Hi.

Years ago when I was using M$ Windows, I copied '3D Pinball Space Cadet 5.1' from the XP Win folder to ~/Docs/Games/Wine in Ubuntu. It works fine in Wine (just don't run full screen as it messes up native res and Help and Music don't work but sound effects work perfectly). Recently I deleted my .Wine dir and unfortunately somewhere in it were my Pinball high scores. I have got a copy of the old .Wine dir on my Ext. HDD. Can I recover my old high scores and move them to my new .Wine dir? Are they in the registry?

Thanks.

I would doubt the registry would be used for storing high scores, but devs have done worse.

Check the program directory where all of the executables for that game were stored, then check under the whatever the Wine equivalent of "Documents and Settings" would be. Lastly check in My Documents, a few games I had saved their data there in subdirectories.

Hi goumba.

No joy in finding anything.

How about if I set a new Pinball hiscore, then could I search my current .Wine dir for a recently changed file (via a CLI command) and this could lead me to find the corresponding hi score file in the old .Wine dir?

usually there is an AppData folder somewhere inside user's home (next to Desktop), probably you can find it there...

Hi pan64.

No joy. I even renamed the current 'Application Data' folder to .old and copied over the old folder from /home/LS/.wine/drive_c/users/LS/Application Data then launched pinball.exe. My current newest score (1 entry) remains.

so based on this site: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/3D_Pinb..._-_Space_Cadet the filename containing the score is stored in the registry

Nice one pan64!

So is there a native way to extract that reg part and import it into my current .Wine dir or should I use some portable Wine compatible app?

you do not need to extract, just read registry, find the file and overwrite it with your backup.

Please elaborate.

just look at the link and read the section about configuration file...

So you mean copy and paste from the old reg entries to my current wine reg?

no, just locate that config file and copy that single file (if you have a backup). But you need to find the location in the registry

Attached is a screenshot of regedit being run from the old .wine dir. Oddly, it shows my current hi score and not the old ones.

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I coped the old .wine to my home dir and renamed the current .wine to .wine.keep then launched pinball.exe. As can be seen in the screenshot, the old scores are still there. I don't know exactly how to get them into the newer .wine though, i.e. what to copy/edit etc.

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