I was about to get started on Puzzle #12 and then I got a "Fatal Error" on my screen. The only choice I had was "reset". So I chose reset and I can't get back into the game anymore. It won't even let me load up "Village Sim". I get the "loading" bar and then before it gets half way, my Palm freezes.

I was so close! What do I do now? The game won't even load for me to start a new game.

Here is a reply from Ladycfii that may solve your problem...
"there is a fix available for the bug that locks up your device when you start a new game. You can download it at www.ldwsoftware.com/VillageSimFixed.zip

If that doesn't fix your problem, please let us know. "

Ok, I'm testing it out now.

I had that problem once before too. My palm restarted itself and when I loaded the game again I had lost a dozen people to death, but besides that everything else was fine.

Did you hotsync before you crashed? If you did you could go into C:\Program Files\Palm\Gemelle\Backup\

Drag out VillageSavegame.PDB and quick install it to your palm. It should bring back the game as of the last time you saved it. I had to do that once when my Golden Child vanished into thin air not long after the fatal error. XD

I could have dragged out the villagesavegame.pdb?? Darn! I haven't backed up my village for a while. That's alright, I don't mind starting over. But I will know to back up my saved games on my PC.

Gemelle, I think your problem is different from the one that the fix version is intended to solve. It sounds like your savegame file became corrupted during the crash. There are two options available to you. The first option will perhaps let you recover your game in progress. Go into your \Program Files\Palm\username\backup and double-click the file VillageSavegame.pdb. Then HotSync your Palm and the backup savegame will be installed on your device. The other option will get you back up and running, but you'll have to start a new game: you can delete your savegame file from your Palm, or you can completely uninstall Village Sim using the Palm OS delete function, and then reinstall it. That will take care of the corrupted savegame file.

Please PM me if you have trouble with any of this, and I'll help you some more.

Very interesting. It worked, I got my Village Sim back! But all my villagers are gone and the food is at 50,331,648. Now I KNOW my villagers didn't work THAT hard at fishing!

Should I try the game again? Or should I wait until Arthur sends me the beta version? I don't want it crashing again ...

Hahaha.. wow.. thats insane. XD do you have ANY villagers left? Or did they all become food? hehehe..

I don't want to think they became food. But I have 0 villagers. They just vanished! Oh well ... here I go again! Isle Dos!