I'm going to take a guess and answer this question in a way that might not be
what you meant at all.
Save files for a game might work fine for some people, but be considered
corrupted by the game when being opened by other people. Regional settings
tend to separate the people who will have no trouble, and the people who can't
open their saved game files. The reason is that different parts of the world
store numbers differently. If a game designer forgets to account for those
changes, in each and every part of their game, they'll cause errors.
As an example, lets say you are playing a game and you tell it to save. In
this game the file will record how many mice your warrior has heroically killed
in battle, and also how much health he has left. The first number is an
integer, since you can't normally kill 2.25 mice. That first number will work
for anyone, no matter where in the world they live. The second number is your
health, and lets assume your warrior has 95.4 health points. That decimal is
where things will go wrong. In some parts of the world a comma is used instead
of that decimal point, so the file will store that value as 95,4. When the
game goes to load your save file, it encounters 95,4 when it is expecting a
number. Well in that part of the world 95,4 is a perfectly valid number, but
the game was built in a place where a comma doesn't mean the same thing as a
decimal point. So the game has a little melt down because computers don't like
surprises.
Once again, this might not have been what you meant when you asked this
question, so sorry in advance if I guessed wrong. :)
- Aprone
From: Leo Cantos <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 11:49 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Save files and different regions
I would like to ask a question: how do save files have to do with
regional settings?
I could see how they would work with time and all however it seems that it
would only occur if the computer was turned off unexpectedly, then the save
file would not save, but I don't know.
I figured I would ask as I am interested.
Leo
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