Replay: Bug or ?

Shadowdweller · Post by **Shadowdweller** » October 12th, 2005, 10:40 am

I've got a save-game at the end of a hot-seat match against myself in 1.0 that I just CAN'T get to work as a replay.

I've tried clicking the Show Replay button, but it just goes through the ending credits. I've tried finishing and saving as a replay from the "Save as Replay?" prompt. But whatever I save it as STILL only shows the ending credits. And when I don't click Show Replay, it just loads the game at the time of the last move before the end.

How do I get this to work?

Post by **Yogibear** » October 12th, 2005, 10:46 am

You should check first, if the replay information is in the file or not. To do that save the file in ASCII text format (there is an option in the preferences to do so) and open it with a normal text editor.

In the beginning there should be a whole lot of replay-commands, starting with a "replay"-tag. If so, there needs to be done further investigation. Maybe you switched versions lately? If not, well then there is no replay information to be shown, for what reason ever.

Shadowdweller · Post by **Shadowdweller** » October 12th, 2005, 10:55 am

Done

The information DOES appear to be there, yet I'm still getting the same result when I try to load the file in Wesnoth (as replay or not).
If it matters, this particular version was taken from an auto-save after the ending turn.

I DID change versions to 1.0 (proper) when it came out. But this game was played exclusively after the switch, so...

Also (if it matters) I'm using the Windows version.

Post by **Yogibear** » October 12th, 2005, 11:00 am

ok, maybe you can send me the file via email and i have a look at it. I am working on an enhanced replay at the moment and i should be able to do some debugging. It's worth a try.

Shadowdweller · Post by **Shadowdweller** » October 12th, 2005, 11:25 am

Difficult to do without an e-mail address.

And PM doesn't seem to be working, so I thought I might as well just post it here. Hope some sense can be made of this:

Post by **Yogibear** » October 12th, 2005, 11:30 am

Ooops, sorry, the email address is in the profile but not publicly shown.

I am going to fix that.

Post by **Yogibear** » October 13th, 2005, 1:01 pm

Ok, i looked at the savefile. There is a range starting with "<replay_start>" where the starting information for the replay is found. In your file that range is empty. It contains some information about sides, era etc.

I am not sure why this happened. Maybe you stumbled upon a bug, having to do with hotseat games.

I will try to restore the needed information. I will keep you updated.

Post by **Yogibear** » October 13th, 2005, 6:17 pm

So, i tried to restore the missing information and managed the replay to work again

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Then, on turn 18, it suddenly stopped with an error message

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I am pretty much sure that it is the starting gold since that information is not in the file. I tried 100 (which was apparently wrong), then 200, which took me to turn 18. You remember, how many it actually was?

Edit:
By the way, this is a very interesting game of yours. Maybe you should post that in Doc Patersons 1vs1 thread

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Shadowdweller · Post by **Shadowdweller** » October 13th, 2005, 7:36 pm

I am pretty much sure that it is the starting gold since that information is not in the file. I tried 100 (which was apparently wrong), then 200, which took me to turn 18. You remember, how many it actually was?

Eeep. Should have been 100g (and 70%xp), default settings on multiplayer. The game lasted about 28 turns.

By the way, this is a very interesting game of yours. Maybe you should post that in Doc Patersons 1vs1 thread

Thanks. I'm pretty sure I wasn't playing the Knalgans to the best of my ability, however (secretly rooting for the Undead). Which is why I was really hoping to be able to analyze it

Post by **Yogibear** » October 13th, 2005, 8:47 pm

All right, it was the gold per village, it had to be 2 instead of 1. So here you go. And before you judge yourself playing the dwarves bad have a look at the statistics

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Post by **Darth Fool** » October 13th, 2005, 8:52 pm

If there is a reproducable bug in hotseat saves then a bug report should be filed here:
https://gna.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=wesnoth

Shadowdweller · Post by **Shadowdweller** » October 13th, 2005, 11:06 pm

Thanks for the help, Yogi Bear.

I can't get that file to work, however. When I try to load it (that is, IN WESNOTH) I get "Missing closing tag for tag random at <unkown>:2101 at <unknown>:2109"

And before you judge yourself playing the dwarves bad have a look at the statistics

By way of explanation, I'm trying to develop a good Undead strategy against Knalgans. If I don't play the Knalgans to their full strength, I can't really tell if the strategy works. In this particular case, it took me a while to figure out a good means of destroying the wraiths. I should have used a few more ranged attackers, rather than just Fighters and Ulfs. The Knalgans also suffered from a lack of scouts in the later game.

Post by **Yogibear** » October 13th, 2005, 11:09 pm

very strange, the file works perfectly for me, i watched the whole replay.

Edit: Are you using Wesnoth 1.0 or Wesnoth 1.0rc1? And what is your windows version?

Shadowdweller · Post by **Shadowdweller** » October 13th, 2005, 11:21 pm

Version 1.0, Windows '98se

Post by **Yogibear** » October 13th, 2005, 11:28 pm

ok, i have a vague idea what might be the problem. Let's give it a last try.