0.4.5 -> 0.4.0.1 save file format

[playback]

Hello,

I need to convert the 0.4.5 .sav file to the old 0.4.0.1 format. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[DaleStan]

Yes. Learn the difference between "need" and "want".

Then explain why you want to do that. If you've got a good reason and a good grasp of C, someone may be able to point you to portions of the source code that need changing to write a 0.4.0.1 save with 0.4.5.

Even if you have no reason at all, grep for "SaveLoad" and " SL" -- the code that you need to change lives in those functions.

[Darkvater]

You're probably out of luck unless you know coding yourself and are going to do it. It is however pretty simple (in theory).

Check the savegame version of 0.4.0.1 (which was 15 or something) than that of 0.4.5 (22?), and all the Sl-macros that are saved. If you see something that is saved only from 17 onward, you need to remove it. This is the easy part, you might get into trouble with other things which I have no idea about.

Good luck if you are going to do it, I don't think there are many people around that are willing to really help though.

[Bjarni]

hehe, you need to write an inverted train subtype converter to use the 0.4.0.1 subtype style instead of the 0.4.5 style

there are most likely other issues as well, that I'm not aware of. So I will ask: why?

it's way easier just to update to 0.4.5

[Killer 11]

Maybe he wants PBS

[Bjarni]

Maybe he wants PBS

then the answer is to get the last nightly build with PBS support (I forgot which one that is)

[playback]

Many thanks to all of you!
I just have the source and will try to write some kind of converter.

[Bjarni]

Many thanks to all of you!
I just have the source and will try to write some kind of converter.

I still don't get why you want to use 0.4.0.1. We fixed a lot of really nasty bugs

[DaleStan]

Maybe he wants PBS

Except that there was no PBS in 0.4.0.1.