Optimization

RealMyst

Submitted by: rickHH

Hints:
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A good approach to playing the game: Flip all the marker
switches up on the island. Then go up to the library, click
the map of the island, and start the tower rotation by
clicking and holding down the flashing circle, which
indicates that a warp book is there. After the tower
rotates towards the object, you can find hints behind the
bookcase. Leave the map and open the bookcase by clicking
the picture next to it. You'll see some stairs. Climb them
to go to the top of the tower. There you'll see two ladders.
Climb the key ladder to get more clues.

Pong:
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On Myst Island, go to the planetarium. Sit in the chair and pull
down the star viewer. Enter the date "MARCH 1ST 1978" and for the
time, enter whatever the clock tower currently shows. After the
viewer finishes locating the coordinates, change the month from
"MARCH" to "NOVEMBER". You should see a Pong game being played
in the view window. To control the left paddle, grab the time
slider and move it up to make the paddle move up and down to make
the paddle go down. If it disappears and you wish to play again,
go to the clock tower and change the time. Then repeat the steps
to make the Pong game appear with the new time in place of the old.
Note: March 1, 1978 was the day that Atari announced that they had
merged with Time Warner. November was the last production month of
the Pong video game.

Easter Egg pictures:
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Open the CD-ROM with Windows Explorer and go to the "scn/maps"
folder. Note the "cyanegg" and "huevo" movies. "huevo" is "egg"
in Spanish. The "cyan" file features a series of photographs of
the creators and their families. The "huevo" file features
mysterious static. Try using a photo editing program to layer
the static from Huevo.avi. At this time, it is not known how
these files are accessed within the game.