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We know how to obtain the three heart pieces (or red cubes, if you want), but now? What next?

It just doesn't make sense that after doing that, there's no third ending, the Heart Room was already gold, and strictly nothing happens in it.

So, like treyher says :

Congratulations, searchers. It seems your quest is at an end (monolith solved), but the harder one begins now, and it begins with Where, and Why?

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So I decompiled FEZ.exe and found codes that only work when you're standing in the heart room beyond the 64 cube door...

You actually enter the codes in the menu screen—there's a separate code for both the letters and numbers artifacts. When you do both, the heart disintegrates, and the game does a faux-reboot!

But I can't find anything else, past that. Nothing seems to change, and there's no extra ending. The heart room does remain empty though.

People are claiming doing this on xbox actually corrupts their save—so beware, and maybe copy your save first if you're trying it there.

See this GameFAQs post for details, or a video of the heart disintegrating on Youtube.

The questions still remains...how were we supposed to figure these codes out? Were they "cut" from the game? Do the faces of the artifacts lead to them? What is the purpose of the alien skull artifact?

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It is highly probable that this particular puzzle was designed as a nudge to Kokoromi.

Kokoromi is an indie collective, Phil Fish used to work with them. Look at their logo :

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As you said the heart room was already gold, I doubt there's anything more to it.

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Do you have any actual information to support your answer? – murgatroid99 Apr 21 '12 at 0:02
This is just an easter egg, a wink to Kokoromi. – Gimlao May 9 '12 at 15:23
Looks like an input sequence (← A ← A RT A ↓ LT) to me. – Keaanu May 24 '12 at 19:14
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There's no additional ending because the 64-cube ending was the final ending. The heart cube piece trials were considered Easter eggs for adventurous gamers.

Also, the treyher quote is trolling. The game is partly about inventing explanations for things that cannot be explained, so while some connections between hidden rooms can be uncovered, there isn't always something next1 2 (though the devs would prefer that you would think so).

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Do you have any actual information to support your answer? – murgatroid99 Apr 21 '12 at 0:01
I gave actual information. If you want support, there are only two endings: 32-cube, and 64-cube. Polytron's Twitter account has stated that the alphabet cipher is not needed for the game, just Easter eggs. Since the "What's my name" puzzle was the only one that required the alphabet cipher (for a heart cube piece), I concluded that the finished heart was an Easter egg hunt. – Sean Apr 22 '12 at 5:57
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There is discussion going on regarding the discovery of images hidden in the soundtrack files.

The pictures that have been found so far are collated in that discussion. Examples can be seen here.

This mystery may be the key to the why the code for the monolith was what it was (as hinted at in theyher's "WHERE and WHY" post) or it may be a new puzzle.

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