So just played the entire game again (with cheats) and after pretty much maxing out every girl and getting most of the harems (got the Taming one to the last step before I ended up forcing the night attack scene to unlock Camilla). As I was going back through the quest log, I realized wayyyyy too late that, while I got the Emma encounter scene, I either went too far into the story with Sam or missed an event because I was trying to speed through the game and now I can't trigger the next event where you go on a date with Emma (love capped at 10%) that allows here to be on the map screen. Any tips? Would totally like to NOT have to replay at least a dozen hours to get back where I am. If anyone knows the stats I need to change restart the Emma chain, that would be awesome.
On another not, this previous run did force me to restart once and even after I made manual saves pretty much once an hour, I still had to reload old saves because this developer likes to throw in dialog options or having to mess with the encounter system to avoid bad ends. Looks like my memory of playing the game 6 months ago was getting fuzzy.
Edit: I think some of the popups that show a girl was impregnated were not working since there were a few times they didn't pop up after a sex scene for the girl to confront me about her pregnancy a week later out of the blue (I know if its your first time impregnating the girl, the quest log icon appears but I never pay attention to them).
Edit2: Looks like an update last year makes using a save editor causes it to not load the specific save file unless all the stats make logic. Seems like you need to the exact values for each stat you're changing and the game won't let the save file load.