Missing Map File Errors

Meatballsub · Post by **Meatballsub** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:18 pm

I have my game setup to skip the title and loading screen and goto a script instead. Everything works as intended until you quit the game and then try and open the game back up in the same session. That is when I get the following errors:

map00 tile/wall/foe/npclocations/npcdefinitions/doorlinks is missing!

It does this for every map I'm guessing. Any idea why this is happening?

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:09 pm

This sounds unlikely to be related to your skip title and skip load scripts, and unlikely to be related to your startup plotscript.

This sounds more like a bug simply in loading the same game twice in the same game.exe session. (or maybe even a problem loading a second game in the same game.exe session)

What version are you using? I remember a bug like that, but I thought it was fixed before zenzizenzic was released.

Meatballsub · Post by **Meatballsub** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:15 pm

I'm using the last official release; no nightlies. I can send you a test case if you like.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:22 pm

Meatballsub wrote:I'm using the last official release; no nightlies. I can send you a test case if you like.

Yes, that would be helpful-- also, can you test if it is happening with all games, or just with your game?

Meatballsub · Post by **Meatballsub** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:32 pm

Where should I sent it to?

Also, it looks like its just my game. I tried it on another game I had in the same folder and it didn't crash. I also could open my game, exit, and load the other game with no problems. In other words it seems to just happen when I first open my game and then try to reload it at this point.

FnrrfYgmSchnish · Post by **FnrrfYgmSchnish** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:41 pm

I've seen this exact same bug with Vikings of Midgard--I think you were in the #slimesalad IRC room when I was talking about it, James.

But yeah, as Meatballsub mentioned, it doesn't happen with every game--most of the games I have on my computer never get the weird "map missing" endless chain of error messages, even when I intentionally quit then reload them without closing game.exe first.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:14 pm

Send the test case to Bob@HamsterRepublic.com

Fnrrf, yes i remember you reporting that bug. I thought that was just before the Zenzizienzic release... but maybe I am misremembering. Whatever it was I thought I fixed it.

Meatballsub, I will test your testcase both in Zenzizenzic and in the nightylies. Then I can figure out if this is a bug I have already fixed, or one that still needs fixing.

FnrrfYgmSchnish · Post by **FnrrfYgmSchnish** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:24 am

I thought that was just before the Zenzizienzic release... but maybe I am misremembering. Whatever it was I thought I fixed it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was after the Zenzizenzic release. I remember that it was around the time that I finally realized that it was "Zenzizenzic" and not "Zenizenic" (which I had been misreading it as for... pretty much ever since the Z codename was picked), which definitely wasn't until after Zenzizenzic had been around for at least a few days or so.

Spoonweaver · Post by **Spoonweaver** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:34 pm

Quitting the game then reloading without quitting game.exe first causes all sorts of errors.

Palettes changing back to the original default palette
Textbox borders disappearing
no music ( I think, this might have been something else )
and of course the map missing bug.

I'd suggest simply not doing this. Always start up with a fresh copy of RPG.exe

Meatballsub · Post by **Meatballsub** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:04 pm

I just sent the file. Let me know if you need anything else.

I'd suggest simply not doing this. Always start up with a fresh copy of RPG.exe

I don't mind exiting out completely then opening up a fresh GAME.exe, but I thought that the error needed to be known regardless.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:12 pm

Yes, thank you for reporting it. It does need to be fixed.

I got the test case file, and I will be checking it out.