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"Monkey Island" Trouble Saving

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First post, by MichelleLynn

Posted on 2009-01-24, 21:45

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I'm playing Monkey Island 2 with the actual CD. I was previously playing it using VDMSound when I was using Windows XP, but when I switched to Windows Vista that didn't cut it, so I had to start using DOSBOX.

I have it up and running fine and the sound is working. However, none of the games that I had previously saved are there anymore so I can't load an old game. So now I have to start playing it all over again; however, now it will not let me save my progress at all. When I type in the name to save my progress as and click "Ok", it says "The game was NOT saved (disc full?)"

I have never had this problem before? Does anyone have any suggestions of how to fix it?

Reply 1 of 5, by wd

Posted on 2009-01-24, 21:57

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How did you mount the drives? Sounds like you're trying to save on the cd.

Reply 2 of 5, by MichelleLynn

Posted on 2009-01-24, 22:05

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I typed the following in this exact order:

mount d E:\ -t cdrom

CD monkey2

monkey2.exe

Reply 3 of 5, by wd

Posted on 2009-01-24, 22:11

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You need to install the game, or copy it onto your harddisk if that works
(remember to remove the readonly attribute from the files).

Reply 4 of 5, by Freddo

Posted on 2009-01-25, 01:01

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If you gonna play Monkey Island 2, I recommend you use ScummVM instead of DOSBox.

Reply 5 of 5, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-01-25, 01:19

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If it's Vista then it's probably a permissions issue, so:

1. Run DOSBox as an administrator (not recommended).
OR
2. Copy DOSBox folder and game to profile
OR
3. Modify permissions on game/DOSBox folder.

By default you cannot write to any directory on Vista unless it's your profile. (Unless you run the program as administrator or modify the permissions).

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