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Save game parser for Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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Mac issues #4

Open CM1994 opened 9 years ago

CM1994 commented 9 years ago

Hey. I recently tried to get one of the save-game files to work on Rebirth on my Mac (using an empty slot I had). The problem I keep running into is that no matter which save-game file I use and no matter what I do, Rebirth simply cannot use that file. As in the file is blank and is as if a new save had been started. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

ihabunek commented 9 years ago

Uh, I haven't actually run into such a problem. Is it possible you're using an older save on a newer version of the game? Another thing which comes to mind is that mac saves are not 100% compatible with Windows or Linux saves. Do you know which computer the save comes from or was it picked by random?

CM1994 commented 9 years ago

I'm running the most recent version of the game and using up-to-date saves. Also using Mac compatible saves. I did look around for a while just to find some Mac saves because of the possibility that Windows and Linux ones may not work. What is weird, though, is that even if there is no save file in the folder for Rebirth the game will still keep track of the progress on that particular save - e.g. even if there is no persistentgamedata2.dat file, the game will still retain the progress on that save. Even if that save file is removed from the folder and deleted.

Edit: Learning more about the weird way in which Mac does thing with Rebirth saves. There are TWO folders containing Rebirth save files. One in the Steam userdata and the other in a folder labelled 'The Binding of Isaac Rebirth'. It might be that the latter is used as a back-up?

ihabunek commented 9 years ago

I think I had the same problem at one point on Windows - two different folders with saves. My theory is that they switched the save game location at one point in time, and didn't delete the old folder.

Your real saves should be in ~/Library/Application Support/Steam/userdata/********/250900/remote where *s are your user id on steam. Is that correct?

CM1994 commented 9 years ago

I think that might have been the case. I'll have a look through and give that a shot.