Talk:The Chronicles of Emerland: Solitaire
This is a bit advance, but what you can do is use Process Monitor to monitor the activity of the game to see where it writes its files.
To summarize:
1. Download Process Monitor and run Procmon.exe
2. When it launches, you'll be met with a "Process Monitor Filter". In this window, change "Architecture" to "Process Name", then type in the executable file name for the game, "solitaire.exe" I think, and click "Add" so a new row with a green checkmark is added to the top of the list of the window.
3. Now hit OK. Process Monitor will now automatically monitor and log all activity created by the game.
4. Run the game and perform a save or load or whatever, with Process Monitor in the background so that it can capture data about what the game is doing.
5. When you're finished, close down the game and go back to Process Monitor. Now click the "Capture (Ctrl+E)" icon (the magnifying glass; third from the left, to the right side of the floppy drive) in the toolbar so that Process Monitor stops capturing data.
6. Finally, click on Tools -> File Summary to view a summary over files the game read and wrote to. A tip is to sort by path, and exclude those related to display drivers, Windows itself, or other components. Games typically writes saves either in their own game folder, in the Documents folder, or somewhere in \Users\[Username]\AppData or below.
7. If you can't find anything in the File Summary section, it's possible the game stores saves in the Registry instead. Click on "OK" in the File Summary window if it is still opened, then click on Tools -> Registry Summary instead. A tip here is to look for stuff written to HKCU (aka HKEY_CURRENT_USER) below \Software\ (64-bit applications) or \Software\Wow6432Node\ (32-bit applications).
In this case, the game uses the path: %APPDATA%\Rainbow\Solitair\. In addition to using Process Monitor, I prefer using Everything and sorting by date modified, this only shows files being manipulated though.
Thanks, folks! (Sorry, just noticed the replies.)