loading saved game problem

[burrows1980]

Hi,

For some reason that I cant explain I updated to the new version tonight, went to load my saved game that ive been playing on and off for years now and it wont load

When selecting the save game file it comes up, Saved game made with a newer version. Strange as im pretty sure the version i have been using is older then the current v1.7.

Annoyingly i didnt back up the version I had been using! Tried 1.6.1 but still the same message. Is there a way I can find out what version was used to create the save game or a way to make it workin 1.7? Seems a bit weird for save game data not to load in a newer version, could understand it if I tried to load it in v0.5

cheers

Gaz

[Sylf]

Hi,

For some reason that I cant explain I updated to the new version tonight, went to load my saved game that ive been playing on and off for years now and it wont load

When selecting the save game file it comes up, Saved game made with a newer version. Strange as im pretty sure the version i have been using is older then the current v1.7.

Annoyingly i didnt back up the version I had been using! Tried 1.6.1 but still the same message. Is there a way I can find out what version was used to create the save game or a way to make it workin 1.7? Seems a bit weird for save game data not to load in a newer version, could understand it if I tried to load it in v0.5

cheers

Gaz

Upload the sav file, and maybe someone can find out what version is needed. It might be a newer version of nightly build. It might be a patched version. We'll see.

[MonChrMe]

Just had a poke in mine, looks like it should be easy to work out. The save game has a header - OTTX <null> number <null> <null>. Figured the number would be a version number, and a quick look at the source confirms that. Mine's 196.

Basically, if you open the save file in a hex editor, the first eight bytes should be 4F 54 54 58 00 <x> 00 00, and that <x> tells us which version of the game it was saved in. More or less. There's a table in the source code for this, and this layout looks like it's been used since the 0.4.x versions.

It's a big list, so I've spoilered it for space, but basically all you want to do open the save in a hex editor (Frhed is free on windows), find the value for that fifth byte, convert it to decimal (http://hextodecimal.com/index.php?hex=C4 if you don't know how), then look it up in the list.

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* 194 26881 1.5.x, 1.6.0
* 195 27572 1.6.x
* 196 27778 1.7.x

[burrows1980]

Thanks for the help guys, I realised last night I must have been using a patched game as I have been using signals in tunnels and bridges.. little more investigation found it was JGR's patch pack.

Looking at starting a new game soon, so will use a non patched version!

Gaz