[Scummvm-devel] Sword25 save system

[David Given]

Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote:
[...]
> If the game's LUA scripts aren't written with this type of saving in mind, it
> might be tricky to do, though. Does anybody have any insight into this?

If the game's scripts are written to store all state in tables reachable
from the global state then this should be very easy --- just serialise
the global state and restore it.

However, if the game stores state in local variables or upvalues, then
this becomes much harder as there's no (sane) way of getting at these.
It may be possible to abuse the debug library into saving and restoring
these, but I don't know whether that's feasible.

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