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Wizard Goals Before Standard Goals - the timeless annoyance
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<blockquote data-quote="Xanija" data-source="post: 249605" data-attributes="member: 2707"><p>Trying to recover everything from my memory: </p><p></p><p>TPA stores High Scores, table settings ect. in </p><p></p><p>C:\Users\<Windows user name>\My Games\Pinball Arcade</p><p></p><p>The file "HighScores" contains High Scores and keeps track of your standard/wizard goals. </p><p></p><p>Once this is stored here, it will get copied to </p><p></p><p><Steam Folder>\userdata\<user ID>\238260</p><p></p><p><Steam Folder> is in most cases C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam</p><p><user ID> is a numeric. If you are the only Steam user on this machine, you will only have one Steam ID folder. if you have more than one, you can find out which your Steam ID is using <a href="http://steamidfinder.com/" target="_blank">http://steamidfinder.com/</a></p><p></p><p>Here you find a file "remotecache.vdf" and a folder "remote"</p><p></p><p>The file "remotecache.vdf" contains a description of what is being synchronized with Steam Cloud. It is a plain text file, you can (and need to) edit it. The content in my file is</p><p></p><p>"238260"</p><p>{</p><p> "pbaprg.dat"</p><p> {</p><p> "root" "0"</p><p> "size" "88452"</p><p> "localtime" "1476030680"</p><p> "time" "1476030682"</p><p> "remotetime" "1476030682"</p><p> "sha" "b9b96a5238fca758e77b666407623d1de6b218b8"</p><p> "syncstate" "1"</p><p> "persiststate" "0"</p><p> "platformstosync2" "-1"</p><p> }</p><p>}</p><p></p><p>I *believe* the "pbaprg.dat", which sits in the "remote"-Folder contains the high scores and goals achieved, but in a different format than the "HighScores" file in C:\Users\<Windows user name>\My Games\Pinball Arcade. What you would need to do is:</p><p></p><p>- Copy the file "HighScore" from C:\Users\<Windows user name>\My Games\Pinball Arcade to <Steam Folder>\userdata\<user ID>\238260\remote and then renaming it to "pbaprg.dat"</p><p></p><p>- Edit the file "remotecache.vdf" as follows (very important, otherwise the file won't get synchronized)</p><p></p><p> "size" "88452" -> Go to properties of the file "pbaprg.dat" and see the exact byte-size of the file. Replace this value here</p><p></p><p> "localtime" "1476030680"</p><p> "time" "1476030682"</p><p></p><p>Those are Unix time stamps. You need to look up the time stamp of the "pbaprg.dat" and convert it to a UNIX time stamp. Use <a href="http://www.unixtimestamp.com/" target="_blank">http://www.unixtimestamp.com/</a> to convert it and edit the times here. Since UNIX time stamps are based on the UTC time zone, you will convert the time stamp of the file to UTC time before converting it to a UNIX time stamp. If you don't know your offset to UTC, you can convert the local time to UTC at <a href="http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/" target="_blank">http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/</a></p><p></p><p>I *think* you can use the same time stamp for "localtime" and "time". You can also try and only change "localtime". If this doesn't work, change both times. </p><p></p><p>Once you have done this, you should start TPA and see, if you have your High Scores and achievements back. I haven't tested it, I don't want to experiment with it at the moment. Since you can't really break anything at this stage, you can give it a try. Please let me know if it worked. I will then clean up and post this guide into the PC forum and ask for a sticky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xanija, post: 249605, member: 2707"] Trying to recover everything from my memory: TPA stores High Scores, table settings ect. in C:\Users\<Windows user name>\My Games\Pinball Arcade The file "HighScores" contains High Scores and keeps track of your standard/wizard goals. Once this is stored here, it will get copied to <Steam Folder>\userdata\<user ID>\238260 <Steam Folder> is in most cases C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam <user ID> is a numeric. If you are the only Steam user on this machine, you will only have one Steam ID folder. if you have more than one, you can find out which your Steam ID is using [url]http://steamidfinder.com/[/url] Here you find a file "remotecache.vdf" and a folder "remote" The file "remotecache.vdf" contains a description of what is being synchronized with Steam Cloud. It is a plain text file, you can (and need to) edit it. The content in my file is "238260" { "pbaprg.dat" { "root" "0" "size" "88452" "localtime" "1476030680" "time" "1476030682" "remotetime" "1476030682" "sha" "b9b96a5238fca758e77b666407623d1de6b218b8" "syncstate" "1" "persiststate" "0" "platformstosync2" "-1" } } I *believe* the "pbaprg.dat", which sits in the "remote"-Folder contains the high scores and goals achieved, but in a different format than the "HighScores" file in C:\Users\<Windows user name>\My Games\Pinball Arcade. What you would need to do is: - Copy the file "HighScore" from C:\Users\<Windows user name>\My Games\Pinball Arcade to <Steam Folder>\userdata\<user ID>\238260\remote and then renaming it to "pbaprg.dat" - Edit the file "remotecache.vdf" as follows (very important, otherwise the file won't get synchronized) "size" "88452" -> Go to properties of the file "pbaprg.dat" and see the exact byte-size of the file. Replace this value here "localtime" "1476030680" "time" "1476030682" Those are Unix time stamps. You need to look up the time stamp of the "pbaprg.dat" and convert it to a UNIX time stamp. Use [url]http://www.unixtimestamp.com/[/url] to convert it and edit the times here. Since UNIX time stamps are based on the UTC time zone, you will convert the time stamp of the file to UTC time before converting it to a UNIX time stamp. If you don't know your offset to UTC, you can convert the local time to UTC at [url]http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/[/url] I *think* you can use the same time stamp for "localtime" and "time". You can also try and only change "localtime". If this doesn't work, change both times. Once you have done this, you should start TPA and see, if you have your High Scores and achievements back. I haven't tested it, I don't want to experiment with it at the moment. Since you can't really break anything at this stage, you can give it a try. Please let me know if it worked. I will then clean up and post this guide into the PC forum and ask for a sticky. [/QUOTE]
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