Can I have the raft river save pls?

[Local Dummy]

I'm trying to get the sick tricks achivo, but i genuinely do not feel like restarting my save over and over again from falling.
thanks.

[SquishSquash]

You can copy one of your saves (preferrably, one where you've just landed in the Core) by going to Users -> (your user) -> AppData (hidden folder) -> LocalLow -> JoelG -> ENA-4-DreamBBQ -> saves -> steam -> (last folder) and then copying the one you want to back up, and pasting the file somewhere else (I pasted it at my desktop)

if you keep the folder open where you store your saves and have the back-up file copied to your clipboard, what you can do every time you fall is immediately skip the cutscene and exit back to the main menu, and while the game loads you can pull up the save folder and quickly delete the save you just fell in and paste the back-up, and by the time the game is finished loading the title screen back in you can just hit continue and click on the save you just pasted back in. I had to do it a bunch of times before I finally was able to get the achievement lol

[Local Dummy]

do you have a fresh copy just in caseee

[SquishSquash]

Originally posted by Local Dummy:

do you have a fresh copy just in caseee

I'm not sure you can just send actual save files in a discussion post thread, just copy your own save from where you first spawn into the Core

[Local Dummy]

ok
ill do it later
will have to do it again bcs i fell

[ZexRon]

I tried it... The game has some type of save scumming protection.
I guess the game count how many times you saved on a particular slot.
I moved my core save to another slot by renaming it "save_2.dat" and it worked. But when I fell again, restoring it sends me the first location because I assume saving once on the slot means you must be at the start of the game.

[G-Virus]

Originally posted by ZexRon:

I tried it... The game has some type of save scumming protection.
I guess the game count how many times you saved on a particular slot.
I moved my core save to another slot by renaming it "save_2.dat" and it worked. But when I fell again, restoring it sends me the first location because I assume saving once on the slot means you must be at the start of the game.

There is a work around to that. You need to reset all of the save slots and then copy the save file. What you want to do is make it to the Core, back up your save file. Make three copies but change the number on two of them. The main save should be 0 so just rename the copies 1 and 2. If you fall in, go back to the main menu and select continue. Reset ALL save files that you have as if you're playing a new game, then go into the save folder and copy over the back up data. When you go back into the game and hit continue, you will have three save slots all showing the Core. Good luck and God speed.

[ledRid]

It helps to pause so you can see where the rafts actually are

[vitnoll]

as soon as you fall, quickly press Alt F4 and re-open the game and save file and you can try again! but you have to be REALLY fast with the Alt F4 because the game saves very quickly once you fall

[Phantomorrow]

Originally posted by vitnoll:

as soon as you fall, quickly press Alt F4 and re-open the game and save file and you can try again! but you have to be REALLY fast with the Alt F4 because the game saves very quickly once you fall

ps.... extra fast have to rerun again

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by SquishSquash:

You can copy one of your saves (preferrably, one where you've just landed in the Core) by going to Users -> (your user) -> AppData (hidden folder) -> LocalLow -> JoelG -> ENA-4-DreamBBQ -> saves -> steam -> (last folder) and then copying the one you want to back up, and pasting the file somewhere else (I pasted it at my desktop)

if you keep the folder open where you store your saves and have the back-up file copied to your clipboard, what you can do every time you fall is immediately skip the cutscene and exit back to the main menu, and while the game loads you can pull up the save folder and quickly delete the save you just fell in and paste the back-up, and by the time the game is finished loading the title screen back in you can just hit continue and click on the save you just pasted back in. I had to do it a bunch of times before I finally was able to get the achievement lol

I actually did this, but it doesn't work. For some bizarre reason, it keeps your up to date one. maybe its steam cloud?

[G-Virus]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Originally posted by SquishSquash:

You can copy one of your saves (preferrably, one where you've just landed in the Core) by going to Users -> (your user) -> AppData (hidden folder) -> LocalLow -> JoelG -> ENA-4-DreamBBQ -> saves -> steam -> (last folder) and then copying the one you want to back up, and pasting the file somewhere else (I pasted it at my desktop)

if you keep the folder open where you store your saves and have the back-up file copied to your clipboard, what you can do every time you fall is immediately skip the cutscene and exit back to the main menu, and while the game loads you can pull up the save folder and quickly delete the save you just fell in and paste the back-up, and by the time the game is finished loading the title screen back in you can just hit continue and click on the save you just pasted back in. I had to do it a bunch of times before I finally was able to get the achievement lol

I actually did this, but it doesn't work. For some bizarre reason, it keeps your up to date one. maybe its steam cloud?

It won't work. You have to go into the main menu and select continue, then reset the save slots, all of them. Once you do that then you can go into your save folder and replace the save files with your backed up save file. Only then will it start you back to where you were.

[!么 vAstaroxヾ 💢]

Originally posted by vitnoll:

as soon as you fall, quickly press Alt F4 and re-open the game and save file and you can try again! but you have to be REALLY fast with the Alt F4 because the game saves very quickly once you fall

Me ayudaste con eso del altf4, despues de estar pasandolo haciendo record de llegar a ese punto en 9 minutos, con eso del alt f4 logre pasarlo a los 3 intentos, gracias

[Jim]

Originally posted by !么 vAstaroxヾ:

Me ayudaste con eso del altf4, despues de estar pasandolo haciendo record de llegar a ese punto en 9 minutos, con eso del alt f4 logre pasarlo a los 3 intentos, gracias :aerlove:

The Alt+F4 trick helped me a lot too! I ended up using that as my main method, only using save backups if I was too slow with Alt+F4.

For anyone else struggling with save backups: On Windows, I was able to use save backups in the userdata folder of the Steam directory, as shown in this video. Accessing the Appdata folders was never needed.

An easy way to find your Dream BBQ saves is to go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\ and then search for "2134320" (that's Dream BBQ's app id). Once you're in the 2134320 folder, you can just open the folders \remote\saves\steam\[some big number]\. (Your [some big number] will vary.)

There, you'll find these files (0, 1, and 2 are your three save files, so if any are blank they'll be missing):

save_0.dat
save_1.dat
save_2.dat
save_info.dat

And I just made a backup or all four files. If I was too slow with Alt+F4, I'd copy the files from my backup, paste them in the [some big number] directory, and then choose "Replace All" before re-opening the game. (Looking watching the "Date modified" in Windows will help you know if you were too slow.)

If anyone needs help getting back to the Core from scratch, you can get there in about 5 minutes with a couple of braindead-easy skips. Here's a video of me doing a quick run to the core. For the ground clip skip at 0:12, just point at the red spot on the ground, don't move your mouse after pointing at the mountains, and hold A+S while crouching behind the stall. Detailed instructions here if you struggle with it. The taxi skip at 1:48 doesn't require any special skill or technique.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2424507834