My saves aren't loading properly

[teacup]

Well, this only happened once I download renpy 6.12 (I'm a little behind, I just got it yesterday ^^;)
I lost all of my saves when I updated. So I went through the whole game, and saved at all of the menus and decision points so I could easily go back to them for testing purposes. But for some reason, when I load them, it takes me to a completely random place, that isn't the spot I saved? D:
It isn't a huge bother for me, but I'm a bit worried that this may happen to players when I release the game. Anyone know why this is happening?

[Alex]

So I went through the whole game, and saved at all of the menus and decision points so I could easily go back to them for testing purposes.

Bad idea - if you'll change your code this won't affect to your saves (they'll still be using old code).
If you make changes in code - should start to play from very begining (you could place a jump to testing part of code in start label, but be shure, that all neccesary variables are set).

[teacup]

So I went through the whole game, and saved at all of the menus and decision points so I could easily go back to them for testing purposes.

Bad idea - if you'll change your code this won't affect to your saves (they'll still be using old code).
If you make changes in code - should start to play from very begining (you could place a jump to testing part of code in start label, but be shure, that all neccesary variables are set).

I know that. I found that out from experience :p I just prefer to have saves at all of my menus, so that I can easily go to a specific point in the game. (Starting from the beginning every time would be really tiring.) But I will be sure to play the game from the beginning before releasing it.

[Aleema]

You can do a developer skip (SHIFT+>) to get to each menu.
Or make a developer menu after start that lists all the locations you want to jump to. That's what I do.

[teacup]

Oh, that would be a lot more helpful! I hadn't even thought of that ^^;
But do you have any idea why the saves aren't loading right? Like I said, I don't want this to negatively impact the gameplay for other people (not so much me)

[Aleema]

It is definitely because you're changing your code. I'm assuming the time between saving and loading the faulty saves, there were some alterations to the code (I believe, just guessing here, that they save as "script.rpy:line 400" so if you change what line 400 is, so does your save? maybe). If not, try to physically delete the save files, all the RPYC (not RPY!!) files, clearing persistent, and try again. If it keeps doing that, you may have a bug and should report it to PyTom.

[teacup]

Well, the saves worked perfectly fine until I updated to 6.12, and I hadn't changed the code at all since then. And the fact that I have 3 pages of different saves and all of them not work... I don't think its because of code changes (which I hadn't made anyway) T_T; I'll try deleted the save files and hope that helps. Thanks for the suggestions.

[Aleema]

I consider upgrading Ren'Py a code change. There are some significant differences in 6.12, and upgrading in the middle of a game always has some weird side effect. You're lucky that yours is so fixable!

[teacup]

I consider upgrading Ren'Py a code change. There are some significant differences in 6.12, and upgrading in the middle of a game always has some weird side effect. You're lucky that yours is so fixable!

Ohh, I didn't know that was considered to be a code change (although it's obvious now XD) It seems to be working okay now that I deleted the persistent and saves.. Thank you Aleema!