Updating old maps?

My friends and I plan on having weekly games of bitfighter, and we miss the old Zap! maps.

Zap! is still downloadable and comes with all of the original maps. I copied the codes into level files (copied one .level file a bunch, renamed them, opened them in notepad, and deleted their contents, pasted the codes from the .txt files which came with Zap!)

But that process doesn't work. I notice that the old .txt files are better spaced out, while the .levels are all written in one really long string. Is that the problem?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[raptor]

Hi furbuggy,

You are encountering the problem with different new-line characters in windows. Basically, some windows editors won't recognize the new-line character used on OSX and Linux and just display it all as one line. All levels are now saved with this new-line character, unlike the old Zap! levels that were saved with the Windows-style new-line characters.

The solution is to open and edit the file with a half-way decent text editor like notepad++ (found here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/). In fact, I recommend opening any plain-text file with notepad++ on Windows instead of the original notepad/wordpad/word, etc.

Bitfighter should read both types of files, in any case (windows new-lines and everybody-else-new-lines).

[Skybax]

I seem to remember someone else already porting a lot of the original maps to the new file format before.. hmm..

In fact, I recommend opening any plain-text file with notepad++ on Windows instead of the original notepad/wordpad/word, etc.

[watusimoto]

Can't you just rename the .txt files to .level? We've worked really hard to be backwards compatible, and I would be surprised if the old maps didn't "just work".

And hey, no one would complain if those levels made it into plaeides...

I'm not sure if you can change a file extension by just adding a different extension (I was pretty sure that was not possible, but maybe I'm wrong). But anyway, it was easy enough to convert them once I got Notepad++
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Update: To avoid confusion about who actually made them, I uploaded them to the database under the name "Old Zap". I think I got them all. Also, I didn't think that figure 8 was part of the original zap! release, but apparently it made it in there somehow.

[Quartz]

I'm not sure if you can change a file extension by just adding a different extension (I was pretty sure that was not possible, but maybe I'm wrong). But anyway, it was easy enough to convert them once I got Notepad++
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Update: To avoid confusion about who actually made them, I uploaded them to the database under the name "Old Zap". I think I got them all. Also, I didn't think that figure 8 was part of the original zap! release, but apparently it made it in there somehow.

Figure 8 isn't. It's by Rick, on Gibbed.

I saw you were online Bitfighter, furb, and I was like "whaaaaaaaat! Throwback!!" This guy's been around longer than bobdaduck (easily), me (easily), and even sky_lark. The last nostalgia moment I had was when C. Bob, being C. Bob, came onto Bitfighter under a pseudonym and bobdaduck and I made him say who he really was. Then he started talking down to me like I was still the dramatic twelve-year-old that he knew me as. Good times!! (Seriously, screw that guy. The elitist audacity of some people amazes me.)

Haha, yeah I was going through old emails and forums and stuff, trying to find as many old maps (player created) as I could, and went through a lot of old conversations with that guy. Nostalgia for real.

[Quartz]

Haha, yeah I was going through old emails and forums and stuff, trying to find as many old maps (player created) as I could, and went through a lot of old conversations with that guy. Nostalgia for real.

That's legit man. Glad you're around again!

Hmm its not there but im 99% sure it was a zap original map...

It was called curly Q