Saving and Restoring Your Binds

Written: Early 2010s

I’m sure every Jedi Academy player has ran into the annoying situation whereby you set up all your controls, binds and general configurations to get the game exactly the way you want it… then suddenly everything has been reset. Well, before modern versions of the game made this more bearable, it was a common occurrence.

This tutorial will explain how to save your binds to a file and retrieve them if your configurations have been reset. This is all done without leaving the game!

Saving your binds

  1. First, open Jedi Academy and set everything up exactly the way you want it.
  2. Once you’re happy with it, open the console by holding SHIFT and ~
  3. Enter /writeconfig playername
  4. This will write all your bindings to a file called playername.cfg which can be found here:

Standard JK

C:/Program Files (x86)/LucasArts/Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy/GameData/base

Steam

C:/Program Files/Steam/Steamapps/Common/Jedi Academy/GameData/base

Restoring your binds

  1. Open the console and enter /exec playername
  2. This will then restore all of your configurations to exactly how they were when you entered /writeconfig playername

Notes

  • If you use a mod such as JA+ or MovieBattles then go to the mod’s folder, e.g. Gamedata/japlus to find your newly written .cfg file.
  • You don’t need to call it playername, you can name it whatever you like e.g. /writeconfig cheeseburger
  • /write is a quick method for /writeconfig, try /write then hitting the TAB key. This is common for many commands and cvars in JK. However, not all mods support this.