09-27-2005, 09:20 AM
Dako-ta,Sep 27 2005, 01:02 PM Wrote:If you are talking plain HF, you are locked into an early patch (IIRC, about 1.04 or 1.05) of Diablo. Before the 1.08 patch for Diablo, the Diablo save files included the computer name (i.e., the 'name' assigned to your computer by Windows - this was mostly done as a network feature, but was done on computers even with no network software installed). If you copied the save files to a computer with a different name, or reinstalled windows and ended up with a different computer name, the files would not work. I think the default name created by Windows was based on your last name plus some initials from your first & maybe middle name.
Big Note: After writing almost all of the above, I suddenly had a qualm - what I wrote MIGHT only apply to multi-player save files. I just don't remember for sure, but I think maybe the single-player files didn't have the computer name embedded in them. Damn, it's frustrating to get so rusty with this information!
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If he's talking plain HF, then there is no multiplayer mode, therefore no multiplayer save files.
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