Editing a .save file. It it even possible?

[PELLAEON]

Hi Everyone.

I have searched left and right for some kind of editor that will allow you to edit a .save file. Anyone know if that even exists? Basically I want to empty out the Seaport so I can fill it again.

Thanks

 

[pware]

It has been nearly a decade since I used TS12 and I do not recall ever seeing and certainly not ever editing a .save file (what-ever that is).

Why would you need to do that to "empty out" the Seaport? Why can't you simply load the route into TS12 Surveyor and delete the assets manually ? Yes I know it would probably be very slow but I suspect one heck of a lot safer than "mucking about" in non-standard and proprietary file structures.

My thoughts.

 

[RHKluckhohn]

12 or T:ANE or whatever, it would be lovely to be able to take a saved session and turn it into a new session. I've dreamed about that.

Sure, you can save and go on later, but eventually Trainz gets snarled up and it all ends.

:B~)

 

[JCitron]

I have never seen a .save file either. I wonder, is this from the mobile version?

 

[RHKluckhohn]

In 12, you will find saved sessions in %whatever%\TS12\UserData\cache\sessions as a set of files with the .save extent.

These are:
driver
ground
maplayers
mapobjects
maptrack
maptrains
session
ssnlayers
ssnobjects
ssntrack

All of them are binary files.

:B~)

 

[pware]

All of them are binary files.

So you would probably need a dedicated editor specifically created for those files.

 

[RHKluckhohn]

So you would probably need a dedicated editor specifically created for those files.

Presumably. Or, if you had a map to the data layout, you might do it the hard way with a byte editor.

Just went looking for one of my current saved games in T:ANE and found it in %current build%\Local\Hash-EF as a .tzarc. Its companion save was elsewhere. Different approach.

:B~)

 

[PELLAEON]

Basicly i put too many hours into the session I created and did not want it to end. I was looking for a way to edit the save the same way I did when I created the session.

 

[PELLAEON]

Yep, it ended alright. Hence my want to make changes.

 

[PELLAEON]

I have never seen a .save file either. I wonder, is this from the mobile version?

It is the file created when you save a session located here:"D:\Program Files (x86)\N3V Games\Trainz Simulator 12\UserData\cache\sessions"

 

[PELLAEON]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I ended up just starting over. Actually better off that way. made some fixes and just created an additional seaport.

 

[JCitron]

It is the file created when you save a session located here:"D:\Program Files (x86)\N3V Games\Trainz Simulator 12\UserData\cache\sessions"

Thank you for that info. I haven't used TS12 since at least 2014 for anything but converting routes for TANE and up and never went looking for that information before.

You're better off editing the original route anyway because even if you could edit this save file, you'll end up with data not lining up or something else due to the save being a save of an active session. By making the changes in the route, you'll guarantee your changes will always be there.