Dolphin pack cheat

[Jxt09]

Don't continue reading if you don't want to know how to cheat doing the dolphin puzzles. You have been warned!
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Ok, zoom in on a piece and try to see the faint white lines on two sides. It's easier to see against a dark background. Then rotate your piece until there is a white line at the top and left. That is the correct alignment for the piece. It was really easy to see on the Orcas puzzle. Don't know about the rest. Might be different.

[hcbsmits]

Why not play without the pieces being rotated?

[Jxt09]

Originally posted by hcbsmits:

Why not play without the pieces being rotated?

too easy that way. I like to make it harder for myself for some reason I don't know.

[hcbsmits]

So you make it harder and then cheat. Weird.

[Best Fox Ever]

The same thing reveals the correct piece rotation in nearly all puzzle packs, not just the Dolphin. But it is sometimes difficult to see. But it is not cheating, it is just how the shading of the pieces in made in this game. Usually white sides are top & right and black sides are bottom & left.

[sfnhltb]

Using shadows/patterns of light to orient a piece is not cheating, it is just normal jigsaw puzzling.

[Jxt09]

Originally posted by sfnhltb:

Using shadows/patterns of light to orient a piece is not cheating, it is just normal jigsaw puzzling.

well I consider it cheating. before I solved all my puzzles the hard way, not knowing which way a piece should go. Now I can't unsee that white line. Besides, if it were a real physical jigsaw puzzle there would be no white line or anything telling you which way a piece should go. That is why I call it a cheat. I think it was unintended by the developers and therefore not the way they intended us to play the game.

There are bugs and cheat codes in the old SNES games and other consoles of that era. You can't tell me those aren't "cheats" just because they are part of the game code! If some glitch gives you infinite lives or whatever that is obviously not the way you were intended to play the game and is therefore a cheat to use it.

[sfnhltb]

Originally posted by Jxt09:

Originally posted by sfnhltb:

Using shadows/patterns of light to orient a piece is not cheating, it is just normal jigsaw puzzling.

well I consider it cheating. before I solved all my puzzles the hard way, not knowing which way a piece should go. Now I can't unsee that white line. Besides, if it were a real physical jigsaw puzzle there would be no white line or anything telling you which way a piece should go. That is why I call it a cheat. I think it was unintended by the developers and therefore not the way they intended us to play the game.

There are bugs and cheat codes in the old SNES games and other consoles of that era. You can't tell me those aren't "cheats" just because they are part of the game code! If some glitch gives you infinite lives or whatever that is obviously not the way you were intended to play the game and is therefore a cheat to use it.

Ah okay, I don't have the Dolphin pack so couldn't really work out what you meant. Looking at the pack page previews in Steam I understand what you are talking about now - the pieces of that pack (and the upcoming Bosch's Garden and Urban Decay packs) seems like they have tried to add a slight 3D effect to the pieces, which as you say means you can always tell which way the piece is oriented regardless of the "content" of the piece itself.

[Jxt09]

Originally posted by sfnhltb:

Originally posted by Jxt09:

well I consider it cheating. before I solved all my puzzles the hard way, not knowing which way a piece should go. Now I can't unsee that white line. Besides, if it were a real physical jigsaw puzzle there would be no white line or anything telling you which way a piece should go. That is why I call it a cheat. I think it was unintended by the developers and therefore not the way they intended us to play the game.

There are bugs and cheat codes in the old SNES games and other consoles of that era. You can't tell me those aren't "cheats" just because they are part of the game code! If some glitch gives you infinite lives or whatever that is obviously not the way you were intended to play the game and is therefore a cheat to use it.

Ah okay, I don't have the Dolphin pack so couldn't really work out what you meant. Looking at the pack page previews in Steam I understand what you are talking about now - the pieces of that pack (and the upcoming Bosch's Garden and Urban Decay packs) seems like they have tried to add a slight 3D effect to the pieces, which as you say means you can always tell which way the piece is oriented regardless of the "content" of the piece itself.

I'm not sure if it was intentional as a 3d effect or just bad transition from photograph to puzzle. Oh well, I'm solving the puzzles faster now, at any rate!

[LadGaga]

The day I play with the pieces rotated is the day I have way too much time on my hands.

I play this for 30 minutes now and again to break up my 20 hour Final Fantasy gaming sessions.
I am not about to turn that 30 minutes into 3 hours trying to figure out the correct rotation of all the pieces.

[Aydaylin]

Sorry for necro, but I'm surprised, that nobody in this thread has realized, that it's a unique feature of PPU called "uneven cut", and that it only proves, how realistic this game tries to be. I have not seen any other computer jigsaw puzzle game implementing this feature.

What is "uneven cut" then? It's a feature implemented in many of cardboard jigsaws, especially those with high number of pieces, where 2 opposing edges of any piece have a slight imperfection (often just very slightly vertically unaligned cut, but it also happens to be a cut looking slightly torn, like made with a dull knife) exactly to make it easier to properly align them.

So, no cheating looking for those (and I think, all PPU puzzles have them); it's just making your experience as close to the real thing as possible.

Cheers :)

[Rōnin浪人]

Originally posted by Aydaylin:

it's a unique feature of PPU called "uneven cut", and that it only proves, how realistic this game tries to be. I have not seen any other computer jigsaw puzzle game implementing this feature.