Help fixing my save file?

[TempInDistress]

Hey guys, like the title says, my save file got corrupted cause the game forgot what an iron shot of venom was, and when I tried to drop them, it crashed the save and I can't reload it.

I have blue dragonscale mail and a longbow of might for my rogue, I've never had anything CLOSE to this good before and I really really don't want to lose my save to a glitch!!

I uploaded a Zip of the save file, let me know if there's a better way to go about that.

Thanks in advance.

[TempInDistress]

I was digging around in the files some more and found the following pile_error. It occurred when I tried to store Iron Shots of Venom in my house if I remember correctly, which it was calling an unknown item at the time, and displayed as a whip when I threw it. I didn't realize a glitch was happening, I thought I was cursed or something.

Pile integrity failure at obj-pile.c:214

Guilty object
=============
Name: & Whip~
Previous: & Scimitar~

Guilty pile
=============
Name: [First Spells]
Name: & Cloak~
Name: & Flask~ of oil
Name: & Small Metal Shield~
Name: Cure Light Wounds
Name: & Set~ of Leather Gloves
Name: Phase Door
Name: Neutralize Poison
Name: & Dagger~
Name: Magic Missile
Name: True Seeing
Name: Searching
Name: Cure Serious Wounds
Name: Blue Dragon Scale Mail~
Name: Light
Name: Speed
Name: & Lantern~
Name: Detect Invisible
Name: Magic Mapping
Name: Remove Hunger
Name: & Pair~ of Iron Shod Boots
Name: Mapping
Name: Word of Recall
Name: & Rounded Pebble~
Name: the Mouse
Name: Infravision
Name: & Iron Helm~
Name: Reckless Attacks
Name: & Hard Leather Cap~
Name: & Ration~ of Food
Name: & Long Bow~

[Nick]

OK, your game is fairly spectacularly messed up. I have managed to get it to open, but currently saving it again makes it crash. Give me a day or two and I'll see what I can salvage.

[Pete Mack]

It's be nice to know the root cause of pile integrity crashes. I don't remember them from before virtual floor objects were introduced.

[Nick]

It's be nice to know the root cause of pile integrity crashes. I don't remember them from before virtual floor objects were introduced.

It sure would be nice

At some point I decided (and I want to say some other people share the blame for not talking me out of it) that rather than having an object array for the level and an object array for the player's inventory, it would be better to have objects being individual pieces of memory that got passed around between player, monsters, floor and shops. This sounds like a great idea in theory, and has actually mostly worked pretty well, but there's still a couple of gremlins in it and it's fiendishly difficult to debug because bad results usually emerge a bit after the original cause. Having pile integrity checks and crashing the game when they fail is the best solution so far (I think takkaria came up with it), but it's far from perfect as this thread demonstrates. And I think unscrambling the eggs now would only make things worse. I am hopeful that we will reach a bug-free state for object code at some point, but we're not there yet.

[TempInDistress]

OK, your game is fairly spectacularly messed up. I have managed to get it to open, but currently saving it again makes it crash. Give me a day or two and I'll see what I can salvage.

Thanks so much man, I appreciate it.

Would it be simpler at this point to make a new rogue, and somehow boost his level, and give him the bow and armor back? I REALLY want that bow and dragon scale.

Also my friend looking at it for me wants to know, "What are you opening the save file in, nothing I have opens it properly, I get messed up and unrecognized characters everywhere?"

Thank you very much for looking in to it.

EDIT: Is there something I can do to keep this from getting screwed up again?

[Pete Mack]

He is opening it in a -g compile of angband, using gdb or other debugger.

[Nick]

OK, your savefile is attached - I had to hack the game to load it correctly. Let me know if there are any problems.