This guide will help you get the cryptic achievement known as U KNO WUT I LUV. I'm still trying to figure out "&@♥@@p§☺A!○◘@)(@)_---A" and I will update it as soon as I find out (if ever).

Since many scratched their brains, let's be honest here, there is no way to break the code by playing the game or being smart. Some people found out that when you reach a terminal (a great guide for finding them is here), you can enter four different letters: N, V, I and X.

The solution is here, a combination of 18 of these letters (the same number of question marks below the title of the achievement as people figured out) whiwh makes 4^18 combinations possible (68 719 millions and then some).

So, even if someone was sure this was the correct method, I cannot even fathom how long it would take to get there.

Oh, and don't ask me what it means, I just don't know...

Edit: Someone told me in the forums that the dev gave a clue (that I did not find to be honest, clues bound to websites or any form of online storage -as Fez did- are kinda strange to me as if you want to do the game and the site is down/gone you're pretty much stuck) so there you go:

Originally posted by Samppooni:

Well, the developer gave a hint to that achievement in another thread: "It is derived of an anomalous sector diversion protocol".

In the Fjords game website you can find this sentence: "ANOMALOUS SECTORS DIVERTED USING PROTOCOL 4044404079".

Not knowing that at the time, what did I do? I reverse-engineered the game to find out what were its insides. I will not make any kind of advertising but there are many tools that can decrypt Action Script from SWF files. Furthermore, you are not here for that, so let's begin:

Using the guide linked above, just find a terminal (the first one is 60 seconds from the beginning of the game) and input the code. If you want to find out by yourselves, remember three things:

- The clue given earlier (the cryptic message on the website)
- There are 18 characters to be input
- There are ways you can write numerals with letters, as it has been for centuries

Still stuck? Here it is:

I V N I V I V I V N I V N V I I I X

which is read in roman numerals IV (4) N (0) IV (4) IV (4) IV (4) N (0) IV (4) N (0) VII (7) IX (9)

You do not have to validate and you should hear music and see YEAHs and LAs printing in front of your eyes... and the achievement too.

So, if you have been looking in the terminals and hitting "help" you may have noticed nonsensical characters throughout the game. In fact this is a substitution code.

The game gives you this:

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And you're kinda left helpless.

After a very good time impressing a cryptologist...

No, for real:



I found out the code which is this:



So the text can read (spoilers if you want to find out by yourself):

Before and after space is bound and outside the edge of time there is A and B.
B displeases A, and so A forms of the immaterial this and sets B within.
This, then, is a prison of material, A closed labyrinth in which wanders the mind of B.
Every facet is meant to confuse, to trap B in this unfamiliar plane. Yet in error A leaves time unbound within.
Within boundless time B seeks the means of undoing all material, of escape.
The means of exit discovered, this begins at B and this ends at B. B does not end inside itv space and time within move according to B.
Withinn B, and without, B and A.
We unravel and condense into the point from which we expand.
Within, B deciphers the obscure texts and reads of itself.


Unfortunately, this doesn't help cracking the code for the glitch achievement.

This is a tough one. Even TV Tropes[tvtropes.org] did mention it as impossible on its "Missing Secret" section before offering the solution, you can head there if you do not care to search for yourself. But you know you want to do this the right way.

I would like to thank louismax1 for his patience and for putting me on the right track. Also glass and Samppooni for the final precisions as to not leave anything to chance. As requested, I won't give the answer but only some clues as to best approach this achievement. If you are really stuck, you can ask on the forums for someone to help you more. Hopefully that will not be necessary.

The glitch achievement (its real name being difficult to pronounce or write properly) is awarded when you successfully cause a certain glitch. It really is a misnomer since the developer coded himself the glitch, making it more of a feature than an error (or rather, it was an error that became a feature). So don't try to break the game by renaming files, creating lock-ups or anything fancy. You just need a gamepad, or a keyboard if you are into this kind of stuff (or a wheel if you are a masochist).

So, in order to cause a glitch you will need to trick the game into doing something it is not supposed to (a figure of speech, but nevertheless). In order to do that, you will need to understand how a 2D platformer works (don't worry, just the basics):

The position of our jelly-bouncing hero (or heroin, let's call him/her JBH for short) is recorded by the game to be able to display JBH's position on the screen as you move around. At the beginning of a room (or during events such as gathering shards or floating ethers, rotating rooms), JBH's position is stored automatically on your save file to act as a permanent checkpoint. And you can also do it manually.

For the game, it's a simple matrix {room number ; xpos ; ypos} to store locally. For you, it is the relief of knowing you will start your game from the last room JBH visited and just below the last window JBH entered. In theory.

To cause the glitch you will need to find how to start your game at a place JBH is not supposed to be. It may be difficult to grasp but once you know you "tell" the game where JBH starts, starting in a place JBH cannot possibly be in can only mean one thing. Once there, you might have to stretch your horizon to see things anew.


Further hints:
- You have more than one occasion to do it but not many more so.

- Once you have reached a certain point, it cannot be done anymore. There is more than one point of no return in the game. Even if you seem to be free of movement, that does not mean some things you have accomplished can be done again, and that could be a prison of sorts.

- Once you have found how to get there but if you still don't know where to look, just explore: things have a way of falling into place :)