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Suggestion: D: Drive .sav in Might and Magic VI.dosz Being Recreated for the Nth Time
When running Might and Magic VI.dosz under Windows 98, the emulated D: drive’s .sav file once again became invalid and was recreated. This caused me to lose two months of game progress, which is very frustrating. This has already happened several times. I don’t really expect this issue to be fully resolved, but I wonder if there could be some kind of workaround. For example, is there a tool that can extract the contents of the .sav file so I could copy out my saves? I even wish that the .sav file worked more like a zip archive generated after running a DOS game — that way, even if it became invalid and was recreated, I could still open it and recover my save files. I hope you could look into this. Even if the issue of the .sav being recreated repeatedly cannot be completely solved, perhaps there could be another way to preserve the saves inside.
Maybe not much help, but as a temporary workaround, if the game is installed to the C drive then the game saves can be accessed in:
RetroArch > system > name_of_your_windows_install.img
For Windows, UltraISO can be used to open up these .IMG files and you can then browse the Win98 directories and move or extract files...
I'm pretty sure PowerISO and MagicISO can also do this but they're not as good.
Maybe not much help, but as a temporary workaround, if the game is installed to the C drive then the game saves can be accessed in:
RetroArch > system > name_of_your_windows_install.imgFor Windows, UltraISO can be used to open up these .IMG files and you can then browse the Win98 directories and move or extract files...
I'm pretty sure PowerISO and MagicISO can also do this but they're not as good.
Thanks! To simulate a console-like experience with Win98, I’ve packaged all the games into .dosz archives, treating win98.img more like a BIOS file. That way, any changes—including those to the C drive—are saved into .sav files.
Right now, I’m using a workaround: after each play session, I manually copy the save file to the desktop inside the C drive. The win98.sav file is extremely stable and rarely causes issues, so this helps prevent save loss. The downside is that I have to do this every time, which is quite tedious.
Still, I really appreciate your suggestion!