Jailbreak Part II

[Beta]

Originally posted by Wittlich
and on that note...

175BC Turn sent to Earthworm.

Thanks Witt! You da man!

(posted from the Air Canada lounge in Montreal en-route to LA, Bangkok and Kathmandu. )

[Earthworm]

Glad that made it to me quickly. I was practically on my way out the door to Boston for a few days, and wouldn't have been able to play.

So, On to Rickety.

[Wittlich]

and on that note...

175BC Turn sent to Earthworm.

[Beta]

Keygen..

Wittlich is standing in for me. His email sent to you cerb, and I have passed EW's onto Witt.

Cheers.

[CerberusIV]

To Beta

[Andydog]

It worked!

Well done Keygen, thanks for going through all that hassle.

--> Cerberus

[Keygen]

Steps followed and turn replayed and resent to Andydog

Lets hope this time it'll work

[Keygen]

OK I see.

I'm planning to buy BtS tomorrow so I'll play then.

I guess we will all have to either buy/install BtS or update to the new patch in order to avoid incompatibilities...

[Andydog]

When you install BtS, it automatically updates CIV and Warlords to the latest patches.

If you can't get it to work with the latest patch, then there is the option that we all uninstall CIV, then reinstall and patch it to the previous version we were playing on.

[Keygen]

Sorry for the delay, I'm kind busy lately but I will look into it pretty soon. If I remember correctly I do have the administrator password saved somewhere in my hard disk.

So why did that happened all of a sudden? Did you upgraded CIV?

[Andydog]

The admin has to do it, i.e. the person setting up the game who entered the admin password as part of the set-up process.

However I'm not sure how much luck Keygen will have, as I've followed that procedure for other games that i've set up, and haven't managed to get the games working.

[Beta]

Andy - I presume th admin for each game does this - or we pass the admin password to some lucky volunteer.

I am asking because most other pbems are also now tied up.

[Andydog]

So what's happening about this game then. Keygen, are you around?

[Andydog]

Okay, apparently here is the fix.

Originally posted by Gyathaar

The saves are the same.. it is just that the patch version gets embedded into locked games.. and since most pbem games use an admin password, they are locked..

What you need to do is open the game in unpatched (well, patched to 1.61 / 2.08 ) game, remove the admin password.. patch.. and then open the save again and readd the admin password

Originally posted by Gyathaar

to take it step for step..

- open game to where you can play
- hit shift-alt-d
- enter the admin password, press ok
- delete all the **** in the password field
- press ok
- save game
- patch up game
- load the last saved game
- hit shift-alt-d
- put the admin password back into the password field
- press ok
(- save if you like)
- end turn

So Keygen, you need to patch the game to the previous version and follow the above steps.

Good luck!

[Andydog]

Can't open the save. Had this with all my Civ4 and Warlords PBEMs so far.