[Scummvm-devel] hopkins, hiscore.dat

[Johannes Schickel]

On 07/31/2013 07:23 AM, Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
>> On 31 Jul 2013, at 03:11, Matthew Hoops <clone2727 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   I
>> feel very strongly that removing this feature is the wrong thing to do.
> I agree, and my recommendation is to use <targetid>-highscore.dat
>
>

I think that's the best solution there. It seems that Hopkins uses 
<targetid>.0## for its saves, thus <targetid>-highscore.dat makes sense 
to me too.

I think we should also create some recommendations on such filenames 
(and save filenames). I think the following makes sense:

* Saves: These should be name <targetid>.### (where ### is the slot id) 
or <gameid>.###. The latter should be used when the saves can be shared 
across all game variants.

* Other files: These should be named <targetid>-<filename> or 
<gameid>-<filename>. Again the latter when the files can be shared 
acress all variants of the game.

Adding this to http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/HOWTO-Engines is 
probably a good idea. That gives new developers a chance to easily see 
what our preferred naming scheme for files created by the engine is.

Greetings,
Johannes