Wow. Great compression Raze! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
I tend to forget about zipping stuff up, after having achieved very little useful compression on the few occasions I've used it. But of course it depends a lot on the nature of what you're zipping. 2.3 megs from 24 is fantastic! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I must remember to freshen up all those old zip, rar, (and whatever) utilities I have kicking around in my Tools folder.
I had quite a lot of success with stripping everything off the 2 characters (which takes a while!) and just leaving an item or two in basic inventory to swap. If I did that in both the "to" and "from" saves it seemed to work. But I was also playing around with other aspects, like what they're wearing, what's on the ground etc. Sometimes it partially worked but I also had some rather hilarious stuff ups!
To complicate things I didn't start mucking around until after I'd patched, so the old saves were 1.32 and the new ones 1.45. I wasn't trying to cheat by doubling up items, just seeing if I could get the stones back without having to redo the parts of Act 3 I'd already done.
Although I could successfully import other items (and have them work) I never got the stones to work that way. They'd arrive, but labelled "Ancient Pyramids" instead of "Teleporter Stones" and they wouldn't work.
I quite enjoy experimenting to see what i can find out, so I'll probably have another fiddle after I've finished the game.
