I can't unlump my game!

AzureGames · Post by **AzureGames** » Sun Nov 01, 2015 11:15 pm

It says my RPG file is 8,417 KB. Now what?

Post by **TMC** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 8:47 am

OK. We're going to need to see the .rpg file itself to make any sense of this. If you email or PM me your .rpg file then I will try to recover some data from it. (You can attach files to private messages on these forums.) However it does seem likely that at least part of the .rpg file has been destroyed. It would also be useful to send/upload c_debug_archive.txt if it exists, it might give a clue as to what happened.

AzureGames · Post by **AzureGames** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:46 pm

Okay, so how can I PM you my game?

Post by **TMC** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:54 pm

Put it in a zip file. Click the "send a PM" button next to my name. At the bottom of the PM screen you have to click the 'Browse' button and then the 'Add Attachment' button.

AzureGames · Post by **AzureGames** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:00 pm

Hey, uh... How will I be able to know that you fixed my game?

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:21 pm

Presumably they'll either fix it and send it back to you, or they'll tell you they were unable to fix it?

AzureGames · Post by **AzureGames** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:19 pm

How? Via email?

Gizmog · Post by **Gizmog** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:35 pm

I would assume via the same Private Messages you sent them the game with? Seriously, think about it a little.

AzureGames · Post by **AzureGames** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 12:50 am

Hey, I'm new to this. I was only guessing. I wouldn't have known.

Sparoku · Post by **Sparoku** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 5:37 am

Welcome to the O.H.R.RPG.C.E. and Slime Salad, then.

Sorry that your first crack at the engine is giving you this issue. But there is a good thing about this happening. Now the devs know there is a bug somewhere and will (hopefully) be able to find and fix it!

Post by **TMC** » Tue Nov 03, 2015 11:22 am

I PMed the game back to you.

What happened was that the end of the file got blanked out with zeroes. You were extremely lucky that even though apparently nearly half the file was zeroed out, it only destroyed a single music file plus a couple unimportant data files that you might have never edited anyway. Actually I have never seen anyone get so lucky :) From now on, keep backups!

I've seen this sort of thing a couple of times before, and as far as I can guess it's most likely because your computer crashed before it could finish writing the file to your harddisk, or maybe you pulled out a USB flash drive without safely ejecting it. It definitely wasn't an engine bug.