Cant seem to find it. It works with other games with the global file and stuff but without it doesnt…
Here's the reference I was thinking of in the Renpy docs.
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And here is where it was introduced to the platform:
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Basically, Uncle RenpyTom has decided that us "children" need to be protected from ourselves. Which is probably fair enough, because this was introduced when it was discovered that "bad guys" were using renpy saves in the wild to infect targets.
The process is described here (
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) - it is totally possible for bad guys to put bad "virus" code in a renpy save file, that will then run in the context of the renpy game. So then 99% of users would be completely PWNed because they don't use sandboxes or VMs or even restricted rights users to run downloaded/pirated games.
Reading the code here:
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, It kind of looks like there would be a pop-up prompt that displayed when you try to load a game from a different computer. But it seems that even accepting that "yes" prompt it STILL will not load the save...
More searching lead me to this, which says there is a workaround (if you are suicidally willing to risk losing your computer/bitcoins/banking details etc):
https://f95zone.to/threads/new-renpy-token-check-when-creating-a-save.168169/#post-11411047
And this: the heartwarming story of someone who got completely assfucked by an infected game/save:
https://f95zone.to/threads/recent-malware-infected-games.207437/post-15571636