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Firstly, great game, well done!

However I've encountered a problem reloading my saved game. I played for a couple of hours yesterday and almost completed the mine, saving multiple times as I went. However when I try and "Load The Last Game" today nothing happens when I push the button.

Looking at log.txt I see the following error message:

0.000000: error on 'load': can't find the game slot '-1'. => line: 20690, file: main.cpp

I had created about 6 saves in total and deleted 2 or 3 of them at one point to tidy up - I'm wondering if the deletion has caused an issue with the game slot counter possibly?

I noticed the save.dat file is xml - is there possibly a way I can edit this to point back to the correct save slot?

vlzvl361 days ago

hey man, thanks a lot:)

The game for sure it will end up loads better.

Hmm, strange, I fixed such issues before the release. Do you have the save.dat that causes issues with "Load The Last Game"? If yes, please upload it here as a file (if possible) or e-mail it to me: burzum_mewtwo@yahoo.gr

I will try to reproduce that as well, going through your excellent details. Are the save slots in save.dat, in sequence? Could you reproduce it? (backup the original save.dat somewhere else). Just to make it appear to me.

Yeah, you can simply remove the save slots until you end up with the one you want, preferably setting the slot = 0, but that's as much as my hypothesis go.

<save slot="0"> ... </save>

vlzvl361 days ago

Ok, I think I was able to reproduce this :)

I will go through it and provide a fix as soon as I have something ;)

thanks for the bug report!

vlzvl361 days ago

right, bug is fixed. I had to rework the save system a bit, fixing a few other bugs as well :) I will upload a fixed version today, I will inform you.

chris1873360 days ago

Hi, that's great to hear! I've sent you the save file to the email address above anyway in case it's useful. Not sure I could replicate it again - in addition to deleting some of the saves I remember also saving over the earliest slot and reusing it at some point as well so think of it as a stress test for your load/save system :-)

vlzvl360 days ago (1 edit)

hey, I just updated the game to 1.2_20240111 version, you can download it from files =) I also playtested the save.dat you provided to me, it worked like a charm after the fix =) Thanks again!

chris1873359 days ago(+1)

Yes, can confirm it's now working fine with the new version. Thanks for the quick fix. Keep up the good work!

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