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Poptropica Legacy

A remastered version of the classic browser game with modern quality of life improvements. · By Andrew Wiles

Save Issues

A topic by TideSlayer created 54 days ago Views: 389 Replies: 7
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Wanted to start off by saying incredible work. It's so nice to finally see Poptropica getting some love like this.

Now on to the actual issue. There was no section for account issues in the in-game bug report so I'm posting this here, but my progress doesn't appear to be saving at all. I played through Early Poptropica and most of Nabooti (before encountering a bug there that barred progression. Reported that using the in-game feature) and then logged off for the night. When I went to rejoin as Returning Player today, all of my progress had been completely wiped and I was back at the very start of early Poptropica

Developer

Thank you!! I've been working on it for the past 3 or 4 months more or less nonstop haha.

Couple of questions: did you import an account from web, import a Flashpoint save file, or create a new profile entirely? And when you closed the game, did you do so via the Save & Quit option in the menu, or did you force quit the application?

It's possible that this most recent update fixed this issue, but if you can still recreate it then that would be extremely helpful. :)


After playing for a bit more it looks like my issue was definitely not using Save & Quit. I didn't realize autosave hadn't yet been implemented. I had encountered a game freeze (tried to use the Time Freeze store gadget to get around Nabooti electric fence bug) and so had to close via the "Abort" popup which doesn't allow saving. Recently I've just been using Save & Quit from the menu to make a save every few minutes and that has worked so far.

Developer

Ah, welp that prob would be helpful for people to know lol. I know it shows the saved popup, I do need to implement it. I'll put in the devlogs when it's patched. Also you can ask me on the Discord on the menu.

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Hi! Firstly, let me second what TideSlayer said about the incredible work on this game. After years of thinking I'd never get to play islands like my beloved Astro-Knights again, it's great that I have that option restored to me.

Secondly, though, I'm having a similar issue to the one described here (similar enough that I opted to post about it in the same thread, but I apologize if I should have started a new one instead). Unlike for TideSlayer, however, hitting "Save & Quit" doesn't resolve the issue for me.

The problem I'm having is that when I create a new profile, it doesn't ever seem to save it. I'll create the character, customize the name and appearance to what I want, and then click "Enter Poptropica," at which point I start the game. I can play it fine, but then when I'm done, I'll click "Save & Quit" in the menu, and the game will close. If I then open it back up and click "Returning Player," there's no trace of the character I created previously.

I guess that's not actually surprising, though, because at no point while creating that character did the game prompt me to create a username or password, so of course there's no way for me to log in to that character again; it was never saved as a profile in the first place. So basically, I'm creating a character, but not a profile. I've tried it several times and haven't noticed any option to input the profile info. It's possible I'm just blind, but as far as I can tell, it's not there. Which means anytime I make a new character and then quit out of the game (regardless of whether I hit "Save" or not), the character is lost forever.

Notably, this issue doesn't happen for imported profiles. But I want to start from scratch with a new one, which I'm not currently able to do. I guess I could technically create a new profile on the CoolMath version of Poptropica, save it, and then use that (I've tested it and it does work), but I don't want to do that because the CoolMath version of the game doesn't seem to give you the option to customize your name and appearance while creating your character.

I know you've probably got a million bugs and updates to work through on this, so no rush! But I just wanted to let you know it's happening so you can get to it in your own time (and just in case I'm missing an obvious fix you could point me to.)

And finally, apologies again if this should have been its own thread.

Developer

Has this been resolved in newer versions?

For the most part, yeah! There was a weird glitch one time where I lost all my progress on Early Poptropica, but otherwise the saves have worked. The only thing I did differently the time I lost all my progress was that when I got the island medallion, I clicked the option in the pop-up box that said something like "Explore other islands." I don't know for a fact that that's what caused it, but to be on the safe side, I've since been closing out of the pop-up and manually walking back to the blimp whenever I finish an island. And I haven't had any save issues since the time I started doing that.

Developer

Thank you for telling me! I'll fix that Explore other Islands button.