Bug: Stuck in prison after talking to the voodo lady [post #8 has a working savegame]

[triplezoney]

I too had this problem & was gutted when I thought I was stuck in the cell...!
Found this forum on my first search & the save game worked for me! (Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit)

Sooo happy for your quick replies so I can carry on playing, great series. Hope you'll start work on the next 5, 10, 50 installment's of Monkey Island!

[Nexguy]

Can someone take me step by step with this save game? I'm obviously doing something wrong Here's what Ive done:

Vista; 64bit

1. Downloaded the saved game from the first post it showed up in
2. Wouldn't unzip in the game directory- corrupted/ bad archive
3. Downloaded winzip and tried again, same thing
4. Downloaded from post 8 into the saved game folder
5. Tried winzip again- same failure messages;

What am I doing wrong?

[KevinD872]

have you tried downloading from this post?

You need to change the extension from .zip to .rar after you download and then open it with WinRar or similar. I got a weird error when I did so, but the saved game seemed intact anyway. I had the same problem as you with the actual zip in the previous post. Winzip says it is corrupted and there is no file in it. Happens on two of my computers and I have no idea why, unless it was made with a newer version of WinZip than what I have (9.0).

[Nexguy]

Thanks Kevin. It downloaded but I couldn't see it in the menu at the launch of the game. I changed the extension to ".save" and I can see it in the menu as a loadable game but it says Unknown for location and Unknown for date. Clicking on it only gives a blank screen.

Depression is setting in. Seriously though- Kevin - thanks for taking the time.

[KevinD872]

Originally Posted by Nexguy

Thanks Kevin. It downloaded but I couldn't see it in the menu at the launch of the game. I changed the extension to ".save" and I can see it in the menu as a loadable game but it says Unknown for location and Unknown for date. Clicking on it only gives a blank screen.

Depression is setting in. Seriously though- Kevin - thanks for taking the time.

If I recall correctly, the file inside the RAR should already end with .save. I'm on a different computer right now and don't have WinRar installed on this one. Depending on how your PC is set up though, you may or may not see the actual extension as part of the filename in Windows Explorer.

You just need to extract the save file out of the RAR and put it into your Ch 4 folder (where the TTG guy said to put it). You shouldn't need to change any extension other than changing the zip to a rar before unpacking.

I also read somewhere that it will show up in the game but it would say unknown for the location.

I don't know why someone from TTG hasn't chimed in yet, but unfortunately I don't know much else I can offer for help. I hope you get it going soon. Worst case scenario, you could just start the chapter over. Overall in the chapter, you're not too far if this happened right after the Voodoo Lady was put in jail (well.... maybe almost halfway), and you could probably fly through it now that you know what to do.

I was fortunate to have found out about this bug before I got a chance to play it and therefore I was able to avoid it. I did however download the saved game just to get a better idea of what needed to be done in order to try and help others with this problem.

Good luck!

[Bob Kagan]

Originally Posted by Nexguy

Thanks Kevin. It downloaded but I couldn't see it in the menu at the launch of the game. I changed the extension to ".save" and I can see it in the menu as a loadable game but it says Unknown for location and Unknown for date. Clicking on it only gives a blank screen.

Depression is setting in. Seriously though- Kevin - thanks for taking the time.

exactly the same here .. =/

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by Wessie

Do you have problems with Unzipping the file? If so, try another Unzipping client, WinRAR or WinZIP?

I highly recommend 7-Zip. It is free, open source and can unpack the most common formats.
Further it worked on all files posted here and it doesn't even care about the file extension, because it uses the file header to identify the format.

WinRAR and WinZip however are commercial products, which might have limits or nag screens for their trial versions. I haven't used them in a while, so i don't know for sure what they do.

[Bob Kagan]

i'm usin 7-zip aswell & downloaded the .save .. but everytime i wanna extract it 7-zip tells me that it doesn't support the compression .save .. >.<

also tried it with winrar or changin it from .zip to .rar -.-"

[DjNDB]

I was able to reproduce the black screen, although with something that isn't supposed to be done.
Renaming the .rar named .zip to .save made that. Is it possible you did something like that?

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by Bob Kagan

i'm usin 7-zip aswell & downloaded the .save .. but everytime i wanna extract it 7-zip tells me that it doesn't support the compression .save .. >.<

also tried it with winrar or changin it from .zip to .rar -.-"

Have you already tried the actual .zip file that doesn't need to be renamed?

[KevinD872]

Here is the actual saved game file, unpacked!

I kept getting invalid zip errors on the "actual" zip file, and the other one that we were supposed to rename to a RAR gave me a CRC error. I ended up renaming the supposed ZIP to a RAR and it seemed to unpack OK but without the .save extension. I think this ended up being another zip with no extension or something, because I added a zip extension to it and then it finally unzipped to an actual save file.

Anyhoo... I uploaded the full unpacked save file to my own site (circumventing the file extension limitation on attachments in this forum). I just confirmed that it works in the game, but as mentioned previously, it will show up as unknown location and unknown date. Just download and put into your game's 'saved game' folder as mentioned previously. No need to unpack or rename anything.



Saved Game

This should work for those of you still having problems getting the downloads in the other posts to work.

[Bob Kagan]

Cheers Kevin Man! .. i rly appreciate that .. it's workin .. u so made mah day m8! ;D

[Nexguy]

Originally Posted by Bob Kagan

Cheers Kevin Man! .. i rly appreciate that .. it's workin .. u so made mah day m8! ;D

Three cheers for Kevin!!! I can finally play the game again and there is some time left in the weekend to do it. PLEASE let me know if I can ever return the favor!

Telltale- Why was the only support I received from a member and not one of you? Why did you zip the file anyway or at lkeast offer a choice? You should hire him or at least learn from his example.

[KevinD872]

Originally Posted by Nexguy

<snip>You should hire him<snip>

That sounds like sage advice. When do I start, Telltale?

In all seriousness, I am glad that it helped you get back to your games. I didn't intend to make TTG look bad in any way; they've worked hard on this game. I just hate to see fellow MI fans unable to play because they are stuck through no fault of their own. I had issues getting the saved game extracted myself and I've been using compression software since the DOS days of "pkzip". Oh well.

[Will]

Thanks for posting the file Kevin! I have yet to figure out why zip files are so finicky in these forums. At any rate, we hope to get the jail problem fixed soon.

[RicardoDiez2k9]

Thanks for the save file, i was just about to go into a pox crazed state myself when i got the bug

[Will]

Hey guys, just to let you know we've put out an updated version of the build, fixing this bug and a few others. I'm not entirely sure if your broken save games will suddenly start working (they probably won't), but at least this should prevent it from happening in the future. Sorry about that!

[Zhadnost]

Where's the updated iinstaller? The one in My Games is the same as the original (according to diff).

[Will]

Hold on, I'm checking that now. It might not have updated yet.

[DjNDB]

Originally Posted by Zhadnost

Where's the updated iinstaller? The one in My Games is the same as the original (according to diff).

Confirmed. According to:
CRC-32: 35bfd898
MD4: 4f98af1ccfc0bcbd742502ffceef77d1
MD5: 0e233410b0fcaa9eaa7a506b9a1f7223
SHA-1: ffd8443c649e4e8968f77bc61a7f99c5ecf99049