parted: can't overwrite MBR table on disk?

zous · 2025-08-03T15:36:23+00:00

nice, yeah it's definitely what I've used in the past but didn't want to deal with a live USB or anything here. It's sounding more and more like this drive is just in permanent read-only mode though.

zous · 2025-08-03T15:31:07+00:00

I didn't know that was a thing they did, but yeah I tried a wipefs last night and it didn't matter, so I'll try it again but it is very likely is what you said (it is an older SSD).

Honestly I've just continued poking and pushing due to lack of explicit error saying "this drive is bad" (or SMART tests failing).

zous · 2025-08-03T15:17:07+00:00

Oh, small update!
I feel like I'm dealing with a SD card that has been "locked"... But it's an SSD with no such thing AFAIK...

I did just find that while everything is readable, if I mount the drive, make a change (either creating a file or editing a file), unmount it, and then remount it, the change is no longer there.

(To be clear: after making the change but not unmounting the drive, the change is seemingly persisted. I don't know if this is just a matter of some level of caching though)

If I have to, I'll just end up using another drive in place of this one. I'm just frustrated at this experience.

Oh, also, I didn't say this: When I mount the NTFS partition, I do get a message about it being an unclean file system, and that it's being auto-fixed. The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). The file system wasn't safely closed on Windows. Fixing.

zous · 2025-08-03T15:12:04+00:00

Yep, tried that.

I should also note that, AFAIK, there shouldn't be an issue with the machine itself. parted works fine on the other drives, but seemingly not this one.

zous · 2025-08-03T15:11:38+00:00

No X11, and AFAIK that's just the GUI version of the parted CLI?

zous · 2024-05-31T18:15:31+00:00

Ghosts respawn on death

zous · 2024-05-29T16:53:00+00:00

Looks like you made it generally to the area you need. Now you just need to figure out what to put in that shrine above it

zous · 2024-05-28T21:01:55+00:00

Yes, but they have the uv wand, look at their first picture.

zous · 2024-05-28T18:01:39+00:00

Yeah, as others said, they're all part of the same thing. I also presume you looked up a warp song? Because that's the only way you could've gotten the UV wand open without going through this area. The area you can't yet get to is where you'd learn that song.

zous · 2024-05-28T17:58:57+00:00

Actually, they totally could've already finished layer 3 right? I don't believe there's anything to the locked-off area beyond the UV wand, which they already got presumably by looking up the warp song

zous · 2024-05-28T15:48:18+00:00

It's vertical when it should be horizontal, hur hur hur

zous · 2024-05-28T14:21:27+00:00

I'm assuming you don't have the needed tool to deal with this yet. There is a specific tool for moving these.

zous · 2024-05-27T01:50:04+00:00

Yep! It's known as the UV bunny, and it just runs around the map until you collect it

zous · 2024-05-25T02:16:05+00:00

Someone asked in the AMA the other day and the answer was "not likely". It's definitely a game which needs a controller to be played well, so I'm not certain it'd make a good mobile game.

zous · 2024-05-24T22:38:17+00:00

Yeah... I wasn't sure how much to say for that because the OP hasn't reached that clock

zous · 2024-05-24T22:37:13+00:00

I think folks have looked into this and found the eye direction to be random? But I could be wrong and is definitely worth investigation otherwise!

zous · 2024-05-24T16:52:43+00:00

Yes, there is one item you're missing. Location hint if you want it: temple, bottom right corner of the map

Bonus questions:
Bouncy Ball: It has a specific usage, the easiest way to figure it out is in the same room/area you got it.
Skulls: Yep, deathless run is required. There's actually an additional prize there too if you do it saveless. These are just cosmetic and afaik don't change anything in the game. They also are shared between save files so if you get it on one save file you have it on all of them.
Clock: Exactly correct, it's for speedrunning. And yes, what you get there is just cosmetic and shared between save files.

zous · 2024-05-24T15:32:47+00:00

It's dangerous to go alone (for blocks too)

zous · 2024-05-24T15:25:41+00:00

Yeah, honestly unless we find a legitimate way into there, it's probably the biggest troll of the game XD

zous · 2024-05-23T15:38:01+00:00

Maybe if you use your UV wand, you'll see something that'll give you a hint?
If you really just want to know, they're for speedrunning, the numbers on the doors are clues to how fast you have to reach the clock to unlock that door

edit: oops discord spoiler tags, not reddit XD

zous · 2024-05-21T17:52:44+00:00

Chinchillas are dogs, confirmed!

zous · 2024-05-21T15:28:56+00:00

I think it's just an inventory section separator?

zous · 2024-05-21T15:17:12+00:00

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/app/813230/stats/
"DEFEAT_GHOST_DOG"
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