it's not the save. The kiwii was broken from the beginning, but this time I couldn't ignore it and proceed. On Steam someone wrote that it will be fixed with next update, so they must know the bug.
The problem is both in your save game and in the game. Unless the developers correctly fix the bug that causes some file paths to be saved as absolute instead of relative, when the next version is released, we'll see some error reports from users who have changed the installation path.
unfortunately it doesn't work
I loaded your save game and confirmed that the problem indeed was using square brackets in the game folder name. Unfortunately changing the name won't be enough to fix your save game; when College Kings 1.1.2s determines the file paths to Kiwii profile pictures, it incorrectly uses absolute paths instead of relative paths. I can see from your save game that your profile picture paths look something like
D:/Downloads/Play/College Kings [Act 1 - v1.1.2s] - windows and linux/game/images/nonplayable_characters/profile_pictures/mc.webp. So you have to do some tricks to fix the problem. There are a couple of options.
1. The simplest solution is manipulating "
game/after_load.rpy" script to set you profile picture manually. An unmodified line 89 should contain the following code
Change it to
Python:
try: mc.profile_picture = 'images/nonplayable_characters/profile_pictures/mc.webp'
Note that you shouldn't change the indentation level. Now when you start the game and load the game, there should be no immediate error messages and you can continue playing. However, if you try to change your profile picture in Kiwii app, you'll encounter the familiar error message because all profile picture paths in save game have not been fixed, so avoid that.
2. Use some Renpy save game editor to fix paths. I had never used a save game editor before, but I used gameresourcesviewer.ru – an online save game editor – and managed to fix your save game file in a minute. Just load the save game into the editor and filter results using search function (in your case it makes sense to search "Downloads"). Then change absolute paths to relative paths, i.e.
D:/Downloads/Play/College Kings [Act 1 - v1.1.2s] - windows and linux/game/images/nonplayable_characters/profile_pictures/mc.webp becomes
images/nonplayable_characters/profile_pictures/mc.webp and so on. When you're done, click "File -> Save as..." and you can download a functional save game.
3. While I didn't dig too deep into this, the save game file
richiman provided should let you continue playing. You will see an error about missing files for profile pictures because your game is not installed under
C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/College Kings/, but you can ignore those errors. The only drawback is that Kiwii won't show your profile pictures.
4. Use console commands to fix paths. I won't go into details because you'd have to write several commands exactly and I can't give you a 100% guarantee that this wouldn't cause future problems even if everything seems to work for now.
Hope this helps.
