Spike Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Nooooooooo... My game I have been working on for months may be dead. All of the many backups, everything suddenly became corrupted when I uploaded one sound. Is there any way to extract that sound to maybe, possibly get it working again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damizean Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Don't you have backups? GM automatically makes them when you save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted November 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 It ruined the backups too, somehow. I save frequently, and I think it makes a backup every other save, so you can continue on the previous save if you screwed it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 You uploaded a sound? Sounds like a virus, scan the sound file and your GM application to make sure, as for a solution, I don't use game maker so I don't know alot about it but try this, take out that sound and delete it to see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smidge204 Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 It's almost (but not entirely) unheard of to get a virus from a sound file. It also sounds like the file is corrupt to the point of being unopen-able, so removing the sound in such a direct manner is probably not possible. =Smidge= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD Posted November 26, 2006 Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 Oh, then I'm out of ideas, the next thing I could advise you to do is to do a system restore or reinstall GM. But like I said, I don't know GM that much so maybe there's another way. Sorry to hear about your game spike, that really sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted November 26, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2006 I could use a backup from yesterday, But today being a day off, I practically added another 33% to my game. Oh well, looks like I have no choice. The sound is an issue because GM has problems handling large sound files. I wish I would have known that beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 I could use a backup from yesterday, But today being a day off, I practically added another 33% to my game. Oh well, looks like I have no choice.The sound is an issue because GM has problems handling large sound files. I wish I would have known that beforehand. Yeah that sucks man, but at least all of it isn't destroyed, might I make a suggestion? I use a 256MB flash drive to store my current work on there just to make sure something similar to your problem happens, I put it on there every time I close my MMF. Hmm, I wonder If there is a way to tell my computer to save my applications every 30-minutes or so, maybe you should try that, of course if you have a flash drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted November 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 I have some 256MB SanDisk cards that would work. I should probably do that too. Good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradient Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 I have had the exact same problem, and a few months ago I was afraid that Sonic Xcel was lost. Game Maker is not exactly renowned for being able to handle MP3 files particularly well, due to the MP3 format being compressed by definition, and a large MP3 can corrupt the game file (this was my final motivation for externally storing my sound files; check the 'Chaos!' thread in General Fangame Discussion for my solution). However, all is not lost; there was a thread on the Game Maker forums in which corrupted files could be recovered. If only the sound file had corrupted the game, then the rest of the file (ie. everything except the sound files) can quite possibly be recovered. The creator of the program seemed open to taking individual game files and recovering them (he did it for me, with perfect results), so you could ask him if he would be kind enough to do the same for you (assuming the program can't help you; it can struggle, given that it's not a professional piece of programming. I'll still find the download link for you). http://forums.gamemaker.nl/index.php?showtopic=200148 There's the topic. I'm Phil_T on the thread, if you were wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD Posted November 27, 2006 Report Share Posted November 27, 2006 Hey spike, If your going to use your flash drive to back-up your files try this, after setting up, you can save selected files automatically to your flash, that will save you alot of trouble: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/bott_03july14.mspx I going to try this also, hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Time Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 You can use a extraction file to uplaod your game maker to help it run get it somewhere? Sorry bout that! i dunno but you could try deleting your backup sound file. It might help you. Bye you have a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rael0505 Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 Try not to post twice in a row, Sonic Time. There's an edit button at the bottom right of your posts if you need to add on to it. Edit: Merged posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonar Games Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 There has to be at least one back up file that should have been saved before you loaded the sfx. Because the samething happened to me over the summer. Also use a mp3 player/flash drive to store your work on it. I know how you feel man hope you get it working again. Also the sfx must be corrupted or can't be opened by GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted December 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 This happened a long time ago. I've got it working since then. Thanks anyway, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonar Games Posted December 30, 2006 Report Share Posted December 30, 2006 This happened a long time ago. I've got it working since then. Thanks anyway, though. oh wow I'm late,lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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