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I need to access and take a look on how and where ren'py stores the saves

also, I'm going to need some kind of database/storage file to put in user data (lvl, ID#, name).

to make it short, if ren'py has a database of sorts, I NEED TO ACCESS, EDIT AND VIEW IT. I ALSO NEED TO CONNECT REN'PY TO A DATABASE IF REN'PY DOESN'T HAVE A DATABASE AT ALL.

I seriously hope that the saves are in a database/database like file...

*if this is confidential stuff, I still need it, but I won't spill the information at all, or use is against Ren'Py and it's gamers.

*System Analysis and Design, me and my group mates decided to do a dating sim, and the professor wanted it to have a database, well not necessarily something like mysql and access, as long as data is saved onto a file, it's valid. If connecting renpy to a database is possible with python code.. it's okay.

*This dating sim requires players to register in-game, thus giving us something to record... aside from the problem of where to record registered users, there's also this problem of determining which savers are for the logged-in player, and which saves are not for the logged-in player, thus a database of user-saves is also required.

*If the items/codes that are required to achieve the following are confidential, then shoot me a pm.

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Ren'Py stores its saves in a system-specific location. It doesn't use a database, so the saves are just zip files. We don't ship sqlite or another python database module.

That being said, for simple stuff, you might be able to get away with just using persistent as a database, and writing the queries by hands. (If you don't have a lot of data, or a lot of joins, this should be pretty easy.)

You could probably also copy the sqlite3 module out of an appropriate version of Python, stick it into the Ren'Py directory, and that would work.

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thanks sir....

May I ask where this system-specific location of save files is?.

also, am I going to choose between Python 1 and Python 2, or install each one and find ze sqlite module that is appropriate?
also, how am I going to use the persistent(data?)(is it a CLP?) and where do i get it's syntax?


UPDATE:
Installed 2.7 Python, copied sqlite3 module to ze root of the renpy directory.
Found the saves directory and persistent.file of some games.
awaiting further instructions.

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You can look where the engine stores your saves in a .py file that you has in your game directory (not the "game" one, but the one where you have the executable), which has the same name as an executable.
You'll need to turn "view hidden files and folders" option on to view the Application Data directory, though.

Persistent data is just encoded in zlib, you can easily use any online decoder/encoder to look at its contents. If i remember correctly, python ships with decoder itself (maybe).

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By the way, since it seems like a good thread to ask this question, is there any way to rename the directory from "saves" to "userdata", if i have it right in the game folder? I tried to edit the mentioned .py file and some others, but that had no effect.


Ah, thank you.
The line would be config.gamedir + "/userdata", if anyone is interested.
(The full one should be config.savedir = config.gamedir + "/userdata", in python early block of the options.rpy file, that is.)

The save directory is stored in config.savedir. You can change this (preferably in a python early block) to put the saves somewhere else.

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@levrex

extracted the files on the .save(changed to .zip) are the files inside the .save/.zip encoded in zlib too?

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The encoding varies by file.

I'm trying to figure out what you're doing here. You really shouldn't need to use the Ren'Py save files directly to do this project. Instead, just use sqlite to make a new database in config.savedir to save your project-specific stuff.

Alternatively, just use a field in persistent to create an in memory database. SQL just embodies relational calculus, defined over sets of tuples. There's nothing preventing you from just implementing your own relational algorithms over sets of tuples. (If you don't care about performance, it's actually pretty easy.)

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I just wanted to know where and view the save files.

so basically, i'll connect sqlite to the game by having to modify a line or two in config.savedir.
:3 okay imma try it out.

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Sir PyTom,

after copying the sqlite module to renpy, should i just encode the SQL queries/codes onto the config.savedir like it's a normal .py file?
e.g the sqlite module for python has example (test) codes, should I just code like that in the config.savedir file, or am I wrong and I should
code it just like in the python 2.73/11.13 sqlite documentation?

I'm yet to fully understand how should I make the appropriate connections between renpy and sqlite, and how do i code the database in the config.savedir.

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