Hey guys, Epic Battle Fantasy 4 has been updated to version 2, which adds a lot of new features, including a new saving system. Unfortunately, save files from version 1 cannot be automatically loaded in version 2, but they can be loaded with some extra steps.

Option 1 is easy: shoot me an email at [email protected], and tell me where you were in the game, and I’ll send you a save file with a similar amount of progress. This will be a .meow file that you can open in the load menu, by clicking on “Load Backup File”.

Option 2 is to return to version 1 of EBF4: If you’re using Steam, this can be done from the Steam client by going to Games > Epic Battle Fantasy 4 > Right Click > Properties > Betas > select Version 1. This will download the old version of the game, and your old save files should work as they did before the update.

Option 3 is to convert your old save file: This requires finding the old files, and putting them into a new folder. If you haven’t played version 1 in a long time, it’s possible that your old files no longer exist in the correct format for this method. If the following steps do not work for you, try option 1 or 2.

Your old files will be saved in a folder similar to this one:
“C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player#SharedObjects\[some numbers]\localhost”

The exact path will depend on your operating system, but the final folder will be “localhost”. You should be able to find the folder by browsing there, or by doing a full system search for “EBF4”. The search results should show you some .sol files, such as “EBF4autosave.sol”, “EBF4file1.sol”, “EBF4misc.sol” (medals file), etc. Select all of the EBF4 files in the “localhost” folder that you want to transfer, and click “Copy”.

Within the “localhost” folder, create a new folder called “Epic Battle Fantasy 4.swf” (it may already exist), and paste the files into that folder.

And that’s it. Epic Battle Fantasy 4 should see the files when you restart the game. (Make sure that you have empty save slots when you do this, or your old files will not appear!)

Pro tip: If you are strongly attached to your save files, I recommend using the new Backup Save feature in future, which allows you to name your files and save them to a folder of your choice. You can even email them to yourself so you can access them from any computer.

Hey guys, in my last post about Epic Battle Fantasy 4, I mentioned that I would be replacing some low-quality sound effects… well that turned into quite a big task – It’s taking about 3 days. I’ve been replacing the worst offenders, but also balancing sound effect volume, and making sure multiple sounds of the same type don’t play at the same time. In the end, the game is going to sound a lot more like EBF5 than EBF3, and you should be able to play it quite comfortably with the sound effect volume up high, where as before this would have been painful due to the massive volume fluctuations.

Anyway, I’m sorry that I’ve not been working on the EBF Collection – I’ll get back to that when I finish this EBF4 update. I’m also working on some private stuff behind the scenes, which is taking up some of my time.