Castle Paradox

[chronoboy]

I am reading through what exactly is saved in a save file, currently reading on just the old SAV format, but will proceed to the RSAV next.

I noticed that the spell lists are saved, are these just the spells the hero's obtained, or also the spells that the heros can obtain in the future?

As some here may know, I am working on an RPG which will be expansion pack capable and previous save files can be used in newer releases of the game. I am in the process of finalizing the save file upgrade process and need to know what gets saved into a SAV file that may cause future changing to an RPG file to make the player disabled in some way.

My idea to get around all of this hero saving issues, would be to create a new hero which is the exact same as the previous hero in ever way, except contains new spell lists and equipment lists. During the upgrade process, it would basically migrate the player to these new set of heros with new abilities, copying over their experience and that from the previous hero they had. Perhaps I'm just over-complicating things and the only spell lists stored in the SAV file are the ones which the player already obtained.

I guess the better question would be: What does GAME.EXE do when it seeing something which is in the RPG file, but in the save slot it is attempting load? I would only hope it takes a pro-active action to upgrade most of the information, such as new spells, equipment, and shops.

Those really appear to be the only barrier when managing save files, spell lists, equipment heros can use, and shops. Can one of the devs who knows more about the save and load process clarify all this for me?
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[Bob the Hamster]

Spell lists in save files (both SAV and RSAV) only save the spells the hero currently has, not the spells they have the potential to learn later.

[chronoboy]

[Bob the Hamster]

Equipment lists in save files only store what is actually equipped, and nothing about what can possibly be equipped.