I’m emulating windows 98 through dosbox pure in retroarch. I am playing a game called “Deadlock: Planetary Conquest” and the game makes a random map, you choose where you start on the map, and then you can save the game when it starts. I wanted to save a copy of the game where I start in different parts of the map but once you choose a starting position you cannot choose a different one.
I tried to get around this by
- Saving the game as a save state
- Choosing a starting location
- Saving the game file
- Moving the game file onto my C: drive where my emulated windows operating system is (as opposed to the game which is in it’s own file emulated as D: drive)
- Go back to the previous state and choose a different location
- Save that file
- Then combine both files by moving the first one out of C: onto D: but it says “error copying file” then it says “Cannot copy (file name): Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file ins not currently in use.”
Is there something I need to do with the file so it can be moved into my game folder on D:? I tried
- Clicking on the file
- Opening Properties
- Unchecking the Archive box