I know what you were getting at. I just had never heard of someone opening a save in notepad in order to fix a corrupted save
I didn't think you would have cheated and the posted about it. It just seemed curious to me to try to open a hotseat save. One of the earliest hotseats here was marred by at least one person messing with files (in this case his game files) and accusations that at least one or two others were doing something similar. No offense meant.
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