ok, it got harder to pinpoint in the latest update, as the lines touched seem to be way more, but i managed to fix it by simply deleting lines 248 and 249 in renpy/substitutions.py, as those call in the exception. if you don't have microsoft visual studio (it's free) or something similar to open the .py file, send substitutions.py here, and i'll delete the lines and send it back.
(ideally, you should also paste the original substitutions.py somewhere, then go change the save file's broken name in the game, and replace the original file just in case, but it shouldn't be necessary)
substitutions.py is a file in your "renpy" folder (which is a folder you should see wherever you extracted your game). attempting to open it with something like microsoft visual studio will show you all the lines of code in it, you should delete the 248th and 249th ones.
if you don't wanna do it yourself, send the substitutions.py file here (via google drive, dropbox or whatever), do not copy and paste the lines here, it wouldn't help lol. other files are irrelevant.
it's literally sending a file on here...
look, save this one i am sending in this folder (say yes when it asks you to replace it), your saves should work. once you see they work, change the faulty save's name! so it won't happen again (the one in the save/load screen that has that [ character that breaks everything due to how code is read)
where to put it:
I did what you told me, I replaced the file but the problem is still there whenever I press Load. Though I can still play the game whenever I press start but I couldn't load and save. Maybe I corrupted the game from pressing rollback way before? I'll just delete everything and start over. Thanks for the help and Merry Christmas!!
