Huevo and Vika Cracked
sn_isl_study02..huevo01
SN_LAB2_PuzzleOn
C2Shape4
SN_LAB2_Crystal04Color3
Well, I did it, I cracked Huevo and Vika. How did I do
it, you ask?
I cheated.
A thread
on hacking over in the Uru forums introduced me to the use of a RAM
editor. I've used a hex editor -- indeed, diving into realMyst savegames
required one -- but I had never thought to sift through memory while
realMyst was running. So I got one, loaded up realMyst, entered the Rime
Age (pretty sure I didn't have to do that, but I thought it couldn't hurt),
and switched into the RAM editor.
Yech - not a pretty sight. But doing the obvious -
search for huevo - brought up some interesting hits. Pretty quickly, I
ran into memory locations that had readable phrases (that is, English) that
looked promising. A pattern soon emerged: huevoXX, followed by a
set of five CXShapeX and five CrystalXXColorX. I picked one of them,
wrote down the Xs, and went back into realMyst. I got to the crystal
imager, entered the shapes and colors, and got the following:
Well, that's not exactly what I got, as that screenshot was
taken after I turned the static off. But there, in the imager, with the
crystal combination you see, was an image from huevo. I wrote down all
the rest of the huevo combinations. vika had only one, but its structure
was similar to the cyanegg memory references, so I guessed that waving your
way through the first crystal's colors might do the trick, and I was right.
Of course, these
pictures have been viewable for quite some time. Aloys was a pioneer in
extracting images from the files, and he describes his effort here.
frob produced the first complete (or almost complete) set, which can be viewed
at this
site.
To tell the truth, the images you get by entering the right
combination are not terribly good, but they're honest! Still, I have produced
a series of images using a
somewhat
different approach, one that has also been widely used for a long time (I'm
not sure who first used this approach). Below are links to each image and one to the
whole set (recommended only for the patient or those with boradband).
I've also included some notes on producing the images here
along with some theories (wild guesses, really) about
what the images might be here
(NOTE: Now that Uru is out, I need to revisit that page).
As it turns out, we've always counted one too many images, as
there is one less reference in memory than there are frames in the huevo.avi
and vika.avi files. I'm pretty sure that the first frame is a key of
some sort. Also, the 4th and 5th vika images are identical but there are
two separate references. I wonder if the Easter bunny put the wrong
frame in -- which means there's another vika picture floating around somewhere
. . .
Below, I present the huevo and vika images with their crystal
combinations - clicking on the image will take you to a larger version.
Below crystal is the correct shape and color in case the image isn't
clear enough. The order of the shapes and colors is with respect to the order
you get when you wave through them, beginning with the short crystal shape and
red color.
Huevo01 |
|
(4,2) |
(4,1) |
(1,6) |
(7,3) |
(6,5) |
Huevo02 |
|
(3,1) |
(7,5) |
(5,2) |
(6,4) |
(8,3) |
Huevo03 |
|
(7,2) |
(5,1) |
(5,6) |
(2,6) |
(6,4) |
Huevo04 |
|
(7,5) |
(8,1) |
(3,3) |
(2,6) |
(4,1) |
Huevo05 |
|
(2,4) |
(4,3) |
(6,6) |
(2,5) |
(8,1) |
Huevo06 |
|
(3,3) |
(7,5) |
(5,1) |
(1,6) |
(1,4) |
Huevo07 |
|
(7,5) |
(7,6) |
(6,2) |
(4,3) |
(1,2) |
Huevo08 |
|
(1,4) |
(8,5) |
(6,3) |
(7,3) |
(2,1) |
Huevo09 |
|
(2,1) |
(4,4) |
(2,2) |
(7,3) |
(2,6) |
Huevo10 |
|
(8,2) |
(7,1) |
(2,6) |
(7,3) |
(4,2) |
Huevo11 |
|
(3,5) |
(1,2) |
(5,3) |
(8,1) |
(3,2) |
Huevo12 |
|
(4,1) |
(1,6) |
(8,3) |
(4,5) |
(2,4) |
Huevo13 |
|
(8,2) |
(8,5) |
(7,4) |
(3,4) |
(2,2) |
Huevo14 |
|
(5,1) |
(2,5) |
(5,4) |
(3,5) |
(6,2) |
Huevo15 |
|
(1,1) |
(2,2) |
(3,3) |
(7,4) |
(4,1) |
Huevo16 |
|
(4,1) |
(7,4) |
(3,5) |
(8,2) |
(2,5) |
Huevo17 |
|
(3,3) |
(8,5) |
(5,1) |
(8,6) |
(7,4) |
Huevo18 |
|
(1,1) |
(7,6) |
(1,6) |
(4,6) |
(5,6) |
Huevo19 |
|
(7,5) |
(7,5) |
(1,5) |
(4,6) |
(8,5) |
Huevo20 |
|
(1,3) |
(8,2) |
(5,1) |
(6,3) |
(1,3) |
Huevo21 |
|
(4,2) |
(2,6) |
(5,2) |
(4,3) |
(4,5) |
Huevo22
(katranhuevo) |
|
(4,1) |
(8,3) |
(6,4) |
(1,2) |
(7,6) |
Vika01 |
|
(2,1) |
(3,1) |
(3,6) |
(6,3) |
(6,5) |
Vika02 |
|
(2,2) |
(3,1) |
(3,6) |
(6,3) |
(6,5) |
Vika03 |
|
(2,3) |
(3,1) |
(3,6) |
(6,3) |
(6,5) |
Vika04 |
|
(2,4) |
(3,1) |
(3,6) |
(6,3) |
(6,5) |
Vika05 |
|
(2,5) |
(3,1) |
(3,6) |
(6,3) |
(6,5) |
Vika06 |
|
(2,6) |
(3,1) |
(3,6) |
(6,3) |
(6,5) |
All
images (30 total) |
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