I received a trophy called "Ooo A Piece of Candy!" while playing Saints Row IV: Re-Elected on my PlayStation 4.
The achievement says:
Found 100 Data Clusters in virtual Steelport. There are so many more…
Here is the trophy image:
I know this to be some form of binary, but for the life of me, I don't know any binary.
What does this binary sequence represent? Is there any significance to the sequence of numbers, either within the game world itself, or related to the game?
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Best Answer
It's likely just some random binary to express the concept of a "data cluster".
There is another achievement for finding all the clusters, called "A Real Cluster". It has a similar image, seen here side-by-side with the one in the question:
As you can see, the greater achievement has the same binary sequence, but embedded in a wider field of binary. Notably, this binary field extends beyond the edges of the image, meaning we can't know the whole thing.
Additionally, the highlighting of certain digits adds an additional level of information. We have 0, 1, highlighted 0, highlighted 1. That's quaternary, which is a base-4 system. Given that there aren't any common ways to interpret quaternary, I view this as additional evidence that the sequence has no real meaning.
Given this, I doubt that the specific sequence has an important meaning.
But, for completeness, here are some possible interpretations of that sequence:
1001, 0110, 1010 = 9, 6, 10
100101101010 = 2410 = 96A (hex)
Looking at just the highlighted numbers, we have:
1011100 = 92
Since the digits are not in a fixed-width font, I doubt that we are supposed to interpret the data as vertical columns.