Technical issues thread

[Gavagai]

So, Zulan was kind enough to give me the last save from PB74 and I wanted to open it in as a scenario, fool around a bit, maybe pilot my empire to a victory condition against AIs. But I don't quite see how to do that. I naively assumed you just need to put the file in Public Maps folder and launch it as a scenario but the game initially even did not identify it as a scenario file. I renamed it into a WB save, at that point the respective scenario did appear in the menu but still refused to launch (predictably, hardly simply changing the extension is all I needed). I opened the file in text processor, hoping for some enlightenment but it only showed me gibberish. What am I missing?
Also, how about we make this thread into a general "technical issues" thread and maybe pin it? I felt silly about opening an entire thread to ask one simple question but didn't figure out a different way to ask it. So, perhaps, a general "technical issues" thread might be useful.

[Tarkeel]

The gibberish comes from the fact that this is a savefile and not a Scenario/WorldBuilder map. Savegames include states that are not saved in a worldbuild file, like partial builds and research.

You would have to load it as a save, but I'm not sure if you can load it in single-player or if you have to load it as a multiplayer map; worst case you need to host a PitBoss server of your own to load it and connect to.