Ancient Domains Of Mystery, forum overview / ADOM / Rotten save file
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 17 hours, 26 minutes and 47 seconds ago. |
Dang. I descided to continue a character I have had lying around for mounths, however when I loaded the game I got the "You feel as if you have run out of luck" message and got all my stuff cursed and all that (died shortly after)... Aparently some of my files had gotten incorect date/time stamps (acording to Norton Disk Doctor) so I guess that's what threw off the CRC check... Moral of the storry? Don't leave your characters lying around for mounths, they might spoil. Play them while they are fresh ;-) cursed save file "Gnomey" {rotten} [30k]Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Locke Registered user Treasure hunter Last page view: 7902 days, 9 hours, 58 minutes and 53 seconds ago. |
Hmm, what I don't understand is why ADOM care at all about the date and/or time stamps of a savefile. Unless the date is REALLY inaccurate, I can't really think of any reason why to care about it. Locke Cole |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 17 hours, 26 minutes and 47 seconds ago. |
The dates where wrong, as I said there was some minor errors on the FAT table on the disk or something, easy enough to fix, but the result is that the last updated date of the affected files where modified. So when ADOM loads the save file one of the checks it makes it probably to see if the file's last changed date match the date the game was saved, in this case it didn't and ADOM therefore asume that the save file have been modified and 'dooms' the character. If you for example manualy rename a save file the same thing would probably happen. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Locke Registered user Treasure hunter Last page view: 7902 days, 9 hours, 58 minutes and 53 seconds ago. |
Aha. That adds some sense into it. Though I have renamed several savefiles in the past with no negative effects. I might do a lil test on that later today. Locke Cole |