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Amazingly I still have a back up of my original save games from decades ago... Is there any way to load these files in the GOG version?
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MooBoxML: Amazingly I still have a back up of my original save games from decades ago... Is there any way to load these files in the GOG version?
Yes there is (and you can also save to the original format). Personally, I haven't tested it in a while, so please report any issues if you encounter such.

1. I strongly recommend updating the ScummVM version, of GOG's release, to a more recent build (2.1.1, 2.1.2 or a development version -- which will be released in a few days, maybe 1-2 weeks). You can essentially copy over it with a new installation. (it resides under the ScummVM subfolder in your Blade Runner game folder)
https://buildbot.scummvm.org/builds.html

2. You need to use the debug console. While playing the game bring up the ScummVM debug console (warning: the ScummVM 2.1.0 version of the GOG release has a known issue with the way GOG launches the game, ie. without a background console, so it will probably freeze your game; you should definitely update to a more recent version of ScummVM!). Note that the old shortcut for the debugger was Ctrl+D, but now (in recent ScummVM builds) it's by default Ctrl+Alt+D and can be changed via the key-mapper feature.
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Blade_Runner#Debugger_commands

3. The debug console command is "load <path_to_save_game>". You will have to issue that by hand, so it's recommended to keep the file path to the save game simple enough.
See: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Blade_Runner#load

4. Even though I believe that this will work in the Restored Content version too, it might cause some unexpected behavior.

Again, since I haven't tested it for a while, please report any issues, bugs or unexpected behavior, you encounter so that we can look into them.
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MooBoxML: Amazingly I still have a back up of my original save games from decades ago... Is there any way to load these files in the GOG version?
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PraetorianWolfie: Yes there is (and you can also save to the original format). Personally, I haven't tested it in a while, so please report any issues if you encounter such.

1. I strongly recommend updating the ScummVM version, of GOG's release, to a more recent build (2.1.1, 2.1.2 or a development version -- which will be released in a few days, maybe 1-2 weeks). You can essentially copy over it with a new installation. (it resides under the ScummVM subfolder in your Blade Runner game folder)
https://buildbot.scummvm.org/builds.html

2. You need to use the debug console. While playing the game bring up the ScummVM debug console (warning: the ScummVM 2.1.0 version of the GOG release has a known issue with the way GOG launches the game, ie. without a background console, so it will probably freeze your game; you should definitely update to a more recent version of ScummVM!). Note that the old shortcut for the debugger was Ctrl+D, but now (in recent ScummVM builds) it's by default Ctrl+Alt+D and can be changed via the key-mapper feature.
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Blade_Runner#Debugger_commands

3. The debug console command is "load <path_to_save_game>". You will have to issue that by hand, so it's recommended to keep the file path to the save game simple enough.
See: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Blade_Runner#load

4. Even though I believe that this will work in the Restored Content version too, it might cause some unexpected behavior.

Again, since I haven't tested it for a while, please report any issues, bugs or unexpected behavior, you encounter so that we can look into them.
Oh cool, it works. I'm using the latest stable version. Thanks!