Openrct2: Save cheats

[kevdog3700]

Something I hate is that whenever I load up my park all of my cheats are turned off if you could add a option to save the cheats i turned on/off when saving the game that would be awesome.

[jensj12]

This has been discussed in the chat a few days ago. Once we are on our own savegame format, cheats will most likely be saved in the save. Until then, just re-enable them every time.

[Gymnasiast]

@jensj12 I don't remember this being discussed in the chat. There was a conversation on Reddit though.

Anyway, until a few months ago, cheats you could turn on and off _were_ persistent. They were taken out at @IntelOrca 's request, although I was against that. I still am, I find it as irritating as you.

[Ryder17z]

It should be saved with the same game in my opinion

[TeamSpen210]

Could this extra data be stored in special rct_map_element items? An element could be added to the map at 0,0 (or another special location) using a type in the unused 8-15 range, and use the 4 bytes to store cheat settings and other OpenRCT2 values. It would depend on whether vanilla RCT ignores the invalid type. Alternatively it could use something like the maximum value for a scenery ID, or a large scenery combination known to be invalid in a vanilla RCT2 object.

(I don't know much about the code, I'm not sure if this is feasable to implement.)

[Nubebuster]

So, will this be added or not?

[AaronVanGeffen]

Not until a new save format has been implemented. The issue has been tagged as such as well.

[l0lzelig]

And why exactly do you not simply add an option to save cheat settings globally? Store these settings in a seperate .ini file or something similar that OpenRCT itself reads from? This is such an annoying thing to do every time I want to play.

[Broxzier]

Because then we need to add backwards compatibility for that config file later. These kinds of things only slow down development.