Cant play the GOTM on Civ ToT?

[Brady]

FNG here... downloaded the GOTM... extracted it to the saved game under the original in the ToT version... started ToT when I went to load saved game it was there but got a "formatted under old version" it would not open... Help, looks like a cool game...

Brady...Kapla!!!

 

[Matrix]

I'm unfamiliar with Civilization Test of Time, but do more people who have TOT have to same trouble with the GOTM's? Otherwise, could someone who has the TOT and no problems save the game in the first turn and send this TOT savegame to him? Help this guy out! I wish I could, but I simply can't.

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[oryx]

You can't load classic civ games into Test of Time. It is not backward compatible.

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[Håkan Eriksson]

Sorry for you... BUT IT MUST STAY AS A CLASSIC!!!

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[Matrix]

That's not entirely accurate, Håkan.

'Classic' savegames can be loaded with Civ. Scenarios, Fanastic Worlds and Gold Edition. Just not ToT, as I assume from oryx...

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[Captain Pugwash]

I now have both Gold and ToT. GOTM loads OK under Gold but not ToT. It's hard to understand why this should be because the games are exactly the same. So how did they manage to make the sav files incompatible ?If we had a spec of the layout of a sav file then this problem should be fixable I reckon.

 

[oryx]

The internal layout of the ToT save file is quite different. I suppose the main reason that it is so different is to accomodate the extended original game which has 2 maps, and the sci-fi and fantasy games which have 4 maps.

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