Hi, here's an overly long introduction to go with my first post: I'm new to FreeSpace Open, but not the FreeSpace franchise. Back in the late 90's, I really wanted Descent 2; it seemed awesome and my parents wanted to get it for my birthday, but no store had it on their shelves. One day I was out shopping with my dad at an Office Depot (not exactly known as a gaming retailer now, much less then) and saw Descent: FreeSpace sitting next to Windows 98 on the shelf and bundled with Descent 2, for $10. I had no idea what FreeSpace was, and frankly, I didn't care; D2 for $10! I soon found D2 to be over-hyped, but completely fell in love with FreeSpace... The rest is history.
Anyway, I recently made the switch to Open and everything is set up great. My problem is that I've had the save file corrupt twice. The first time happened halfway through the FS1 campaign and the second just now, after beating FS1 and over halfway through ST:R. When this happens, the game freezes upon attempting to load the profile. Are there any ways to recover them? I'd just edit them myself, but when I check with wordpad, everything seems about right except editing it is impossible because of special characters used.
Also, my file extensions are .CSG; I read in your wiki that those have been phased out for .CS2, how do I make the switch to the newer format?