Can we fix a 20 year old corrupted .mfa file?
UPDATE: Huge thanks! The game now works! This is the first time I've been able to play it in 20 years!
It's a long shot, but I'm curious if there's any remote possibility of being able to restore this piece of lost media:
Back in 2006, I was about halfway through making a game with Multimedia Fusion 2.0 and it unfortunately became corrupted. So I had to start over from scratch since I neglected to make a backup.
Just recently, I rediscovered the original .mfa file in some old hard drives, and now I'm wondering if it is at all possible to bring it back from the grave. Basically, what happens is that after opening the game (I'm using Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Developer), you get an error message that says the following:
Internal error! Objects or events of this application might be corrupt.
Saving the application and reloading it could fix the problem and only generate bad objects in the events, but if possible, you should save it with another filename and restart from a previous version.
Please contact Clickteam if you can reproduce this issue, thanks!
If you click "Do not show this message again for this session of the program", the game will attempt to load. There is no opportunity to save or do anything else. After a short time, a message appears that says "Failed to open document".
Given that it's been 20 years, I can't really say that I recall what I might have been doing at the time the game became corrupted. Aside from maybe the Advanced Platform Movement object, there were no crazy extra plugins or anything like that.
While I did eventually release this game, the historian in me is still curious to see if this older version can be fixed. If not, I won't lose sleep over it, but if anyone has any insight, let me know!
