This little guy is really getting on my nerves now. I've reached the point when I can head off to Hephaestus, and the red bipidri in the Tenements is only one I haven't gotten so far. I know exactly where he is, but none of the photos I take of him seem to register with the game. Does anyone have any tips on how I can finally get this guy's photo and move on?

You can hold shift while moving to move more slowly, and hopefully find just the right spot to take the picture from.

Beyond that, there's not much to it other than trying over and over again and swearing every time it doesn't work. Sorry.

This is not guaranteed to work - I have not tried it as I haven't played the game in a while :-)

Look in your last save directory, note that I do not have the gog.com version so this may be different. For me it's "D:\Games\Anachronox\anoxdata\SAVE\anoxsavN", where N is some number between 1 and 999. I seem to recall a forum thread asking where the saves were, so you can probably find that and work out where they are, if they differ for gog's version.

There will be a "photos" sub-directory under this directory, and with each photo you have taken, there will be a ".dat" filename. I have a photo of an Anachronox symbol I tool somewhere, which gives me "photo1.dat" and "photo1.tga". Go through all your "*.dat" files, you should have some which have references to "redbipidriM" where M is the numbers 1 to 8. Note that I do not currently have bipidri pho

Locate the photo of the bipidri where the ".dat" file is not correct, or non-existent. I suggest copying one of the others and editing it to have the right "redbipidriM" reference, where M is the number which is missing. Note that if you change any part of this file other than the number (and your text editor may do it automatically, so make sure you use a harmless one) Anachronox may choke and crash. If you're not sure about this, download and install Python 2.7 and open a dos prompt in the "anoxsavN" directory and do the following:

> c:\python27\python -c "f = open('photoN.dat', 'rb'); s = f.read(); f.close(); s = s.replace('red
bipidriX', 'redbipidriY'); f = open('photoM.dat', 'wb'); f.write(s); f.close()"

Of course, ensure the N, M, X and Y are the correct numbers.

Will this work? I expect it will. Please report back :-)

Worst case scenario, you should be able to use the information in my post to verify if a photograph was taken successfully.

I did it! I finally got the picture. All I had to was stand a little to right of where I usually stood, even though in the new position the bipidri was partially obscured. Ah well, at least I can get on with my life.

Thanks for all the replies. It's nice to know people are still willing to help with games as old and obscure as Anachronox.