GZDoom - Hexen - "recover" Multiplayer Campaign

[ClémentXVII]

Hello,

A couple of years ago I was playing Hexen multiplayer with my son through GZDoom on Linux. Recently we tried playing again and realised the saves were gone - or, to be more precise GZDoom used a more logical path system for save games.

While previous savegames were in ~/.config/gzdoom/, the updated GZDoom now looks for the savegames in ~/.config/gzdoom/savegames/<game_identifier>.

Since we were already quite advanced in the Hexen campaign (Map30 Griffin Chapel), we decided to move the previous save games in the updated location, and unfortunately it seems like when we load the game we both spawn at the same location and there's no way for us to continue/reset the game using the existing saves.
It looks like both save games have different md5sums.

Now, since Hexen has (unlike DooM, Heretic and others) a way of interconnecting maps with one another, is it possible to play multiplayer coop Hexen starting from a specific "Chapter" ?
Or have we lost all progress and should we perhaps start anew?

Is there a specific logfile I could check for more information on this?

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GZDoom g4.13.2 - 2024-10-30 16:22:33 -0500 - SDL version
Compiled on Oct 21 2024

OS: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid, Linux 6.11.6-amd64 on x86_64
GZDoom version g4.13.2
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