Rock Bottom Race Spatula Bugged

[LoZ]

I completed the slide race spatula at the end of rock bottom, but something bugged out and I couldn't collect the spatula. I went right through it a few times then it disappeared. It's showing as not collected in my menu, but Mr Krabs says congratulations for winning and I can no longer collect it. Anyone know how I can fix this or any way to patch in the spatula so I can collect it?

[Wookie]

I have the exact same issue. It's really annoying as we have completed everything else.
I raised an issue https://redmine.thqnordic.com/issues/115852

[Kobest]

Just commenting to say that I encountered the same issue (I'm playing the GOG version): at the end of the slide, I couldn't collect the Golden Spatula (it was there, but I just went right through it). I tried this a couple of times, then reloaded my save, only not to find the Golden Spatula anymore at the end of the slide. Mr. Krabs says I did a good job, but the menu shows that the Spatula hasn't been picked up yet.

[KrAyZiE_JD3]

Very annoying, surely theres a way to reset the quest through the save?

[Wookie]

I had a look inside a save file and at a guess I think it is a simple serialized set of c# objects. There is are sections for each of the levels and they mention SpatulaIDs and the level name but each object looks identical at that point in the file so I think the actual record of the "picked up" state of the spatula is elsewhere.

So in answer to "surely theres a way to reset the quest through the save?", yes but it is going to take some effort to reverse engineer that save file to work out what needs to be changed.

In case someone is keen, your save file is in
C:\Users\<your user>\AppData\Local\Pineapple\Saved\SaveGames
I used Notepad++ with the HEX-Editor plugin to view and potentially modify the file,

[Wookie]

As an example I did find if I changed the 02 to a 01 in the SlipSlidingAway section at the bottom of the file after IntProperty then Mr Krabs changes what he says to "Go boy, Go. Save that poor Spatula!"

[Kobest]

Originally posted by Wookie:

As an example I did find if I changed the 02 to a 01 in the SlipSlidingAway section at the bottom of the file after IntProperty then Mr Krabs changes what he says to "Go boy, Go. Save that poor Spatula!"

Great finding!

But yeah, other than reverse engineering the saves, I wouldn't get my hopes up about a potential solution. Around half of the GOG version's achievements are bugged (interestingly, only the ones that involve counting the spatulas, socks, robot kills, etc.) and I don't think they will fix them in the future.

It's a shame, really!

[kuz.mraz]

I've finally found the solution
You should find Rock RB_SlipSLidingAway.....IsAvailable.....BoolProperty...............IsCollected.....BoolProperty
Then after that part of save you should find 00 00 05 part and change it to 01 00 05
After this fix lost spatula will be marked as collected

[реквием по чечне]

Originally posted by kuz.mraz:

I've finally found the solution
You should find Rock RB_SlipSLidingAway.....IsAvailable.....BoolProperty...............IsCollected.....BoolProperty
Then after that part of save you should find 00 00 05 part and change it to 01 00 05
After this fix lost spatula will be marked as collected

Thank you very much, it works