Hello,

I bought Descent 1+2 and went through the first game until level 9. Then later I learned about DXX-rebirth and I'd like to install it, but the instructions I found tell me to copy DXX files to a new directory and then copy DESCENT.HOG and DESCENT.PIG files to it.

I did this and it works, but this way I have to start the game from the first level. It doesn't find my previous save files.

Is there any way to install DXX over my Descent default installation directory, so I can reuse my save data?

Thanks!

EDIT - forgot to say, I'm playing on a mac book :)

You have to copy over the savegames as well...if I recall correctly it's a .plr and .sv0, sv1, etc. (or something like that).

Thanks for answering. I couldn't find any save file in my default installation directory :( Tried to search for the files you mentioned with no success.

Would it be possible to copy DXX files over the default installation directory so that I could keep running Descent from Galaxy GOG client? See, I wouldn't like to have another directory for it, I'd rather copy DXX to default installation directory, if possible.

Thanks!

So, Boxer which means the saves are shadow written under ~/"Library/Application Support/Boxer/Gamebox States" as per the last entry in <i><span class="bold">READ FIRST (MAC OS X):</span> FAQ and solutions for known issues</i>.

Note, it's ~/Library, not /Library. That means in the folder <yourusername>/Library not <therootofthedrive>/Library.

(Gotta love macs... :P)

^ This. It's probably easier to browse to it from your home folder in Finder. Launch a Finder window, make sure you are in your User folder, and start by opening up your per-user Library folder.

Thanks folks... I indeed was trying to access Library from root instead of my home directory. I found it now.

But... This is still not what I would want. Is there any way of copying DXX files to the default installation directory instead of bringing all these files to a new directory apart?

I don't think there's really an easy way to do that on a Mac because of how it handles storing the files :/

OK, that's fine then. Thank you two for your help :)

You can do something better by using symbolic links (symlinks) and the terminal: keep the files where they are and symlink them to where DXX Rebirth expects them to be. If you are not familiar with Unix (the operating system family OS X belongs to) you shouldn't do it, but I'll give you the pointers anyway. The command is "ln -s <original file> <link location>" without the quotation marks and replacing the <placeholders> with the actual files. That way the original files stay where they are and the other program reads the links and thinks those are the actual files. The name "ln" stands for "link" and the "-s" flag tells it you want to create symbolic links instead of hard links. Symlinks are a very powerful feature of Unix that allows you to have one file in many places.

One word of caution though, DXX Rebirth can read original save files but I don't know if the original game can read DXX Rebirth save files. If it cannot then the entire idea is pointless anyway.

Thanks HiPhish for the effort you took to explain this to me!

I gave up and moved my save files to the DXX directory and it worked just fine. I'll get some time to try what you suggested though and will post an update here when I'm done.

Cheers!

I store my save files on Dropbox and link to them in each copy of the game on each computer - Crude but effective cloud saving!

BTW I only use Rebirth.

I once proposed a similar idea: http://portingteam.com/tutorials/article/41-linking-save-files-to-the-user-library/

This sort of thing is what I like about OS X, you have nice, simple and friendly GUI, but when you need to bust out the heavy tools you can just go to the terminal and you have all of Unix at your command.

It's not like Windows doesn't have this. Command "mklink <link> <target>" creates sym-links.