64-bit Atari Jaguar CDROM Braindead 13 Easter Egg

Troy Cheek used to host this little nugget on his website (now gone) but here it is thanks to the Way back Machine.

Andy Floyd of Fidonet ATARI_ST says...

1. Start Braindead 13 with the Memory Track cartridge installed.
2. When the game begins to play the intro animation, skip it by pressing a fire button. (Not necessary but hey, you've seen that before, right?)
3. Select a New Game.
4. When the scene begins with that shot of the fireplace, immediately press OPTION and Save your game, then Continue.
5. Play up to the point before one of the witches (usually the one to the left after you get past the Conservatory).
6. Instead of pressing Right or Left, you should see an Elevator and press UP.
7. This transports you all the way to the showdown with Fritz, and then the Brain Chamber.

I have done this at least 3 times and always works.

Data Existentialism

This is the sort of thing you don't want at 5 a.m. You're using your device and looking at pictures when it suddenly decides to stop recognizing your micro SD card and now shows only what's on the internal storage.

Yeah, my Alcatel device decided to do that. I had deleted 2 images off, and I was just looking around when it decided to do its own thing and blam. Settings said by not showing it there was no SD card. It decided on its own to unmount it. Yikes.

So I fully get up, get out a flashlight and open up the back, remove the battery, and then get at the card. Contacts are gold plated and clean. What the fudge. Put it back in and together, still not acknowledging the card.

This is NOT happening. Make the effort and turn on my Windows 7 desktop. Get out the Micro SD adapter. Make a backup directory. Insert card into the reader slot. Windows says there are errors and should it scan and fix? I say no, let's just see what's on there. And up pops the directory of the card. So yes, it still works.

Grab everything and drag to copy into the backup directory. And it goes well, except for one imgcache directory with an error. I tell it to skip it. No other read errors. But I notice while browsing in My Computer there are a few images not popping up a thumbnail and same with a few video files. The images won't load at all, the video files at least play. One looks like there's some bad data. Hhhrrmm...

I forget to scan it and pop it back into the Alcatel and boot it up. It once again sees the microSD card! And as expected, Gallery isn't fully populating all the image folders. So that may be that imgcache error. Stop Gallery, clear cache, delete application data. Let it rebuild its thumbnail database and it does. So it seems to be OK.

But I still made that backup of 3.7 gb of data and photos.