I am happy with the RELOAD format, and I feel like it is a nice
improvement, but I just ran into something that reminds me that no
format is magical enough to avoid the need to think carefully about file
formats.
RSAV already has a node like this:
* battle_menus
* menu
* attack
* spells
* items
heroes.reld has a node like this:
* battle_menus
* menu
* kind
* weapon
* attack
* spells
* items
Notice the difference? Not only the extra "kind" node, but also the way
that RSAV stores the attack ID of the equipped weapon, but heroes.reld
stores a weapon node indicating that the attack of the current weapon
should be used.
These are tricky to reconcile, and after some thought, I have decided
that the battle_menus node in RSAV has to be obsoleted.
Fortunately, I lucked out here. There was never any really important
reason to be saving battle menus in RSAV because there is no way to
change them, so I can simply document the node as obsolete, and stop
writing it to RSAV.
However, if at some point in the future, we want to add play-time
customization of battle menus, and want them to persist in save games,
the obvious node name "battle_menus" is forever forbidden to us because
it would break old RSAV files.
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James
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