[Scummvm-devel] I Have No Mouth - Character disappears on loading a save

[D G Turner]

Oops. Mea Culpa:
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob/master/engines/saga/saveload.cpp#L47

As clone2727 pointed out to me, the SAGA savegame names are based on
the target name and thus can be modified by changing the config
file using a text editor... though doing this is not a good idea as
it could provoke odd bugs in the config file parsing, but this is
probably not related.

Daniel,
  I assume that is what has happened here as the normal detection
  would have a game target name of "ihnm"?

Anyway, this is unlikely to be related to the bug at hand, though
my other comments on this stand.

Thanks,
David Turner

On 14/08/14 22:54, Daniel Grayshon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I submitted the bug report to the correct place before getting this
> message so apologies for that.
> 
> We have made zero source code changes to ScummVM. The ScummVM we are
> using is the vanilla version downloaded from the ScummVM website. We
> have a beta up of the game on Steam with 1.7.0 on it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 
> On 14/08/2014 10:54 PM, D G Turner wrote:
>> Daniel,
>>    As Johannes indicated, you should report this as a bug on our
>>    tracker, rather than on the scummvm-devel mailing list.
>>
>>    However, I took a quick look at this and I can NOT replicate
>>    this problem with the current v1.8.0git master code compiled
>>    on Linux x86_64.
>>
>>    If I start the game and save in Ellen's chapter, just after
>>    entering the pyramid, I can load the resulting game fine.
>>
>>    However, from loading your savestate, the behaviour is as you
>>    have described.
>>
>>    It is clear from the savegame naming that you have made source
>>    code changes i.e. the savegame name differs from our standard
>>    and without knowing what other changes you have made, we can not
>>    really look at this bug.
>>
>>    Apart from this, if you create a "good" savegame and compare
>>    it to your savegame, first removing the gzip compression, the
>>    binary changes are considerable as the SAGA savegame stores a
>>    significant amount of script state. Working out why this is
>>    corrupt is tricky... working out HOW that has happened is even
>>    more so.
>>
>>    I would suggest that you assign some developers from your team
>>    to looking at this as it is doubtful that the ScummVM team SAGA
>>    engine developers will have sufficient time to look at this in
>>    the short term.
>>
>>    Also, if you do report this as a bug, I suggest you attach any source
>>    code changes you have made as a patch or link to a public git branch
>>    with your changes.
>> Thanks,
>> David Turner