Hello

I have try to transfer my pilot from WC1 but without succes....When i click on the transfer pilot option in WC2 and i write the location to the WC1 pilot, that not work...

HELP me.

Go to your GAMEDAT folder usually located by this path C:\GOG Games\Wing Commander 1 and 2\WC\GAMEDAT\. Then look for file names SAVEGAME or CRUSADE with the file extension WLD. When you find the on you want to use copy it to your WC2 folder. It should see it. I tested and it worked. I hope this helps.

Ok i will try this solution...

Thank you very much because i try many many things without sucess.

Hello,

My solution is very simmilar

IN THE WC2 FOLDER CREATE A NEW FOLDER CALLED

WC

COPY YOUR WC1 SAVEGAME.WLD, OR FOR SM2 CRUSADE.WLD FILE TO THE NEW WC FOLDER(in WC2 folder)

WHAN ASKED FOR THE FILE PATH GIVE IT AS


C:\WC

sometimes it may take several trys to get it to work ( at least it does for me) but it does work.

Ok i try this too....

Thanks

I have tried both options you listed. And it will not find it at all. In my case I have tied both the regular wing commander save file and the Crusade save file. I have copied the contents of the game into a folder named wc2. I am typing the command C:\wc2 I have the file in the base folder not in gamedat, however I have also tried it with it located there as well.

On Macs the savefiles are actually kept seperate, in Boxer\Gamebox States\com.gog.wing-commander and com.gog.wing-commander-2.

Maybe search for a folder titled "Gamebox States"?

Hi, I know this is an old thread and nearly a year old post, I had the same problem for ages but found a solution.

To start off, from windows go into your C Drive and rename the directories your Wing Commander games are in to C:\gog\wing and C:\gog\wing2 (You can just omit the "gog" subfolder if you want or change it to any suitably short directory name). This will make things easier later since DOS games didn't like long directory names.

To transfer your pilot to Wing Commander 2 do not launch it using the desktop icon. Launch DOSBox separately, type Mount C C:\ and press enter, it will tell you that's not recommended, but it's fine, just do it.. Now find and load Wing Commander 2 as you would in MS-DOS (type cd c:\gog\wing2 then hit Enter to change to that directory then WC2 Enter to load Wing Commander 2), you should now be able to transfer your pilot from Wing Commander, Secret Missions or Secret Missions II: Crusade from the C:\gog\wing\gamedat directory.

The problem is if you launch it from the desktop icon DOSBox only mounts the Wing Commander 2 directory so when you try to transfer that way DOSBox can't see the Wing Commander directories you type in for it. Doing it manually is a bit more laborious, but since you mount the whole C Drive DOSBox can then see all the appropriate directories. Hope this helps.

Jolob's solution worked perfectly for me

Hello, OK, 4 years after the last post, but a fellow streamer and myself had the same problem in importing the WC1 Savegame into WC2 using freshly installed GOG Versions of WC1 and WC2.

Copying the SAVEGAME.WLD from the \GAMEDAT subdir of the GOG WC1 Installation into the WC2 path didn´t work, the Transfer function of WC2 did not recognize it.

I found a solution and maybe it can help other people (using the "latest" 2019 GOG Version) in also sucessfully importing the savegame.

This "latest" WC Releases of march 21, 2019 mentions " [WINDOWS] added cloud saves functionality".
I found out that apparently the SAVEGAME.WLD is NOT been saved in the "GAMEDAT" subdirectory of your Wing Commander 1 Installation Directory any more, IF you are a) using Windows an b) the "Cloud save functionallity" of GOG is activated at your GOG Client.
In this case (windows and GOG cloud save user) the SAVEGAME.WLD instead is saved at the "cloud_saves\GAMEDAT" subdirectory of your WC1 GOG Installation! So you need to "dig one folder deeper". In this subfolder, i found another version of SAVEGAME.WLD which actually was used by the game to save the latest pilot progress.

If you are using the 2019 GOG Version of WC1 + Windows+ GOG Cloud save user, and you try to copy the version from the "old" "GAMEDAT" directory, in which the "vanilla" WC1 used to save the WLD File, you will end up in trying to import a BLANK file (this file is included in this directory, but is NOT USED by the newer GOG Versions of the Game).

That´s the reason, the import process in this case is not continuing (because WC2 cannot find any pilot data in this "blank" file even IF you have referenced it with the correct path).

To SOLVE this, please COPY the SAVEGAME.WLD file from the "cloud_saves\GAMEDAT" subdirectory (NOT the "GAMEDAT" directory). Then copy it directly into the main path of your WC2 Installation. When asked about the path of the Savegame in WC2, please type "c:\" (since DOSBOX mounts the main directory of your WC2 Installation to the path "c:\"). After this, your WC1 character roster should be shown in a list and by clicking it the import process will finalize. I hope I could help you - since there are quite a handful of forum Threads about this problem which sadly are older than the 2019er GOG Version which changed the savegame path to the "cloud_saves\GAMEDAT" folder...

I hope, that this workaround works not only in my case. Please, if you had the same issue, please comment if it works also in your case (or not). Thanks in advance!

Eh? Wing Commander 2 doesn't let you use enough character to specific the required full file path