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[Owlkapwn]

1st off don't judge me. I played this game when it 1st came out and beat the crap outa it like 20 times. Now that i got it for free on pc i thought to my self, lets see what we can do. So i tried the "tk102 Jade Empire Save game Editor". I keep getting this message "Could not find save directory for Jade Empire. Exiting" need help fixing this issue. Plz and thx.

[AwfulArchdemon]

Same here. People are asking on Nexus about it too, and other forums all point to the same broken jse.exe. Tried the one on Nexus, tried another one (forget where from at this point) - v0.6, and tried v0.5. There's also a site that claims to have it, but the link attempts to take you to an infected page.

 

Where's the real one? No reason jse shouldn't read my Jade Empire: Special Edition. It was installed to the default Origin directory in Program Files (x86)\Origin Games.

 

I know the game's old, but it just became free on Origin, so lots of people will be trying to mod it (I already made 6 mods for it in 2 weeks).

[DarthParametric]

Old tools based on registry lookups to find the game's install location are broken by modern digital distribution versions on Steam and Origin. It's the same problem tools for KOTOR have. You'll need to create a new registry key in the location the original disc version of the game uses that points to the Origin install directory. In a text editor like Notepad, paste one of the following -

If you have 64bit Windows: 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BioWare\Jade Empire]
"Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Origin Games\\Jade Empire"

If you have 32bit Windows:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BioWare\Jade Empire]
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Origin Games\\Jade Empire"

Change the Path variable to match wherever you have your Origin games installed. Make sure to use double slashes instead of single. Save the file as a .REG instead of TXT and double click it. When it asks if you want to add the information to the registry, click yes.

Edit: Updated to avoid changing the GUID value Origin uses. It still uses the same key, it just uses the variable "Install Dir" instead of "Path" (along with a bunch of other changes) which trips up the save editor.

[AwfulArchdemon]

So Origin altered the Registry since the jse.exe had it's last update? Well, whatever. Thank you!

 

Question about it: Can it alter relationship status with a romanceable character (why I wanted to use it)? If not, can anything else do it?

[DarthParametric]

Origin didn't exist when the save editor was made. It creates new registry entries for games it installs (as does Steam), so old tools that rely on registry entries from CD-based originals a decade ago no longer function (or more accurately, can't detect a digital download installation).

As to what the save editor can do, changing plot flags/variables is possible, but it's not a straightforward or simple exercise.

[AwfulArchdemon]

Not as easy as...

DawnStarRelationshipRank=4
DSWayScore=50 [OpenPalm]
SilkFoxRelationshipRank=3
SFWayScore=-20 [ClosedFist]

...or something? I hope I don't need to know rocket science for this.  If only I could make a custom ini for such things. Wish it didn't take me so long to discover this game.

[DarthParametric]

The only time I ever used the save editor was to bypass the well known progress blocking bug in the Dragonfly's hanger and that was years ago. I can't really offer any advice for it.

[AwfulArchdemon]

Well, if I learn anything, I'll post about it. Heh, just saw you on another forum about JE. You're a helpful one, bro. Thanks for everything.

 

Still amazed Origin wasn't even a thing when this game came out. This game was ahead of it's time. I beg for JE2!

[Daelyas]

I sorry for being ... uhm... somewhat less capable of understanding tech stuff ... but I could use some clarification here

 

I just write up a new Wordpad/notepad document with:

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BioWare\Jade Empire]
"Path"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Origin Games\\Jade Empire"

 

(obviously changing the path for my install specifically)

 

Save it as an .REG file ... 

 

and then... what? 

 

Save that file where? Anywhere? And then just open it? Im sort of stumped here. Sorry

 

Alright... Trial an Error have prevailed at last  

 

Sadly the Editor does not help me after all. At least the one that I found. 

 

 

Not as easy as...

DawnStarRelationshipRank=4
DSWayScore=50 [OpenPalm]
SilkFoxRelationshipRank=3
SFWayScore=-20 [ClosedFist]

...or something? I hope I don't need to know rocket science for this.   If only I could make a custom ini for such things. Wish it didn't take me so long to discover this game.

 

I want the same thing as you I will eagerly wait far any updates you might have on this problem. 

 

Cheers!