MZ - Visustella Autosave not considered "last"

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Started by Indinera 10 posts View original ↗
  1. Indinera
    #1 Source
    As mentioned in the title I'm using Visustella Savecore and their autosave.
    It works fine except for one thing: when loading a savefile, it's generally the last saved that is automatically picked, except autosave is never considered. I don't think it's very natural or convenient and would like to know if there is any way around it?
    Thanks in advance for any suggestion.
  2. Puppet Knight
    #2 Source
    Could you provide some screenshots. I have a few follow up questions but I want to make sure I'm not making any assumptions about your view
  3. Indinera
    #3 Source
    I'm on phone right now but what do you want a screenshot of?
  4. Puppet Knight
    #4 Source
    Was out sorry.

    The title screen and then what you see when you click Load Game
  5. Indinera
    #5 Source
    The title screen shows pretty much the usual menu.

    1733761974892.png


    Then when clicking on continue it's just something pretty usual as well.

    1733762003335.png

    But instead of picking directly file 6 with the timer at 6:29:35, I'd like it to pick the autosave if the timer is more advanced, eg:

    1733762050834.png
  6. caethyril
    #6 Source
    That's core behaviour, so if VisuStella doesn't have a parameter for that, a plugin written for the core scripts might help. E.g. (untested):
    plugin code
    JavaScript:
    /*:
 * @target MZ
 * @plugindesc Allows auto-select of autosave slot on Scene_Load.
 * @author Caethyril
 * @url https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/173786/
 * @help Free to use and/or modify for any project, no credit required.
 */
// Patch - also check timestamp of autosave.
;void (alias => {
  Scene_Load.prototype.firstSavefileId = function() {
    const r = alias.apply(this, arguments);
    if (this.needsAutosave() && r < DataManager._globalInfo[0]?.timestamp)
      return 0;
    return r;
  };
})(Scene_Load.prototype.firstSavefileId);
    (Design note: DataManager.latestSavefileId deliberately excludes autosave and the core scripts only use it for this auto-select thing. I don't know why it was coded that way, though, so I preferred to patch the load scene instead.)
  7. Indinera
    #7 Source
    It looks like it works. Thank you very much.
  8. caethyril
    #8 Source
    OK, so it turns out it didn't work correctly...because I was comparing the usually-selected save file ID against the autosave timestamp. Should be timestamp vs timestamp: obvious in hindsight. :kaoslp:

    Try this instead~
    plugin code v2
    JavaScript:
    /*:
 * @target MZ
 * @plugindesc v2 - allows auto-select of autosave slot on Scene_Load.
 * @author Caethyril
 * @url https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/173786/
 * @help Free to use and/or modify for any project, no credit required.
 */
// Patch - also check timestamp of autosave.
;void (alias => {
  Scene_Load.prototype.firstSavefileId = function() {
    const r = alias.apply(this, arguments);
    if (this.needsAutosave()) {
      // Get & compare timestamps for usual & auto save files.
      const t = DataManager.savefileInfo(r)?.timestamp;
      const a = DataManager.savefileInfo(0)?.timestamp;
      if (t < a)
        return 0;
    }
    return r;
  };
})(Scene_Load.prototype.firstSavefileId);
    I did a quick test and it seemed OK, but let me know if you have any more problems with it~ :kaohi:
  9. Indinera
    #9 Source
    It looks like it did work this time, thank you.
  10. caethyril
    #10 Source
    Great, you're welcome! :kaojoy: