[Scummvm-devel] Break save game compatibility in SCUMM game engine

[Travis Howell]

Max Horn wrote:
>> I'm especially interested in feedback from Max, who had to work around
>> these limitations many times in the past, and would have better idea  
>> of
>> what code improvements could be made.
> 
> I am not happy with that idea. We put a lot of effort into keeping  
> compatibility, and I wouldn't to throw that out of the window unless  
> there was serous gain by this, that would offset the serious hurt  
> it'll go to cause people with existing savegames.
> 
> Can you tell us what major benefits this would yield? I cannot see any  
> right now, except that it would allow us to "beautify" some of our  
> code -- which is always nice, but IMO doesn't justify such a drastic  
> thing.

Yes, the sole reason was to 'beautify' the code of the SCUMM engine, as
you put it. I thought a one time breakage of save game compatibility
might be worth it, in order to clean up and improve code in that way.

> So right now I don't know of anything that cannot be done while  
> retaining compatibility. Since you obviously think differently, it  
> would help to tell us, explicitly :).

No, I currently don't know of any code changes to the SCUMM game engine,
that would actually require these changes to be made.