LennyLen,Apr 20 2006, 03:00 AM Wrote:As far as I know, nobody has ever made public any details on how character save files work. This is why items have to be exported (and imported) from game memory.
I tried looking for such information a while ago when I was working on a savefile manager, but never managed to find it.
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I don't think anyone ever bothered to go for the save files since it was so much easier to read the memory while program was running. If I recall correctly, the save files are in some way encrypted (no big problem since both encryption and decryption code/key are on your computer). Probably there is some checksums as well. The actual save structure of the character file is easy to locate and find, it is in much a copying of the data in memory with a lot of information striped out since it is about current game status. SIngle player save files are more of a big complete dump I would say. How that record of character data is then inserted into a character file I have never bothered looking at though and I have not seen anyone ever do it either.
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