Whatever contributions you may make to this thread are always welcome.
One small bit of confusion on my part : When you say you "prepped" your Chapter 1 saves on the 2nd attempt (the 1st attempt ending with a crash), what did you actually do ? I'm guessing you had to add something to the save details with the "Path" type the most likely answer. If so, this would be at least a good workaround to the problems of so many players.
Thank you for all your efforts on behalf of the thread.
With prepping I mean running the game 5 times from begin to end choosing different options to get 5 different paths, lol. No hacking involved - just spending time!
I'm going to upload my save games (using the structure of the game,
without the actual game to save bandwidth) so try them out and let me know if you can load them up "normally". I don't know if I did anything different with the save games inside the game folders, but I included them just for completeness. I ran this with the normal 0.16 release, so it is untested with the "fixed" version, but I reckon it doesn't make a difference (since I can load the game now and get on the beginning of chapter 2 without errors using my chapter 1 save games). It would be an easy copy/paste if you are running Windows 7 or anything newer. My games are called DMD and DMD2.
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Do note that if you decide to copy/paste - you
will overwrite your own save games, so be warned! Make backups..