Post by hjjgk2827 in RogueWeight [Jam Edition] comments

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I really like this game. I think it has the highest potential out of all weight-gain games on itch.io. The only thing this game needs now is time for all the ideas. I tried the game first on mobile, found it a bit buggy and hard, then finished it on pc. After I played on one save over a long time I made Erith massive, and then proceeded to make her eat the entire map as she was gigantic while having the rubik's cube skin.

Here's the screenshot I took.

After that I accidentally erased that savefile. But then I downloaded version 1.1 and started saving my games in a special folder. Then I started to find the endless dungeons to be a bit dull, so I started to check the code of the of the savefile.

Here's a portion of the savefile code in notepad++.

Eventually I started to wonder how I could change the values inside the game. I found the code segment above which actually contained almost everything about Erith. Her clothing, hp, food status and all other stats. To try and manipulate the code I started to compare savefiles and figured our that all the odd characters were numbers in ASCII which could be translated into hexadecimals. From there I compiled a small list of the different variables values and found out how to set their values to a specific number.

Here's the list i compiled in notepad.

And eventually I was able to give Erith more hunger points, but not manually increase her weight. So what I did was open a new savefile with a few million hunger points and made her eat to a point which I found her weight to be good enough. Here is her on the edited savefile.

This game is great. The only thing I'm thinking of is how she is able to be so big and still be so nimble in the tight corridors of the dungeon. Really, I don't think I have any right to say which direction this game should go, but I think that as she gets bigger she'll run into problems of size. She should get stuck and take up more spaces as she gets bigger. But as this is an 2d game I'd figure that it might not be totally easy to do in any scenario and might need alot of changes in how the game is coded. Honestly I think as this game is quite young you could look into making it 3d, but only if you think you could manage it. Otherwise, everything is great. And make sure to really take your time with this project, I would love to see more on this, but I can understand some of the limits of this game.

Yunyanite44 days ago(+1)

This is a very nice write up! I actually didn't know how the save files were internally structured by Godot, so I enjoyed reading about your technical dive into save editing.

I definitely would like to figure out a satisfying way to incorporate size effects. Not too sure what'll come out of it, but I'm thinking about experimenting with some of the stuff you've mentioned as a starting point.

hjjgk282743 days ago(+1)

Great! Ask me if you need anything that is about manipulating the code. I could try and give the notepad document of the different hexadecimal values and how to put them in. I've manage to edit both level depth and body weight. I can show a bit of them, and some other things, look primarily at health and food bars to see the different changes. -1 Food, accidentally cropped the image, but this lead Erith to lose her entire belly and chest.

Massive room full of enemies, see depth. Also at this point the game starts to lag, and Erith's jiggles are distorted. When she walks fast her belly starts to fly all across the screen, which reminds me of playing on the phone where the same thing started happening.

See dungeon depth.

Also how do I activate the cheat code? I tried it on console, but it didn't connect to my game. And keyboard didn't work when I tried it. Is anything specific that you can use or any code segment to turn it on?

Yunyanite42 days ago(+2)

I've only tested out the cheat code on my computer and my phone, so I'm not too sure how to troubleshoot that. Sorry.

The pinch and konami code are the only two ways to active the cheat in-game, but the cheat toggle is saved as a boolean value under "NO_MILK_RESET" in the options.ini file (same directory as the save file), so if you're willing to do a bit more digging, I guess you could try flipping a 0 to a 1 somewhere.

hjjgk282742 days ago (1 edit)

Oh, yeah it works as intended, only that I forgot to do it on the start screen. And I checked the options file and saw that a 1 already was written for the "NO_MILK_RESET", but it seemed that another 0 turned into a 1 after successfully inserting the code. Thank you! I can't wait to try this out and maybe find a way to manipulate the cheat further!