My new iBook G4 and Tony Hawk
First off, I just got my Ghz iBook w/ 640 RAM in, and it's delicious.
Okay, so, I was delighted to discover Tony Hawk 4 in my Applications folder, but there's a problem. In game, none of the keyboard controls seem to respond, save the arrow keys and the keys that adjust the camera angle. For instance, when I walk up to someone in Career mode and try to talk to them by pressing 'G', it won't engage them. Or like when you first start off, and that one guy starts talking to you, and you have to press 'O' (or zero, i tried that too) to continue the dialogue, it won't work. What's up with that? All my keys work fine in other games (WarCraft III hotkeys for instance). Anyone else experience this problem?
Okay, so, I was delighted to discover Tony Hawk 4 in my Applications folder, but there's a problem. In game, none of the keyboard controls seem to respond, save the arrow keys and the keys that adjust the camera angle. For instance, when I walk up to someone in Career mode and try to talk to them by pressing 'G', it won't engage them. Or like when you first start off, and that one guy starts talking to you, and you have to press 'O' (or zero, i tried that too) to continue the dialogue, it won't work. What's up with that? All my keys work fine in other games (WarCraft III hotkeys for instance). Anyone else experience this problem?
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Originally posted by Ganondorf
First off, I just got my Ghz iBook w/ 640 RAM in, and it's delicious.
Okay, so, I was delighted to discover Tony Hawk 4 in my Applications folder, but there's a problem. In game, none of the keyboard controls seem to respond, save the arrow keys and the keys that adjust the camera angle. For instance, when I walk up to someone in Career mode and try to talk to them by pressing 'G', it won't engage them. Or like when you first start off, and that one guy starts talking to you, and you have to press 'O' (or zero, i tried that too) to continue the dialogue, it won't work. What's up with that? All my keys work fine in other games (WarCraft III hotkeys for instance). Anyone else experience this problem?
Well, if it's the demo version, it certainly doesn't say it's the demo version, and it has every mode of play available including create-a-skater, freeskate, career mode, etc, and I did look in the folder and it has tons of music files and other stuff associated with it, so I doubt it. I think it's just a controls issue.
The iBook G4 comes pre-loaded with a full verion of the game. If you get info on the folder, you will see that it is in the region of 1.2 gigs, in other words, the full game.
As for why it is not responding, I always used it (when I had the ibook g4 which I hated) with a gamepad and it worked fine for me. I seem to recall reading something though about needing to turn on 'num lock' before launching the game if playing on the keyboard.
Try that, if it fails to help, I am assume that you will get support through whoever publishes the game (I forget).
Hope this helps...
Robin.
The letters shown while you play is NOT the keys on your keyboard. They correspond to other keys that are almost scattered around the keyboard.
Select keyboard in the first little dialog box you see when you start the game. Here you can choose more logic keys (like the letters mentioned during the game, 1234567 or asdfghj)
I started playing the game and is somewhere around just finding a ramp and then hit some random key combos. Will it be worth learning to play this game for real?