Crashing in Android after transferring save from PC

[ceefp]

Hello - so I've transferred a save from my PC Steam installation to my Android installation which is Bluestacks emulator for windows (device is rooted, to the com.xxxstartraders2/files directory), and something weird is happening.

If I just move the game_2.db save file, the Android game doesn't detect it. If I move the game_2.db and the core.db file, the save is now detected, but when I try to load the save, the game crashes. Also, in this second situation, I am also unable to start a new game as the game also crashes once I press "Launch".

Have I missed any files that need to be copied / screwed anything up? If it matters, the save file has been edited with cheat engine to add second and third jobs to regular crew, and to alter attributes and skills and traits.

Many thanks in advance.

Edit: Okay, so using Bluestacks with root and placing the save file as I outlined above doesn't work - even when I can see the save, the game crashes when I click "Launch". However, I just did a Helium backup and then restored it to my Galaxy S9 (non rooted) and I am able to load into the save just fine without crashing. Seems this may be a Bluestacks issue, as it also suffers from the map seed crash. Going to test it now on my Galaxy Tab S 8.4 (still on Nougat, also not rooted) to see if I can load the save properly there. Interesting!

Edit 2: Yup, loading it on my Galaxy Tab S 8.4 seems to work just fine. I now have my edited save (mainly for RP purposes, I've got all the crew from The Expanse and my favorite characters from BSG and TNG on there with matching job(s) and traits and attributes and skills). So, works fine on both my actual Android devices.

So, if anybody wants to move a PC save to an Android device that isn't rooted, this is what you'll need to do:

1. Download Bluestacks for PC
2. Root Bluestacks
3. Install ST:F on Bluestacks
3. Locate your PC save file
4. Copy your PC save file (game_x.db AND core.db) to your Bluestacks save game location (root needed, it's data/data/com.tresebrothers.games.startraders2/files
5. Install Helium on Bluestacks
6. Connect to your PC - you'll need to download the Helium fix, search Youtube or Google for that
7. Make a backup of your Star Traders 2 gamedata
8. Locate your backup, should be in internal storage/carbon -- copy the whole folder somewhere to your pc
9. Close Bluestacks
10. Install Helium on your phone/tablet
11. Copy your backup folder to internal storage/carbon
12. Connect Helium (you'll need to restart the PC app)
13. Restore your backup via Helium
14. If all went well you should load into ST:F and see your save.

Hopefully that is helpful for someone, though I'm not sure how many people want to do what I've done and jump through all these hoops (took me quite a while to mentally figure out how this was going to work!) But for me I wanted to do a full roleplay with my favorite sci-fi tv characters so having this save that I've edited on the PC on my android device is good fun for playing on my commute to work.

[fallen]

It is important to basically move as much of the save folder as you can as a single block.

While Cyber Knights will be very good at just moving individual saves, STF needs Core, Map and Game DBs all to travel together to be seamless.

[ceefp]

Jun 19, 2021 13:27:50 GMT -5 fallen said:

It is important to basically move as much of the save folder as you can as a single block.

While Cyber Knights will be very good at just moving individual saves, STF needs Core, Map and Game DBs all to travel together to be seamless.

Thanks! I do have a question - if I move my coredb from pc to android, after having made some unlocks on android but not on pc, will I lose my unlocks on android? Or are they stored somewhere else?

E: yes you do lose unlocks, so if your moving a save from pc to an unrooted android using my method above, you'll lose any unlocks on the unrooted android device you had. Presumably because you dont have unlocks in Bluestacks, and doing a full backup and restore via Helium is backing up and restoring a no unlock game data.

[fallen]

Unlocks are stored in core.db. For Steam, they are restored whenever you open the Unlocks menu. For other platforms, no such luck.

Moving a core.db to Android, you get whatever unlocks came in on that core.db

[cerseisadvocate]

Did you do anything special to get Helium to work with bluestacks? I managed to get helium to work with my physical phone but in Bluestacks Helium never recognizes the connection to my pc though I have the android debugging bridge enabled.

[Cory Trese]

Glad you were able to get it figured out!