"The 26 Evidences" (Written by Seeth)
(Reinterpretation of the Creepypasta: "The 151 cursed cartridges".)
-Translation made by a stranger:
Trials of this nature normally expire after 27 years, which leaves me a 4-month window to obtain evidence that could put them in check. Several colleagues at work warned me not to get involved in that case again. Last time I ended up with a suspension without pay for 3 months. There is something strange behind this, my boss is usually quite open with these topics and with this one in particular I noticed that he was strict. 26 years ago there were a series of deaths in children between 5 and 12 years old, ome due to self-inflicted injuries and others were classified as "sudden death", the press hid everything as accidents. Nothing more was ever heard about it and in general a blind eye was turned both in the investigation and in the search for the cause of these deaths.
However, this particular case does not let me sleep and I had to investigate it to the point of putting my career as a detective in the Japanese police in check as I mentioned before. About 6 months ago I came to the conclusion that the core company had something to do with the kids, they all had something in common, they all had acquired a copy of the first run of Pokémon Red and Green cartridges. On January 13, taking advantage of the holidays, I accessed the basement of Nintendo Japan, using my researcher badge. I left behind the guide who accompanied me, hiding in the corridors and shadows, I began to look for something that could be useful. In the middle of a narrow hallway, almost hidden, something caught my attention. On the door it described “Confidential. Authorized personnel only”, it had a code lock.
I knelt down to get a good look at the lock, I shined the light on the screen, I could see that it was an LCD screen, so it could only show numbers, three numbers. The password contains three digits. I looked at the number pad, it seemed new so it must have been used very rarely. However, I could make out something, three numbers were less dirty than the others. It hadn't been used in a while recently, but the oil on your fingers slows down the buildup of dust. A three-digit code, with three numbers and none of them repeating. According to my calculations there are 6 variations. It most likely must have a lock on a certain number of errors, so it's still a needle in a haystack. I tried the first combination, failed. Obviously it had to fail. I tried the second combination, failed. There was a static sound, something seemed to have activated. I took out my cell phone and activated the camera, I started to look around me.
I noticed that an infrared light had turned on. I made one last roll, and my hands could feel cold as the screen turned green. In that small room full of shelves full of filing cabinets there were two computers. I quickly opened the side cover of the older one and stole its hard drive. Immediately, I looked for the year 1996 in the filing cabinets, and stole all the pages that were inside. Returning the folder to its place. When I got home I flipped through the files, many were Game Design, Published Game Documents and some unpublished. Bingo… “File 1996: Pokémon”. The names of 73 people classified as deceased, another 16 as disabled. There are more people than what the press said at the time. I couldn't say anything to my boss, not at that time. But I think a reasonable amount of time has passed to be able to talk about it again. Obviously he couldn't go with stolen evidence, but if he convinced him he could request a search warrant. They must have had more evidence than mine in there.
To be safe, I'm going to open a virtual machine on my computer so I can see the contents of the hard drive. Ready... what things will Nintendo hide. As I expected a lot of encrypted files, I have a friend in Russia who could decrypt all of this, so I'm going to make a copy and send it via a secure medium. Archive (DC) Files (DC) 1996 (DC) Pokémon Crash (DC) The Pokémon source code, documents. (DC) Who is Yamaoka Hideaki and why is he as the game's composer? On the internet it says that the composer of this game is Junichi Masuda.
“Mr. Yamaoka. The reason for this is to notify you that due to your behavior we have been forced to terminate your contract. effective February 1, 1996. We want to thank you for the time you have worked with us since your contribution has been quite important, we are sure that you will find another job in a short time. Please deliver all the files and documents in your charge to Mr. Satoshi Tajiri and issue a summary report of your management this year, which will be read at the company's next monthly meeting. Also, we cordially suggest that you find psychological medical assistance, since we are concerned about your physical and emotional health.”
"… Mister?"
I stayed silent, it's 3 in the morning. They continued knocking for a while,
(Sound of paper sliding under the door).
Wait a few minutes to take the paper. A dismissal letter from the police addressed to me. How ironic, isn't it Yamaoka? They fired a man for strange behavior, they have each of the names of those affected. (DC) Number of cartridges recovered: 120. Number of cartridges destroyed: 120. They destroyed all copies of that game. All the evidence… no, not all. I still have the source code. Right now he's going to Russia. Its 5 am. I can't sleep. I'm so close to ending this. In an hour I will go deliver my belongings to the boss and ask him to continue with this.
"Mr. Watanabe, I come to deliver my belongings."
"Sir, good morning. Please put everything in the box on your right. It's a shame he has to leave us, he should control his impulses better. He was a police officer, not a vigilante."
"Yes sir. But what does he mean by that?"
"I'm referring to your obsession with the Nintendo 1996 case."
"Regarding that, sir, I wanted to ask you a favor."
"No, there are no favors. I know very well what he did. Are you aware that you were filmed stealing property from one of the largest companies in the country?"
"Sir... -I understand why you did all this. His older brother was one of the victims. I'm wrong? -Yeah. How do you know? -Because it's on the list. - List? How do you know about the list?"
"I hope you understand that an event of such magnitude cannot go unnoticed without help, neither from the government nor from justice."
"They knew it all along…"
I was right all along!
At that moment two people dressed as nurses entered, they are too big and strong to be just nurses, one grabs me tightly by the neck and arm. The second injects me with something and I start to lose consciousness. I'm so sorry it has to end this way.
“Get out of Japan right now, you sent me something very delicate, friend, they are going to look for you even under the stones. The source code that you sent me is from a previous version of the one they published, it is all the same as the one published except for some audio files. I used a spectrogram on the midi and they use frequencies that cannot be heard by people, I researched the subject and they are alpha, beta and delta waves. They produce a state of REM sleep, but while fully awake. They basically create vivid nightmares. That's why the children were hurting themselves, dreaming or perhaps even having nightmares.
According to an encrypted file, due to a factory error, 151 cartridges were manufactured with these files. They realized their mistake because they found 5 in the factory when testing the packaging. They only work on the '89 Game Boy since those are the ones that contain the necessary hardware to play the sounds through a speaker. You can't investigate further because no one in their right mind would open a collector's item like that, so no one is going to want to. help you. BUY A TICKET TO ANY COUNTRY AND RUN AWAY, all of that is confidential and if they discovered you in some way I don't want to imagine what will happen to you.”