Hi, I started this game last week, lovin' it! I am stuck at the timed puzzle in Spire, in that chair trying to set the vibrating tones to open up the bride. ***QUESTION=Have the w/t from GB and read both ways of doing it, am tired of trying, please does someone have a saved game for this puzzle? And is it easy to use in my saved game files?*** I assume it is since I am allowed to name each time I save but with URU saving was automatic and very annoying, couldn't go back to where I wanted to when I wanted to unless I used the linking books, but I did love the game/s. Thanks for your help
Love, Betty Lou

Betty Lou, did you go to the Myst quest area that Becky and Dadguy and others did? I think that the gurus of the game don't recommend using anyone's saved games since the game isn't linear and you could end up with solved areas that you haven't even seen yet.

Sue

Ah, I see that that would/could be a problem. Where do I find a link to that site, please?
Love, Betty Lou

http://www.gameboomers.com/wtcheats/pcMm/GBFaqMyst4.htm

Betty Lou, this is the site for the quest. Good luck and have fun with Myst........such a beautiful game.

Sue

Betty Lou,

I hope you have fun in Myst IV. What a beautiful place.

If you decide to do so, I will be glad to take your save file from where you get stuck, solve the puzzle and then return the save. It is pretty straightforward, how it works. The saves are under "My Documents/myst4-revelation savegames/" and are dated. The names that you use in the game are not part of the filename, so you have to ID them by date and time.

By sending me the save, you will get it back (copy it back into that directory) and can continue without losing any progress or content.

However, as you well know, the Myst IV FAQs offer a lot of guidence for solving on your own which can be immensly satisfying.

Enjoy!

Dadguy

Hi Betty Lou,

Some have had trouble with emailing saves over 10MB on yahoo. Check the size (and your email inbox, where I gave some suggestions on reducing the size of your save files).

I'll keep looking for your email.

EDIT: Aha! I just got it! I'll have it back in a jiffy!

Regards,

Dadguy

Hi dadguy, sorry I sent it to you so many times, but one or two of those times I got the message "message not sent" and some problem with it, but it must have gone anyway. Thank you so much - I have made it all the way to Serenia and it is so beautiful here......doing a "hunt" for the elusive wooden box with journal, having a great time just enjoying the scenery and atmosphere, love those butterflies! Thanks again
Love, Betty Lou :kiss:

Hi Dadguy. I am not able to scare away the Mangrees from that totem, have sent you email my saved game, can you help me out again? Thanks so much
Love, Betty Lou

Sent the save, Betty Lou.

This is an easy one:

RIGHT Wheel - long tone (1.5 sec)
LEFT wheel - short tone (0.5 sec)
RIGHT Wheel - long tone (1.5 sec)

...just in case you want to give it another try.

Have fun!

Dadguy

Thanks dadguy, got it and am on my way. Have a question for everyone/anyone = I am sitting up in a tree in a 'chair' looking down on a snake-thingy and trying to get my hand to OPEN so I can "stroke" it (the walkthrough says to strike it, don't know why) so I can tap it on the nose/snoot, but my hand won't open and using it in the 'closed' position gets me nowhere. Am I doing it to the right 'snake' or am I supposed to climb down and go back and find the first one I saw? Thanks for the 'nudge'...
Love, Betty Lou

Hi Betty,

Many folks have trouble with this one. Be aware that the hand won't change (or open) when you put it in the right place. There is no indication that you've got the hand in the right place... you just have to trust that you've got it right.

Here is an explanation from the Myst IV FAQs:

"The snake puzzle worked for me the first time and every subsequent time without a second try needed. So, I suspect there is a matter of understanding the process that is missing.

Find the lower right black stripe on the snake. Click (and hold the button down) with your fingertips on the right edge of the stripe and drag the mouse horizontally to the left over the stripe. At the left end of the stripe stop and release the mouse button. I think of it as petting the little guy, but it important that you stroke right to left.

Do this three more times and the snake should come alive, then click his head quickley to send him away."

Hope this helps you solve it right away!

Dadguy

Hey, thanks, it finally worked. Seems that you have to 'stroke' it more than four times but all of a sudden the snake 'reared up' and I tickled his nose and away he went. Thanks.
Question - I have linked back to Serenia (chapter 5 part 2) but cannot find that other snakethingy, walkthrough says to use the ZIP-modus thing bottom right of my screen and click "on the image with the statue between the two stairs", but there are only 3 images in that circular thing and none of them are this "-", so how do I find that snakey thing now? Wandering around and getting lost as usual.
Love, Betty Lou

Betty,

I suggest you have a look at my crude Serenia Map. This is part of the Myst IV FAQ documents found HERE.

If you scroll to just before the very end of this document the map can be seen. The snake puzzle in Serenia is located at the spot marked "Water Diverter #4" (brown square). I rarely used the zip images because they change depending where you are and that makes it hard to guide someone.

So, if you want to try the old fashioned way and just walk from wherever you are to where the above Water Diverter is, you'll find a water gate that has a valve locked with a snake puzzle. A broken walkway prevents you from getting to it from the north, so you have to walk past the Protectors area and the across the long wooden footbridge from the south to get to it. Same method is used to unlock it.

Have fun!

Dadguy

Find your way to the temple entrance and keep going past the temple and the dream chamber. You'll bear right and will eventually see the long decorative poles that point to an island. You'll see stairs that will take you to a broken bridge. If you turn to the right, there's another wooden walkway which leads to the water wheel.

I'm crawling along slower than a snail with a beautiful bubble on my hand and am beginning to believe the darn thing is on a timer....go two steps sooooooooooooooooooooo slooooooooooooooooooowly and "poof" it's gone, again and again, and again, and again.......boring! Would like to be able to succeed at it but not if it is going to take me a week to walk one step and retain the darned thing....have read both w/t's and the FAQ's and can't see how I can walk or move any slower than I already am.....POO!
Love, Betty Lou

Actually, you can go TOO slow. There is a time limit as well as a "jostle" limit, so move smoothly but without too much delay. Click immediately as the screen changes unless you have to turn, in which case turn smooth and steady.

Let us know how you do!

Dadguy

Hey dadguy, I'm not sure what I did differently, but I DID IT! And am now in neverneverland, dreamworld actually, and trying to figure out how to 'beat' this colored cloud puzzle. You'd think that with 2 w/t's and the FAQ hints/suggestions/hitmeovertheheadandjustdoit!command that I could get it right, having fun, will keep on trying. Have a great day, and I probably will be back
Love, Betty Lou

OK, just how many of these silly colored clouds am I supposed to 'touch' and how long does this go on? Am getting dizzy here and seem to be getting nowhere....HELP please
Love, Betty Lou

You have to turn all the clouds white like Yeesha's, which is the only one that doesn't change. I found it easiest to begin circling the center one, and then I concentrated on small pockets of 3 or more. Try not to backtrack too much because you can trigger a random change. (Sometimes it's better to move forward and change a white one back to red and then cycle through all the colors again.) When you have turned them all white, you'll hear a voice saying that you succeeded, and you'll see an important video.

Yes, and if you DON'T hear that voice saying that you've succeeded, be assured that there is at least one cloud that has not been changed to white (out of your field of view). So, to find it, you have to start shifting right or left or up and down (which means you'll have to change a group of three or four already-white clouds to colored again to allow you to "move" around until you find the last colored clouds).

It is very satisfying to hear that voice!

Good luck!

Dadguy

I am having all kinds of trouble solving the Spire spider chair puzzle. I've read all the walkthroughs, saw the lengthy FAQ by the Fellowship of the Quest, downloaded and viewed the step-by-step video from raekjensan, found the Ubisoft patch and downloaded it, and I still can't do it right (or so it seems). Yes, I have set the gears down below and yes, I get a humming sound while I am tuning the crystals. If this is a "timed puzzle" how do you know the time remaining while you are trying to solve the puzzle. I don't know if I ran out of time or if I just slid the slider to the wrong notches. Can anybody help me past this hurdle so that I can continue with the game?

Jim,

You may have the gears set wrong. You can still get a humming sound with the gears off by one.

A good test is to run the three sliders up to 12-12-12 and then drop them back to zero. The crystal should remain vibrating for 5 or so seconds after you back off the sliders. If it doesn't remain vibrating, you missed one of the gears. setting.

The different crystals vibrate for different amounts of time. That is what gives the puzzle the "timed" nature... get all four before one of them stops vibrating and you solve the puzzle.

If you are totally frustrated and are tired of the puzzle, send me your save file and I'll get it done for you and return the save just after solving.

Regards,

Dadguy

Jim,
With the gear settings down below, the first notch is 1, not zero.

Have you found the combination of string settings to get each lock to vibrate and retract? When you watch each lock spinning in the closeup view, check out the number of holes turning around the center. The one with the single hole should be set first because it will vibrate the longest and the one with the most holes should be triggered last.

OK, Jim. I'll look for your email.

The saves are saved in a directory under My Documents called "myst4-revelation savegames". The in-game save name does not show up in the file name, so you have to choose the right one by Date and Time. In other words, make a note of the time and resave the game at the Spider Chair in the game. Then you can choose the save file that has that date & time from Windows Explorer.

The saves can be a little large in size, so make sure it is under 10MB. If you have a dialup connection, it may take a while for the send of the email (and the subsequent receive when I return it).

I'll look for it!

Dadguy

Excuse me for hijacking the thread but it seems like a good place to ask my question.

On Spire, Sirrus wrote that Rock needs a maximum power setting of 20 with two harmonics as detailed on the music notes.

Where are these notes? Is it something I should know or is there a page I haven't found yet. A number of walkthroughs mentions 7 pages I can only find 6 and there is not enough info yet to tune the spider chair. Any ideas?