my games won’t stay saved

[Seadog 33]

My games that I downloaded won't stay saved after I close them

 

[Winterfire]

More details? Are they made in Ren'Py (which by default save in two locations)? Are you playing on Windows?

 

[anne O'nymous]

More details? Are they made in Ren'Py (which by default save in two locations)? Are you playing on Windows?

And how, as well as from where, he is playing them.

If it's from a Sandbox or VM machine, it can be due to a configuration issue (auto-clean on quit or something like this), while a directory without write privilege would prevent any save to happen.

 

[Seadog 33]

More details? Are they made in Ren'Py (which by default save in two locations)? Are you playing on Windows?

All the games I’ve gotten so far are as follows: Demon's Demonheard, Cute Broke, Dungeon, Bound, Pioneers of Krams and Secret Care Café. All of these games are either Ren play or RPGM, and for all of them, they all delete my safe files every time I close the game, and yes, I’m on Windows 10

 

[Goeffel]

I guess the other recent topic causes my suspicion here:

Before playing, the downloads need to be unzipped to somewhere, and somewhere where you have control (eg. /users/[username]/my-games or c:/erogames/ or ... ), not good: c:/windows/ , c:/program data/, any google-drive or whatever other online storage.
Then run the game.exe or whathaveyou from that unzipped folder.

Because that is one symptom of playing games directly from the unzipped archive: the zip software will unpack it into your %temp% folder, execute it from there, save there, and delete all of it when you quit the game, so no saves remain.

 

[Seadog 33]

I guess the other recent topic causes my suspicion here:

Before playing, the downloads need to be unzipped to somewhere, and somewhere where you have control (eg. /users/[username]/my-games or c:/erogames/ or ... ), not good: c:/windows/ , c:/program data/, any google-drive or whatever other online storage.
Then run the game.exe or whathaveyou from that unzipped folder.

Because that is one symptom of playing games directly from the unzipped archive: the zip software will unpack it into your %temp% folder, execute it from there, save there, and delete all of it when you quit the game, so no saves remain.

Thanks, man, will try edit: it worked thank bro

 

[Winterfire]

I guess the other recent topic causes my suspicion here:

Before playing, the downloads need to be unzipped to somewhere, and somewhere where you have control (eg. /users/[username]/my-games or c:/erogames/ or ... ), not good: c:/windows/ , c:/program data/, any google-drive or whatever other online storage.
Then run the game.exe or whathaveyou from that unzipped folder.

Because that is one symptom of playing games directly from the unzipped archive: the zip software will unpack it into your %temp% folder, execute it from there, save there, and delete all of it when you quit the game, so no saves remain.

That explains RPGM games, but I wonder why that prevents Ren'Py from writing in appdata
I was sure it would, now I wonder why, that's a question probably only anne O'nymous can answer in great detail

 

[Seadog 33]

That explains RPGM games, but I wonder why that prevents Ren'Py from writing in appdata
I was sure it would, now I wonder why, that's a question probably only anne O'nymous can answer in great detail

I haven’t tried my one Ren py game yet to see if that save function is working, but everything else is, so I’m going to conclude that the problem is fixed

 

[anne O'nymous]

That explains RPGM games, but I wonder why that prevents Ren'Py from writing in appdata

Well, it depend how it's done.

Since the initial goal is to not pollute the system, you can expect some kind of sandbox-like handling for the files. Therefore the saves aren't actually put in the appdata, but either kept in memory, or put in a sub folder of the %temp% location.