Your save is too old to be reloaded in Factorissimo2 version 2.3.0+. To run this save in 0.17, you need to load and save this map once, using Factorissimo2 version 2.2.3 in Factorio 0.16.
You say you've already tried that, but what went wrong?
Also instead of reviving this ancient message thread it would have been better if you made a new thread.