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Offline kragil

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Hello,
I just installed Windows 10 (clean) and I want to play ECC from my last savegame. I still have all the Windows 7 files, but cannot find the savegame. I found a folder with highscore.dat and prefs.dat, but that does not seem to be the savegame.

Please help, I was nearly at the end.

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Re: Move to Windows 10 from 7 (clean install) Where are my save games?
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2016, 10:45:46 AM »
I regret to say that this was a work-for-hire project, and one that I didn't program myself. The folks at PlayFirst stopped supporting this game several years ago. I will try and get in touch with the guy programmed the game. Hopefully he remembers how the save function works!

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Re: Move to Windows 10 from 7 (clean install) Where are my save games?
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2016, 02:27:13 PM »
Thank you very much. I guess Adobe flash saves the game somewhere, but haven't been able to figure it out. The coder should know I guess.

Thanks again.

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Re: Move to Windows 10 from 7 (clean install) Where are my save games?
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2016, 10:45:56 PM »
It is not Adobe Flash.
Those two files highscore.dat and prefs.dat are your saved games! Those are only files I have for Playfirst games (besides logfile.txt).

I don't know why your game does not see them. Maybe Windows 10 puts them in different folder than Windows 7?

Oh, and if I rebember correctly, Playfirst games are very picky as for their location. That is, if I move the game to another folder, old saves do not work any more.
« Last Edit: March 09, 2016, 10:47:47 PM by Yuri »

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Re: Move to Windows 10 from 7 (clean install) Where are my save games?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2016, 11:51:18 PM »
Cool thanks, somehow I have a new system where I install my games in Winblows10 (Upgrade has been nothing but trouble tbh).

Now it works. Thanks so much!  ;D

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Re: Move to Windows 10 from 7 (clean install) Where are my save games?
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2016, 06:19:21 AM »
Thanks Yuri! You seem to know more about how this game works than we do. :) Much appreciated!