Converting CODEX savegame to Steam version

[Django]

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD MODS, PLEASE DON'T BAN ME, I BOUGHT THE GAME.

Allright, so I had the codex version, played a bit of the showcase, made a few superstars, entrances and an arena. I'd like to continue using that savegame in the Steam version.

I have located the Codex savegame location, and the only difference that I can see between the versions is that Codex save files are all lowercase, while Steam's are all uppercase. Copying the files to the Steam's save location gives me an error that the save's been corrupted and that a new one must be made, which will overwrite the old one. Renaming the files to uppercase doesn't seem to work either.

I had the game patched to the latest version prior to buying it on Steam.
Anyone knows a trick or two on how to get this to work, please let me know.

[Werecat101]

Do you wear a Tshirt saying you illegally use software you didnt pay for?.
A clever person would have read the half dozen threads that all talk about savegames and how to recover after a corruption on a save occurs.

[ZeroX]

OP tried the game, liked it, and finally bought it, it's ok on my book. That's a common way to try out games, demos are very rare nowadays.

Instead of being salty, you could help him, and at the same time, to others who read this thread interested on backup saves.

[Werecat101]

I am getting very tired of people that cant be bothered to read the topics on previous threads and just create yet another thread on the same subject.

[Itz_Jerzee]

I posted this a few weeks ago on another thread. Not sure if it will work the same for you since you are trying to port in your save game from codex version but it doesn't hurt to give it a shot. Good luck :-D



Nu_Jerzee_Devil has WWE 2K16 Mar 30 @ 2:40pm
Anyone who is trying to use a manual back-up save file because the game save file has become corrupted, make sure you backed up the ENTIRE save folder & not just the "remote" sub-folder. You have to backu-p the entire save folder (385730). Here is a step by step walk through of how to use the back-up files if your game save files have gone corrupted. This is from SmackTalks....

Assuming you have backed up your whole ..\Steam\userdata\<SteamUserID>\385730 folder (not just the remote directory), Try the following:

1. Put Steam in offline mode.
2. Shut Steam off after it has done loading in offline mode.
3. Delete your corrupt 385730 directory from the ..\Steam\userdata\<SteamUserID>\385730 folder.
4. Copy the backup save there afterwards.
5. Start Steam/the game in offline mode.
6. If the save works then (which it hopefully will), save the game (change a brand of a superstar in MyWWE, for example) .This will make the date of your local save newer than the steam cloud one, which is what steam checks.
7. Exit the game.
8. Switch steam to online mode.
9. After Steam has done restarting and is online again, start the game again.
10. You should now receive a prompt which save files to keep.
11. Choose to keep/upload the save from your local computer (not the one in the cloud!).
12. The local save will then be uploaded to the Steam cloud and replace the faulty save there.

If you are like me & don't have Steam cloud actiivated then don't worry, this still works only thing you will not be asked what save file you want to use since you won't have a save file for the game in the Steam cloud.

[ZeroX]

Hey, thanks for the info. I am thinking on buying the game and this is very handy, because I'm afraid of the corruption save data bug.

I have one more question. How big is the folder usually?

[Django]

Thank you both for trying to help. Unfortunately that didn't solve the problem. I disabled the cloud storage. The problem is getting the Steam version to read the save files made by the pirated codex version. From what I can tell, the files are not the same.

Here's how the save folder looks:
http://i.imgur.com/4jYRpxr.png
'local' is empty, while remote looks like this:
http://pastebin.com/b8GDTzTT (this is /dir command in the command prompt, to many files for a screenshot)

My guess is that the Codex saves are missing some files that the Steam version uses. Can anyone confirm?

Originally posted by steve:

I am getting very tired of people that cant be bothered to read the topics on previous threads and just create yet another thread on the same subject.

If you took a minute of your time to read my post, you would see that my problem isn't in the corrupted saves, but rather getting the Steam version to read the saves made using the pirated one. Regardless, thanks for your input.

[Werecat101]

personally im glad your pirated version didnt allow you to transfer your save, as who knows what they may have done to cause problems if you uploaded a caw created on the pirate version.

[Crunchy[Daz]]

Originally posted by DjangoUnchained:

Thank you both for trying to help. Unfortunately that didn't solve the problem. I disabled the cloud storage. The problem is getting the Steam version to read the save files made by the pirated codex version. From what I can tell, the files are not the same.

Here's how the save folder looks:
http://i.imgur.com/4jYRpxr.png
'local' is empty, while remote looks like this:
http://pastebin.com/b8GDTzTT (this is /dir command in the command prompt, to many files for a screenshot)

My guess is that the Codex saves are missing some files that the Steam version uses. Can anyone confirm?

Originally posted by steve:

I am getting very tired of people that cant be bothered to read the topics on previous threads and just create yet another thread on the same subject.

If you took a minute of your time to read my post, you would see that my problem isn't in the corrupted saves, but rather getting the Steam version to read the saves made using the pirated one. Regardless, thanks for your input.

Part of the reason he suggested that you look at the other topics was because you were really, quite dumb to come to the steam forums and announce that you stole the game. I know you think that because you bought the game that it makes up for it, but it doesn't...you still stole the game.

Yes lots of people do it, but they don't come to the forums and announce it....its like an unwritten intelligence check and you failed. He was just trying to say in a nice way "Don't be an idiot, go look up how to repair your saves because it will have the same effect as trying to copy them so you're not announcing that you're trying to copy saves from a stolen game onto your Steam"

[Avil172]

No matter what you do, you are not going to be able to stop it from getting corrupted at one point. In my case, when I back up my save, and then a few minutes later I try to use the these saves, they say that its corrupt. So basically, its not even reading my own save file.

I have been trying to figure out a way to keep the saves from being corrupted. From what I have noticed , the save file goes to different directories for different people(which I just figured out after seeing your save structure).

So regarding transferring saves..

Judging from the image, its missing the remotecache.vdf file(which is required for the legit game). So my guess is, your equivalent file is "filemappings.ini". Can you show an image of what's inside it?(open it using notepad)

[Django]

Sure Avil, here you go:
http://pastebin.com/W9Jebu1a

I tried searching for remotecache.vdf on my whole C:\ drive, where the game's installed and I couldn't find it, except the ones for other Steam games I have.

From what I can tell, the remotecache.vdf contains the info on the save files, size, time of creation and hashes. Perhaps they don't match or something? The game did generate one of these for my old saves.

Here's an example:

"caasbigh0000"
{
"root" "0"
"size" "30309"
"localtime" "1460400774"
"time" "1460400880"
"remotetime" "0"
"sha" "9f237be4c5f227e0acc7227e78f14e5c91707a34"
"syncstate" "1"
"persiststate" "1"
"platformstosync2" "-1"
}

Here's the full thing: http://pastebin.com/eXMV7UHs