{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/project64/project64/issues/241","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/project64/project64/issues/241/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/project64/project64/issues/241/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/project64/project64/issues/241/events","html_url":"https://github.com/project64/project64/issues/241","id":60205285,"number":241,"title":"Factor 5 game saves are not compatible across regions.","user":{"login":"AmbientMalice","id":10704701,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10704701?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice","html_url":"https://github.com/AmbientMalice","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":11,"created_at":"2015-03-07T12:56:58Z","updated_at":"2015-03-08T22:26:02Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I've discovered that saves created by (U) Factor 5 titles such as Rogue Squadron\\Naboo\\Infernal Machine do not seem to be compatible with (E) versions and vice versa. The game simply overwrites them upon boot. Which is kind of a really, really bad thing. (Most N64 games are quite happy to accept cross-region save files.)\r\n\r\nWhat we need is some flag or something that will tell a game to only use save files from its own region, while still allowing compatibility between cartridge revisions, which work fine."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/project64/project64/issues/comments/77778516","html_url":"https://github.com/project64/project64/issues/241#issuecomment-77778516","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/project64/project64/issues/241","id":77778516,"user":{"login":"AmbientMalice","id":10704701,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10704701?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice","html_url":"https://github.com/AmbientMalice","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/AmbientMalice/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-08T22:26:02Z","updated_at":"2015-03-08T22:26:02Z","body":">Maybe it is, but that is the game designer's choice. If something other than the save files being wiped had happened, it would be a bug within Project64, because that is what the game does on actual hardware.\r\n\r\nI don't see it as the game designer's choice since they had (generally speaking) no way of anticipating that their games would be run on emulators that shared a single save file between multiple revisions and regions. Not just that, there is no way for this to happen on a real N64. (Excluding games that use Mem Paks - but that's a whole other kettle of fish.)\r\n\r\nI do agree, however, that changing save formatting will upset people who wish to import their saves from older versions of PJ64."}}