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| How to: Open up Hannah and the Pirate Caves Tuesday, June 23, 2009 6:12 pm — Guide posted by canadianstickdeath |
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In order to play the game, "Hannah and the Pirate Caves" you must first (obviously) open the game. To do that, click here or here. We recommend Google Chrome, and Apple's Safari also works. Take note that many common web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer cannot play HatPC. If you do not normally use a compatible browser, you can click here to learn how to create a shortcut to open HATPC quickly from the browser of your choice.
If the game does not begin loading, then you might need to download shockwave. If you're lucky, this might begin automatically, or maybe, you'll just have to click a few links to get it to work. But if you're unlucky, well, downloading shockwave is a common stumbling block for people aspiring to play HATPC. It is even possible you get a Shockwave Error or another error when loading the game. For more some advanced troubleshooting, click here. Or you can post below, asking for help with starting HATPC, and we'll try our best to help you get the game up and running. You'll need an Interguild account to do this. If you don't have one, click here and fill out the required fields. If you have trouble signing up, contact Livio via email and he'll be happy to assist you.
After the game loads, you may be asked whether or not you want to "Play Game", "Login", or "Sign Up". If it does, this means that you are not logged in to Neopets. You do not need to be logged in to play the game, so you can just click "Play Game". However you will need to be logged in if you wish to upload your own levels or have your high-scores be saved. If you wish to take advantage of the game's members-only features, click here to login to Neopets, or, alternatively, click here to create an account with Neopets if you do not already have one. If you click those links within the HatPC window, those links will open within said window, and you may end up having to reload the game.
Once the game's home menu is up you have four options. Click "Play Game" to play the main game's levels, click "Load User Level" to play a user-made level, click "Options" to adjust your sound and background settings, or click "Cave of the Week" to play the cave Neopets thought was the best this week.
See Also: Can't play Hannah and the Pirate Caves? Here's how to fix it.
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
man this is getting confusing. Just when I think it should be working, it doesn't or maybe it does... Anyway, I'll continue this late. But I have reduced the number of files needed to make it work to around 50 | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
it seems like you have to edit the cache every time you want to play HATPC in order to make it work. My guess is that Chrome realizes that there's something wrong with the cache (files missing, references in the Index and stuff) that it does something that messes the whole thing up. Right now, it all works best if you had 2329 files. If we want to get around this, we're gonna have to figure out how to maybe get the Index updated with the relatively few files or whatever is going on. It would really help if we knew what we were doing... | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
ok guys, try this: EDIT: WARNING - Chrome must be closed while doing this. If on Windows Vista or Windows 7, go to: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\ If on Windows XP, go to: C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\ Delete the following folders entirely: Cache Media Cache (if you don't want to lose your caches, for some reason, you may want to just rename those folders if you want to keep a backup). Open this: http://www.interguild.org/hatpcfiles/ChromeHATPCcache.zip (you may have to copy the url and paste into the address bar?) Extract the two folders in there to your "Default" folder. Then try to play HATPC in Chrome. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
I just tried following my own instructions and it didn't work.  | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
IT'S READY. Look at two posts ago, and try it now. Maybe it'll work. What I did was upload my ENTIRE cache folder, so the whole thing ended up (when compressed) to be around 300 MB.  It took forever to upload, and I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't have put it on this site but instead should've gone to megaupload or something. Anyway, somebody try it, and tell me if HATPC works. | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
Lol, I'm tempted to download it, just to see what Livio's been up to. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
will it really show my history? I tried looking at Chrome's history, and I saw pages that should've been overwritten when I did my last test. | |
| canadianstickdeath | ||
Age: 35 Karma: 350 Posts: 2990 Gender: Male pm | email |
It's your cache. You have to download a cache viewer... I'm pretty sure I saw that those exist, lol. | |
| Livio | ||
Age: 31 Karma: 470 Posts: 9620 Gender: Male Location: Arizona, USA pm | email |
so anyone out there who can't get HATPC to work, try this and tell me if it works. | |
| jellsprout | ||
| Lord of Sprout Tower Karma: -2147482799 Posts: 6445 Gender: Male pm | email |
SUCCESS!!! Spoiler: | |
| snowman | ||
| I am a person. Age: 25 Karma: 38 Posts: 1209 Gender: Male Location: Singapore The Lil' Red Dot pm | email |
We need a YESSSS!!!! smiley. Anyway I've never had problems with HatPC in Chrome, though, except the ****** frame rate.       | |
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