Castle Paradox

[Bob the Hamster]

If any of you are feeling adventurous, I would appreciate testers for the current nightly builds. I just enabled the new savegame format.

Your old saves are converted automatically, so you will not lose any progress in anygames you are playing.

It also still saves the old SAV format too, so if you want to test playing your game with a nightly build and then go back to ypsiliform later, your saves will still be okay (although this will not be true in a future version where I remove support for the ols SAV format entirely)

As you probably know, the old SAV format stores your savegames in a file called gamename.sav which can be pretty gigantic if you use the F2/F3 debugging keys for quicksave/quickload.

The new RSAV format is a bunch of files inside a gamename.saves folder. You will notice they take up a lot less space (although that doesn't mean much right now because the nightly build is still saving BOTH the old and new formats)

This format is also vastly easier to extend and update than the old format was, so expect cool things in the future.

Right now, if it works exactly the same as it worked before, then it is working correctly :)

[Rimudora]

Oh noes, I won't be able to hack passwords from the .sav files anymore D:

[Bob the Hamster]

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

[chronoboy]

Are there plans for lumping and unlumping the gamename.saves directory on game load and exit, or perhaps reading directly from a lumped file to load games like GAME currently does for RPG lump files?

As a debugging tool, could you add this RSAV export/import tool directly into custom? It would be mighty spiffy of you to do that. Or perhaps a RSAV viewer/editor embedded into CUSTOM, it will only allow editing of saves for the currently opened game in CUSTOM. This way, during debugging, we can find out what is being saved, and what data is being set. A global variable search tool in there would be just awesome!

And off-topic, since now the new save format appears to be working fine, are we going to go through with the 'Plan for improved items'?
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[Bob the Hamster]

Lumped .saves folders might be a possibility, but I don't see much advantage to it, especially because it would slow things down.

Actually, the nightly builds have a hidden editor for RELOAD files (RSAV is a type of RELOAD) that you can get to by pressing CTRL+R on the main screen.

I will be working on item improvements, but not until I finish the Editor Editor, and convert the ITM data lump to a RELOAD format.

[chronoboy]

[Bob the Hamster]