Importing high scores from CD version of Bejeweled 2 Deluxe

[Austruck]

Howdy! My elderly dad (age 82) played PopCap's Bejeweled 2 Deluxe on his old computer. We just bought him a new one with Win10 and can't install any version of Bejeweled 2 Deluxe out there except this one through Steam.

The game files in the edata folder all seem exactly the same as the game files on his old computer. He would LOVE to get his super-high scores from that computer onto his Windows 10 computer/version of the game.

But I tried to just overwrite the .txt files (with names like gem_points.txt and points1.txt, etc. etc.) and nothing seemed to come up. Comparing the text files to each other revealed that they're essentially the same sets of numbers. So, perhaps I don't have the file location right for his old high scores.

Does anyone know where the high score files are for this game? If I can find them on this Steam version, I can then locate them on the older computer to transfer that data over for him.

He's beside himself to think he may have lost all his really high scores! THANKS for any help!

[Solstice]

Did you ever find an answer to this question?

[Austruck]

Sadly, no. Every so often my dad asks me if I've figured something out, but nothing online has helped. The man's 82 years old. I would love to see him get those high scores back. I'm surprised there isn't somewhere/some way to get this particular version to work on his new computer.

[Straw Man]

Have you tried EA support?

[Austruck]

They don't even list this version of the game at all anymore, but that's certainly an idea to try. (Is EA responsible for the PopCap earlier version of this game, though? If so, it's worth a shot! My dad is STILL asking me about this!) :D

[Solstice]

I messaged you directly too Austruck, but at least when copying from old Steam install to Steam on a new computer, the stuff you need is in the (probably hidden) folder C:\ProgramData\Steam\Bejeweled2\users\

You can just copy the "hiscores.dat" and each folder named for each user. The high scores are just "hiscores.dat", but the per-user folders have the dat file that lists hidden levels you've unlocked (like Twilight mode, etc), so I think you want both

Now if your scores come from the original (pre-Steam) version of Bejeweled 2, it probably won't be in C:\ProgramData\Steam, but it will probably be somewhere else in C:\ProgramData. If you find "hiscores.dat" as a file somewhere under C:\ProgramData\ and there are folders for each user defined within the game, you've probably found the right spot.

[Austruck]

Originally posted by Solstice:

I messaged you directly too Austruck, but at least when copying from old Steam install to Steam on a new computer, the stuff you need is in the (probably hidden) folder C:\ProgramData\Steam\Bejeweled2\users\

You can just copy the "hiscores.dat" and each folder named for each user. The high scores are just "hiscores.dat", but the per-user folders have the dat file that lists hidden levels you've unlocked (like Twilight mode, etc), so I think you want both

Now if your scores come from the original (pre-Steam) version of Bejeweled 2, it probably won't be in C:\ProgramData\Steam, but it will probably be somewhere else in C:\ProgramData. If you find "hiscores.dat" as a file somewhere under C:\ProgramData\ and there are folders for each user defined within the game, you've probably found the right spot.

I'm hoping to bring down my dad's old computer from the third floor later today to hook it back up and see if I can find a folder/file like this somewhere. It IS the pre-Steam PopCap version, so it won't be in a Steam folder. Fingers crossed... and I'll update once I've scoured the computer!

[Austruck]

I found that hiscores.dat file right there in ProgramData on my dad's old computer! (He played the pre-Steam stand-alone game ten years ago.) I had been looking in the Bejeweled2 folder, NOT the more general ProgramData folder.

I've copied the whole Bejeweled2 folder plus that section of the ProgramData folder, along with that hiscores.dat file, onto a USB stick. I'm headed to my parents' house tomorrow to do a little tech support work for both my parents, and I am fairly confident that, as long as we can get some version of the game to work, and as long as I put this file in the same ProgramData spot on his new computer, this SHOULD work. The trick now will be getting the actual game to work on his newer Win10 computer.

@Solstice ... if all else fails, could I buy him this game via Steam on HIS computer and put that hiscores.dat file where you mention above in the Steam folder? I assume so. He just wants that high score--I doubt he would mind if it's B2 in Steam!

He's gonna be 83 in April. I cannot tell you how happy this will make him! And I know things like playing computer games can keep the mind sharp, so I'll be so thrilled to make this work for him! :)

[Austruck]

@Solstice ... IT WORKED! The look on his face was priceless! I just set up a Steam account for him, bought this game for five bucks for him, and then put the scores in the right spot. BINGO! There they were! (His top scores are all up around a half-million!)

THANK YOU for reaching out!