Found some motivation mixed with an equal part of impatience.

[Echoic]

Eureka!


Finally got some motivation to start playing again(if you read my little moodiness in the off topic board).


I've given up trying to beat Simon this play through, and have decided to ask for someone to beat him for me on my save file.


Uh....so here I am, asking.


Also, I know you don't have to beat him, but I'm a completionist(<---awesome word). Sue me.


Could you be that someone?

[Quemaqua]

Sure.  PM it to me and I'll give it a go.  I haven't played in ages, though.  Hope I can remember how to get there.

EDIT - Er, this board doesn't support file transfers, does it?  I suppose email will be the route to go, then.

[silverflagon]

How do you do that? I mean send part of the game to someone so they can beat a difficult boss for you?

I'm playing it again and I am going to try harder to beat the Simon says boss myself this time, there is a certain amount of real satisfaction to knowing that you've done it all yourself or at least given it your best.. Besides I can't drag Darryl over to beat it for me again, he's of on holiday lol
I beat Mother Nature tonight, first try, I'm still wondering if I dreamed it?   

[Glamador]

You just send the save file from the aquaria/save folder and somebody beats it for you then saves in that same spot and sends it back to you.  Not a difficult process, except of course for beating the boss itself.

[silverflagon]

I see.... Thank you for the explaination Glamador that also explains a few other posts that puzzled me

[RL_Nice]

I'll tell you how I beat Simon the first (and only) time.

I had probably a good eight or so other programs running on the computer at the time, and as a result my computer was getting lagged down and the game ended running pretty slowly. Slow enough for me to get all the notes down in time.

I didn't plan that, so don't accuse me of cheating.

[silverflagon]

I wonder how many programs that took? I know that on one game site I go to they have flash adverts running alongside their game on many pages and some of thos slow down the games but not the rest. Perhaps I should try having Photoshop, Poser and Paintshop open at the same time?  lol I need a snails pace lol

Thank you for the help RL_nice, I might try that some time if I am brave enough to risk a crash lol

[Glamador]

Hmm...that's a neat trick.  Force a slowdown....of course that is dangerous as Silver says.  But what's more it requires you either have a slow computer to begin with, or REALLY eat your memory.

[Danger Mouse]

..mmmm....   ... .. .. . tasty memory.

[silverflagon]

DM lol
And of course my computer has a big memory, that is very important when you need to store loads of pictures, play games and have large RAM eating programes that can run alongside eachother on my computer.. if it crashes with those open I don't like to think of the end result

[Lord Blade]

Not a solution for me.
Recently got a nice new computer, that easily runs Crysis on "Very High" settings across the board.

Hmm... what if I try to run Crysis 5 times at once?

[Chibi]

Whoah... that would be a feat worthy of the "this is what your computer can do with our new product" pitch from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel. 

[RL_Nice]

I've since gotten a new MacBook Pro and have been Boot Camp to play Aquaria. Seeing how as my current computer is brand spanking new and the one I used to use was old and prone to poor performance, I doubt I'll be able to pull something like that again.

Well, maybe, but I wouldn't risk screwing up my computer trying.

[silverflagon]

I am hoping to get mine upgraded soon as it's been a year since the last one and some things are slowing down a bit now. I burnt a whole load of my photos to disc last week and they only just fit onto it and that was after going through them and deleting over a 100. And then I looked through my programmes to see what was taking up space and could be deleted..
Not Poser7, Photoshop or Paintshop they all come in very useful and I do like to mess around with Apothysis

So Syberia, Twistedbrush and a few films got removed so I now have some breathing space for a while?