How to edit stats in a 'in game' save file, non geekspeak please

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I can’t believe I have to write a book just to ask a simple question.

I was playing a Godot game , saved progress. When a new ‘update’ came out I downloaded that and when I tried to load my save it went back as if I was starting a new one. The save slot ‘said’ the game was there but overwrote it with the new info.

Which brings me to my question, is there anyway I {as a player} can replace my progress in the new save/game file. The game is all wrapped up in a single ‘package’ so there are no separate files to check. I tried a save editor but it needs the save file in order to work.

I tried loading the game file in the editor here but it laughed at me. As I stated above I don’t speak geek so can anyone help me in simple English.

thanks

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Petty and antagonistic for someone seeking help.

Your save files are likely stored in one of these directories, where project_name should be the game’s name.

Windows: %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\[project_name]
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Godot/app_userdata/[project_name]
Linux: ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/[project_name]

But it’s up to the game to respect your save files, if it’s already overwritten then your data is likely gone for good.

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Godot does not have some built-in save system that developers universally use. There are various techniques one can use to save data. Some don’t result in a save file that’s readable by human beings. Some developers might even add a step to their saving procedure that checks for file corruption, in which case any edits you make to a save file would result in the game refusing to load the file. Maybe you’re lucky and the dev uses plain .json files or resources, but even then it’s up to you to figure out what’s wrong with the file and your chances of writing a fix are practically non-existent unless you also have access to the game’s source code.

May I ask what you mean by ‘game file’? Do you mean you have access to the actual project?

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As I stated above I don’t speak geek so can anyone help me in simple English.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

That was plain English in 1863, and not a single word of Geek Speak was present. Is that plain enough?

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It would make more sense to ask the game developer this question. Perhaps they made the save files incompatible for some reason.

As far as I know from your history, when the issue of a common language was being decided, English won by a margin of one vote. And it could have been a completely different language that became the common one.