'Hard' Save Issues (Partially Solved?)

Howdy, just making a small tech-related announcement to folks that unfortunately for some reason the 'hard' save system isn't working. It seems that, at some point, something disallowed the game writing independent files. This system was to get around the fact that Inform has no native save/load feature between versions and versions its released files in such a way that two identical projects cannot load saves between one another.

I'm not sure the exact cause of it no longer working, or even when exactly it stopped working - but even older versions of the game that for sure were confirmed to have working 'hard' save systems no longer are. The only thing I can think of is that its a new update to windows or something that is preventing the files from being written.

I'll keep looking into things, but there is very little I can actually do on my end - the immense amount of effort put into making the 'hard' save system was itself the work-around.

This should only impact people moving between versions of the game. It shouldn't impact regular save/load on the same version. 'Hard' saves are a separate thing entirely from the normal save/restore feature.

Edit: Possible solution found!

"For the old version of the game, Open nip.glborb in N.i.P-win32-ia32\resources\app\NiP instead of the play.html file. I used the Lectrote interpreter. Create the hard-save. (Which is saved to Users[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Lectrote\quixe-files) For the new version of the game, again open nip.glborb in N.i.P-win32-ia32\resources\app\NiP Load the hard-save, and then create a normal save; I was then able to load the created normal save using the packaged .exe version of the game."