The Golden Crate

go to the armony/medical bay side and collect items there, then take the escape pod right away.

This item is of CRITICAL importance. Of course if you follow the above advice, you leave it behind on the ship while it crashes into the local sun... but don't worry about that at the start. You can find a way to get it later.

About the data tablet and the square of glass you can get, when you access them a bunch of letters come up. I'm assuming that these are some kind of code, and not a bunch of letters you through in to make the item look cooler? If this is the case can you give me any hints on decrypting these items?

I'm guessing that the demon you are talking about is the one you fight in the sowers during one of your visions. This battle is totally based on your psychic score so having a high one of those will help. I don't want to give anything away, but there are certain actions that you can take throughout the parts of the book before this battle to raze your psychic score by three points.

The letters which appear on the data tablet are in code, and the letters that appear in the data square are the key to the code. Therefore it is possible to manually decrypt the message from Big Bob; however, you don't need to do this as the message is automatically decrypted once you view the data square.

I've gotten to a part of the adventure where it asks me to enter a code to open the golden crate. Can you give me any hints on finding this code?

To get where you are now, I believe you saw the crate opened by someone else, and so you should have seen the code used.

Go and get weapons and medical supplies. Make sure you leave with: A disposable blaster, a small silver disc, and a computer chip. Then leave the ship at once by yourself. Once on the panet, make sure you find something really interesting there.

The battle at the end can see you facing any one of a number of monsters. When the Merchant price of Projudia arrives, he has with him a number of fellow shapeshifters. If you have found or done certain things throughout the course of the gamebook, then you have the option to kill off some of the shapeshifters. The number you kill off detrermines which monster you fight. if you are facing the death-O-saur, it means you have not found any of the items or performed any of the acts which will allow you kill off the enemy shape-shifters. These items/actions are: Antique genades (2 to be found, each eliminating 3 shapeshifters), getting married to a frog-snail-cat woman (eliminates 3) or meeting a doctor-death-bot (eliminates 6). You won't be able to collect all of these, and in fact one lies on an incorrect path. If you kill off all 12 on the Merchant Prince of Projudia's men, then you face him alone in battle. Another note about the ending is that any path that leads to you returning the Crate without this battle occuring is the wrong path.

okay am I correct in saying I should find the ship first? or do I go with the tribesman with the metal thing? I also found a safe with a folder with that number 16964 is this for the timetravel portion later?

Don't go with the tribesman. You won't get a chance to go with him after the ship and you don't need to. To find out if the number on the paper is for the time travel machine you should try it ...but yes.

okay I went back there, and shot him and grabbed the metal thingy will anything bad happen because of that?

In the Golden Crate, I'm stuck. I took the escape pod myself, and found that weird ship with the frog people. From reding the text version, I gather there's some sort of time traveling I have to do. What am I supposed to be doing?
this after I got pwned by a giant dinosaur

To go back in time you need to get the code from the safe in the captain's ready room next to the bridge of the crashed ship. To open the safe you need to have a blaster.

So I gather I should go back now, then there's something I should do before the pirates get to the ship?

How do I get back anyway? I sware I've been through the entire ship and found nothing.

The time machine is located on a secret research level. To get the option to go there, you need to talk to the vending machine with the right order of topics to bring up the subject of time travel. In terms of when to go back in time, you have only one opportunity to do it, so once you have finished exploring the crashed ship, go back in time.