Open privateye opened 2 years ago
Unfortunately there is no way to determine the region of a game after it has been patched by rings. To overcome this you can use the new save slot feature. I suggest using a different slot for each region.
Hat Trick Hero should be T-1103G
Thanks for the response. To be fair, most people will only have one regional version of any given game on their Satiator, so it shouldn't be much of an issue.
HatTrick Hero should be T-1103G, but its header has it as T-1102G.
Instances of Saturn games sharing the same GameID and save file name are described below:
Different regional releases of the same game
The stated issue occurs with
Scorcher (Europe)
andScorcher (USA)
. They both share a GameID ofMK-81214
, a save file name ofSCORCHER_00
, and their save files are not interchangeable. With these two games, it is easy to re-produce this issue by following these steps:Per-Game Save Slot
to '00' in the Satiator Rings options menu.Scorcher (USA)
andsatiator-saves\MK-81214\SCORCHER_00.BUP
will be copied to internal memory.Options -> View high scores -> Best lap time -> Time Attack
and observe the initials 'SHY' in third place.satiator-saves\MK-81214\SCORCHER_00.BUP
will be written to the Satiator's SD card.Scorcher (Europe)
andsatiator-saves\MK-81214\SCORCHER_00.BUP
will be copied to internal memory.SCORCHER_00
is overwritten and the previously-observed lap time is no longer available.satiator-saves\MK-81214\SCORCHER_00.BUP
will be written to the Satiator's SD card, losing our original save file in the process.Of course, you could intervene after step 8 by clearing the contents of internal memory, thus preventing the loss of the save file in step 9. But if a user isn't savvy enough to do this and also doesn't keep regular backups of save files, then this scenario would result in them losing save data.
One solution is to append
[region-code]
to the folder names insatiator-saves
. If this was done then the specific issue described above could not occur, as:Scorcher (Europe)
would have a save folder name ofMK-81214[E]
Scorcher (USA)
would have a save folder name ofMK-81214[UT]
Different revisions of the same game
In most (if not all) cases, save files from different revisions are compatible with each other. For example, the save file from Metal Slug v1.002 is compatible with Metal Slug v1.005. Furthermore, the version number should not be added to the folder name in an attempt to be cautious, as this would mess with Per-Game Saves' ability to work with multi-disc games that have different version numbers for each disc. For example,
Grandia (Disc 1)
has a version number of 1.002 whereasGrandia (Disc 2)
has a version number of 1.004.Different discs in a multi-disc game
Of course, it's completely natural for each disc in a multi-disc game to share the same GameID and save file name, so there's nothing to worry about here.
Interestingly, there are some games that share the same GameID despite being completely different to each other. For example,
Darius Gaiden (Japan)
andHatTrick Hero S (Japan)
share a GameID ofT-1102G
. However, this is not a cause for concern since different games will have different save file names (if they save at all), hence there is no risk of the Per-Game Saves feature overwriting save files in such instances.