Help with missing GRFs on a saved game with over 1000 trains

[inkiboo]

Hi,

First off, hello! First post on here. Been playing TT since 1995 and discovered OpenTTD a few years back. Had fun messing about with it and then forgot about it.

Skip forward to today and I've redownloaded OpenTTD and I can't seem to get a saved game to open. It says it is missing GRFs but a) when I say find online it says I already have them and b) I've put them in the newgrf folder and still nothing happens.

Now, this wouldn't be an issue except I'm using Maglev trains and have 900 of them! When I load the game it replaces them with a diesel train that can't use the maglev tracks, which is a slight issue as I then get send them to a depot. Same thing happens with another train but it replaces with a steam train which can be replaced however there are 300 to replace and it is taking a while.

So, either:

a) could some kind soul please tell me how to get the GRFs to work
b) how can I replace trains without sending them to a depot

File can be downloaded here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lztqixelftjtq ... 202399.sav

Many thanks in advance

[planetmaker]

That savegame uses two NewGRF which never properly worked with OpenTTD, they report a grossly incorrect version for the language they're written in which OpenTTD does not understand (and never understood) But OpenTTD got stricter with its validation of NewGRFs, thus disables them instead of making a random and too often wrong guess as to what language the author of those NewGRFs could have meant.

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dbg: [grf] NewGRF 444A0201 (Generic_European_Train_Set_GES-Alpha2.1\ges_pa2.1.grf) not found; checksum 45054312E8038955B33606A427BAFF2F
dbg: [grf] NewGRF 44460000 (OpenTTD_plus.0.1\ottdpp.grf) not found; checksum 794F4247978D52C300939D120EA29176

There's really no other solution than sending the vehicles to a depot and replacing the ones you like to see replaced.

[inkiboo]

Ah. I would send the maglev trains to the depot except they currently have a train that won't work on a maglev track!

Oh well, thank you anyway.

[Transportman]

Ah. I would send the maglev trains to the depot except they currently have a train that won't work on a maglev track!

Oh well, thank you anyway.

You could try an older version of OpenTTD, from around the time you made that save, to send the vehicles to the depot. And once they are there in there you should be able to replace them.

[keoz]

Another solution could be correcting the NewGRF's code.

[Mr Fox]

Maybe you are not using a Maglev depot? I will check it and see what I can do.