Save game beyond rescue?

[MartinA81]

Hi Guys,
I've been playing OpenTTD for many years and thought I would try to get an old save up and going again. At some point all my passenger trains got converted into what looks like grain cars. I remember that I used a GRF called DB XL and which i believe is no longer available. Is there anything I can do to rescue this game and get the trains up and running again?

I've attached the save game and a couple of screen shots.

Thanks a lot guys!

[Eddi]

you find DBSetXL here: http://ttdpatch.de/download.html

[MartinA81]

Thanks,
I downloaded the grf and placed it in the /OPENTTD/Content_download/newgrf folder but I'm still experience the same issue. I've attached two screen shots, hopefully that can provide some insights to the problem.

Thanks

[Eddi]

if the savegame is really old, you have to activate the NewGRF before you load the savegame (modern savegames store the NewGRFs they were started with, and refuse to load if the NewGRF isn't available)


also, never put stuff in content_download. there is a separate "newgrf" folder next to content_download where manually downloaded stuff can go.

[Eddy Arfik]

The gamelog says this save is beyond rescue, you've changed the GRF config more times than I care to count, in particular removing/adding industry sets is a guaranteed way to break a savegame.