I've bought this game 2nd hand and it seems to play fine - however, it doesn't seem to be saving the game properly. I've saved the game as the instructions tell you to but when I return to the game later on, I'm back to the start again and it doesn't give me an option to return to my saved game only to start a new game!
Usually with DS games after you've saved you can press start and it asks if you're sure you want to quit etc. I can't seem to do this with Prof. Layton so after saving the only option is to turn it straight off.
Is this the reason why it's not saving properly, how can I turn it off safely? Or is the problem that it's 2nd hand or broken??
Help please!
The game should, of course, overwrite existing saves without problem (even if second hand)
You are not prompted to save when you quit (since there really isn't a quit or even a return to menu)
While the game does have a few set save points, the best way to save (which can be done at any time) is to use the Save option in the trunk (some players forget about this)
If you save into a save slot doing this and it's not there when you next restart the game, then something is wrong
It should also be noted that some (if not many) of the "second hand" copies purchased on eBay are actually pirated copies that have caused problems for players (including stopping with blacked out screens during the game)
If you are confident that saving just isn't working and you're unable to return the game for replacement or refund, one drastic course of action may be to corrupt the save (by quickly turning off the DS while it saves), thus causing the game to say the save is corrupted and make a new save file ... naturally, this should only be done as a last resort
SOURCE: cannot solve game 100 on Professor Layton & the curious village
imagine the dots as a complete grid A-F across the top and 1-6 down the side now join the dots like so A1-B1,B1-B2,B2-A2,A2-A1///C1-E2,E2-D4,D4-B3,B3-C1///D1-F4,F4-C6,C6-A3,A3-D1///
E1-F2,F2-E3,E3-D2,D2-E1///C2-F3,F3-E6,E6-B2,B5-C2///D3-E4,E4-D5,D5-C4,C4-D3///
you should have only 4 dots left to join,good luck
SOURCE: professor layton & the curious village games
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This link should work.(I hope its what your looking for)
A picture of the solution can be seen at
http://professorlaytonwalkthrough.blogspot.com/2008/02/puzzle089.html
This #1 Google ranked walkthrough also shows a picture of how to trace around the arrow as some players get their answer rejected by trying to be too precise
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yes mine too is second hand and each time i go back on it i have 3 options 1,new game,2,continue,3,delete game
and i click continue each time but i find that nothing has been saved,and yet through the game it will ask me do i want to save yes/no always click yes,so whats going on !!!!
same problem with my copy. i bought it 2nd hand, too. it won't save progress, so it's useless really.
mine's the same.. i bought mine first hand it only gives me the option to start new game when i want to go back to my old game... it's sooo annoying
Thanks - I was very lucky as I was able to return the game and my seller refunded me the full price. I'd enjoyed the little I had played so I bought another one - but a new one this time and I've just finished the whole thing, including all the bonus puzzles! It's made me think twice about buying a second hand game.
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