A Mess O' Trouble (old mac game)

[Medisinyl]

(possible spoilers, but no solutions given)... Just noting that I've defeated the destroyer and stabilized the sun, in case you'd like any help with those quests...

EDIT: Finally starting to make progress on the Voidbeast realm...went back to one of my old saves to re-read what the vet told me to do...something rather simple I wasn't doing :/

[Medisinyl]

Well, I'm rather stuck on the Voidbeast realm still :/ I'm also confused about what function the hair is supposed to ultimately serve. I've found gears made from the hairs that seem to suggest I'm supposed to slice and cut notches in the one I have (to make another gear to complete the system), but the hair also fits in the bio-door thing, as if it's supposed to have those notches cut in it :/ The "cylinder" sounds like the perfect item to go in there, but I have yet to find a use for it.

I've tried a bunch of ways to get the hair to be cut, but can't figure it out :/

Also, I've only been able to get the one sliced horn open (the one that has the pull lever on the same screen--the other one [lever] still does nothing for me).

Any help on this realm would be appreciated.

Oh, and I had gone back (to a previous save) to see if the mytes would do anything with the hair, but nothing...

[Medisinyl]

i emailed ray because I thought that the platter was supposed to fit in the horn that opens but after that I typed the correct commands to learn that the platter does not fit. I can't figure out where that thing is to go, but maybe whence I find the hair i can combine them.

If what you're referring to is called a "platter" in the game, I don't believe I've gotten such an item. Do you recall how you got it?

[djchilxxn]

Man I wish I had had the foresight to save my game as..periodically... grrr. i saved about two screens from dying of thirst and my game is now f***ed.

I even emailed ray to see if there was a fix for this sort of foolish behavior, and I toldme I was outta luck.

Guess I'm moving on to twisted, (to which I remember I couldn't get past the third frame when I was younger so hopefully my powers of deduction have grown in the last ten years....

as for the platter you can't find, I'm sure you need to combine it with the horn I couldn't find...... alas I have no idea where I found it (although I am pretty sure I found it on the voidbeast). I may actually start the game anew now that I know all the secrets I bet I could catch up in a few hours.

good liuck!

[djchilxxn]

Man I wish I had had the foresight to save my game as..periodically... grrr. i saved about two screens from dying of thirst and my game is now f***ed.

I even emailed ray to see if there was a fix for this sort of foolish behavior, and I toldme I was outta luck.

Guess I'm moving on to twisted, (to which I remember I couldn't get past the third frame when I was younger so hopefully my powers of deduction have grown in the last ten years....

as for the platter you can't find, I'm sure you need to combine it with the horn I couldn't find...... alas I have no idea where I found it (although I am pretty sure I found it on the voidbeast). I may actually start the game anew now that I know all the secrets I bet I could catch up in a few hours.

good liuck!

[Medisinyl]

Probably wouldn't take long at all to catch up when you know what to do... Wish you could remember where the platter is, but thanks a lot for you response.

As for saving, I've ended up with over 20 save files, which has helped at times.

I thought to switch to Twisted as well, but I'm not quite content to quit yet... The only game I had ever played in the past was AMOT, and it has had some nostalgic value to boot, but I'm sure I'd love the other games as well.

[MrsPyramidHead]

Hi everyone! Out of pure nostalgia, I recently continued to play AMOT. It's fun, but I keep getting stuck. Maybe someone here knows what to do.

1. I'm playing AMOT 1.8 on Mac OS 8 something, and the game won't let me save! I have to start over and over again. Luckily, I'm working on a walkthrough (since there aren't any on the web, and there should be!). Anyone else got the same problem?

2. How do you open the oval door in Void Ruins (the one with the keypad found in Narrow Room)? Whenever I end up there I have to start over, because there are no Jump Doors that I know of in the only three scenes I can find right now (Void Ruins, Narrow Room, Damaged Lower Level) and if there's a clue to the combination for the keypad in any of those scenes, I'm too stupid to figure it out. Can someone give me the code or tell me where it can be found? (Assuming this is the right way of entering the building, I may be even more stupid, who knows.)

3. How do you get to ride the tram from Monolith Tower (the one where Shifty tries to sell you a forged pass to)? Is there any other way to the main city? I need that OCR from Shek Varta badly!

4. How do you open the door without handle in the Glass Wall scene (Fallen City View)?

5. What's in the Horrible Odor scene (City Wreckage Interior)? How do you defeat the monster? I noticed that you can use the rope with the plastic cover, but what else? Will something fall down from the roof or what?

6. There's something across the Open Desert (next to Cemetary, Revenue City etc.) but you can't go there by foot. How do you get there?

7. How do you get past the shark in Under The Sea (next to Reef/Wall and Gate)? The game gives you clues about strength (I've found the rocket) and
scuba diving. Where's the equipment? No matter how strong you are, you always run out of breath before defeating the shark.

8. How do you get past the guard dogs under the palm tree when trying to get over the wall? Whenever I end up in this area, I have to start over for the same reasons as Void Ruins: I haven't found any Jump Doors yet.

9. What's the relay found in the broken elevator (Ruined Subway) for?

I'll probably get stuck a lot more in the future. I hope anyone out there can help me.

[Medisinyl]

Been nearly a year since I played the game now (didn't end up continuing it due to something odd happening to the way the game would play on my computer--became painfully slow, and I was at a standstill with the game). Always possible I'll try to give it another shot. If I could find a way to play the game with sound, I'd likely be happy just starting over. Neither time I played the game did I have sound.



1) Never had an issue saving.

2) The code was on some sheet I believe...a small number on it. It's viewable from the area you get trapped in there (on a wall poster perhaps). I don't recall if that is the same area you needed to get some machine running below. If so, you have to move some stuff around in the room to get below through a crack or something and figure a simple puzzle out to activate the door before the code will work.

3/4) Both I could have answered a year ago, but I can't remember right now unfortunately. Even some of the stuff I mentioned in this thread last year is pretty fuzzy to me now =P

5) I don't think you need to defeat the monster thing--I believe you're referring to the one that shoots some sort of acid. You have to put the plastic cover on the ground in that room first, then do whatever triggers the creature to spit acid. The plastic cover will collect it and you can use it somewhere in the building (I think it was needed to dissolve a safe). To get to the area with the safe, something had to be done in the area you climb a rope to get to... whatever was at the end would open up. All vague memory here :/

6) Not certain what you're referring to here, and may not be able to without getting the Mac together and runing the game.

7) You have to punch the shark in the nose (somewhere there's a story in the game about punching a shark in the nose).

8) I think you can find some type of food on the Island that puts the dogs to sleep (don't recall if it's something off a bush, something you dig for, etc.) Once you get it, you can give that to the dogs in some fashion. I think there may be a jump door on that screen, though there's also an important guy to talk to beyond that point.

9) Don't recall.

This game is in desperate need of a Walkthrough, so I hope you'll be able to complete it.