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I like to play the old RPGs of the ADandD Series but in more than a half of them
i cant save my created charackters. Instead of this i cant play them..
But you have to know that there is no Floppy Disk Drive in my Pc..Could this be the problem?
Can anyone tell me what i can do?
Please Help me...

P.S. Sorry if my english isnt so good
Nice greetings and big respekt for this great site..

Pascal Br.

[Mighty Midget]

In some downloaded games you need to manually create s savegame folder. Problem here is that you won't easily know the needed name for that folder. If there are no savegame folder in the game directory, try create some and name them save, saves, savegame, savegames or similar.

Other than that, if the game is really old, I believe floppies are the only option. Have you run the setup or install exes to see if you can change the save path there?

Also, for a few games you can set the save path in-game, but I guess you already looked into that.

PS It would help if we knew what games you are talking about.

[gregor]

QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ May 31 2007, 11:02 AM) [snapback]292306[/snapback]

PS It would help if we knew what games you are talking about.
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think his thread title has a clue: "Champions Of Krynn"

[Mighty Midget]

Yes, but what about "games like..."? I can't read minds so it would be better if people wrote exactly what games they are talking about. Every game may need a different approach, that's what I mean.

[The Fifth Horseman]

I like to play the old RPGs of the ADandD Series but in more than a half of them
i cant save my created charackters. Instead of this i cant play them.. [/b]

Please tell us which exact games are these.

But you have to know that there is no Floppy Disk Drive in my Pc..Could this be the problem?[/b]

Nope.

Can anyone tell me what i can do?
Please Help me...[/b]

The problems and ways to solve them depend on the specific game. I remember there were some issues reported with the Krynn series, and solutions to those have been posted in their respective threads under Abandonia Games Discussion forum.

Oh, and one final question... are you using DOSBox to run the games?

[Eagle of Fire]

Some old games created the savegame files themselves prior to playing to make sure that there was place on the HD for those savegame files, or simply for organisation.

Some archivers, for a reason well beyond my understanding, seem to flag all the files they have unzipped as archive files. Those files can't be overwritten since they are read-only. This prevents the game to save the game since in this case the game don't try to create a new savegame file but to overwrite the existing ones.

Try to remove both the archive flag and the read-only file from all the files of the game.

At first, many, many thanks to all of you.... k:

I never tought about getting an answer here...
I will try your solution examples right now and send you the results than.

I will also search for the other "Save-problem" topics here in this forum...
And i promise, i will try to better up my english.

In the last case i wont come around to by me a floppy drive...
After years i get melancholie playing this old Games.I loved them...
A great Site here with a great forum within...
Thanks a lot ...

Many Greetings

Pascal Br.

***** SAVE GAME ERROR FIXED *****


IF YOU DID PUT CHAMPIONS OF KRYNN INTO C:\COK
AND YOU USE DOSBOX

RUN DOSBOX:

MOUNT C C:\COK

THEN YOU EDIT YOUR KRYNN.CFG FILE WITH NOTEPAD
TO CHANGE THE PATH OF THE SAVE DIRECTORY

FROM>> C:\COK\SAVE\
TO>> C:\SAVE

[REMEMBER YOU MOUNTED C:\COK as C:\]

[DarthHelmet86]

Or if you happen to mount the smart way you would not have to change the Krynn.cfg at all.

Place Cok folder in a folder like Oldgames then mount as such.

Mount c c:\oldgames
C:
Cd\Cok

Hey look at that the c:\cok\save is now the correct path.