[quake2] Savagame

[Sigurdur Hannesson]

Can you name any Quake II engine without this issue? 'Cause I thought
I'd seen the majority, but nowhere have there been any improvements to
the savegame system. Either way, I reckon I may just take a closer
look and try it out with different savegames. You know, for
curiosity's sakes. ;)


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:58:38 -0500, Brendan Burns
<brendanburns at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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,
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> - --
> >> http://www.cynapses.org/ -- the geek source
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Sigurdur Axel
> >
> 
> 


-- 
Regards,
Sigurdur Axel