Rick’s Game Stuff

Steam Achievement Manager games update

July 22nd, 2010

The following games have been added to the list of games that have achievements:

Alien Swarm
Disciples III: Renaissance
Fallen Earth
Fluttabyes
Jolly Rover
KrissX
Monkey Island 2: Special Edition
Puzzle Dimension
Rocket Knight
Tidalis
Turba
X3: Terran Conflict

Tags: SAM
Posted in Steam | 26 Comments »

Steam Achievement Manager 6.0

July 22nd, 2010

Changes:

Fixed issue with recent Steam update where Picker would claim Steam was not running.
Fixed issue where adding a game manually did not work properly.
Overhauled how SAM obtains achievement and stat info, now parses the UserGameStatsSchema files found under the Steam directory.
The previous entry means that the bugs where stats or achievements were duplicated or missing should now be fixed.
Now has a display for stats that indicates if it is increment only or not.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

Tags: SAM, Tools
Posted in Steam, Valve | 20 Comments »

Steam Achievement Manager games update

June 23rd, 2010

I’ve been way lax in keeping the SAM games list up to date.

The following games have been added to the list of games that have achievements:

Alien Breed: Impact
Aliens vs. Predator
Beat Hazard
Bob Came in Pieces
Booster Trooper
Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Source Beta
Dark Void Zero
DogFighter
Eversion
Fortix
Galcon Fusion
Lead and Gold – Gangs of the Wild West
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers
Magnetis
Metro 2033
Mole Control
Napoleon: Total War
Plain Sight
Puzzle Chronicles
Puzzler World
R.U.S.E
Season of Mystery : The Cherry Blossom Murders
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Shatter
Simplz Zoo
Sol Survivor
Super Laser Racer
Supreme Commander 2
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
Toki Tori
Wings of Prey
Ziro

Tags: SAM
Posted in Steam | 81 Comments »

Steam Achievement Manager games update

January 4th, 2010

The following games have been added to the list of games that have achievements:

Torchlight
Zero Gear

Tags: SAM
Posted in Steam | 55 Comments »

Steam Achievement Manager 5.2

December 16th, 2009

This fixes the crash issues introduced with a recent Steam update, in addition to:

API improvements, no longer depends on steam_api.dll.
Filters in game picker.
Reset achievement and/or stat support.
Other stuff I can’t remember now.

There may be an intermittent issue with the Steam UI freezing while / after running SAM (Picker or Game), if that happens, restarting Steam should fix it. Feel free to report issues in comments.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

New games listed as of 5.2 (a few of these are old and I just missed before):

Big Brain Wolf
Drug Wars (shitty game previously known as Merchants of Brooklyn, har)
Mare Nostrum
Rogue Warrior
Saw
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Star Trek: D-A-C
Zero Gear (for the beta version…) Zero Gear Demo
Zombie Driver

Tags: SAM, Tools
Posted in Steam, Valve | 72 Comments »

Borderlands Rarity Levels

November 26th, 2009

A few of you have noted in comments that there are rarity levels past “pearlescent”, this is both correct and incorrect.

The valid game rarity levels are defined as such: (a screenshot I took from Borderlands UnrealEd several weeks ago, later modified by someone else to show actual colors)

Weapons normally range from 1 to 100 rarity, when guns fall past 100 rarity (due to either a bug or the developers didn’t think weapons could go past it), they become white due to not being in a valid rarity. “Pearlescent” weapons are in fact a bug due to this. Past this we see special rarity levels used for different types of items, such as medpacks, etc. If a weapon manages to reach those rarity levels, it will have those colors.

Posted in Borderlands | 14 Comments »