[Scummvm-devel] PS2 #19 : games : special saved files : important

[Johannes Schickel]

sunmax at libero.it schrieb:
> It seems perfect until you realize that some engines have special
> cases, eg.
>
>  - indy4 -> iq-points
>  - sword1 -> SAVEGAME.inf
>   

Just for your information, SAVEGAME.INF is obsolete, nowadays sword only 
uses "sword1.???" for save games. Of course we still have backwards 
compatibility to support old save games (or at least to convert them), 
so I guess it is not that important to have any special renaming there. :-)

> At the moment I have a list of exceptions. Would it be possible:
>
> a) to require that engine coders use a standard, where the first
>    part of a load/save file is always the name of the game?
>
>    Ie: iq-points -> indy4.iq
>        SAVEGAME.inf -> sword1.inf
>        etc.
>
>    This would -greatly- help the PS2 backend maintenance cause
>    we won't have to keep a list of exceptions for those files.
>   

Grepping through the code it seems that "iq-points" (or "iq-punkte" with 
my German version of the game), is somehow handled via game scripts, 
thus I am not sure in how far it is possible to change the name of the 
file. I guess someone with knowledge about SCUMM might give more 
information.


// Johannes