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Originally Posted by littlejim13
This is a pretty cool tool. I am playing around with it, I was wondering what hinders it from editing existing worlds? If I take the league history and cut out everything after 1941 after adding what I want and reconvert the stats odb file and replace it would it work?
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The reason you cannot edit existing worlds is that the conversion tool is designed specifically for editing the OOTP Database(*.odb) files and the odb files simply initialize data for a new world. Once the world is created, the data exists in a different format(*.dat files). I haven't looked at what is exactly contained in the dat files but I'm guessing that, in addition to historical stats, they contain ratings created by the OOTP game engine. The odb files simply contain historical stat info which are likely then used to generate those very ratings. Nevertheless, I'd have to create a separate conversion tool for the save games for editing existing worlds to be possible.
As far as getting rid of everything after a specific year, I'm really not sure. I've tested the tool by adding players/teams/leagues and changing their associated stats and, as long as the IDs are good, it seems to work. I haven't tried removing data for entire years but, if I had to guess, it wouldn't be a good idea to do that and then try to play a year where there was no data. Anyhow, if you're able to test it, let me know how it goes.