[quake2] Savagame

[Brendan Burns]

Yeah, although its worth pointing out that I think if it doesn't work, 
q2 crashes...  I've heard that other versions of q2 have improved the 
saved file format and don't have this issue...  Adding that to this 
version would be a great project for someone interested in getting 
their feet wet in q2 development (hint, hint)  Otherwise I'll put it on 
my (really, really long) list of things to do (write after "Graduate 
with PhD...")

--brendan

On Mar 30, 2005, at 7:51 AM, Sigurdur Hannesson wrote:

> Because in function WriteGame () in game/g_save.c, the date of the
> binary is written to the savegame. Later, in function ReadGame ()
> (same file), the DLL's date is compared to what's read from the file,
> and the save isn't loaded unless the dates match.
>
> For a simple hack, you could always hardcode a certain date string
> instead of using the date when the game module was built (just replace
> the strcpy (str, __DATE__); in WriteGame (), and strcmp (str,
> __DATE__) in ReadGame ()).
>
> And now I just spotted the oldsave cvar. By setting "oldsave" to 1,
> you can bypass the check and load older/newer saves (assuming they are
> still compatible, of course). That's even simpler. :)
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:25:17 +0200, Andreas 'GlaDiaC' Schneider
> <mail at cynapses.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> why isn't it possible to use an older savegame with a new version. I
>> played with 0.16 and now I'm not able to load the savegame with 0.16.1
>>
>> ==== InitGame ====
>> ********************
>> ERROR: Game Error: Savegame from an older version.
>>
>> This should not happen.
>>
>>         -- andreas
>>
>> - --
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>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Sigurdur Axel
>