[Solved] Can Not Load a Saved Game

[bitgraphic]

Hey guys. I'm having strange problem.
I can save the game, but when I load it, it always starts from the beginning.

I don't think I can fix this problem myself.
Please give us your hand.

[xavimat]

Hi, bitgraphic. I'm looking at your code. There are some things I think are not used in the correct way:

- You are defining the images in a label, when the documentation (http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/displayin ... -statement) says "The image statement must be run at init-time, before game code runs."

- Also, you put "if" statements in "init" blocks; the "init" are only run when the program starts, then, the change of the variable "lang" later won't affect the code run in the init. You are using it to define images according to the variable "lang", but RenPy has a simpler way to "translate" images that include text in them ( http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/translati ... anslations )

- The are some translations you are not using, like "YES" and "NO", you define two labels with menus (one in English and one in Japanese) when you can simply translate "YES", "NO" in the tl/jpn/options.rpy file.

- The use of "config.language = persistent.lang" (script.rpy, line 14) seems weird to me. When the init code is run and finds that your persistent.language is not None this only means that the game has been already run, and the language has been already chosen, therefore, the config.language does nothing (it's only used to set the default language of the game, once the language has been chosen, the variable that stores the language is _preferences.language, that "should be treated as a read-only variable".

- You are using "config.main_menu.insert". According to the documentation, the list config.main_menu = [ ... ] is used to set "The default main menu, when not using screens."

I think that the combination of this things *could* be the reason that Renpy doesn't know how to save your games.

As a solution, I can only say how I'm doing the "language selection" thing. I put the "if" statements directly in the screen main_menu, more or less:

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screen main_menu:
    tag menu
    
    if _preferences.language is None:
        textbutton "English" action Language("english")
        textbutton "Spanish" action Language("spanish")
    else:
        textbutton _("Start Game") action Start()
        # more Main Menu buttons ...
        

As you need screen-size choice too, you could do something like:

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screen main_menu:
    if persistent.lang_chosen is None:
        use screen_lang_choose
    elif persistent.size_chosen is None:
        use screen_size_choose
    else:
        # The normal Main Menu

[bitgraphic]

@xavimat
Hey there. It worked after I moved defining images at the script.rpy.
Thanks a bunch!

[xavimat]

You're welcome!