hotseat not savegame compatible?

[slaytanic]

Hi guys,

I was just wandering if it was possible to continue a hotseat game that was started without BUG mod. i tried both installs (3.6, single&multi). When i tried to load a vanilla game it said it had to convert to an unmodded state (mod=none) and no BUG is installed. As i really like the BUGmod options and dont want to waste an ongoing game with friends any help would be much appriciated. Thanx

 

[EmperorFool]

Hotseat games are multiplayer, and as such they require the multiplayer BUG install to use BUG. This means you need to start the game using BUG.

That being said, I believe it's possible with some work. If you start a game using BUG and open the saved game file in a text editor that has hex mode, you can see the name of the mod stored at the beginning of the file. This is the only difference in the game, and I'd bet it's possible to insert this same string in the same place of a copy of your hotseat game.

If nothing else, it should either work or fail right away. You shouldn't need to worry about it working for a while and then failing later.

 

[slaytanic]

Thanx for the quick reply, can you recommend me an easy to use hex editor as i'm not much into programming?

 

[EmperorFool]

Can you recommend me an easy to use hex editor?

Notepad++ had a hex editor mode, and it's a great text editor to boot (and free).

 

[slaytanic]

thanx, i tried it, however it gives a fatal error as i try to load the game. Doesn't work, will finish the current game and then use BUG.