Strange Happening

[laoric]

I recently formatted my C:/ and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on my computer. I had copied RPG XP, the .exe and all, onto a disc, the entire folder of everything related to the game, and then when I was done installing windows, put it back on my computer.

When I tried opening it up it gave an error, so I reinstalled the whole program, but keeping my custom maps, and of course the game I was making. After reinstallation, the game itself runs fine, I can play it as designed, but when I open the game in the editor, all of my maps are blank with the exception of part of my world map.

Events, too, have disappeared along with most of the meat of the game. Does anyone have an idea why it would do this? My only guess is that when opening the game via the editor it saved the filepath of the files and now the filepath for those given files is now different, OR, when I reinstalled the game, I overwrote my folders of events etc with empty ones.

But that still raises the question as to why my game (in editor) still shows SOME maps (partially) and certain things, while others are gone.

If anyone has a reason for this phenomena it would be greatly appreciated.
I trying not to think about the worst case scenario of I have to start over from scratch. If this is the case, when if someone knows how I could possibly turn my playable game which has everything, back into an editable copy somehow I would love you forever.

Thanks guys, love the community, keep up the great work.

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Btw, sorry if I posted this in the wrong thread >.>

[Guest]

Did you keep all of your database files such as database.rmwhatever and all of the data files? Those are the files that contained the meat of your game. If you only kept the map files thats not good. Also you need to have kept the actual tilesets that were used in the maps. Chances are the ones that are not showing up were from chipsets that were not part of the rtp. If you didn't import that file back in again the game wont be able to display the map because the tileset is missing. Do you recall copying all of the files or just the map files?

[laoric]

Thanks for your response Silne, apperantly, having installed the game over the top of itself had some interesting effects on the settings of the editor. It also made some wonky destinations for certain other folders. Because of your question about the database file I stumbled upon the game.rxproj file, which, as it turns out, is a roundabout method of opening my game in the editor with everything functioning as usual.

For some reason opening my game straight from the editor still gives me the same issues as I described above but ill just have to shortcut the other file I found because I don't want to mess with a good thing. (that is, I didn't lose my game after all.)

On a side note, I messed up one of my preset tilesets, Tileset 15 - Forest Town. Is there a resource for downloading the .png images of the default tilesets and sprites?

On ANOTHER side note, I just got my editor working properly opening the game through the normal channels instead of through the .rxproj file, it was interference from Windows 7 security settings. That is, I had to make sure I was running the program as administrator via right clicking and selecting run as admin. Whew, hopefully this whole mess is over and done with ^.^

[Ace]

I think Silne means all the files in the data folder like the tilesets.rxdata and so on

[laoric]

Yup, the important thing is everything is working fine. Thanks again.