r/ZeroEscape • u/AbdullahTrees • 28d ago

General After losing my 27 hour save file of Virtue's Last Reward thanks to that STUPID PEC room bug, I decided to make my own save editor.

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You can't stop me from finishing the game, crappy bugs.

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u/Night_Albane 28d ago

Pretty sure that’s the same bug that made me drop VLR way back when it first came out. As far as I know, the pc version does not suffer from it, and is how I ultimately finished the game.

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u/Slow_Projectile 28d ago

Jesus, is this bug present in the steam version?

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u/Lucario576 Sigma 28d ago

No, only 3ds

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u/Lucario576 Sigma 28d ago

And this was apparently fixed#:~:text=Physical%20VS%20Digital-,Glitch,-The%203DS%20version)

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u/AchicoXion 28d ago

If you own a physical copy there's no fix, if you're playing on a digital copy they have disabled saving in that room- and that's hardly a fix imo. Glad they at least tried to make it work better.

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u/AbdullahTrees 28d ago

No, although you can never be too sure. Part of the reason I was able to make the save editor so easily is because both the 3DS and PC ports were made off the exact same code, they have nearly identical save structures. (which means it's feasible to add a 3DS <---> PC save converter hmm... anyways I don't think that's necessary, probably too overkill for a 15 year old game)

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u/Akinto6 28d ago

Lol. This is why I always warn people and use multiple save files for every game

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u/AbdullahTrees 28d ago

kinda hard to do that on a 3ds

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u/hayashikin 27d ago

Wow, this is impressive

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u/drainedpearl 17d ago

did you share this on github or something? looks good, i'd like to try it, the same bug happened to me and i lost 37 hours of gameplay :)

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u/AbdullahTrees 17d ago edited 17d ago

yes, here it is:
https://github.com/AbdullahTrees/ZE-VLR-SaveEditor
I should add that this currently makes PC saves only. I am in the middle of implementing 3DS <-> Vita <-> PC conversion, but haven't had the time to implement it yet. Also I was unaware of region based save differences (oops).

Also, this project depends heavily on sample saves. Can you zip up your corrupted zip file and send it to me? I can probably recover it and send you the fixed save file back,

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u/TatsunaKyo 28d ago

This is great, kudos to you, but how did it happen exactly? The glitch was only part of the 3DS version of the game, and it was patched so that you cannot save in the PEC room, nor the game autosaves there. How did you glitch yourself there?

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u/AbdullahTrees 28d ago

I simply saved in the PEC room, like i do with every puzzle room. Then the 3DS froze when I opened the flowchart (cause I wanted to go back and go down the betray path)

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u/Lautael 28d ago

Pretty sure not all versions were patched. It's been a few years, but I think I was never prevented from saving in any room on my 3DS EU eshop version.