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transferring save games

Discussion in 'Dungeons of Dredmor General' started by nihohit, Jan 30, 2012.

  1. nihohit

    nihohit Member

    Hey, I tried today to copy my saved game from one computer to another. I copied the .sav bitmap file, and added the text from the original loadsave.dat file to the new one, and yet, when I activated DoD, loadsave.dat returned to its old text and the new saves didn't appear.
    Anyone know how to move the saved game?
     
  2. Daynab

    Daynab Community Moderator Staff Member

    You need *charactername*.sav and not the bitmap one.
     
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  3. While we are at it, what files actually make up a full save game? Been wondering what all those files actually do/store.
     
  4. Daynab

    Daynab Community Moderator Staff Member

    charactername.sav is your data, bitmap-character.sav is the preview image, but not necessary. loadsave.dat is what tells the game to load a certain file (which is why you have to edit it to show the path of the savegame.
     
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  5. nihohit

    nihohit Member

    Just so I'll be sure - how do you need to edit loadsav.dat? I just concatanetaed the text from the old one to the new one.
     
  6. Daynab

    Daynab Community Moderator Staff Member

    Well the easiest way would be to create a new game, save it, the entry will appear in loadsave.dat. Then you can just replace the filename with the other save you had.
     
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  7. OmniaNigrum

    OmniaNigrum Member

    I vote for a sticky!
     
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