Is there a way to merge two sets of offline high scores?

[sarmatron]

I'm getting rid of my old laptop, but don't want to lose the winning characters I had on it. I tried pasting the morgue folder to my new one, but it didn't seem to do anything

[neil]

I'm getting rid of my old laptop, but don't want to lose the winning characters I had on it. I tried pasting the morgue folder to my new one, but it didn't seem to do anything

You need the file "scores" in the "saves" folder. You can move any .cs files as well, if you want to transfer in-progress characters to the new version.

[sarmatron]

Right, but the thing is, I've been using them both to play lately, so I have wins on both, that's why I said merge. I see that file's just text, can I just copy/paste the contents of the old one at the end of the new one? Will it merge properly if I do that?

[neil]

Right, but the thing is, I've been using them both to play lately, so I have wins on both, that's why I said merge. I see that file's just text, can I just copy/paste the contents of the old one at the end of the new one? Will it merge properly if I do that?

The score list assumes the files are kept in decreasing order, and the game truncates it to 100 entries every time it writes a new score. So if you just concatenate them, they'll be out of order and, worse, you'll end up losing scores from whichever you pasted in second.

You'll need to merge them together in order of score (the "sc=" field). If you happen to have Perl (which comes with Mac OS and almost all GNU/Linux distributions), you can do this (all on one line):

  Code:

perl -e 'print map { $_->[0] } sort { $b->[1] <=> $a->[1] } map { [$_, /:sc=(\d+)/] } <>;'
     old/saves/scores new/saves/scores > combinedscores

Then check that the combinedscores file looks reasonable (right length, the first couple of entries are your highest scores, etc), and if so replace the new scores file with that.