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Aquaria => Support => Topic started by: dhakkel on December 11, 2007, 07:55:44 pm

Title: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: dhakkel on December 11, 2007, 07:55:44 pm

Man, am I an idiot. I KNEW I'd save over my complete game if I started a new one, and I still didn't back it up.

So yeah, now I have two slots full of crappy new game and 0 slots of excellent completed game. Am I screwed? Vista's system restore apparently "doesn't affect any of your documents". Fat lot of good that is.

If I am screwed, could someone maybe upload a completed save? I don't care about treasures and shit, I just don't want to explore all the maps again :(.

Please and thankyou :D!

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: dhakkel on December 12, 2007, 12:15:05 am

Bump? Sorry, I hate bumping, but I really need a hand here. I don't wanna have to explore all the maps again :(. I know some of you other people have beat it too, any save game with more than half the maps explored would be a huge help :x!

Actually, just any save with all the forms would be helpful!

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: Quemaqua on December 12, 2007, 03:34:13 am

If nobody else does, I'll upload one as soon as I get that far, but unfortunately I may not have the time I was expecting to use to beat this in the next day or so (I'm not too far off).

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: dhakkel on December 12, 2007, 03:35:15 am

Oh thank God, a reply!

Seriously, even if you just have fish/beast form that would be great. Like I said, I don't mind remapping the entire game if I have to, I just don't want to do it with the slow forms :(!

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: Quemaqua on December 12, 2007, 03:40:48 am

Yeah, I have those two.  I'm not super far (rereading my post I didn't phrase it quite right), but I've gotten through the Kept Forest and the Cathedral entirely, and a lot of the intervening stuff is explored (though I haven't gone all the way south yet because I move really slow looking for secrets, etc.).  Let me upload it for you and I'll PM you a link.

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: dhakkel on December 12, 2007, 03:42:10 am

That's excellent, thanks a lot! I can get back to mapping then, hooray!

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: Don Andy on December 12, 2007, 08:56:58 am

Hum, maybe that could be a nice feature in a future version?
Everytime you save, it makes a backup of the current save, before overwriting it. Thus, if you accidentially  overwrite the wrong slot, you still have your old save as backup.

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: Alec on December 12, 2007, 12:06:27 pm

Hmm not a bad idea!

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: broknecho on December 12, 2007, 06:33:21 pm

I like that Idea too......but isn't the save confirmation kinda a fail safe?


Oooo maybe showing which save you are going to overwrite in the popup dialog instead of just a "Are you sure you want to overwrite this save"  (or whatever the text is)

Title: Re: Ugh, any way to restore a saved game?
Post by: dhakkel on December 12, 2007, 07:09:15 pm

Yeah, the confirmation is fine but you see it every time you save so you get used to just skipping it.

A lot of the longer indie games do backup their saves, so yeah that would be a pretty good idea.