by Enjay » Thu Oct 23, 2003 3:59 pm
I know someone is bound to yell at me for this, but IMO keeping savegame compat at all seems pretty irrelevant.
Yes, some people might be half way through some megawad or something at the time of a version change - but they can just hang on to the older version until they finish - or warp to the level concerned in the new version - it's pretty easy to make your stats and inventory match what you had before if that is important.
The only time I can see losing a save being of any importance is if you had something special or unusual that you wanted to keep for posterity. But, if it's that important, just keep an old copy of the appropriate Zdoom exe handy to load the save.
I know someone is bound to yell at me for this, but IMO keeping savegame compat at all seems pretty irrelevant.
Yes, some people might be half way through some megawad or something at the time of a version change - but they can just hang on to the older version until they finish - or warp to the level concerned in the new version - it's pretty easy to make your stats and inventory match what you had before if that is important.
The only time I can see losing a save being of any importance is if you had something special or unusual that you wanted to keep for posterity. But, if it's that important, just keep an old copy of the appropriate Zdoom exe handy to load the save.