I found out recently that a new level of MOTAS (Mistery Of Time And Space) has been released, so I thought like great, let's play it! Unfortunately, I changed the computer since I played MOTAS last time, so my cookie with the saved game was lost. I really didn't felt like replaying the whole game for the second or third time in order to reach to level 20.
The Problem: The game doesn't offer any option to jump to a specific level without playing the whole game up to that level. I played the first 10 or 12 levels 3-4 years ago and last year the first 19. I tried to find the cookie where MOTAS stores the current level, but there was none from the host gamesplanet.be in my browser. Weird ...
The Solution: Actually the saved game isn't stored in the browser's cookies, but in Flash's. Flash stores its cookies separately from the browser. MOTAS' cookie is located in
C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\[some random name]\gamesplanet.be
There should be a .sol file, but it's a binary file and you cannot edit it directly. Download .sol Editor (Flash Shared Object), close your browser and open the .sol file with it. You should see a string variable named savedLevel. Change its value to 21 and hit Save.
Now open your browser, go to MOTAS homepage and click on Continue game. From the game menu, choose Load game. There should be the full list of levels available. Click any of them and wait (it took several minutes in my connection) for the level to load. Enjoy the 20th level!
