[Puzzle] [Ended] Quick Fix 8 - X Marks the Spot (solution posted)

Wut is my little come back inspiring more come backs or something? xD

Awesome, haven't seen one of these in a long while. Glad to see you're back. But I still have no time to solve :P

Well, I think I used up all the approaches I know off. Will come back to the puzzle later. ^_^
For now, good luck everyone else on solving it. :D

Updated with links for more insight and exercise.

Well, well, well. I'm not opening the map!..right now :)

Wow, haven't seen you in a while, good to see you again with one of these :>

I don't really have time myself atm to solve any puzzles right now (and I'm missiing quite a lot great ones :<) but good luck to all contestants :> alamarjan puzzles are one of the most clever ones on SG :>

Crap, there goes my chance of getting work done. Time to explore dusty corners of human knowledge!

Bump for solved! :)
So many good puzzles lately :)

well, at least I made some tiny progress xD

Now with an awesome artpiece!

Well I checked your other puzzles.And i must say you are out of my league(TOO HARD for this newbie :/ )

Here is my progress report:

I can see what to focus on to solve it and what am i suppose to find after that. But I have no idea what to do :)

Annnnd that's it ...

Bump for getting to the second step.

Just a day left. Hurry up!

16 hours left. Now listen you guys, you're special! Use your head and your mind and your brain!

7 hours to challenge Cymbaline!

Im pretty sure I know what to do, but did someone solve it already

EDIT Nvm I was on a role but it seems ive stopped

Four hours left. Still one solver!

About three hours left. The solution is scheduled to appear on obscuregamers.com right the deadline.

Dear second stage puzzlers, I understand those Xs set you off, but I nonetheless believe in your success!
Two hours to go.

That was a little bit nerve-racking. But great nevertheless!

Last minute(more like last hour) solve!

Very nice puzzle as usual, thanks!

Can't wait to get spoiled on the second stage. Unfortunately Noctis sucked up all my brainpower and I had no time to puzzle over this one further, but it should be good.

Solution posted!

Hmm I guess the solution did cross my mind but I don't have enough faith in imgur not messing with your uploaded file. Because it does mess with it. At least they used to. Like the trick of appending some extra information of your own didn't work, or EXIF data in jpgs wouldn't be preserved, things like that. If it was hosted on dropbox or something I'd have the faith that the bytes of the image I'm getting are exactly as you intended, otherwise png can be repackaged etc. Ah well :3 I did get close though, and was happy enough with that, so I have at least that going for me, which is nice. Thanks :)

EDIT: In hidsight, well, Xs were separate so you could've tweaked them post-uploading. But still not enough faith in imgur in this one xD