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Wherigo with oregon


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Connect your Oregon to your computer. It will ask if you want to enter mass storage mode. Confirm this. Your Oregon will now act like a USB drive.

 

Go to Wherigo.com and choose a cartridge you'd like to download, either one in your area or a Play Anywhere cartridge. On the cartridge's listing page, you'll see a download image button on the left side. Click that and you'll see a page where it asks you which device you'll use to play it. Select "Garmin Oregon" from the list (Oregon or Colorado, really, since it doesn't matter) and click the button to download the cartridge. Download the cartridge to the "Wherigo" folder within your Oregon (My Computer >> Garmin Oregon >> Wherigo). This is all that's needed.

 

Please keep in mind the Oregon has the most unstable Wherigo Player. Some cartridges will handle fine, others won't, and still others will crash a few times before working properly. Please be patient.

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Hi, I have the Oregon 550T--I connected it like you told the last person, but it doesn't ask me if I want mass storage! I don't know where my manual is--is there something I'm doing wrong with this model? Thanks...

 

It only asks you if it's set to "spanner" mode. In other modes, it won't connect at all, in yet other modes, it will connect right away. The setting is in Setup>General (or is that called System?). Set it to Garmin Serial and you're gonna be fine.

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Hi, I have the Oregon 550T--I connected it like you told the last person, but it doesn't ask me if I want mass storage! I don't know where my manual is--is there something I'm doing wrong with this model? Thanks...

 

It only asks you if it's set to "spanner" mode. In other modes, it won't connect at all, in yet other modes, it will connect right away. The setting is in Setup>General (or is that called System?). Set it to Garmin Serial and you're gonna be fine.

 

Okay, it was set correctly and I found the waypoints I had loaded (apparently several times!), but how can I save them as geocaches? It's for a geoteaming event where I live and only a few will survive the weekend to become actual caches. But it'd be hard to play without the hints. I kind of miss my old, basic Magellan Explorist. And I tried to open the files while attached to the computer and can't even find my cache log! Thanks for any help...

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We only used the Oregon 450 once for a Wherigo. It got us half way thru it and locked up and we couldn't get it back on track (without loosing everything we'd already done). That was with the previous firmware.

 

Had to rely on the cell phones to finish it, and then the PiGo App didn't give us the coords to find the container!!!

ARGH!!!

 

Anyone have luck using the Oregon and Wherigo's?

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Think the top tip is SAVE as you progress.

Enter something? SAVE!

Then, if things go wrong, you don't have to backtrack too far.

 

Unless it's one of those that tries to prevent you from "cheating" and won't resume from a saved state... And you don't know that until very late in the game...

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If I foresee myself wanting to save and resume a game, I'll usually go to the first zone, trigger that event, save the cartridge, and test resuming it. For most of the cartridges out there, if it saves and resumes in this state, it should work for the rest of the game. The more hand-coding in a cartridge, though, the less likely it will survive saving and resuming.

 

If a cartridge is on a timer, resuming a cartridge will normally expire the timer.

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