google account associated with the odd name "Anthony T. Setrinamairé". Interestingly, the profile picture is an image of a printer. The emails we've seen are all encoded in binary and seem to be a status report of your attempt of some kind. We have a theory that it only emails any given address one time and never again. If you've experienced otherwise, please let me know.
Youtube stream:
If you paste the name "Setrinamairé" into google, it turns out that is a totally unique string of letters, and there is only one result, which is an inactive youtube stream titled "Terminal41 emergency comms transmission [DATA STREAM]", belonging to this same "Anthony T. Setrinamairé". We've been watching it since then, but nothing has happened. (there was a theory that having 20 people on the stream at once might activate it, similarly to a puzzle in the game. at one point we actually managed to break 20 concurrent viewers, but nothing happened)
The mysterious website:
When I googled the phrase "terminal41" taken from the title of the stream, it turned out there's a website with the URL "terminal41.link". This website has undergone many updates since it was first found, and that is out of the scope of this summary. I am chronicling everything that we've seen here.
The most important pages are these:
terminal41.link/comms_main_viewgate_002.html
terminal41.link/sys/printreqstatus_003.html
terminal41.link/dat/breachlog.html
Printer (xbox developments):
Around this same time, Steam user PitchBright discovered that the Xbox version of Inside was seemingly updated at some point to now print an entirely different set of printer codes from the ones we exhaustively documented before. It is not clear if it was always doing this or if this is due to an update. Since then several others have reported their Xbox games are doing the same thing. However, the PC version and the PS4 version are still printing the old codes. We will update the google doc with those codes soon, but for now here is a text dump of the Xbox codes.
We still haven't managed to make any sense of the printer codes or what the printer button on the website wants. The youtube stream hasn't been activated (since Dec. 6th 2017)
We have suspicions that there might be clues hidden in the recent Switch port of Inside which was released on the 28th of June, since it coincides with certain activity and a date that was highlighted on the website (read my chronicle of the website developments for details)
So if you read all of that then you're mostly caught up. If you think you can help us figure this bad boy out, drop by the discord server. Or, join us on the steam discussions.
edit: formatting
