Saturday, May 2, 2020

Bugfix: The Lord Monarch Online v1.01 savegame bug

The Lord Monarch Online (or "Dragon Slayer 7"), by Japanese company Falcom, is a mixed realtime/planned strategy game. It is the heir to the Dragon Slayer and Lord Monarch series of the 90's and the last in the series with 2-dimension drawings. It can now be downloaded freely from the maker's website and played on any Windows box.

It was released in 1997, not updated since and suffers from an annoying bug: saving the game is not possible, you always get the following message "Failed in writting file."

Failed in writting file.

After a short look in the executable, I noticed that the default folder used for saving games was not present in the game's directory. You just have to create a folder named "SAVE" at the root of the base directory, and savegames will start working fine.

Enjoy!

Screenshot from the Lord Monarch Online