#3651 closed defect (fixed)
SWORD1: Save game naming inappropriate
| Reported by: | raziel- | Owned by: | bluegr |
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| Priority: | high | Component: | Engine: Sword1 |
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| Cc: | Game: | Broken Sword 1 |
Description
With all engines now featuring a custom naming of their save games, only Broken Sword 1 stands out using the general "SAVEGAME.00X" naming scheme.
Maybe this can be updated to use "sword1.00x" instead as does Broken Sword 2 (sword2.00x)?
It may work with the same approach the NIPPON engine changed their save game naming, see closed feature request #1762620 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1762620&group_id=37116&atid=418823
Ticket imported from: #1910871. Ticket imported from: bugs/3651.
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Change History (12)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:2 by , 17 years ago
| Priority: | normal → high |
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comment:3 by , 17 years ago
Likewise, SAVEGAME.INF should be changed to SWORD1.INF.
This is IMO a bug, not just a missing feature. Moving.
comment:4 by , 17 years ago
I added an patch which makes the game using targetname.inf and targetname.XXX as files, it misses support for the old savegame.inf and savegame.xxx files though, I wonder if we should rename them (if so how?) or if no targetname.inf exists we should fall back to sword1.inf, that would require some changes then writing new saves then though, since all the old ones would have to be copied, so renaming sounds better when we want to support the old filenames. File Added: sword1_save.patch
comment:6 by , 17 years ago
So I wonder, BS2 uses SWORD2.* for the savestate names, doesn't it? Are savestates between all versions of BS1 resp. BS2 interchangable? That would suggest using "SWORD1/2.inf". Else, "targetname.inf"
As for the fallback / migrating old savestates to the new system: So far we shared savestate between all versions of BS1 the user's got. To which would we migrate the old states? To the first one the user plays, I guess? This particular subproblem becomes non-existent if SWORD1.X is used as name, though.
comment:7 by , 17 years ago
Looking at the code sword2 uses targetname.xxx too, at least so it looks like in engines/sword2/saveload.cpp ll53-58.
comment:8 by , 17 years ago
To reply to fingolfun question, as far as I know the savestate are interchangable for all the versions of BS1 (at least I can interchange them between the Mac and the Windows versions that I have). As a user I would probably prefer to have sword1 instead of targetname for the savefiles as I wouldn't have to rename the file depending on the version of BS1 I am using. But to be honnest I don't really see the point of starting the game with one version and continuing with another as I could'nt find any differences between the Mac and Windows version of the game.
comment:10 by , 16 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
comment:11 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → Engine: Sword1 |
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| Game: | → Broken Sword 1 |
Sounds quite sensible, yeah.