Silent Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 (edited) Vice City Save Converter Steam version of Vice City has a bit altered save format compared to all the other (non-digital) versions. When using a Retail save on Steam copy the game would just run a new game instead. Retail Vice City is even unable to load a Steam savegame, resulting in a crash. As a result, there is no way to resume your old playthrough on a newly purchased Steam copy nor come back to a disc release without losing your progress.This tool solves that issue by converting the saves between these two formats (both retail -> Steam and Steam -> retail).UsageThe tool requires either an absolute or relative path to a savegame you want to convert to be specified as a launch parameter. Therefore, you can launch it either by dropping a savefile on VCsaveConvert.exe (Windows only, obv) or by launching cmd.exe/Terminal and executing the converter withVCsaveConvert [your_save_path]The tool will then identify a save version and ask if to proceed with conversion. A backup will be created in case anything goes wrong.DownloadAs GTAGarage widget is gone for now:http://www.gtagarage.com/mods/show.php?id=25369Is it one of the first Linux-compatible tools for GTA? Edited December 29, 2013 by SilentPL Blackbird88, mirh, Norsea and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMateczko Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 No more problems dealing with SnP for VC! Have a cookie. Or two , or perhaps even three . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkjellman Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Nice job. Any chance of supporting converting saves to and from iOS and Android too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 Seeing how Mobile SCM files are different (thus saved offsets are not compatible), very unlikely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpgunit Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Lol you should do a Mac OS X port of the tool, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkjellman Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Seeing how Mobile SCM files are different (thus saved offsets are not compatible), very unlikely When you say different, you mean different from PC right? Or are Android and iOS different too? I got a save on iOS that I'd like to convert to Android. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Yes, I mean PC. iOS and Android saves should be compatible with each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEALUX Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Thank you! What was the difference between the two versions? The Audiophile Thread LG 32GN650-B | TESORO Gram XS | Xtrfy MZ1 | Xbox Elite v2 | Sennheiser HD 560S | Truthear Hexa | Fiio K9 Pro i7 4790K 4.4 GHz | RTX 4070 | 32 GB Crucial DDR3 | ADATA 256GB | Samsung 860 PRO 2TB Xbox | Xbox 360 | Xbox Series X | PS2 | PS3 | Google Pixel 6 Pro | Fanatec CSL DD McLaren GT3 V2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted November 28, 2013 Author Share Posted November 28, 2013 What was the difference between the two versions? Evil R* added an extra, useless -3 value into the first section and Steam version checks for its existence on load. If it's absent, a save is called invalid. 100% artificial thing to revoke compatibility with old saves. In SA at least they had a point (different SCM), but here? No reasons whatsoever. Agem, lpgunit and mirh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEALUX Posted November 29, 2013 Share Posted November 29, 2013 Are you sure it's useless? I only asked because I was wondering whether the difference is important or not. It's rather peculiar that they would add something like that for no reason. Why would they want to make the two versions incompatible? The Audiophile Thread LG 32GN650-B | TESORO Gram XS | Xtrfy MZ1 | Xbox Elite v2 | Sennheiser HD 560S | Truthear Hexa | Fiio K9 Pro i7 4790K 4.4 GHz | RTX 4070 | 32 GB Crucial DDR3 | ADATA 256GB | Samsung 860 PRO 2TB Xbox | Xbox 360 | Xbox Series X | PS2 | PS3 | Google Pixel 6 Pro | Fanatec CSL DD McLaren GT3 V2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted November 29, 2013 Author Share Posted November 29, 2013 No clue. And yes, it's a CONSTANT value. Can't have any use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theNGclan Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 -Looks at Linux version- You deserve an award (or several awards) just for making a Linux based tool. mirh and lpgunit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash_735 Posted December 1, 2013 Share Posted December 1, 2013 He DID have several awards, ...before the forum update. theNGclan and Agem 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Blade Posted December 4, 2013 Share Posted December 4, 2013 Is it one of the first Linux-compatible tools for GTA? Yes , I guess ! I have CLEO for Android version of GTA 3 , considering that Android is still a Linux we have two tools for Linux in total lpgunit and Silent 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpgunit Posted December 8, 2013 Share Posted December 8, 2013 Is it one of the first Linux-compatible tools for GTA? Yes , I guess ! I have CLEO for Android version of GTA 3 , considering that Android is still a Linux we have two tools for Linux in total Lol nice one dude. Do you have a link to the tool or is it still WIP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Blade Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 it's wip , I'm adding VC support now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 GTAGarage seems to slowly come back to life, uploaded the tool there now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xABYSSx Posted April 26, 2014 Share Posted April 26, 2014 I know I'm like a year late to this post, but I cannot get the download to initiate. Is there another source I can download from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted April 26, 2014 Author Share Posted April 26, 2014 I know I'm like a year late to this post, but I cannot get the download to initiate. Is there another source I can download from? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46581994/vc_save_converter_win32.zip Let me know when you download it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xABYSSx Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I know I'm like a year late to this post, but I cannot get the download to initiate. Is there another source I can download from? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/46581994/vc_save_converter_win32.zip Let me know when you download it. Got it thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragonsolstice Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 (edited) It does not work at all... All it does is instead of start a new game is stay at a black screen. (23/06/14) NVM I got it! type in onspeed twice then it worked Edited June 24, 2014 by Paragonsolstice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilgotaan Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 Can someone make a video tutorial on how to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude_Lib Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 launch it by dropping a savefile on VCsaveConvert.exe Do you really need someone to record this ↑ on a video? thehambone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtaglitch123 Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 I want to convert a GTA VC save from Ios (my ipad in my case) to PC ? Is there any way to do it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpgunit Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 As what Silent mentioned earlier, not a chance. Game logic has been altered in the mobile versions and as such saves for iOS and Android won't work on PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluck17 Posted August 30, 2016 Share Posted August 30, 2016 (edited) Alright, so a year later i'm hoping I can still get some help. Whenever I drop a save file into the converter, the exe just closes with no error. I went into Documents/GTA Vice City User Files/ and then I dragged my save file that I attempted to load into the converter. Then I pressed enter and it would close. I don't know if i'm stupid or if theres something wrong. Edited August 30, 2016 by Cluck17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebra Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Are the Steam save files located in the same place as the disk version (documents/GTA Vice City User Files)? I did as instructed, told it to proceed in converting the file, it did, but I still have no saves to load. I've tried renaming the file by changing the number (GTAVCsf1/2/3/...) to see if it would appear in a different slot, but it doesn't. I downloaded a random save online from the same point I was in the retail version, put it in the same place and it doesn't appear either. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Posted July 17, 2017 Author Share Posted July 17, 2017 Are you using any compatibility modes? If so, you shouldn't. Cebra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebra Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Are you using any compatibility modes? If so, you shouldn't. That was it, I was running VC in 98 compatibility mode. I turned it off and now it works like a charm. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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