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Hello, I've been having a great time with your game. The art and enemies are great, and I'm impressed by the creativity and passion shown off by you guys.

I managed to get through a large amount of the game, but I had to stop right near the end due to a game breaking bug. I saved the game, and exited by going to the main menu, then closing out the tab. Upon reloading the game, the text became 'garbled' and mostly unreadable, like so.

Starting a new game 'ungarbled' the text, but the problem persisted. Let me know if this is a known issue. If it's not, feel free to ask more specific questions and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

GROVE DEVELOPMENT3 years ago(+1)

I don't think we've ever gotten a bug like this before, so any details you can spare would be of great help!

- Which version of Grove are you playing on? (I'm assuming it's Windows 0.204, but just need to make sure)
- Is the game folder unzipped? And where did you place the resultant game directory file?
- Do you remember where you were, and what you did just before you encountered the bug? Was there anything unusual just before you saved?

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The only potential fix I can really think of is to re-download the game, and import your saves by using this guide below.

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Do feel free to list out any extra details that you can recount, and if at all possible, do you mind uploading the corrupted save file, the global.rpgmaker file and the persistent file somewhere for me to take a look at?

Thank you again for the report, and thanks for playing!

- RegalBuster

grager13 years ago(+1)

Hello RegalBuster, thanks for the quick reply. Regarding your questions -

- Yes, I am playing on the 2.04 patch- I've reproduced the bug on several (2-3) different fresh downloads over the past few months.

- The folder is unzipped, in a folder called 'games' directly in my downloads.

- The bug has happened at almost every point throughout the game, from the campfire straight after the intro scene to midway through the bandit's hideout. Saving seemed normal based on my experience with RPG maker games (e.g. no flashes, prompts, etc.), however I never once managed to load a non-corrupt file once I exited the game. The bug would persist when I transferred save files from an old game to a fresh download. However, starting a new game on a old or new download would 'refresh' the bug until I exited again.

Additionally, almost every time I would exit the game, the corruption would change a little. The complete scrambled eggs that you saw in the screenshot I've sent was the most common, but other effects including skipping letters (eg. HELLO ---> H L O, etc.) partially formed letters, or letters replaced with underscores. Notably, formatted text, such as the purple text in the computer world game over, or the ranger's subscript never corrupted.

I regret to tell you I don't have any of my original saves- When I joined the discord today I overwrote them with the completed gallery saves so I could see the slime dragon scenes (sorry). That being said, I closed out of Grove earlier and the saves seem to have been "successfully" corrupted.

Here are the files- let me know if you'll need anything else.

https://ufile.io/f/cwc6e

GROVE DEVELOPMENT3 years ago

Upon testing the saves, I was unfortunately unable to recreate the bug on my end. I'm at a bit of a loss as to why this occurs, but I'll be sure to consider it for future releases. No worries about importing complete saves, you play how you want, and I don't blame you wanting to do so due to these save issues!

If you notice/remember anything else specific that you think could crack the case, do feel free to share. I unfortunately will need to mark this as a user-end issue, as there's not much I can do after a bit of testing.

Apologies mate, but do let me know if any other bugs crop up. These reports really do help

- RegalBuster

grager13 years ago

That's very fine- thanks for going the distance to help. I'll keep playing, and let you know if anything changes. Thanks for working on Grove, and have an excellent week.

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