Looking to import saved games from years past (OOTP 12 and later)

crossthebreeze · 12-27-2021, 06:00 PM

I just found an old hard drive that has saved games starting with OOTP 12 and then a few years after. Is there any way I can import these into OOTP 22? I know in years past that they had to be imported into the next year and then the year after that, etc. If that's still the case, is there anywhere that I can download the old versions of OOTP and start to go through this process manually?

mitchkenn · 12-27-2021, 06:30 PM

on the OOTP website - you should be able to find older versions to download. you don't need to license them i've heard to get the import feature to work. Something about 19 (i think) people had issues that the box to import previous version wasn't appearing. Not certain if that was resolved or not. Good luck.

crossthebreeze · 12-27-2021, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by mitchkenn

on the OOTP website - you should be able to find older versions to download. you don't need to license them i've heard to get the import feature to work. Something about 19 (i think) people had issues that the box to import previous version wasn't appearing. Not certain if that was resolved or not. Good luck.

Thanks for the info! I found the page with the older versions available for download. Got OOTP 12 and 13 and even found my old serial numbers, but both give me an Activation Error.

I'm wondering if it's even possible to activate these old products anymore.

DirkGildun · 12-27-2021, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by crossthebreeze

Thanks for the info! I found the page with the older versions available for download. Got OOTP 12 and 13 and even found my old serial numbers, but both give me an Activation Error.

I'm wondering if it's even possible to activate these old products anymore.

You want to get the demo versions (that don't need to be activated) to export and import between versions. But I don't know where those are located (for download).

crossthebreeze · 12-27-2021, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by DirkGildun

You want to get the demo versions (that don't need to be activated) to export and import between versions. But I don't know where those are located (for download).

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

eriqjaffe · 12-28-2021, 02:54 PM

http://ootpdevfiles.com/ootp/

OOTP installers going back to OOTP2(!). The demo versions are pretty clearly indicated, although I don't see demos for 20 or 21. Maybe those just act as demos if you don't activate them, I'm not really sure.

edit: Don't see a demo for 17 either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

12-27-2021, 06:00 PM	#1
crossthebreeze Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 36	Looking to import saved games from years past (OOTP 12 and later) I just found an old hard drive that has saved games starting with OOTP 12 and then a few years after. Is there any way I can import these into OOTP 22? I know in years past that they had to be imported into the next year and then the year after that, etc. If that's still the case, is there anywhere that I can download the old versions of OOTP and start to go through this process manually?

12-27-2021, 06:30 PM	#2
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,872	on the OOTP website - you should be able to find older versions to download. you don't need to license them i've heard to get the import feature to work. Something about 19 (i think) people had issues that the box to import previous version wasn't appearing. Not certain if that was resolved or not. Good luck. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.

12-28-2021, 02:54 PM	#6
eriqjaffe Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Under The Christmas Fish Posts: 7,731	http://ootpdevfiles.com/ootp/ OOTP installers going back to OOTP2(!). The demo versions are pretty clearly indicated, although I don't see demos for 20 or 21. Maybe those just act as demos if you don't activate them, I'm not really sure. edit: Don't see a demo for 17 either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ __________________ Last edited by eriqjaffe; 12-28-2021 at 02:58 PM.