In Tornado Outbreak, death screens are single colored screens that appear on the screen. They are commonly referred to as death screens because upon triggering, the game becomes unresponsive and requires the player to forcefully turn off the console. These are referred to as fatal errors.
Types[]
Blue[]
The Blue Screen of Death is a common Cyan-colored death screen that occurs when a fatal error occurs within the Lua runtime for the game. Such notable examples of triggering a Blue screen is:
- Retrying a level while a dialogue popup is on-screen.
- Forcefully increasing Category Level of the tornado from size 0 to 10 in Chicken Con Carnage.
- Freeing a Water Whirl with no animations present on the model.
Purple[]
A purple screen triggered on Xenia Canary, an Xbox 360 emulator.
In most cases, a purple screen is an indicator that the game cannot read specific game-data. This commonly applies to in-game maps files and rarely, the game's executable (main.dol, default.xex, eboot.bin).
Red[]
A Red screen occurs when the game runs out of memory all together. The error can also occur, albeit rarely when the game is unable to read specific files ranging from cutscenes to lightingdata on the disk due to the memory issues.
Green[]
Green screens are the rarest type as the only possible way of triggering a green screen is by modding the game. It occurs when Lua runs out of memory in-game.