Import Save from BG1:EE not visible in BG2:EE-SoA, only BG2:EE-ToB? What?!?
Nirruden
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Guys, I'm playing through the series with the wife.
We've been trying to find a way to import our BG1 save to BG2, Shadows of Amn for about an hour now. I've copied over the save folders. They're simply not visible in Shadows of Amn. Interestingly, if I open ToB instead, I can see my BG1 final save *there*, but we'd *really* like to play through the whole thing, and we can't roll the save backwards from ToB.
What's up with this? What can I do to fix this issue?
Edit:
Some additional detail. WE both own the Steam Enhanced Edition version of the games (BG1 and BG2) so there's no unusual cross version stuff. No mods. We didn't play the Black Pits or any other BG1 content - just the base game as installed by Steam, all the way to making the "Final Save". I've moved this to *both* mpsave *and* save folders under BG2.
In ToB, it shows up twice (once for each folder) as expected, but SoA can't seem to find it at all.
We've been trying to find a way to import our BG1 save to BG2, Shadows of Amn for about an hour now. I've copied over the save folders. They're simply not visible in Shadows of Amn. Interestingly, if I open ToB instead, I can see my BG1 final save *there*, but we'd *really* like to play through the whole thing, and we can't roll the save backwards from ToB.
What's up with this? What can I do to fix this issue?
Edit:
Some additional detail. WE both own the Steam Enhanced Edition version of the games (BG1 and BG2) so there's no unusual cross version stuff. No mods. We didn't play the Black Pits or any other BG1 content - just the base game as installed by Steam, all the way to making the "Final Save". I've moved this to *both* mpsave *and* save folders under BG2.
In ToB, it shows up twice (once for each folder) as expected, but SoA can't seem to find it at all.
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We definitely haven't played Baldur's Gate 2 from end to end - we just smoked Sarevok! I simply cannot explain why *the wrong one* should be able to see our saves.
I might be satisfied with that, but the wife is going to be most put out at the possibility of losing her character's spell selection. Will exporting the character ahead of the final save allow her to retain this?Nevermind, answered my own question: Spellbooks are rewritten.
Might not work exactly as planned if you have e.g. a ranger with favoured enemy.
Copy the save from the MPSAVE folder to the BGEE SAVE folder (not BGIIEE).
Launch BGIIEE with the host only
Start a new multiplayer game
Create Character -> Import -> Saved Game -> select save -> Load -> select char1 -> Done
Complete Appearance and Name, then Accept
Repeat previous two steps for second character
Have the client join, and assign slots as appropriate
Sorry for the thread resurrection but I have the exact same problem: final save from BG:EE is only visible in the import save screen of Throne of Baal, not in Shadows of Amn (which is what I would like to play).
I played through BG:EE on macOS and would like to play BG2:EE on iPad.
I performed the following steps:
- Zipped the contents of the final save folder, named it "final.bg2save"
- Moved the file to the iPad using iCloud drive
- Opened iCloud drive on the iPad, found the file and chose "open in Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition"
I wondered if it may have something to do with the version of the final save, because it is a few years old (I finished the game before the large patch which introduced achievements etc.). But I don't understand why TOB would accept an older version of the save than SOA.Any clues?
Can you zip and attach your save, please?
If the zipped file looks like "000000000-savegamename/000000000-savegamename/*actual save contents*" it's not going to work: it needs to be "00000000-savegamename/*actual save contents*
My theory is that the import screen of BG2:EE SoA expects a ".bg1save" but I can only transfer files ending with ".bg2save" to the iPad version of BG2:EE. So when I rename my zipfile to "final.bg2save", it only become available in the Throne of Bhaal import screen since it looks like a BG2 save.
If my theory is correct, I think the iPad version of BG2:EE should recognize .bg1save files (in addition to .bg2save) in order to be able to import a BG:EE save correctly.
Can you confirm BG:EE is not installed on your iPad please.
Assuming this is the case, there are a couple of options
1 Start BGII:EE on your Mac if you have purchased it. Import, save, zip to bg2save and transfer
2 Install BG:EE on your iPad if you have purchased it
I've attached a file based on option 1 in case you don't have multiple purchases.
I can confirm that BG:EE is not installed on my iPad (I don't own it).
Can you confirm that it is impossible to import a BG:EE character to iPad BG2:EE without owning BG:EE for iPad? I fiddled with it for quite a bit and it wasn't quite clear how to do it.
In that case, should it be registered as an issue/feature request in Redmine?
Thanks