"too many save onetime tags"

Willy Elektrix · Post by **Willy Elektrix** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:26 pm

I encountered an interesting debug message. I ran the game in game.exe, started a new game and saved it in slot 0. After closing the game, reloading slot 0, and then quitting again, it creates a g_debug .txt file with the following warning:

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Partial game data upgrade...
Save slot 0&#58; too many saved onetime tags 16000 > 15999

What could that mean?

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:40 pm

Is there even a slot 0?

Willy Elektrix · Post by **Willy Elektrix** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:09 am

Jack wrote:Is there even a slot 0?

Yes. All numerical values in OHR start at 0. So if there are 4 save slots, they are numbered 0, 1, 2, 3.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:51 am

Pretty much any programming language starts at 0

Post by **TMC** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:00 am

Yes, this message is printed every time you load any game, and has been for about a year. We haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. It's an off-by-one error in the saving or loading code, and the solution is probably to just not print that message.

Some thigns in the OHR start at 1 rather than 0. Positions in a string for example, which is unfortunate. A number of programming languages have everything starting at 1 rather than 0.

Meowskivich · Post by **Meowskivich** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:07 am

TMC wrote:Yes, this message is printed every time you load any game, and has been for about a year. We haven't gotten around to fixing it yet. It's an off-by-one error in the saving or loading code, and the solution is probably to just not print that message.

Some thigns in the OHR start at 1 rather than 0. Positions in a string for example, which is unfortunate. A number of programming languages have everything starting at 1 rather than 0.

Reminds me of some old MS DOS game that crashed each time you closed the game, they changed the error message to essentially "good bye!", so you could change that specific error message to something like "game loaded". You know, flair.

Post by **TMC** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:32 am

I've heard that story. IIRC the error was generated by the memory extender, so they patched the memory extender to change the error message.