I am hvinga little problem understanding the WT. I am just beginning & am Generator Island, have gone to the revolving room. Clicked on button on the R 4 X & then gone down to & under the gate, the WT says there is a stem switch with an icon of tlescope above it. I can't find this steam switch.

Thanks

Hi there Mome......

If you've found your way under the gate and looked through the peep hole, rotated the room once so you can get through to the Gate Room that you are seeing through the peep hole, you walk straight across the Gate Room. The other doorway leads you to a little cave with a steam pipe and a valve. That's where you should see the telescope icon.

Witchen

As vivid as this game is in the memory I find it hard to believe all my saves are from 1997.

Well I finally made it thru all the doors & went to walkway to 9 pused levers at 14 & 12, went back to 3 & went to cavern, to door at 16 & that's where I am stuck. According to WT I am supposed to go to 17, out a door to 18 & get on a tram. That's where I get lost. I went into a room with a thingy in center with a large beautiful thing in center but then I can't get out of door.
What I am saying doesn't make sense to me how can it make sense to you!!!???

Mome, I think that walkthrough with all the places numbered is sort of confusing, myself. You might do better by checking out the other walkthrough that we have here at GameBoomers or one from The Spoiler Centre ...

If you're talking about getting to the tram on the Gold Dome island, and have walked across a bridge, you need to walk back the way you came and enter the room on your right; left if you're on the way down. Inside you'll see a switch that opens the door blocking your way to the tram.

Yes, there's a lever that opens the main temple door in with "the electric chair" (as my husband dubbed it )

I call it the spider chair.

Oh thank you Jenny, the WT from The Spoiler Center is doing the trick. It is so much easier to follow!!

But I am havinga problem at Boiler House Island. Evidently I have not pushed or turned levers, etc correctly because when I go inside the boiler there is not a ladder for me to go down to get to a tunnel.

Also I am having trouble understanding saving games. The manual says to click Ctrl + S to save a game which it does but what if I need to go back to a previously saved game, perhaps to start above problem from beginning. The very first time I saved, what back when I was trying to figure out the doors at the very beginning I saved (by now I have totally forgotten how I did it, thought I had done an Alt+F4) & got a Saved Game 1 but now I don't know where my ssaved games are???

Someone else had this problem recently, too. You may not have drained the water out of the boiler. When you do you will see it go down throug a little window out there on the side where you turned off the flames, etc.

About the saves.......it's been much too long since I played this game to remember that part but if I find it in my notes I will come back and edit THIS post.

I'm wondering if, doing the saves the way you are, if you are not overwriting your previous save(s) and have only one save all the time.

I'm like you, BillyBob, it's been too long since I played this one to remember, but I suspect that using ctl + S is going to only result in one save.

Mome, check out your manual--there should be a way to do "save as" and have a whole bunch of saves. And I'm glad that walkthrough helped you; it looked the clearest to me of all the ones I saw.

I'm going to consult Dee on this--she is a real Riven expert, but with things the way they are for her right now, I'm not sure how soon I will get an answer...

Mome, to view (or hide) the menu bar either hold down the Ctrl key and press the space ber OR click near the top of the screen. There you will find the options, including Open a saved Game and Save As so you can have multiple saved games.

Jema

And when you go up top to save your game, you can name it or number it, and have as many as you like.

The 2nd & 3rd time I played it, I did both, numbered in sequence as well as what I just finished at where-ever I was, due to stopping in the same location more than once.

LOVE this game...

The only thing the manual says is:"Window users hold down CTRL key & press the spacebar or click near the top of the screen" How dumb can I be - don't reply to that part!! I never even saw that to read - & then it says to press CTRL+S to save a game - that part I read. I think in my old age I do not see what I read!!!
Thanks for all the help.

Mome

I should have remembered going to the top of the screen to access the menu. I believe it worked the same way for MYST.

I'm going to have to break down and replay this RIVEN game some day!