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Hello Vega Strike!

I am back from my year-long vacation from this game, and I'm back with the intention of turning this into a fully-fledged, in depth guide! Hopefully I can even add a full ships list.
If any mac, linux etc. user would send me the location of their saved file, it would be much appreciated.

Much love to this excellent game, its amazing community and my slow internet keeping me from playing it.

Very nice, this'll help a lot of people. You should add how to get to the save file on all operating systems; for Mac it's:

(disk)>Users>(user)>.vegastrike-0.5.0>saves>(savefile)

Thanks! I added the Mac bit. If anybody can't see it for any reason, tell me and I'll put it in another format so you can. Please comment on it!!!!!!!!
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EDIT: I made the font smaller so it fits nicely on the 1 page limit. How small will this become? COMMENT!!!!!

Munno wrote:Thanks! I added the Mac bit.

Thanks, this is going to be a great resource. Someone familiar with Linux needs to post the filepath for some common distros.

Linux? ~/.vegastrike-0.5.0
(just ~/.vegastrike for the SVN version)

I don't expect it to be distro-dependent, as the folder is created by the executable on the first (for each user) run, and I see no reason for any distro to patch the executable and change that behaviour, even if just to change the folder name, as it actually happens between stable and SVN (but still, a matter of VS versions, not Linux distros).

BTW: ~ is an alias for the home folder of the current user: /home/(user)

This doesn't appear to work anymore, when I go to the file you specify it doesn't have anything in it, it just says default_savegame.

Is their any other way to hack the file?

What operating system are you on? If you're using a modern Windows and a user with no administrative privileges, you'll find a subfolder in your user profile tree, "Application Data/Vegastrike" being a feasible candidate.

I'm using Windows 7, and I do have administrative privileges. I can't seem to find the "AppData" folder.

This thread shows quite a few interesting things about the issue; general info, things to check...
It was the very first result searching for "windows 7" "application data" folder on a certain enggggggine

I found it, but this time all it says is New_Game.

Does this mean the game has been updated to be un-hack-able?

Hack-proof savegame? Not that I know of, but... have you ever actively saved the game from the menu itself (giving it a custom name of your choice) or do you just rely on the automatic save the game does by itself periodically and at game quit? If you have, when you launch the game and go to the load menu, do you see all the games you saved, each with the name you gave it?

If they're there, then you're just looking at the "wrong" folder, wrong as in the one created by the setup (usually in a system-wide location if allowed), which is not necessarily the runtime one (often tied to the current user).

Take a shortcut in that case: save a game with a very unique name, like, um... WoohooLotsaCash and issue a search on your disk for that folder, making sure your search will also peek into eventually hidden/system folders; you should find a folder with exactly that name, its parent is the root of all saves.

Ok I finally found it! It was under "AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Vega Strike\Vegastrike-0.5.0\.vegastrike-0.5.0\save" anyway thanks for all the help.

I used this to get my Plowshare back after my save data went nuts. Thanks!

Hmmm, I tried to upload an updated PDF version of this hacking guide and got the message: "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached." I guess the board administrators need to take care of that.

So, I put the PDF version up on my web site here: http://www.eracc.com/other/pdf/Hacking_Vega_Strike.pdf

Does anyone know where the code for a comerce center is? Because I kinda ran my clydesdale into the old one.

The guide was committed to svn.

What does that mean?

That means the guide is in the development system tree and will be included in downloads of the development version if one wants to compile Vega Strike oneself. It may, or may not, be included in releases provided by various Linux distributions or binary releases for Microsoft and Apple systems.

Edit: it is here: http://vegastrike.svn.sourceforge.net/v ... mentation/

Wouldn't a better place for this be the wiki? Jus' sayin'.

Better than SVN where it can be versioned?

klauss wrote:Better than SVN where it can be versioned?

...which could, arguably, apply to all documentation i.e. most of the wiki content.

Well, yes... wiki is community-editable, SVN is developer-editable.

I actually am not sure which is better for the guide.

So... whatever works

Ideally, guides should be edited on the wiki.

This does not impede including in the distribution documents that were posted in the forums.

Ideally the wiki should be versioned in line with the codebase i.e. in SVN. Sadly, we can't always have what we want.

The wiki is versioned. Just clock on the "history" button on the top of each page and you can compare versions or do other operations, which I disknow.