Perhaps this is the wrong message board for this but..

I am using the MESSUI emulator to play Bard's Tale 1. I bought the GOG.com version then copy and pasted the two disk files to play on the emulator. I beat the first game fine, transferred the characters to BT2 for GOG.com then copied and pasted for the emulator again. This did not work! Both of my disk files and both games for both systems have no characters on the disk. The only record of me playing the game is in my save states in the emulator. My characters and all of their equipment exist in the save state but not on the disk. When I go to the guild, I remove my party to save them. When I try add them, it says there are no characters on the disk. WTF?

I have tried to create a new disk image from the save states which at first successfully save but when I hard reset to make them the disks..I get an internal error and MESSUI resets.

Both in the GOG and EMULATOR, I have no characters for either BT1 or BT2. Frown.

This is how I originally transferred characters: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Bard%27s_Tale

I know this is late, and hopefully you have figured it out. I, too, want to replay these games. I have beat both 2 and 3, but never did beat 1. I used the same set of characters all the way through the games back in the day on the C64.

I would suggest you track down the C64 versions and a C64 emulator you like. The import of characters works on that just fine and the C64 version is vastly superior to any of the other versions.

Why do you think the C64 version is the best? It was a pretty poor version as I understand it. The Amiga or IIgs versions (IIgs comes with the GOG game) both have much better graphics and sound.