For SpellForce: Platinum Edition players who have problems switching versions of SpellForce Platinium and losing savegames to specific versions, this guide will help you out.
What is the SpellForce – Savegame compatibility Patcher?
The “SpellForce Savegame Converter/Patcher” is a tool to edit/patch savegames of SpellForce PlatiniumEdition, to different versions and make them compatible to play on the desired version.
1.1 License and Development of the SpellForce Savegame Converter/Patcher
The Main-Developer of the “SpellForce Savegame Converter/Patcher” is NeoX, a huge Fan of the SpellForce franchise for many years, easy to find in the official Forum. IT-Husky’s is a group of developers who support the development with tests and Style-Design.
“SpellForce Savegame Converter/Patcher” is develop for Microsoft Windows 7.1 up to 11. The complete development is a fan project and is not related to the official game developers of SpellForce Platinium Edition. Made by NeoX and IT-Huskys have no connection to THQNordic.
How to convert/patch savegames
Select the savegame you want to convert/patch to an other version of the game. The default location of your SpellForce savegames is “C:\Users\user_name\Documents\SpellForce\SAVE”.2. Set the version the selected savegame has to be converted/patched to
Please play attention to the version you want it to patch to. For example the german version of SpellForce Platinum Edition is 1.52 and not 1.54 even when its normally advertised as that. Check your in game version first to be sure.
3. Convert/patch the savegame
In the conversion/patch process a backup of the loaded in savegame will be automatically created next to the original source file in case of bad configuration or process issues.
The Backup file can simply be used again by removing the “_backup” addition in the file name.
4. Enjoy the new converted/patched savegame
When the conversion/patch process is finished, you will be greeted with this message. Simply close the app when you are done now. In case of an error, please reach out to the forum for deeper error analyses. (https://forum.spellforce.info/viewtopic.php?p=363#p363 )
3.2 What version of Savegames are supported for conversion/patching
The SpellForce Savegame Converter/Patcher Tool does support the following game versions:
1.50 (Retail)
1.52 (Retail, Steam, GoG)
1.54 (Retail, Steam, GoG)
1.61 (Steam, GoG)
Download
https://forum.spellforce.info/viewtopic.php?p=363#p363