Cannot open ScummVM 2.5.x DW2 savegame on ScummVM 2.6.0

[TheQL]

I updated ScummVM on my iPad and couldn't open the savegames for Discworld 2 (CD/DOS/German) anymore.
Downgraded to 2.5.1 - works again.

I could copy the savegame to my Mac, same issue with 2.6.0.

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[Tsomi]

Thank you for reporting this.

Since this is probably easier to test on macOS, do you still have this problem if you upgrade to a "stable
Future 2.6.x" daily build there: https://buildbot.scummvm.org/#/dailybuilds?

If you still have this issue with that release, can you share the savegame causing this problem?

Thank you.

[Mustrum]

If you still have this issue with that release, can you share the savegame causing this problem?

I can confirm incompatible save games (from year 2010). New saves do not cause problems.
Tested with Stable and daily build (ScummVM latest Branch master). OS: Debian/sid

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$ scummvm
WARNING: Couldn't initialize text to speech through speech-dispatcher!
User picked target 'dw2-de' (engine ID 'tinsel', game ID 'dw2')...
   Looking for a plugin supporting this target... Tinsel
Running Discworld 2: Missing Presumed ...!? (CD/DOS/German)
dw2.scn: c6d15ce9720a9d8fef06e6582dcf3f34, 103593 bytes.
german1.smp: 5ea062b8e9e634260c4f267da9a592fa, 272088323 bytes.
Incompatible saved game!
Debugger started, type 'exit' to return to the game.
Type 'help' to see a little list of commands and variables.
ERROR: Incompatible saved game!

[Tsomi]

Thanks for your help!

I've opened an internal bug report about this:
https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/13897

(Please note that anything that looks like a bug should be reported there in general.)

[TheQL]

Sorry, I didn't get notified there were replies here.

If you need it, here's my save causing to fail. And yes, still crashing on the future 2.6.x

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EDIT: FYI, my save is actually pretty recent, only a few months old although I don't recall the exact ScummVM version. I could try to open it on 2.5.1 and save again.

[Tsomi]

Hi,

Thanks to somaen, this bug with older savegames appears to be solved, now.

The bug has been fixed in the daily builds:
https://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#daily

…but it will (likely) also be part of ScummVM 2.7.0, which is going to be released soon.

Thanks again for reporting this regression!

[TheQL]

Thanks for the update!
Actually I could open my savegame from 2.7.0 on Mac and iPad!