I’ve made it to the space stage and realized I’d rather stick with just the original base game and play without galactic adventures these days. Is it possible to uninstall GA without losing my planet and its save file? I purchased the game through GOG
#Uninstall Galactic Adventures without affecting save file for base game?
arctic mica
latent arch
Not really possible as once the data is "upgraded" to the GA version it's not intended to be downgraded
Also, GA is not separate in the GOG version so you cannot uninstall just that part
Mods exist to remove adventures from space stage, see SMC in #・spore-communities
timber vault
I’ve made it to the space stage and realized I’d rather stick with just the orig...
You can just mark the base executable (SporeApp) at the Sporebin folder in your taskbar/start menu
C:\Program Files\EA Games\Spore\Sporebin
But you are missing out on mods and advanced space outfitter techniques if you do this.
latent arch
^^^ this technically works but I would strongly advise against it as it can cause strange issues and data corruption if you have existing creations and saves - you may not be able to load them
timber vault
This is hardly a concern unless you used the singular detail paint on every single one of your creations
Or if you outfitted a captain already with the parts, in which case get them off.
but even then I'm pretty sure it will just default to your empire's look
latent arch
It's not that, the databases use a different format and it has to migrate it, and this process is not super reliable
Often resulting in crashes at startup (because the database gets broken altogether) or certain creations not loading (will show as white PNGs or "locked")
timber vault
What kind of screwed installation do you have?
latent arch
This is experience from 15 years of troubleshooting issues, it is not guaranteed but it is very likely to cause issues
As a result, I cannot recommend something that is both unsupported and known to cause issues
timber vault
It should be fine if the game wasn't modded (and this was, but even then the missing parts just become squares.)
timber vault
It does corrupt the captain (every single captain part turned into a square) and it DID crash my game, but putting him in the editor and adjusting a single part fixed it
Deleting a creature from the Sporepedia just replaces its empire in space stage so I doubt anything else will happen.