RDreher
Feb 16, 2010, 02:10 PM
I and my brother have played Jazz2 for many years now and I have had countless problems with the game. After a long period of forgetting about the game we got a "new" windows 2000 laptop that it can work on. I then made to move the files on the computer.
The Problem is that I cannot open the moved files with JSC, absolutly nothing happens if I click to open them, and the program will close if It is already open. The files can be played on though by opening JJ2 and going to Homecooked levels etc, but all of them are incomplete, so I NEED to edit them.
We have had this problem for a long time befor, but because of the time lapse I cannot give detailed or verified info on how it was before. By my memory the game had a problem resulting in crashing after any level is stared. We moved the files to save them for uninstalling the game and reinstalling it so as to have it work again, and it resulted in this problem, or we would move it between our two computers and it resulted in this problem. I think we had a solution for it in the past but it is long forgotten.
I had tried a method that resulted in failure. I attempted to open the file with a text document and copy the translated info into another JSC file created by the current computer. This seemed to work exept it asked for a password that I was 99% sure of never creating. I downloaded a Hex editor to attept to bipass the nonexistant password to no avail.
With the Hex editor I realized that the text document I used (Notepad to be presise) had translated so incorrecly that it was a wonder it was still considered a JCS file. I next attepted the same consept as before but instead used the Hex editor to coppy the information. The prosses was in vain though because it copied so well that the problem continued in the new file. In conclution it is something wrong with the file though.
My next attept would likely be to try to install the latest patches, because it my be that these files were callobreated to the higher versions, but I think this is not the issue because in memory, it happend with our old computers which more likly had those patches.
The Problem is that I cannot open the moved files with JSC, absolutly nothing happens if I click to open them, and the program will close if It is already open. The files can be played on though by opening JJ2 and going to Homecooked levels etc, but all of them are incomplete, so I NEED to edit them.
We have had this problem for a long time befor, but because of the time lapse I cannot give detailed or verified info on how it was before. By my memory the game had a problem resulting in crashing after any level is stared. We moved the files to save them for uninstalling the game and reinstalling it so as to have it work again, and it resulted in this problem, or we would move it between our two computers and it resulted in this problem. I think we had a solution for it in the past but it is long forgotten.
I had tried a method that resulted in failure. I attempted to open the file with a text document and copy the translated info into another JSC file created by the current computer. This seemed to work exept it asked for a password that I was 99% sure of never creating. I downloaded a Hex editor to attept to bipass the nonexistant password to no avail.
With the Hex editor I realized that the text document I used (Notepad to be presise) had translated so incorrecly that it was a wonder it was still considered a JCS file. I next attepted the same consept as before but instead used the Hex editor to coppy the information. The prosses was in vain though because it copied so well that the problem continued in the new file. In conclution it is something wrong with the file though.
My next attept would likely be to try to install the latest patches, because it my be that these files were callobreated to the higher versions, but I think this is not the issue because in memory, it happend with our old computers which more likly had those patches.