Traveller

Small update: i can confirm everything does completely work and function as it should in-game. Nor Sid -errors, no-nothing.. if I don't count the fact that for some unknown and weird reason, "Moby's Steel Jungle v1" appears twice on the CSO menu window.... what's going on in there? Do i after all have a bad/corrupt CSO? Anyhow... I discovered that I get those two error messages only if I tick "Do a deep Check" when i select and click from the drop-down menu "Create list of required custom content", under "Content requirements" tab. If I untick the box, the error messages do not appear any longer, only when ticking the box again and doing a new search. Weird, huh? 🤯

This is all good info! I will certainly try the uninstall-reinstall method. In this case, only the game is installed on E:\ - with all the CS in where they should be, in style\themed - and all the park files are on normal location My Documents on C:\ drive. ParkCleanUp does have correct path according to the log, but this is actually something I need to test. And you could be correct that having the game on different drive, and not in default location under C:\ Program Files, might be the reason causing havoc - not forgetting that the last version of ParkCleanUp was released 2013. However.. I think there might be a cause-symptom related to some CS sets, which may be broken only for ParkCleanUp, since the error messages is only referencing three different CS sets. Curious though that by looking at the error message, it's impossible to tell which CS sets the app thinks are faulty, since the end part looks like it's corrupt... weird! Need to test a number of things. I think everyone in the community would benefit from this, IF I am be to determine the cause! -I doubt that I would the only one having issues with ParkCleanUp - which is still without a doubt one of the most useful apps made for RCT3. I noticed today for the first time, that it also works for structures .dat files... I didn't know before that would work!! Many thanks for the info! 🤓

I started to cleanup some of my recently found scenarios and parks with CS sets, and the only tool (besides Notepad++) to be of any use, as far as I know, is Park CleanUp 2. The version I have is the last version v2.0.0. Right away I started to get error messages I don't recall seeing before with previous installations. I get two types of errors: "OVL appears to be invalid: Could not open overlay : e:\rollercoaster tycoon® 3r" and; "OVL appears to be invalid: File EINVAL error : e:\rollercoaster tycoon® 3m" All the other messages are just normal "OVL not found : style\themed\...." when CS set in question has not been installed. -Anyone have a clue about the cause? Is this an issue with the GOG edition, corrupt .dat -file or CS set related issue, or could it be the install path/location causing issues, or is this about the missing CS - or the way sets are installed? All the CS sets I have currently installed, have been verified to be the newest versions available, and the CS objects themselves at least seem to work completely normally in-game. My RCT3 Platinum installation is GOG edition (don't remember which version). I was running low in space on C:\Program Files (Windows XP 32-bit SP3), so I installed RCT3 instead on drive E:\ Works good, no issues starting or running the game, all is well and peeps are still barfing like there's no tomorrow. Any and all help and information will be greatly appreciated! 🤗 "G** d***it! I would p**s on a spark plug, if it would do any good!" -General Beringer in WarGames" (1983)-

I don't know if this would be any use, but I was able to locate from Wayback Machine The Complete List of Custom Content The newest listing I found is from January 24, 2021. The exact URL must have changed sometime after that, I think. All the directories seem to be accessible, nothing can be downloaded, naturally. Already there are notes like "No Known Working Download!" for a number of CS sets. It just breaks my heart to think that some sets really could be lost forever.... 😱

This sound really good to me. However, I can already foresee the many problems ahead. Firstly there is the issue of the varied file names, often changed names of the authors, the fact that there are sets which have been bundled together - thus creating a fantastic confusion regarding the great quest to locate and make CS objects available for download for generations to come (I hope) 🤩. I have only recently taken notice that the only way to have any chance of succeeding locating many of these CS sets, is to have as wide community collaboration as possible. I am currently in process of sorting out several CS sets I have rescued from my old hard drive, and are planning to upload here. Many of these are available no longer, as far as I know, on any website. I keep finding almost weekly a set I thought would have been lost for good. But this takes time - a LOT of time, its laborious for many reasons, and only having a real passion, patience and faith in that this is all worth while doing. RCT3 is one of the very few games I really love to play - it has the definitive "LEGO -effect" - if you are familiar with this term. One strategy I have found being unexpectedly fruitful has been to search, locate and download CS bundle packages, which often have been gigantic in size. As an example, I recently downloaded several such collection packs from www.coaster-games.org and found inside huge pack several CS sets I haven't seen anywhere else. Links to these mega packs are often very elusive, I have found some by watching RCT3 related YouTube videos, which have had links to download CS packs, usually from sites like Mediafire. To have this type of project really to succeed is entirely possible, but it does take commitment, and from my own past experiences with other gaming modding communities, there really needs to be firm guidelines - a sort of solid rule-sets for how it should be done, so it won't turn into utter chaos... But this all up to you, and I really can't thank you enough for creating this site in the first place, which has totally renewed my interest in the sheer never ending versatility to produce enjoyment and satisfaction for playing "just" a game! 😃 "That's not a moon. That's a space station!" -Obi Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars" (1977)

Ah... but you forget one thing: Some of the readme -files I've read, say that I should keep the old files and overwrite, if asked. This suggests to me that some of the newer versions might only include the newer versions of the files, but omit the older, existing ones. Which I think is just poor planning, but I have already found one such set, which requires me to have BOTH the older version AND the new one. I don't know about you, but to me that's just bonkers! I don't know what some of these authors have been thinking (or drinking ...or smoking) when they thought that would be a great way to save space! 🙈 (Hey! -There's no face-palm emoji in here! -so evil monkey it is.)

Oh well... to give you an idea what I am up against: I finished yesterday retrieving everything I could from my old squeaky bricked HDD. All the RCT3 stuff is now finally under one main folder, all I need to do now is to do the most frustrating part, sorting all this mess out, and get rid of 100% verified duplicates and check known dependencies for the sets, then do painstaking crosschecking against dates and versions of the sets, and again delete the duplicates. Sounds easy, right? 🤩 Well... there are now 57.6 Gb - or to be precise, 61,900,693,504 bytes in 380,628 files, and 25,151 folders! 😵‍💫 - And just that it wouldn't get too easy: for an example a basic duplicate search found fourteen (14!) duplicates of ShyGuy's Mainstreet sets, and many of them seem to be different versions with different dates. I did some basic math, and I think it will take me a minimum of 3-4 weeks if I would (and could) spend 8 hours in 7 days a week, just to do a basic process of elimination. I don't really want to think about how much and what was permanently lost. As my granny used to say; "What's gone, is gone!".

I am currently in a VERY time consuming process trying to recover salvageable CS content from my old HDD, which got bricked nearly 10 years ago. One of the problems I am having is that many of the CS packs only exist in their Style\Themed\ -folder, therefore missing any info files, readme and possible screenshots, etc. One of the folders recovered was named "11" and the files in that folder were named imaginatively named in style of "1.ovl" and... surprise, surprise "2.ovl" 😄 I was wondering if there is any kind of "master list", or index for known CS content currently available for download and especially for CS packs which are considered "missing" or "lost"? - If there isn't such a list, I think it might be a good idea to create one, which could then keep updating in regular intervals, say once a week or a month. This could be .xls file or something similar. What do you think?