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Dear Guys,
I tried using the editor, selecting a scenario I wanted to edit, but when I get past slot 339 the screen goes blank and bumps me out of the game entirely. I tried it again after restarting the computre, but the same thing. Will the editor not select a scenario numbered past 339? Or what is the problem?
Thanks,
Mike

If I understand you correctly, I believe the problem is that there are no scenarios loaded past 338. If you want to edit a scenario, load it in the editor and make the changes you want, then you can save it into slots 339 and up. Just click on an empty slot and then enter a name for your modified scenario. If there is not a name in the slot for the scenario that you picked to edit there is not a scenario there to edit if you have the standard downloaded version of SPWaW. Those slots are for I believe expansion for individuals to build their own scenario's and have a place to save the scenario's to.

ORIGINAL: mamnich

Dear Guys,
I tried using the editor, selecting a scenario I wanted to edit, but when I get past slot 339 the screen goes blank and bumps me out of the game entirely. I tried it again after restarting the computre, but the same thing. Will the editor not select a scenario numbered past 339? Or what is the problem?
Thanks,
Mike

Had the same thing happen to me. Doesn't matter that the slots past 339 are empty or filled. Try deleting the steel.prf file and then restarting the game, I think that worked for me. Why, I have no clue.

This happens most likely if the game trys to read a corrupt *.cmt file (contains the internal SPWAW scenario name header!). While you swap the scenario list pages in SPWAW, every time all *.cmt files are read and if one of that is corrupt....Good bye!

If you edit a *.cmt file manually with a text editor and save, the it gets corrupt (it´s not text format!). Need to Hex edit the file for beeing successfull.

Hope that helps

Dear Guys,
The scenario I'm trying to load is slot 350.
I did edit the .cmt file with notepad.
What is a hex editor, and where do I get it?
Thanks,
Mike

All computer data is stored as 1's and 0's. A hex editor allows you to edit the data directly. Hex refers to the hexadecimal system (base 16) that the data is displayed as. The system uses 0 1 2 3 .. 9 A B C D E F as its characters.

I recommend XVI32
http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/f ... /xvi32.htm
as it shows both the hexadecimal representation and the ASCII character representation.

Thanks!
Got the above hex editor, checked the scenarios in slots beyond SPWAW install, found 1 cmt. that was different, so I changed it, and now those scenarios beyond # 339 all show fine.
Mike

ORIGINAL: mamnich

Thanks!
Got the above hex editor, checked the scenarios in slots beyond SPWAW install, found 1 cmt. that was different, so I changed it, and now those scenarios beyond # 339 all show fine.
Mike

*.cmt files opened in hex editor show all "00" after the text stuff. Files saved in a text editor show all "01'" I think and that causes SPWAW to crash when loading the files in the scenario list.

to ease ,your hignumberedloading, remember to use Alt+J to get popup that asks which number you want...

just in case you did forget..

salute

skukko aka mosh