Nov 13, 2017 at 2:57 PM
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I began playing Cave Story back in July of this year for the first time (I have a large backlog of good games I'd never played, and Cave Story was one of them). I run Windows 7 and the freeware translated version. I played through it, and it's been saving up the Last/Final Cave, and I wanted to edit my save file to give me a boost through the frustrating lava/spikes everywhere.
However, I can't find the Profile.dat file I need to edit. For some reason, the Profile.dat in the folder hasn't been updated since July, and viewing it with a save editor confirms that I only have the Polar Star and still in Mimiga Village. I assume that there is a save file being read and accessed from somewhere else. So here's the things I found out from fiddling with things for an hour:
- At one time, the CaveStory folder was moved from one place to another, however, its original home in the Downloads folder seems to yield nothing.
- Looking at the most recent Date Modified files in the hard drive yields nothing nor does looking for "Profile.dat".
- Removing the old Profile.dat from the CaveStory folder does not affect the current save file BUT copying manually ALL the visible files in the CaveStory folder and moving them to another folder causes the game to restart due to a lack of a save file, making me think that there is a "hidden file" I'm not seeing, but I've also turned on settings to see that sort of thing, so it's probably drawing from a source that's not indexed.
Has anyone else had this problem? Am I just screwed over? It would be a shame if I had to reconstruct my save file, seeing as how I saved Curly and Booster and completed at least 85-90% of the game.
However, I can't find the Profile.dat file I need to edit. For some reason, the Profile.dat in the folder hasn't been updated since July, and viewing it with a save editor confirms that I only have the Polar Star and still in Mimiga Village. I assume that there is a save file being read and accessed from somewhere else. So here's the things I found out from fiddling with things for an hour:
- At one time, the CaveStory folder was moved from one place to another, however, its original home in the Downloads folder seems to yield nothing.
- Looking at the most recent Date Modified files in the hard drive yields nothing nor does looking for "Profile.dat".
- Removing the old Profile.dat from the CaveStory folder does not affect the current save file BUT copying manually ALL the visible files in the CaveStory folder and moving them to another folder causes the game to restart due to a lack of a save file, making me think that there is a "hidden file" I'm not seeing, but I've also turned on settings to see that sort of thing, so it's probably drawing from a source that's not indexed.
Has anyone else had this problem? Am I just screwed over? It would be a shame if I had to reconstruct my save file, seeing as how I saved Curly and Booster and completed at least 85-90% of the game.