Bug with Marshall Strickland (Possible Spoiler Alert)

[sugarapsa]

This is just a note to all people who get this rather infuriating bug.

When you're talking to Edna in the alternate Hill Valley (where she's assumed the pseudonym Mary Pickford), you have to let her relive certain events from her past.

Specifically when you're trying to convince her that the cactus is in fact Marshall Strickland, her shaggy Grand-dad, this is where this bug comes in:

If you click on the cactus, WITHOUT having first picked up the hat Edna takes off as she enters the yard, you will find that the cactus suddenly dons said hat. This means, that even though you haven't picked up the hat, the game puts the hat on the cactus for you (and removes it from the post it should be resting on).

This would be all fine and well if Edna then thought it was her Grandad, but everytime you call her attention to it, she say's he looks more "shaggy". You'll basically become stuck.

The only solution (that I found), is to load a save game before this happened (there is an auto-save as you arrive in her yard), collect the hat BEFORE you try to put it on the cactus.

I hope this helps at least one other person, there's no mention of this bug anywhere else on the Internets.

[TT!]

Had the same thing, unfortunately at what was probably my favourite part of the game too.
At least this bug was more obvious than the one i had in a certain house with a certain wall device not working after 2 interactions with it...

[FRancium34]

This is just a note to all people who get this rather infuriating bug.

When you're talking to Edna in the alternate Hill Valley (where she's assumed the pseudonym Mary Pickford), you have to let her relive certain events from her past.

Specifically when you're trying to convince her that the cactus is in fact Marshall Strickland, her shaggy Grand-dad, this is where this bug comes in:

If you click on the cactus, WITHOUT having first picked up the hat Edna takes off as she enters the yard, you will find that the cactus suddenly dons said hat. This means, that even though you haven't picked up the hat, the game puts the hat on the cactus for you (and removes it from the post it should be resting on).

This would be all fine and well if Edna then thought it was her Grandad, but everytime you call her attention to it, she say's he looks more "shaggy". You'll basically become stuck.

The only solution (that I found), is to load a save game before this happened (there is an auto-save as you arrive in her yard), collect the hat BEFORE you try to put it on the cactus.

I hope this helps at least one other person, there's no mention of this bug anywhere else on the Internets.

I got stuck there for a while, but then got through by (if I remember correctly) clicking on the hat to take it off the cactus, and put it on again.
For sure I did not load a previous save.

[slake_jones]

I got stuck there for a while, but then got through by (if I remember correctly) clicking on the hat to take it off the cactus, and put it on again.
For sure I did not load a previous save.

This worked for me, +1 rep:)

[menudo84]

My experience wasn't game breaking. I didnt pick up the hat and noticed the hat on the cactus at that time; when I put the mop on the hat disappeared. I ran around looking for the hat where she dropped it but wasnt there. When went back to the previous angle it was laying right next to Doc.
Good looking out sugarapsa.