Crash "fix" (save anywhere)

[Korelis]

The game is great, but it was unplayable for me with the constant crashing. I sometimes couldn't get through a single floor, let alone five. To actually clear a dungeon, I had to save, close, and reopen the game right before entering, then I had to be especially careful and avoid enemies as much as possible, and even then it had a tendency to crash as soon as the boss fight ended.

So I downloaded RPG Maker and figured out how to change the game to allow saving at any time. It still crashes fairly often, but when you can save every floor or every few fights, crashing is only a slight inconvenience and you barely lose any time.

Just download the modified Scripts file and put it in the game's Data folder (if you don't know where it is, just right-click on the game in your library, Manage > Browse local files). It will add a save option to the menu, to the right of Equip.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nbli30hd8wror1z/Scripts.rvdata2

All I've changed are a couple menu scripts, to add the save option. I've gone through the entire challenge tower and a few chapters of the story with it, and it doesn't seem like there are any problems or side effects from saving in dungeons, everything is still working fine. I can't guarantee it won't break something though, so use it at your own risk.

[bbogovich]

Since the best guess seems to be that the steady pile-up of furniture items is what's causing the crashing bug, I popped open RPG Maker and set a price on all of the furniture items so they can be sold. I'm not sure if this actually fixes the issue or not, because it's been so long since I played this game that I no longer remember if I even have a save file affected by this bug. I did some testing with a save file that appears to be pretty far along in the game (lv 400 dungeon), and after gathering up all the furniture I could and selling it all, I was able to run a few dungeons and fight the slimes in the tavern a few times all without restarting or crashing. So maybe it works?

The modified file is available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/19xtJsYDTaBHEIG9XMFgx12S_93Ye5wxm/view. Just drop it in the /Data folder. (I deliberately did not modify the "invitation" items, but there should never be that many of those.)

[Major Asshole (Spaceballs)]

Furniture overflow could explain the ?Data (Variable data) error I kept getting when I run the game on my decompiler.

[Jabroni Binyot]

Your a legend

[Sourcewalker]

Came back and found this post and had to give it another try. I finished Act 1 with no problems. I sold all furniture items as soon as I got back to town. Once I got into the snow dungeon in Act 2 the game started closing on me. With the new saving feature I managed to complete it but since then I suffer from regular crashes. They appear to happen every 5-10 minutes and only in the challenge tower and within a dungeon but not in the town...
What I dont get is a notification/pop-up. It just closes :/
Still thank you for the save feature. With it I can still somehow advance in the game although it is kind of frustrating ^^

Edit:

I have played about 20 hours since I first made this post and have to say that things are a lot better than I first thought. After the beginning of the second Act when the game started crashing regularly things got better. I still have crashes from time to time but less frequently. I still dont get an error message but it is very much playable in my opinion ( save every few minutes it takes only a few seconds). The crashes are always during or after an encounter or at the end of a dungeon during the result screen. I have never crashed in town or while running through the dungeon. Thank you Korelis for creating and sharing a fix and giving me and others the opportunity to finally experience this game in full.

[Orge Lambart]

After playing the game before for along time, the game was crashing like every 20 minutes, with this save anywhere and furniture selling, I haven't crashed once since i began playing again, my save is up to 5 hours.. hopefully things stay good, my only worry is the tower as saving doesn't restart you on the same level, but not losing the xp, items, money, etc etc etc anymore will make it possible to just speed rush through the tower levels ..

Great solution to a problem, legendary and major props from me..

[Acubens]

Domo arigatou! Started using it after the game locked on me once after 3 hours straight.

[baajikiil]

I checked back after a few years and found this... wonderful, thanks so much. I was finally able to finish the game.

[Korelis]

I'm glad this is still helping people.

[No One You Know]

I'm crashing in the challenge tower like coke fiend without money. The save script is stopping me from never playing this game again, but the furniture script hasn't improved anything, my inventory is nearly empty in all categories.

Thank you for providing the save anywhere script since these developers don't give a ♥♥♥♥.

[虚無創 / Naughtshaft]

This fix doesn't work with the Japanese version of the game. For anyone who is playing in Japanese, I created a new file and uploaded it to Dropbox. To install, replace Game.rgss3a in your game's directory. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nm6h6iszpqlzk7fy6svop/Game.rgss3arlkey=xp3fuqtshilwmpqvpbd8v7l53&st=4b3xo5d7&dl=0