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BGII Savegame recovery

Posted: Thu May 23, 2002 2:20 pm
by lowly
AHHH! I lost my game to windoze error. I recovered the fragmented file000.chk files. Using notepad I Figured out which ones were the .sav, .gam and .map, but I still have other files that relate to the game. I believe they are parts of the other files. Anyone know how to put them all together again??? I am too in depth to want to start over again? HELP ME PLEASE.

After renaming the .chk files into their own dir in the mpsave folder named something like 00000004-recover (dunno the exact name as I am at work now) I put in the other files, copied a baldur.bmp from another save game. I can see the game, but the game crashes I go to load it. Using Shadow Keeper I can also see it, but I get an error about not seeing the character affections. I tried pasteing bits of the other files in to the baldur.gam file, and then I get an error that says Charecter somethings don't match game header. I'll post the exact errors when I get home. Is there anyway I can view these files that don't look like jibberish? Do I need C++ or something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :eek:

Posted: Thu May 23, 2002 11:00 pm
by Sojourner
I've posted some important info about savegames here. You're going to have to recover the original Baldur.bmp file. Once you've done that, you may be able to get away with "changing" the character portraits with SK.