Convert the saves of Plants vs. Zombies between Windows and Mac version

PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SAVES BEFORE USING THIS REPOSITORY.

USING ANY CONTENT OF THIS REPOSITORY IS ON YOUR OWN RISK.

Usage

• If you installed Plants vs. Zombies via Steam,

  • On Windows, you need to do nothing.
  • On Mac, just run Plants vs. Zombies Game of the Year.app in this repository. You may want to copy it to ~/Applications (not /Applications).

• For advanced users,

  • Run python convert.py user1.dat to convert the saves between Windows and Mac version.
  • Run python convert.py -f windows -t mac user1.dat to convert the saves from Windows to Mac version.
  • Run python convert.py -f mac -t windows user1.dat to convert the saves from Mac to Windows version.

Mechanism

The data format of the plants in the Zen garden is different under Mac and Windows.

For example, the data of a plant on Mac could be:

26000000|00000000|00000000|00000000|
00000000|bd33645a|02000000|03000000|
00000000|03000000|00000000|a530635a|
0a695359|00000000|00000000|

but on Windows, it should be:

26000000|00000000|00000000|00000000|
00000000|00000000|bd33645a|00000000|
02000000|03000000|00000000|03000000|
00000000|00000000|a530635a|00000000|
0a695359|00000000|00000000|00000000|
00000000|00000000|

Known issue

• If your default Python is Python 2, please use Plants vs. Zombies Game of the Year.app/Contents/MacOS/run2.sh to replace Plants vs. Zombies Game of the Year.app/Contents/MacOS/run.sh.
  And the Python 2 version doesn't support Zombatar.