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marleyb0y's avatar
6 years ago

Spore Savegame Corrupted?

Hello!

My six year old son has been playing spore for about half a year now, and we are just starting to have some issues with crashing.  When we load the planet that we both have been playing in, the game randomly selects a Maxis species to play as.  Every time we load it, it's something different.  Our created species is not in the savegame.  When we click the History button, there are no creations reflected in our timeline, whether outfits, vehicles or species.  Also, and I think this is related, when we click the Captains Log, the game crashes and dumps us to the desktop.  I am happy to provide the exception log, and will hexedit this savegame to make it work, but we really need some guidance for this.

I have been advocating in my community for Spore as a STEM game that relates STEM processes and knowledge, but this has the potential to reflect negatively for both my son's experience and our community.  Can someone please help?

Thanks

Jacob

3 Replies

  • marleyb0y's avatar
    marleyb0y
    6 years ago

    Hello @Freggi-Liz 

    Thanks for your suggestions.  I cleared the cache, and in fact removed all the package files from the directory after backing them up.  Everything appears in our Creature Library now, but our primary savegame still has a different species that we did not create.  Also, clicking on anything linking to Galactic Adventures from that game causes a hard dump to the desktop with a fatal exception that I have to dig out of Spore logs in order to find.  I should mention that this is the Steam version and I have verified the integrity of the game.  I have attached an image that shows what happens when we encounter an Adventure,with programming code where the captain's name should be.

    Again, please help!

    Jacob

  • Freggi-Liz's avatar
    Freggi-Liz
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    Hey Jakob,

    I'm not good with Steam. What happens if you re edit your capitan again and save it. Maybe give it a different name. Looks like he lost the entry!

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