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Wow, Steve thanks! I promise I'll only use this information for good. [;)]

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

Saving MWiF Edited Game Files in Notepad.

In Notepad there's a right way and a wrong way of saving your edited game file. If you save without putting the filename in double quotes then Notepad will append a .txt to the end of the filename. For example, MyGame.GAM would be saved as MyGame.GAM.txt. This is an issue for MWiF. The only game files that it will open have to end .GAM. So the correct way to save MyGame in notepad is "MyGame.GAM" which prevents .txt from being appended and allows MWiF to open the file.

A quick note here. If you find the game file you want to edit using File Explorer, you can right click on it and use "Open With" and select Notepad to open it. Once finished editing, you can then just save the file and the correct extension of "GAM" will be neither altered nor have anything appended to it.

AAMOF as long as the extension "GAM" is not registered to another application (FREX Cyberboard registers that extension), your PC should remember the above and will show all your "GAM" files with a Notepad icon thereafter.

This thread really ought to be a sticky up at the top of the list!

Here's my next installment of safely editing the MWiF game file.

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Part 1 of a pdf version (zipped) of my editing guide to date.

Here's part 2.

Great job Ronnie, a real keeper.

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

Great job Ronnie, a real keeper.

Thanks! [:)]

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