[SOLVED] Trouble importing from Season 1 to Season 2.
So I bought Season 1 on Steam and played through and want to import a Steam save to (itch.io purchased) Season 2.
I've purchased the itch.io bundle of Season 1 and Season 2.
Steam keeps saying the export is successful ("New notice: success" or something like that) when I run the Export function on the Load screen.
But likely because the games are not in the prescribed Steam file structure nothing is imported.
At least I'm assuming that's the issue.
So I had the brilliant idea of just installing Season 1 from the itch.io and copying the saves folder from the Steam install into the Season 1 itch.io install. So now both Lust-Academy-0.7.1f-pc and Lust-Academy-2-1.6.1d-pc are in the same parent folder. All the saves appear in the Load screen of the Season 1 itch.io installation when I get to the Load screen of Season 1 to perform the export. THOUGH when I perform the export I get a message that says, "New notice: fail". :[
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Ok....so I *think* this worked.
My old steam installation was here:
/home/UltimaPapazov/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Lust Academy/
I created
/home/UltimaPapazov/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Lust Academy 2/ <- just guessed what this folder should be called.
Extracted the itch.io Season 2 files to that folder. Ran the Season 1 install via Steam, performed the Load screen export. "New notice: success" Closed out. Opened Season 2 "/home/UltimaPapazov/.steam/debian-installation/steamapps/common/Lust\ Academy\ 2/Lust-Academy-2.sh" via command line. New Game -> import was there.
:: phew ::
Already playing it. What a great game!
And quite happy to pay for Season 1 twice to support the development.
Some thoughts: The way other visual novels like 'College Bound' handle unsuccessful import is just run the player through all the consequential choices they've made. Ask the player about their choices in a very quick format. And it's even better because if I didn't like my choices my first run through I can change 'em.
OR just provide more information as to what the Export function is doing - I'm sure that "New note: success" was making some file. I could move the file it was generating if I knew where it was. I don't mind jumping through a few hoops and solving a mystery when I have the time...but I paid $10.75 on Steam and then just now $20.60 on itch. Please - next time just tell me what the export is doing.