Useful glitch in New Vegas - Fallout: New Vegas Guide

Guide by Warren Woodhouse


location: Keith’s Office, Aerotech Suite 200, Aerotech Office Park, west of Camp McCarran and south east of NCR Sharecropper Farms.


item: Marked Cards


Inside the desk in Keith’s office, is a bunch of loose cards, as well as a deck of “marked cards”. You’ll have to be sneaky (crouched) in order to steal them. Once you have the deck of Marked Cards in your inventory, they can be found in the Misc section in your Pip-Boy. The great thing about the Marked Cards is that they are unaffected by gravity. You can literally drop them from your inventory and this will result in them floating in the air wherever your character is looking, based on the center reticle on your HUD. This is really useful as you can jump onto the deck of cards in the air and then onto a higher surface, picking up the cards and dropping them again to get higher up. They become a ladder of sorts if used correctly. I'm not sure of any other items in the game that can be used in this manner, but I’m sure there are more items to find out there. Have fun in the Mojave!

The Courier Who Broke the Bank Trophy - Fallout: New Vegas Guide

Guide by Warren Woodhouse

Related Quests: Big Winner: The Tops; Big Winner: The Gomorrah; Big Winner: Ultra-Luxe; Big Winner: Atomic Wrangler

Related Challenges: Big Winner

You need to get banned from all of the main casinos on The Strip in New Vegas. Ensure you have been officially banned from gambling at The Vikki & Vance Museum (Vikki & Vance Earnings: 3,000), The Atomic Wrangler (Atomic Wrangler Earnings: 5,000), Gomorrah (Gomorrah Earnings: 9,000), The Tops (The Tops Earnings: 10,000) and The Ultra-Luxe (The Ultra-Luxe Earnings: 15,000). 

The Vikki & Vance Museum doesn’t count towards the trophy/achievement, I’ve added it to the guide for posterity.

If you reach the winning limits on slots too quickly, the floor manager may not be able to walk up to you to hand out gifts. Slow down your wagers (example: play Blackjack) and ensure you receive all of their warning gifts.

Apparently there is a known bug in the game, especially if you’ve killed Benny too early in the game or in a way that turns the casino hostile before they ban you, it can break the script. You may need to revert to a save made earlier before confronting him in The Tops.

Though it’s not strictly required for the trophy, some gamers have reported getting banned from all of the casinos including the Atomic Wrangler, forces the game's script to register the progress.

If you hit all the limits and still get no trophy pop-up confirmation, your save is likely bugged. The only known workaround is to load a save from before you started gambling and do it over.

Entering the Old Mormon Fort interior as a Glitch - PS3 Glitches - Fallout: New Vegas Guide

Guide by Warren Woodhouse

You can the interior of the Old Mormon Fort in Freeside as a glitch without using the main door by doing the following:

1. Enter the Ruined Store in the same area, on the west side of the area opposite the Old Train Station
2. Exit the store and sprint back to the Old Mormon Fort
3. If done correctly, you’ll see the graphics have not fully rendered yet, so you can run through the building and into the courtyard
4. Unfortunately because of the glitch, once the graphics are rendered in, you’ll be unable to exit. You can bring up the world map from your Pip-Boy and pick a destination. If you’ve found that you’re unable to do this, check out Step 5
5. You might not be able to exit due to enemies in the area, if this happens load the Auto Save from the Load Screen

How to Solve the issue with Game Crashes in Fallout 3 & Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition on the PS3 - Issues - Fallout 3 Guide

 Solution by Warren Woodhouse

Sometimes, especially after 200 hours playing Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, you’ll eventually run into a game save crash on the PS3. I did, however, find a solution to the issue, which I have outlined below:

1. Make a copy of your most recent hard save or autosave game save file to a USB disk drive
2. Delete the game and all the Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition game saves from the PS3
3. Enter Safe Mode on the PS3 and select Restore Database
4. Enter Safe Mode again and select Reset Network Settings
5. Enter Safe Mode again and select Delete Cache
6. Restart PS3
7. Reinstall Fallout 3 or Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
8. Create a new save game file, complete the Prologue and Enter the Wasteland. Wait until you see a confirmation of a trophy/achievement pop up, if it’s already been unlocked, the pop up won’t occur. If you see a pop up saying that achievements won’t pop up, delete the save file and start from the beginning. Do not delete this save file until the issue happens again with the game crashing
9. Close the game and copy your original save file to the console
10. Restart the console
11. Play the game as normal

There you go. Real easy. This method also works with Skyrim on the PS3, Fallout: New Vegas on the PS3 and Fallout 4 on the PS4 and PS5.